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Bill: OOC: Revolutionary Documents
Details
Submitted by[?]: Revolutionary Federalist Front
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: June 4577
Description[?]:
| Decleration of the Will of the Baltusian People to Establish a Republic (OOC: DoI) ____________________________________________________________________________ "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Such has been the case of Baltusia under the self-imposed "Supreme Holy Emperor" and his "Supreme governor General" Yet it can't be sustained-- the oppression of a people, to live neither whole free nor whole slaves, As such, we, the people of Baltusia, declare that we seek that the Imperial system be overthrown and that a Republican system of governance is established that uphold our pursuit of happiness and liberty." Declaration of the Articles of Confederation of Governance of Baltusia (OOC: AoC) ____________________________________________________________________________ "Article 1- Congress - There shall be a legislature, Congress, composed of 2 houses, a house of representatives, and a senate. - The House shall be composed of 435 seats, distributed according to population - The Senate shall be composed of 100 seats, 20 per state - A bill needs to pass the House, Senate, and President before being implemented into law (OOC: Veto is implied) Article 2- President - President shall be elected in a 2-round system of the electoral college. Each state receives 20 electors, whose votes are determined by their legislatures - President shall appoint a VP, who heads the Cabinet - The VP is the tiebreaker in all Senate Votes - the President is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces - a president or cabinet official may be impeached via a 2/3rds majority of both the House and Senate Article 3- Supreme Court - A Supreme Court is established, with inferior courts as well - SC shall test bills for constitutional legality, and shall preside over investigations and impeachment proceedings - Each state is to appoint a justice every 25 years - SC may annul a bill by a 3-2 majority" Declaration of the Constitutional Convention (OOC: Constitution) ____________________________________________________________________________ " We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of Baltusia. Article 1 _______________________________________ Section. 1 [Congress] All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Whose duties shall be it to: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations To establish a Rule of Naturalization, and Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; To establish Post Offices and post Roads; To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. Section. 2 [House of Representatives] The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States. The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment. Section. 3 [Senate] The Senate of the United States shall be composed of ten Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote. The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate but shall have no Vote, unless they are equally divided. The Senate shall choose their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States. Section. 4 [Parlementary Procedure] Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, and punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour. Section. 5 [Bills] All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives, but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills. Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill. Section. 6 [Nobility] No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State. Section. 7 [State Rights] No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Control of the Congress. No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay. Article 2 _______________________________________ Section. 1 [Elections for Preisedent] The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows: Each State is to be given 20 Electors, to be appointed by the State Legislatures. Each Elector is to, every 4th year, vote on a candidate. The Candidate with 51 electoral votes, shall be named President. If no candidate receives 51 electoral votes, then a second round, consisting of the top two candidates shall be held at a later date. If there is a tie in electoral votes, then the House shall determine the President. Before he enters on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation - "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Section. 2 [Armed Forces] The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have the Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments. Section. 3 [State of the Union] He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States. Section. 4 [Impeachment] The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. Article 3 _______________________________________ Section. 1 [Supreme Court] The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office. Each State shall appoint, once every twenty-five years, one supreme court justice to serve for twenty-five years, and so forth. Section. 2 [Supreme Court Jurisdiction] The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two or more States;— between a State and Citizens of another State,—between Citizens of different States,—between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects. In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the Supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make. Article 4 _______________________________________ The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress. Article 5 _______________________________________ This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. Article 6 _______________________________________ The Ratification of the House, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same." |
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Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:47:53, May 15, 2019 CET | From | Republican Party - Populists | To | Debating the OOC: Revolutionary Documents |
| Message | The terrorists of the Revolutionary Federalists are trying to overthrow the government and undermine the lawful authority of the Emperor and Supreme Governor General. |
| Date | 23:12:54, May 15, 2019 CET | From | Revolutionary Federalist Front | To | Debating the OOC: Revolutionary Documents |
| Message | RP/OOC: that eb a great RP thing, how about RF beocming an amred rebel group seeking to overthrow the merorer? |
| Date | 12:37:42, May 16, 2019 CET | From | Democratic Conservative Party (DCP) | To | Debating the OOC: Revolutionary Documents |
| Message | We wholly agree with the government and will not tolerate these terrorists. |
| Date | 07:34:13, May 17, 2019 CET | From | Revolutionary Federalist Front | To | Debating the OOC: Revolutionary Documents |
| Message | OOC: Archving |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 135 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 399 |
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| Random quote: "Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat." - Don Reagan |