Constitutional Amendment on Districts

[12th Doctor]

As the future Presiding officer of the Senate, I support this ammendment, provided that the following changes are made:

1) There can be no more than one state in between the parts of any one district.  ex. If we choose to create a district that encompasses Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, we may leave out Ohio, however, one cannot make a district out of Illinois, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Michigan because it there would be two states (Indiana and Ohio) in between the two parts of the district.

2) No non-contigeous districts may be split into more than two parts.  Meaning that you cannot make a district out of Maryland, North Carolina and then Florida, Alabama, etc.

[12th Doctor]

As the future Presiding officer of the Senate, I support this ammendment, provided that the following changes are made:

1) There can be no more than one state in between the parts of any one district.  ex. If we choose to create a district that encompasses Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, we may leave out Ohio, however, one cannot make a district out of Illinois, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Michigan because it there would be two states (Indiana and Ohio) in between the two parts of the district.

2) No non-contigeous districts may be split into more than two parts.  Meaning that you cannot make a district out of Maryland, North Carolina and then Florida, Alabama, etc.

I would agree with that and shall amend the bill posthaste to include those conditions, it will be a pleasure working with you Vice President Supersoulty!

Thank you.  This will be a pleasure for me too.

[12th Doctor]

Districts do not have to be contiguous, however, there can be no more than one state dividing the states in a district. No district shall have more than three registered voters more than another district. The Senate shall arrange the set-up of the districts, and, with a two-thirds vote, approve the final version. A census of registered voters shall be administered every four months which will determine the districts. Districts shall be numbered, the district with the lowest number of states shall be called district one, and so on up to district five. A new amendment need not be formed in order to change the districts. An up-to-date list of the districts and their respective states within shall always be displayed within this amendment.

I have added the following sentence to the beginning of the amendment:

Districts do not have to be contiguous, however, there can be no more than one state dividing the states in a district.

Is that satisfactory?

I would like to say that this is all one constitutional amendment and thus should be voted on as such.

A 2/3 majority will be needed to pass an amendment meaning we really need to get the Senators out in full.

I will support this if it comes to the floor, I would still like to see a provision regarding limiting the number of parts a district can have, but I will support this.