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Bill: RP: A Church with an empire, not an empire with a Church
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative Party
Status[?]: passed
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 5026
Description[?]:
| FORT WILLIAM, ORANGE — That the Church would be re-established was obvious enough after the last election, but not even the most fervent Hosians could have hoped for the enthusiasm of the government in pursuing its wide-reaching restoration of its historic place in public life. Since the retirement of Robert Wrigley as Archbishop of Alchester last month and appointment of John Wolstenholm to that office, the Church has assumed near-absolute control over what were previously the government's two most important responsibilities of education and healthcare. While Church involvement in education is far from unprecedented – it has long had a tight grip on nursery and primary education – the scale of this is, with even the grammar schools founded by the boroughs or with endowments to come under its authority. The only schools exempt from Church control will be those that specifically cater to minority religions or Hosian denominations. The same goes for the Church's assumption of responsibility for healthcare: although it has maintained some role, in scale it is beyond a return to the medieval period, when secular, locally-run hospitals co-existed in the cities with Hosian establishments. But for the Shieldwall, it is a political masterstroke. By completely removing government from healthcare and replacing it with the Church, in a sort of 'quasi-privatisation', it has neutered the ability of future governments to enact progressive reform on matters such as abortion without picking a fight with a Church now emboldened in a way it has not been for millennia. |
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Debate
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| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 235 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 35 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 16 |
| Random fact: The people in your nation don't like inactive parties. When you often abstain from voting for a bill, they will dislike your party and your visibility to the electorate will decrease significantly. Low visibility will means you are likely to lose seats. So keep in mind: voting Yes or No is always better than Abstaining. |
| Random quote: "Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." - Thomas Jefferson |