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Bill: Anti-Corruption Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Adam Smith Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: January 2082
Description[?]:
| Considering the power that is placed in the hands of our political representatives and the direct employees of the government it is essential that these individuals be and are shown to be honest and reliable. For this reason it is proposed that certain of the rights to privacy and rights of employment of individuals shall be suspended with regards to these individuals for the period of time in which they serve the nation. For the puposes of this law a senior civil servant is one that has the power to take decisions that affect the use of public resources. 1. Exclusivity of Interests No employee of the government or elected representative of the people shall hold any position, paid or othewrwise with any private company for the duration of their term of office or public employment. 2. Criminal History Disclosure Whilst past criminal convictions shall not disqualify individuals from public service unless specifically so disqualified in law, all past criminal convictions of public servants shall be a matter of public record. 3. Financial Record Disclosure All elected representatives and senior public officials shall disclose all of their financial records covering a period starting ten (10) years prior to their election through to the present day to the public auditors. Failure to so disclose or to fully disclose shall be considered treasonable and is subject to the penalties for treason. 4. Patrimony Disclosure All elected representatives and senior public servants shall make an annual declaration of their patrimony. If there is any increase in patrimony that is inconsistant with their financial disclosure audit this shall be considered evidence of deceit and lack of full disclosure. 5. Gifts Elected representativces and senior public servants are not permitted to accept gifts with a value of grerater than 50 Lodamun dollars from any source that is not connected personally with them as an individual rather than as a public employee. Gifts of greater value received from family or friends have to be declared in their financial records. (The value need not be declared, but the item must be to allow the cross checking of patrimony to finance.) 6. Remuneration No law varying the compensation for the services of the elected representatives shall take effect until an election of these representatives shall have intervened. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The lyrics of the national anthem.
Old value:: None
Current:
| O, Lodamun Rejoice, brothers and sisters Children of our glorious land May we restrain our resistors Their resistance we disband No foe I fear, no friend I force We propagate wholeheartedly No single feeling of Remorse affects our fraternity All the weapons of this earth Could not temper our pride Lodamun, for what it's worth Your sacred grounds we abide O, Republic that is ours Our lives are in your hands We shall maintain with all our powers Your glory, with proud stance. |
Proposed: Probably none
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:20:35, July 15, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill |
| Message | Any further suggestions or ideas are welcome. |
| Date | 18:56:00, July 15, 2005 CET | From |  Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill |
| Message | Add some meaningless proposal that would make this into a constitutional amendment. You could add ((something like the 27th amendment to the US constitution)): "No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect until an election of Representatives shall have intervened." |
| Date | 19:28:34, July 15, 2005 CET | From | Democractic Socialist Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill |
| Message | looks good to me |
| Date | 19:35:15, July 15, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill |
| Message | ((I hope you appreciate the 'probably" DSP)) |
| Date | 21:10:27, July 15, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill |
| Message | The CNT/AFL shall meet to decide the position we will take on this bill. |
| Date | 21:45:38, July 15, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill |
| Message | Sounds fine. Why does it need to be a constitutional amendment? Sounds like a pretty straightforward law, and majority vote should be enough to pass it. |
| Date | 21:51:02, July 15, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill |
| Message | The constitutional ammendment is to give it greater force than a straightforward bill. ((Learning from the Inclusive Consensus Act. As no item in the game system covers this, we have chosen to apply a meaningless constitutional ammendment to give it that binding force)) |
| Date | 22:04:36, July 15, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill |
| Message | Any further additions that anyone would like to make, or maybe changes to the wording? |
| Date | 22:16:21, July 15, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill |
| Message | I'd suggest changing the proposal wording to "probably none," since some would prefer to say there is no anthem. Still leaves DSP's "probably" intact. |
| Date | 16:00:56, July 16, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill |
| Message | Do we understands that the Equi-trista party is pro-corruption? Or is there some error in this bill that they would like correcting? |
| Date | 07:27:45, July 17, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill |
| Message | ((Obviously they oppose this bill because you wrote it and support it. they would vote against anything you support, no matter how socialist it is...)) |
| Date | 07:28:27, July 17, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill |
| Message | They are also probably pro-corruption as well, given their recent and past behavior. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 253 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 31 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 164 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow official national flags of real-life nations or flags which are very prominent and recognisable (eg. the flags of the European Union, the United Nations, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or the Confederate States of America). |
| Random quote: "Corruption is the nightmare that keeps democracy a dream." - Anonymous |