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Bill: National Library and Museum Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic-Republican Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 2201
Description[?]:
| The DRP proposes that we nationalise the system of libraries and museums nationwide. The public library and the museum are of the greatest creations of humankind, creating freedom of information and increasing people's freedom over a hundredfold, with vast amounts of information available to all. We propose spreading this across the nation from the richest gated community to the poorest ghetto, for the citizen that is more educated is more free, and freedom is what we must have. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the funding of libraries.
Old value:: The national government provides local governments with funding to operate libraries.
Current: Funding and operation of libraries is left entirely to local governments.
Proposed: The national government controls a vast and comprehensive system of public libraries.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning museum funding.
Old value:: The government leaves funding and operation of museums to local governments.
Current: The national government maintains a system of museums nationwide.
Proposed: The national government maintains a system of museums nationwide.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:29:09, March 16, 2006 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the National Library and Museum Act |
| Message | This bill is pointless. It has been passed already, elsewhere. |
| Date | 03:52:59, March 16, 2006 CET | From | Democratic-Republican Party | To | Debating the National Library and Museum Act |
| Message | That was before I posted this and put it to vote. |
| Date | 03:53:27, March 16, 2006 CET | From | Democratic-Republican Party | To | Debating the National Library and Museum Act |
| Message | after* I posted |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 213 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 23 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 94 |
| Random fact: Periodically, it is a good idea to go through your nation's Treaties and arrange to withdraw from any that are unwanted. |
| Random quote: "We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk." - Eleanor Roosevelt |