Southern Constitutional Taskforce

[Leinad]

Recently, I have been taking another look at the Southern Regional Constitution and while I feel that the committee members did a good job making the Constitution in the time they had, I feel it necessary to create a Constitutional taskforce to review and suggest changes to our Southern Constitution. This taskforce will make a report due no later than January 1st at 12:00 AM Central Time, this report would suggest non-binding changes to our Constitution which could be made by the Region, by the Chamber, and by me. If the taskforce needs additional time, it may request it. This taskforce will be composed of:

. Speaker of the Southern Chamber of Delegates, Leinad
. Speaker of the Atlasian House of Representatives, NeverAgain
. Former Governor and Southern Delegate, PiT
. Registrar General , Southern Elections Secretary, and Representative Peebs
. Leader of the Southern Alliance Party, Jbrase

Note: Leinad shall serve as chair/leader of this taskforce and will run it's proceedings accordingly, if the taskforce wishes to elect another leader after it's initial meeting, they may.

And thus I start the Southern Constitutional Taskforce.

Important Link:

Current Southern Constitution

^Read that, and nitpick/suggest away!

(Also, if anyone doesn't want Leinad (me) to be in charge, say the word and I'll call a vote.)

[Leinad]

Thank you, Jbrase, I have no idea why that didn't occur to me.

I have a few ideas that I'll put into words later this week.

[Leinad]

Imperial Domain of the South.

I thought it was Dominion?

Fremont named itself after a person, and the North almost did (Franklin). Should we go that route, "Paul" would be a good name.

[Leinad]

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Just because other regions do it doesn't mean we should too. The South is special. If the north decided that they wanted Justin Beiber to be their official songbird, should we do the same?

No, and if they did and we decided to follow the pattern, we'd just choose a better musician.

Anyway, it should be made clear that I obviously wasn't doing that for conformity (which is always a lousy reason), but rather an excuse to call the region "Paul."

[Leinad]

No idea how I missed this, although I assumed since you weren't yelling at me in IRC or PM I didn't need to do anything (I'll take "worst excuses ever" for $500, Alex ).

- Principle Vote -

[ ] Newton
[ ] Dixie
[ ] Shenandoah
[ ] Dixieland
[ ] Cumberland
[ ] Roanoke
[ ] Imperial Domain of the South
[ ] Paul
[ ] Rayburn
[ ] Kefauver
[ ] Cherokee
[ ] Jefferson
[ ] Write-In

Due to the fact it's Christmas and a wicked long ballot (12 options plus write-in, and I don't want anyone to even think about half-assing it--I know it's non-binding, but still), the vote will last until either 96 hours have passed, or 24 hours after all 5 members have voted (whichever comes first).

[Leinad]

- Principle Vote -

[7] Newton
[5] Dixie
[10] Shenandoah
[6] Dixieland
[8] Cumberland
[9] Roanoke
[11] Imperial Domain of the South
[1] Paul
[12] Rayburn
[13] Kefauver
[3] Cherokee
[2] Jefferson
[4] Write-In: Steve

[Leinad]

Okay, the math part:

2 - Shenandoah
1 - Paul
1 - Jefferson
1 - Scissorland

Since it has the least high preferences from the other voters, Scissorland is eliminated along with everything that didn't get a preference.

2 - Shenandoah
2 - Jefferson
1 - Paul

Paul is eliminated...

3 - Jefferson
2 - Shenandoah

Jefferson wins, and we will therefore include making Jefferson the region's new name in our report for the Governor upon the Taskforce's completion.

[Leinad]

Nope, Ben and SG don't count, since you two aren't members (but your input is still definitely welcome).

[Leinad]

Okay, I now propose we begin discussion on the status of the states in our region. With literally anything relevant to game play being on the regional and federal levels the only purpose states serve is so we have a place for registration and even then in theory registration could change to "Region Name, Party" and nothing would change.

So in the name of promoting our own unique regional culture and identity I suggest the following:

1. Over the next week we open the floor to proposals from anyone to submit a new map of "provinces", or "states", or whatever we would choose to call then.

2. After discussion we open a vote similar to the name vote including the proposed maps and a "keep things as they are" option.

Agreed.

And it shall be!

[Leinad]

Two pictures of my map:




Lots of states (17 counting PR as it's own)--probably more than some of you wanted--but I think it's a good map nonetheless (I did an insane amount of research on regions of states in order to make this--any oddities will probably have reasons).

[Leinad]

Jbrase's map is alright, although it splits up the Atlanta metro area, and I prefer my division of NC plus my gulf coast state.

I am very uncomfortable with anything over 12, to be frank. I feel that if we are to have a balance between new states and lessening the confusion on newer players, 12 would be a good max. I will have my proposal up too, I guess.

How much of a difference, really, is 12 and 17? I mean, it's not like new players are required to learn all 17 of them. I think we should go with the best map regardless of size.

Anything that subdivides Texas is a no go.

It's not a slight on Texas in any way. If anything a credit to the state's large population and geographic size, having several areas within that could easily work as states by themselves.

[Leinad]

That's nice, I suppose, but it takes away the MS Delta state, the DC Metro state, and the Atlantic coast state.