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Bill: Anti-Revolutionary Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Centrist 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: January 2073
Description[?]:
| This bill aims to restore the death penalty in cases where the defendant's guilt is beyond any doubt and the defendant has committed grevious crimes against the people of Likatonia. These acts will include such things as large-scale sadistic torture or execution of a group of people (crimes against mankind), the intentional spreading of fear through destruction of property and life (terrorism), or attempts to violently overthrow the Likatonian government (treason). |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy with respect to the death penalty.
Old value:: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Current: The death penalty is not applied, except for terrorism, treason and crimes against mankind.
Proposed: The death penalty is not applied, except for terrorism, treason and crimes against mankind.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:10:46, June 26, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Party for Equality | To | Debating the Anti-Revolutionary Bill |
| Message | No. all the usual stuff: hypocracy, blah, forgiveness,blah, humanity,blah etc.etc. |
| Date | 17:11:32, June 26, 2005 CET | From | National Centrist Party | To | Debating the Anti-Revolutionary Bill |
| Message | Yeah, you're right, there won't actually be much point in leaving this in debate. I'll take it to vote and it'll pass or fail according to everyone's conscious and/or political image. |
| Date | 18:29:24, June 26, 2005 CET | From | Edelweiss Party | To | Debating the Anti-Revolutionary Bill |
| Message | Absolutely NO! Death penalty is a low form of degradation. A nation who performs the death penalty lowers itself to the level exucutioner. |
| Date | 18:31:00, June 26, 2005 CET | From | Edelweiss Party | To | Debating the Anti-Revolutionary Bill |
| Message | correction: "a form of degradation" (added a word to much there) |
| Date | 22:58:55, June 26, 2005 CET | From | mutt Party | To | Debating the Anti-Revolutionary Bill |
| Message | Life imprisonment is much worse than death for some people. |
| Date | 07:35:19, June 27, 2005 CET | From | Right Wing Liberals Party | To | Debating the Anti-Revolutionary Bill |
| Message | I thought you were against the DP LFP? |
| Date | 10:59:05, June 27, 2005 CET | From | National Centrist Party | To | Debating the Anti-Revolutionary Bill |
| Message | RWLP: No, our party has always been in favor of capital punishment. MP: That's why I support capital punishment; life imprisonment is inhumane. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 71 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 129 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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