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Bill: Adult Recognition Act (ARA)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Classical Liberal Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: February 2214
Description[?]:
| The bill recognizes that the standard age for adulthood needs to be lowered. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The age at which a person is considered an adult (limited between 12 and 24).
Old value:: 21
Current: 18
Proposed: 18
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:40:47, April 10, 2006 CET | From |  Classical Liberal Party | To | Debating the Adult Recognition Act (ARA) |
| Message | Frankly I think 18 is a more universally recognized age for adulthood then 21. |
| Date | 04:38:30, April 10, 2006 CET | From |  Front Canrillaise | To | Debating the Adult Recognition Act (ARA) |
| Message | Against. |
| Date | 05:30:40, April 10, 2006 CET | From | Classical Liberal Party | To | Debating the Adult Recognition Act (ARA) |
| Message | Any reason why? |
| Date | 21:58:02, April 10, 2006 CET | From | Front Canrillaise | To | Debating the Adult Recognition Act (ARA) |
| Message | The older the better so that they will be more mature by the time they are considered adults. |
| Date | 23:40:26, April 10, 2006 CET | From | Classical Liberal Party | To | Debating the Adult Recognition Act (ARA) |
| Message | Well by that train of logic why do it at 21? Lets make it older like 42 or better yet 68 or so on and so on. When it comes to adults it simply means the age at which they are considered a legally seperate entity from their parents and are afforded more rights because of that. 18 tends to be the universal age for this. |
| Date | 00:59:53, April 11, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Adult Recognition Act (ARA) |
| Message | Agreed. There's no reason why we should handicap future generations by relegating them to three more years of childhood. |
| Date | 02:07:00, April 11, 2006 CET | From | Front Canrillaise | To | Debating the Adult Recognition Act (ARA) |
| Message | Our opposition is more concerned with the privileges that 18 year olds will get when they officially become adults, namely voting and alcohol. We do not want young'ns voting for parties like the LDP nor do we want them to be indulging in bad substances. |
| Date | 18:52:53, April 11, 2006 CET | From | Classical Liberal Party | To | Debating the Adult Recognition Act (ARA) |
| Message | When it comes to voting other countries already have it set at 18. If the younger people won't vote your way that's not an excuse to say they don't deserve to be an adult. That's just a shameless attempt at staying in power. |
| Date | 16:52:58, April 14, 2006 CET | From | Devout Ecologists Party | To | Debating the Adult Recognition Act (ARA) |
| Message | I will give you the reason for 21. It is that age when you are not obligated to go to school anymore. And why 21 for that limit? Because it is the maximum value one can enter for obligating the children in the country to go to school. Only after proper education and further maturisation one can make adult decisions. |
| Date | 02:47:25, April 15, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Adult Recognition Act (ARA) |
| Message | Children are not children at twenty-one. They're not children when they're eighteen. They're adults and deserve to be out and about making their own decisions in life. They can't be their parent's play-things forever, and they can't be denied the vote any longer. It's time we let these adults get out and vote, and vote for us! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 225 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 307 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 68 |
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