N312: Amendment to Article 1 of the Northern Constitution (Passed)

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

You must be logged in to read this quote.

[/center][/quote]

Sponsor: R2D2

72 hours to debate, 48 to vote. Because this is a constitutional amendment, it requires all three members of the assembly to vote in the affirmative.

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

In the event of the assembly being composed of just 1 person (after 2 or 4 resignations), then my belief is that a legal crisis would arise, preventing that one person from single-handedly running the region.

The amendment focuses more on the (more likely) possibility of one member abstaining, or one member resigning, and a vote ending in a tie. This amendment puts in place something specific to point to in that event, so that we don't have what happened after Maxwell's resignation last session, where we had a legislative tie, and had to wait until the seat was filled before we could finish voting.

I agree that having a majority of the legislative chamber to pass a piece of legislation is important, but ties do arise, and we have legislation at the federal level to address that, so why not have something similar for the regions?

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

The debate period has ended and we will now begin voting. Please record your vote below.


Aye

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

Without objection, I'm ending the voting period early. The Amendment has passed and will appear on next month's ballot.