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Peter
Junior Chimp
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« on: June 02, 2010, 02:41:25 PM »

I'm delighted to have this opportunity to serve once again, and for that I would like to thank the President wholeheartedly.

The job of Attorney General is what the holder makes of it. My first priority must be a full statute update. Sadly the wiki statute thread has not been maintained in recent months, and that jobs has to be done. Further to my role as the de facto archivist of the Government, I will be working on expanding the individual Senate pages (e.g. here) to give more detail of the major issues considered in each Senate - taking us away from mere "list" type information and trying to give a full background to the political goings-on. Whether this will chart back to founding is a matter of time and volunteers (there are considerable stretches where I did not follow the Senate, and some where I dropped out altogether).

As the nation's Chief Law Officer I will continue to support the Senate, especially in the arena of forum affairs reform, and in particular would happily serve to begin laying the groundwork for the sort of reforms envisaged by the PS/MB ticket. One of my chief aims would be that there be a single Statute that would detail at length the duties associated with each Cabinet role (in the same way that the Forum Affairs Reform Act gave us a detailed assignment of responsibilities for the SoFE and RG).

Finally, as the nation's "policeman" and prosecutor, I will investigate breaches where they become known to me, and prosecute where I consider the case can be won.
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Peter
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 6,030


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E: -0.77, S: -7.48

« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2010, 05:27:14 PM »

I don't just sound liberal, I am liberal, but in left libertarian kinda-way.
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Peter
Junior Chimp
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E: -0.77, S: -7.48

« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2010, 03:53:02 AM »

It's been recently pointed out that abortion is largely illegal in the NE. SE. and now the Mideast. Do you believe the Atlasian Constitution includes a right to privacy, much as the RL Supremes found in the US Constitution in cases like Griswold v. Connecticut (striking down state laws prohibiting adult contraceptive use), Loving v. Virginia (ditto for interracial marriage bans), and Roe v. Wade (duh)?
In an Atlasian context I am against the finding of rights to privacy, and any other rights not explicitly stated, being read into the Constitution by a Court. I hold this position because if we allow lots of these issues to become the domain of the Court then we could end up drastically reducing gameplay. Social issues are relatively "popular" as political issues and are eminently more easy to legislate and understand for ordinary citizens and regional legislatures than economic issues which we cannot reasonably predict how it would affect the economy.

When I participated in the Second Constitutional Convention this was largely accepted. We've had legislation on abortion legislated a lot in the last 5 years - there are cases under the First Constitution (Southeast - Jan 2005 and Mideast - April 2005). These were all maintained under the Second Constitution along with further legislation.

If we were in the real world I might think differently as it would be affecting real people, causing real distress, etc. , but here it has the opportunity to make gameplay more interesting if we leave the issue open to legilsators.

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