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Bill: Protectorates Act 33-01
Details
Submitted by[?]: Protectorate 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: December 2235
Description[?]:
| The bill will... 1) Bar the manufacture of any chemical or biological weapons in Malivia or by Malivian industries. 2) Remove the threat or use of chemical and biological weapons in warfare by the Malivia military for any reason. 3) Create a nationally owned defence industry able to create any and all of our weaponry and military supplies. Research and development will remain privately owned as well as small arms for civilian use, or any weapon permitted for export. 4) Establish a true seperation of military and civilian police force to ensure that there will be no need for our citizens to fear our military. 5) Bar conscription from being used as a means to increase our military forces at any time. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning biological and chemical weaponry.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Current: The nation shall never develop, purchase or store biological or chemical weaponry.
Proposed: The nation shall never purchase, produce, or store biological or chemical weaponry, for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of chemical and biological weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weapons in warfare unless another nation uses them first.
Current: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Proposed: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: Defence industries are privately owned and not subsidised.
Current: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Proposed: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: All adults upon completion of schooling can be required in times of war to serve a term in the military.
Current: All adults upon completion of schooling can be required in times of war to serve a term in the military.
Proposed: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:20:03, May 27, 2006 CET | From | Malivia Democratic Party | To | Debating the Protectorates Act 33-01 |
| Message | Agree except for Article 4. |
| Date | 17:22:26, May 27, 2006 CET | From | Malivia Democratic Party | To | Debating the Protectorates Act 33-01 |
| Message | If the assembly rules are the same as I remember them, I move to stike Article 4 : Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on the separation of the police and the military Old value:: A civilian police force is in place and the military may be called in to help in serious emergencies. Current: A civilian police force is in place and the military may be called in to help in serious emergencies. Proposed: A civilian police force is in place and the military is not allowed to play any part in it. |
| Date | 02:06:27, May 28, 2006 CET | From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Protectorates Act 33-01 |
| Message | We where unsure if these rules where still in effect since they where being ignored left and right in recent history. We will work within the rules and remove the requested proposal. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 101 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 133 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 67 |
| Random fact: "Jezvraljogadsrlji" means "Social" in the Jelbic languages. |
| Random quote: "I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." - Ronald Reagan, quoted in New York Times, 22 September 1980 |