6 month term

[Demrepdan]

I agree to NONE of this. It's too Jimmy Carter. Remember, Carter wanted to have the Presidency to 6 year terms....and you can only be elected to ONE term.
And 6 month term limits? That means we only have TWO elections per year. That's no fun. The fun in these Fantasy Elections is HAVING the elections....not SERVING as President!

This is what I propose, we have FOUR month terms, that way it will match more closely with real life 4 year terms. Then we will have elections at LEAST 3 times a year. (Trust me, you'll regret it later when you look back and realize we only have two elections per year).

With a 4 month term, the election will be held the second to last Weekend in the months of February, June, and October. The President will then take office on the first Saturday of the months of March, July, and November.

I also disagree with the term limits. We don't have THOUSANDS of members here at the forum you know...

Barely a third to half of forum members are participating in this election right now. If you have term limit, then as time goes on, every well known person at the forum will serve as President, and that's it. There's no competition. After Supersoulty and Nym, it'll be PD and Migrendel or something like that. And then The Wild Card and Gustaf...eventually we'll run out of people to serve, because no one can run anymore because of TERM LIMITS!!

This is how I think it should be....... 4 month terms....2 term limits. Then if you want to run again you must wait another 4 to 8 months. (e.g. Let's say Nym wins, I don't want to be bias and use Supersoulty as an example, anyway, lets say Nym wins......I think he should be up for RE-ELECTION in the summer.....in JUNE....and then the office will be OPEN again....in the fall...in October. Then NYM can't run again until February or June the following year.) You with me?? You understand?

I was looking forward to the idea of someone running against an incumbent President....but if it was left up to you guys..that would never happen. Above ALL...I HIGHLY stress that terms be 4 months in length! Someone mentioned about all the recent members of the forum who just now recently joined....and they can't participate in this election. So you're telling them they have to wait a HALF a year? How would you feel.....if you signed up the DAY after registration closed (that would be Jan. 23, 2004)...and you notice the fantasy election thread...and you think "gee, I think this would be fun, but wait....I can't participate in this one." So you have to wait SEVEN months just because you missed registration by a day? A HALF a year is a long time, people. Think about it...

I hope you truly LISTEN to my ideas and think about it.....4 month terms....and light rules for term limits (i.e. can't serve more than two consecutive terms at a time.)

Please people! Rally to my side!!! This 6 month term limit is a BAD idea! I wish to rally support from recent members who sadly can't participate in this election! DUNN!!! I know you're one of them. Come to my side...join my cause.

And I hope ALL of you think over what I said.....and join my side too.

4 MORE MONTHS! 4 MORE MONTHS! 4 MORE MONTHS!

[Demrepdan]

4 MORE months??? MORE??

I could support 4 months, gives me the option to possibly run in 4 months lol like i'd get the nomination

I just started chanting "4 MORE MONTHS" to show people the correlation to 4 MORE YEARS.

No one ever chants....6 MORE YEARS!

[Demrepdan]

I think that it should be 4 months with no term limits just like Demrepdan. As I stated before, I think having a "consititution" would be a great idea as I said before. Hopefully we can work on it after the election.

The United States formed their constitution 2 years before they held the Presidential elections. We're forming ours AFTER the Presidential election......so we're doing it back asswards.

[Demrepdan]

Anyone who wants to have 6 month terms....1 term limit...you should DEFEND your opinion. I stated clearly why I think it would be BEST to have 4 month terms..with light term limit rules. Why do people think 6 terms is a good idea? Because you want to have 2 elections per year?

[Demrepdan]

6 terms eh rep? lol surely 6 months?

lol...yeah yeah...thats what I meant....SIX MONTHS

[Demrepdan]

Hey  well if you guys want to do this every 4 months thats perfectly fine with me. Plus it would be good to have one election during the summer so people who have school can run with out worrying.

Yes indeed! Another valid point!

[Demrepdan]

I call again fot a constitution convention for deciding on that and other mattars. Demrep, jump in I am not even registered you are future vp......

The election isn't over.....I may NOT be VP.....but....I also call for a Constitutional Convention in the spring. I call that several members draft how they would want the constitution to be....and then the Senate (all members vote by poll) agree on which one is best.

[Demrepdan]

I call again fot a constitution convention for deciding on that and other mattars. Demrep, jump in I am not even registered you are future vp......

The election isn't over.....I may NOT be VP.....but....I also call for a Constitutional Convention in the spring. I call that several members draft how they would want the constitution to be....and then the Senate (all members vote by poll) agree on which one is best.

yeah
with one extra, we don't have to vote on a whole draft. we can accept a para from one draft etc. and should decide what majority we need to adopt the cinstitution

good idea. It wouldn't be good to accept one draft. We should use different portions of different drafts and use the ones that work best...and we all agree upon.

[Demrepdan]

so who is in the senate then???

Everyone......I think the Senate should not be an elected position. If you want to be in the Senate...you simply go to the Fantasy Election thread and declare yourself a member of the Senate. To make it work right....we should have a House of Representatives too. Maybe you should have 30 posts before you can be Senate. And 35 before you can run for President...and......ugh.

We'll decide all this at the convention.....

[Demrepdan]

gotcha, you think we limit the number of representatives per state? so 2 CA, 2 MA etc

No need to limit who can serve from which state. Maybe if the forum were bigger and we had members from ALL states. But I think the MAIN goal....is to simply have a legislative body...and I think it should be called the Senate....because being called a Senator is more cool than being called a Congressman. And besides.....Senators are more presitgious.

They have a uni-cameral House in Nebraska you know......and it's called a Senate. Even in the Star Wars movies...if you've ever watched them...they had a Galatic Senate...and an Imperial Senate...although the Imperial one didn't last long because Emperor Palpatine wanted to have more power...so he dissolved the body and...he.........ok......I'm really letting my "nerd" side show....