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Bill: Common Sense Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Movement
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: October 4946
Description[?]:
| We believe religion should not dictate our lives. We need to regulate financial institutions but not outright ban the charging of interest. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the charging and collection of interest on loans
Old value:: Charging interest on loans is illegal for religious purposes
Current: Banks and financial institutions charge interest on loans and are regulated
Proposed: Banks and financial institutions charge interest on loans and are regulated
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:50:21, June 01, 2021 CET | From | Empire Forwards! (EF!) | To | Debating the Common Sense Act |
| Message | News from outside debate: A source close to Fennessy states that he believes this bill is the work of “usurers with deep pockets” who are “playing parties like puppets to create an enslaved class of debtors”. |
| Date | 23:56:44, June 01, 2021 CET | From | Ducal Delegation | To | Debating the Common Sense Act |
| Message | Cedric Poots, Private Political Secretary to the Duke of Middenridding: His Grace accepts that banking is an inevitable and essential feature of a modern economy, but hopes not too many people of foreign ethnicities and foreign religions will be making money out of this once it has been allowed. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 23 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 86 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 41 |
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| Random quote: "With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day." - Martin Luther King Jr. |