Election Coverage

[Simfan34]

Please be a bit more precise than the buzzword "democratic".

[Simfan34]

It is not even clear what authority parliament had to call and administer these elections.

Forgive us for not wanting to turn this game into the gigantic, legalistic clusterf!ck that is Atlasia the minute we started this game.

But you can't throw the baby out with the bathwater. You have to have some legal framework for what you're doing as I've tried to demonstrate. No one is asking for a tome, just a simple constitution that confirms the power of parliament.

You are the one calling for the constitution, and trying to squirrel in all sorts of "rights" in the hope no one is looking, to boot, all while undermining the fundamental doctrine of parliamentary supremacy!

[Simfan34]

You live in a dictatorship? In Britain, all of those things stem from Acts of Parliament.

[Simfan34]

You live in a dictatorship? In Britain, all of those things stem from Acts of Parliament.

The justice system does not stem from 'acts of parliament'; it is modified by it and feeds into it. Parliament didn't come before justice and law did!

This isn't a UK sim; it's about establishing a parliamentary system. If you wish to do that in 2015, you have to have a bare bones constitution defining roles. This game has nothing in it but a parliament. I'm arguing very strongly that we set up a constitution and that the constitution comes from the people.

Such a "bare bones constitution" should merely sanction the principle of parliamentary supremacy. Separate acts could then sanction the courts, procedures, rights, and so forth as needed and prudent.

[Simfan34]

Your draft, I believed, placed them all on the same level and placed certain powers behind the remit of Parliament, thus requiring judicial review and a constitutional court of some sort. I am opposed to that.