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Bill: Minority Protection Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Delete This Party!!!
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill asks for an amendement to the Constitution. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: September 2064
Description[?]:
| Regions should have an equal voice, as many regions have very different opinions and concerns. It is unfair to give regions that have population advantages priority over smaller regions. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The method used to determine the number of seats each region receives in the national legislature.
Old value:: A proportional algorithm that gives a very small advantage to larger regions.
Current: A proportional algorithm that gives a very small advantage to larger regions.
Proposed: Equal representation, regardless of region population.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:38:35, June 07, 2005 CET | From |  MLC Old Endralonian Resistance | To | Debating the Minority Protection Act |
| Message | No citizen is more equal than any other , whils I agree with decentralising government I can't agree with shifting from our dedication to one citizen one equal vote. |
| Date | 12:39:04, June 07, 2005 CET | From | Delete This Party!!! | To | Debating the Minority Protection Act |
| Message | We must balance majority rule with minority rights. This new electoral system will grant that balance. |
| Date | 12:42:48, June 07, 2005 CET | From | Delete This Party!!! | To | Debating the Minority Protection Act |
| Message | Everyone still has a vote. If the system you wanted was to be implemented we would have to do away with regions. Under our election system however, we feel the people from smaller regions are being ignored and under-represented. Furthermore, everyone gets one equal vote in the HoS election as well that will remain unchanged. |
| Date | 00:50:07, June 08, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the Minority Protection Act |
| Message | People from smaller regions get just as much representation as people from larger regions. One man, one vote. You're proposing to give some people more voting power than others, just because they happen to live in smaller regions. That's not only discriminatory, it's patently stupid. |
| Date | 18:19:33, June 08, 2005 CET | From | MLC Old Endralonian Resistance | To | Debating the Minority Protection Act |
| Message | exactly I can understand whilst people in smaller regions should have more control over their own governance (same with larger ones actually) but on core national issues like the fight against capitalism we cant allow someone to have more power over the nation than others just because of where they live. We are a country seperated by arbitrary province borders not a collection of federated states. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 238 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 417 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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