Partisanship Requirement Amendment (At Final Vote)

[Colin]

Partisanship Requirement Amendment

Article V, Section 2, Clause 1 is amended to read as follows: A person may become a registered voter if he has attained twenty-five posts at the forum. In registration, the person must state his name and State of fantasy residence; in addition, he must may optionally state a political affiliation with an organized political party. If the party a person is affiliated with is declared unorganized, the person will have one week to affiliate with another organized political party.

Article V, Section 1, Clause 8 is amended to read as follows: Any political party of five or more members is considered to be an organized political party. If the membership of a political party is less than five members for more than one week, the party will be declared unorganized. A party may not attempt to reorganize for one month after it is declared unorganized. The benefits of being an organized political party may be determined by the Senate by appropriate legislation.


Sponsor: Senator Meeker

[Colin]

The Bill strikes me as Unconstitutional, and if it is not, it should be.

I don't believe a constitutional amendment can be unconstitutional.

[Colin]

I have to agree with Senator Meeker that, while in real life such a law would be against the interest of any nation, in a fictional, game setting like Atlasia such a law would allow for the party system in Atlasia to develop and mature. I seriously doubt this will pass, but I support it fully.

[Colin]

Seeing that there has been no debate on this amendment in the last 24 hours I am bringing this to a vote.

Please vote Aye, Nay, or Abstain on the amendment.

[Colin]

While I would've like to have given much more time to this

Then you should have kept talking. As long as you keep posting I can't close debate, unless someone calls for cloture and all that entails.


I'm going to vote Abstain on the amendment. While I like what it does I think a better solution to creating more cohesive parties is to change the current wording of the Organized Parties clause of the Constitution and then implement something along the lines of BrandonH's party requirement bill.

[Colin]

This Amendment has enough votes to fail. Senators have 24 hours to change their votes.

[Colin]

Final Tally

Aye: 1 (Meeker)
Nay: 5 (Lewis Trondheim, Torie, DWTL, CultureKing, afleitch)
Abstain: 2 (Colin Wixted, Verily)
Not Voting: 0


With 1 in favour to 5 against, with 2 abstentions, this amendment hereby fails.