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Bill: Election Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Catholic Workers Union
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill asks for an amendement to the Constitution. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 2257
Description[?]:
| The present length of our terms leaves very little time for debate and subjects the nation to elections on a repeated and unsubstainable cycle. This does not leave the government much time to govern without again worrying about reelection. We believe that a far more satisfactory length is four years, a length to be enacted after the end of this term if this bill should pass. (OOC: I've played in three nations and the great thing about Telamon is the willingness of the other parties to actually debate issues. It would be nice if we could have more time to do that without worrying about putting bills immediately to vote to improve our standings on issues. And in RL, frequent elections hurt the process by making politicians always afraid of doing any actual governing. Look at the U.S. with House elections! The British model is much more appealing, I think they have election only every five years, correct?). |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The length of a legislative and executive term, in months. Should be between 24 and 72.
Old value:: 30
Current: 54
Proposed: 48
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:12:56, July 20, 2006 CET | From | Telamon Patriots' Bloc | To | Debating the Election Reform Act |
| Message | This bill will allow more governing and less politiking. We strongly support it. |
| Date | 05:13:45, July 20, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Election Reform Act |
| Message | Excellent. |
| Date | 15:27:22, July 20, 2006 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the Election Reform Act |
| Message | More like four, but you've got the picture. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 355 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "What luck for the rulers that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler |