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Bill: National Language
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Daio 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: February 2237
Description[?]:
The following is a proposal for a Constitutional Amendment. The National Language of Zardugal is Zardu. No legal documents drawn up in any other language shall have writ or force within our borders. No government official shall conduct official business in any other language, except with foreign diplomats. No government, financial or otherwise official documents, identification, permits, contracts, ad usum proprium, shall be drawn up in any other language for domestic use. All citizens must be able to read, write and speak in Zardu to facilitate communication among citizens. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 06:53:40, May 28, 2006 CET | From | Jacobin Society | To | Debating the National Language |
Message | I do not believe we should force Zardugalis to speak Zardu. This, it seems, is implied by the resolution itself and by forcing citizens to speak the language is over-kill. |
Date | 19:06:16, May 28, 2006 CET | From | New Daio Party | To | Debating the National Language |
Message | Zardugalis have spoken Zardu as the dominant language here for longer than the Consulate has even been around. All this would do is formalize things. It doesn't force a citizen to speak the language, that would be unenforceable. What it does is set to assure that for all people within our borders have a common tongue they can speak in. |
Date | 19:16:30, May 28, 2006 CET | From | Jacobin Society | To | Debating the National Language |
Message | That's a given. All I needed to know was that we're not forcing anything on anybody. |
Date | 02:31:00, May 29, 2006 CET | From | New Daio Party | To | Debating the National Language |
Message | basically what it says is that the government and all official documents operate in a single language only, and that all citizens need to be literate in that language. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||
yes |
Total Seats: 144 | ||||
no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
abstain |
Total Seats: 142 |
Random fact: It is the collective responsibility of the players in a nation to ensure all currently binding RP laws are clearly outlined in an OOC reference bill in the "Bills under debate" section of the nation page. Confusion should not be created by displaying only some of the current RP laws or displaying RP laws which are no longer current. |
Random quote: "The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft we can all declare homosexuality instead of running off to Canada." - Lorne Bloch |