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Bill: Ratification of the Terran Association of Free Trade (TERRASSOFT)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill proposes for the ratification of a treaty. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor[?]. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: April 4512
Description[?]:
| This bill asks for the ratification of the Terran Association of Free Trade (TERRASSOFT). If this treaty is ratified, it becomes binding and will define national law. |
Proposals
Article 1
Ratify the Terran Association of Free Trade (TERRASSOFT).
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:34:37, January 06, 2019 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) | To | Debating the Ratification of the Terran Association of Free Trade (TERRASSOFT) |
| Message | Can we get any information from our collegues for why the might oppose this legislation ? We simply cant fathom why free trade is so unnaccaptable ? |
| Date | 00:00:51, January 07, 2019 CET | From | Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK) | To | Debating the Ratification of the Terran Association of Free Trade (TERRASSOFT) |
| Message | Other than its utter redundancy, we don't have any objections. |
| Date | 01:52:44, January 07, 2019 CET | From | National Conservative Party | To | Debating the Ratification of the Terran Association of Free Trade (TERRASSOFT) |
| Message | Our grievances stem from Section II Article 2 which strip Kalistan of its ability to regulate trade without the consent of a council comprised of mostly of non Kalistanis. |
| Date | 02:46:19, January 07, 2019 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) | To | Debating the Ratification of the Terran Association of Free Trade (TERRASSOFT) |
| Message | How about considering the the benefits of those articles to us and our exports |
| Date | 13:26:30, January 07, 2019 CET | From | National Conservative Party | To | Debating the Ratification of the Terran Association of Free Trade (TERRASSOFT) |
| Message | That doesn't change the fact that this strips us of our economic sovereignty. |
| Date | 19:22:19, January 07, 2019 CET | From | Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK) | To | Debating the Ratification of the Terran Association of Free Trade (TERRASSOFT) |
| Message | We would normally be inclined to agree with the Conservatives’ argument here. But as we maintain reciprocal trade as a matter of national policy, and all signatory states were bound to maintain free trade with Kalistan, our national law would require that we keep exactly reciprocal trade with them as well. This is why we said thevtreaty was redundant: it mirrors what our national law already does. But if you see it more of a bind upon other nations rather than us, (we would be bound to free trade by our national law to all those who traded on those terms with us) the treaty could be seen as being in conformity with our own established national practice. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 144 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 87 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Moderation will not implement nation renaming requests where the proposed name does not comply with the requirements set out in the Nation Renaming Guide: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6364 |
| Random quote: "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky |