IDS Constitutional Change Discussion Thread

[Adam Griffin]

"The People's Republic of the South"

[Adam Griffin]

We have to start somewhere.

STARTING PROPOSAL FOR A NEW CONSTITUTION

There are a number of structural changes and elimination of inconsistencies - in current Article I, for instance, the discrepancies between Sections 1 & 10. Lieutenant Governor is restored (seeing as how I can't find anywhere where the office was actually abolished), as well as generic boring names (except for Lulu ). Eastern Time is adopted. Etc, etc.

[Adam Griffin]

We have to start somewhere.

STARTING PROPOSAL FOR A NEW CONSTITUTION

There are a number of structural changes and elimination of inconsistencies - in current Article I, for instance, the discrepancies between Sections 1 & 10. Lieutenant Governor is restored (seeing as how I can't find anywhere where the office was actually abolished), as well as generic boring names (except for Lulu ). Eastern Time is adopted. Etc, etc.

We abolished the position of Viceroy with Bacon King's amendment to the regional constitution, I believe.

-You drop the current Article I, Clause 3. I like that clause - it's testament to how we've maintained the same Constitution since the beginning. - WE'LL ARGUE ABOUT THIS LATER

-I'd prefer the elections to begin whenever and then run for 72 full hours, to keep it standardized and prevent elections of 60-72 hours - I'd also prefer that we resolve tie votes under the procedures in the CESRA (Sections 2-4) rather than go through having a runoff, so the government runs quicker and we don't have to wait on the results of runoff elections and such.  - WE'LL ARGUE ABOUT THIS LATER

-Why scrap the rights, liberties, and interests bit? And doesn't it make more sense to just give the Governor-Emperor authority to put legislation directly into the legislative queue instead of holding initiative elections? - FLUFF

-I'd like to quantify "several citizens", preferably as a percentage. - DONE

-I think PiT has already explained the opposition to special elections.  - WE'LL ARGUE ABOUT THIS LATER

-In your section 11, we passed Hash's procedures bill and any seat where they don't post for I believe 15 days is auto-vacant. - DONE

-Change "three citizens" (Article IV) to a percentage. - DONE

-I'd like to add more clauses to Article V (your article VI) to address the use of fixin to, figure, howdy, reckon, skedaddle, tarnation, and yankee. - WE'LL ARGUE ABOUT THIS LATER


-Change "or" in your Article VII, Clause 3 to "and". - DONE

-Do we need to change Clause 5 in Voting Regulations to be IRV? There also needs to be something under voting regulations (valid ballots) about 'unless there is only one contest on the ballot'. PROBABLY

-Where did our bill of rights go? BURDENSOME WHEN EDITING; WILL LEAD TO SQUABBLING; RE-ADDED

Though we need to establish some form of order if we're seriously embarking upon this.