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Bill: Individual Rights Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Fundamentalists First
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: April 2269
Description[?]:
The right of the indivdual must come before that of the state |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The citizens' right to assemble in public.
Old value:: The police may disperse a group if they believe it poses a potential risk to public safety.
Current: The police may disperse a group if they believe it poses a potential risk to public safety.
Proposed: There are no restrictions on the right of citizens to assemble in groups.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Eminent Domain.
Old value:: The government may seize private property for vital government works.
Current: The government may seize private property for vital government works.
Proposed: The government may not seize private property.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change National policy regarding the desecration of the national flag.
Old value:: The national flag may not be desecrated or used for commercial purposes.
Current: The national flag may not be used for commercial purposes.
Proposed: There are no regulations regarding the desecration or use of the national flag.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 03:19:28, August 13, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Individual Rights Act |
Message | We support article 2, but we oppose the others. Article 1 allows parties like the TPB to organize and actively undermine and endanger our commonwealth. Article 3 promotes the destruction of a national symbol. And Article 4 allows some individuals to lie and damage others just because they are serving the common good by serving the public. |
Date | 04:40:56, August 13, 2006 CET | From | Fundamentalists First | To | Debating the Individual Rights Act |
Message | @ Art 1: If enough people feel the need to overrun a government, then they should have that right, same with #3, in a more symbolic way @4: By public figures i was more talking about the low-life scum known as celebrities... |
Date | 05:02:20, August 13, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Individual Rights Act |
Message | Even celebrities have rights. Our flag is the symbol of our nation, it must be protected. You wouldn't let terrorists destroy other national symbols in the name of freedom, would you? What if it isn't the majority of the people who are advocating revolution, but a small, clustered, wealthy few with a lot of power and now the freedom to incite violent riots? |
Date | 06:25:41, August 13, 2006 CET | From | Fundamentalists First | To | Debating the Individual Rights Act |
Message | If it's a few, then they can be brought down by the majority who has the power to incite violent riots.... And about the flag: yes... the third one i will remove.... |
Date | 18:32:08, August 13, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Individual Rights Act |
Message | So you'd let terrorists blow up the Parliament building if there were no people in it? The Parliament is a symbol of our democracy isn't it? |
Date | 08:45:46, August 14, 2006 CET | From | Fundamentalists First | To | Debating the Individual Rights Act |
Message | blowing up is different to assembling.... |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||
yes |
Total Seats: 111 | |||
no |
Total Seats: 164 | |||
abstain | Total Seats: 326 |
Random fact: Party candidates for head of state elections are not visible to the public. This means that you cannot see who will run and who will not, which adds another strategic element to the elections. |
Random quote: "Radical left-wing ideologies must be stamped out." - Franklin McCarthy, former Solentian politician |