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« on: August 26, 2008, 07:09:36 PM »

Political Party Definition Amendment

Article V, Section 1, Clause 8 (Political Party definition) of the Constitution of Atlasia is hereby repealed.



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This is being placed into the sixth slot which is reserved for forum affairs and emergency legislation. Any Senator has 72 hours to challenge this action in a public post.
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« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2008, 01:45:30 PM »

Whilst I am not a member of this august body, I would like to interject:

As many of you know the relevant text in Article V reads:
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Repealing this would remove some constitutional concerns surrounding bills that have been proposed in the past and today, however, I fear that an enumerated powers/free speech challenge to a bill regulating political parties could still be mounted in the absence of this text.

Therefore, I must encourage a Senator to amend this legislation so that it includes a clause such as:
The Senate shall have power to categorise and regulate political parties and to assign benefits to parties as it sees fit.
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« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2008, 08:39:04 PM »

Friendly Amendment

The text of this bill shall now read:

Article V, Section 1, Clause 8 is hereby amended to read:

The Senate shall have power to categorise and regulate political parties and to assign benefits to parties as it sees fit.



Senators have 24 hours to challenge the accept of this amendment as friendly.
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« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2008, 08:53:26 PM »

I am against this bill.
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« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2008, 09:23:28 PM »


Well first off why?

Secondly, as clarification, are you objecting to the amendment being introduced as friendly or to the general idea of what is proposed or the amendment that was just introduced?
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« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2008, 03:10:32 AM »

I'm objecting.
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« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2008, 02:25:12 PM »


Alright. Then there is a mandatory 72 hour debate period on this amendment before voting will begin.
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« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2008, 06:04:09 PM »

OK, what is this about? 
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« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2008, 07:29:39 PM »


Basically making it so that the Senate will have the power to enact legislation to catagorize and regulate political parties. Something akin to what BrandonH proposed a while back or some of the recent political party definition bills and amendments. This would just empower the Senate to devise both a catagorization and a regulation for political parties replacing the current clause which states that political parties with 5 members constitute major parties and they can be given benefits through legislation. It makes the political party definition much easier to control and change.

The original proposed amendment would have gotten rid of any mentioning of political parties in the constitution. The amendment to the proposed amendment would basically allow the Senate to enact legislation, if it so chooses, to both catagorize and regulate political parties, what qualifies as major or disorganized political parties, what does that mean, do parties need platforms to be officially recognized, etc.
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« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2008, 08:01:19 PM »

I plan to support this once I take office in 3 glorious days
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« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2008, 10:56:35 PM »

Thanks Colin. It seems relatively harmless.
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« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2008, 02:49:34 PM »

We will now vote on the amendment to the proposed amendment.

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Please vote Aye, Nay, or Abstain.
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« Reply #12 on: September 04, 2008, 04:57:30 PM »

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« Reply #13 on: September 04, 2008, 05:04:43 PM »

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« Reply #14 on: September 04, 2008, 05:18:41 PM »

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« Reply #15 on: September 05, 2008, 12:21:33 AM »

Abstain



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On a side note I need someone to convince me that this won't give the parties too much power. What happens if a party gets a majority in the senate and uses this legislation to discriminate against the other rival parties?
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« Reply #16 on: September 05, 2008, 09:18:36 AM »

On a side note I need someone to convince me that this won't give the parties too much power. What happens if a party gets a majority in the senate and uses this legislation to discriminate against the other rival parties?

Atlasian parties aren't coherent enough to do that.
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« Reply #17 on: September 05, 2008, 01:50:56 PM »

Nay
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« Reply #18 on: September 05, 2008, 02:34:07 PM »

On a side note I need someone to convince me that this won't give the parties too much power. What happens if a party gets a majority in the senate and uses this legislation to discriminate against the other rival parties?

Atlasian parties aren't coherent enough to do that.

Also it's entirely possible to do that right now too. By giving your party, which has over 5 members, benefits and support. The problem is this would never happen in Atlasia, parties are too weak, people would get pissed and leave the game, rebellions/revolts, and the like. Just like any game the players can always walk away if someone tries to cheat, that's really not possible in a normal nation.
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« Reply #19 on: September 05, 2008, 02:35:21 PM »

On a side note I need someone to convince me that this won't give the parties too much power. What happens if a party gets a majority in the senate and uses this legislation to discriminate against the other rival parties?

Atlasian parties aren't coherent enough to do that.

Also it's entirely possible to do that right now too. By giving your party, which has over 5 members, benefits and support.
Not really... unless your party is the only party over 5 members.

At least that's how I've always interpreted the Constitutional Provision. Tongue
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« Reply #20 on: September 05, 2008, 04:17:07 PM »

The RPP plans to have only a benevolent dictatorship Smiley

Anyway, I cast my first vote in my glorious return to the senate:

AYE
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« Reply #21 on: September 05, 2008, 07:54:46 PM »

On a side note I need someone to convince me that this won't give the parties too much power. What happens if a party gets a majority in the senate and uses this legislation to discriminate against the other rival parties?

Atlasian parties aren't coherent enough to do that.

Also it's entirely possible to do that right now too. By giving your party, which has over 5 members, benefits and support. The problem is this would never happen in Atlasia, parties are too weak, people would get pissed and leave the game, rebellions/revolts, and the like. Just like any game the players can always walk away if someone tries to cheat, that's really not possible in a normal nation.
I think this is simply a plot for you to grab power. As such I am going into old, paranoid man mode.
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« Reply #22 on: September 06, 2008, 10:55:01 AM »

aye
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« Reply #23 on: September 07, 2008, 07:09:16 PM »

aye
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« Reply #24 on: September 09, 2008, 04:20:46 AM »

The amendment to the proposed Amendment has passed.

Aye 5 or 6 (Torie, Colin*, Verily, DWTL, Bacon King, Sensei)
Nay 1 (Lewis)
Abstain (voted) 1 (Culture King)
Abstain (didn't vote) 2 or 3 (Al, Jas, Meeker)

*we don't have rules on who has the right to change Colin's vote yet. The amendment has enough votes to pass anyhow.
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