S.19.1-1 - Rules Package - Title I

Quote from: Southern Dep. Speaker Dwarven Dragon on January 20, 2019, 07:13:43 PM

SOUTHERN CHAMBER 19.1 PROPOSED RULES PACKAGE. TO BE INTRODUCED IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE ELECTION OF A SPEAKER.

Rules and Procedure of the Southern Legislature - TITLE I

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Rationale: The Queue, mentioned in later sections, is never defined, leaving open a dangerous loophole - under the current rules, a Speaker desiring to be a partisan could arbitrarily define the Queue however they liked. Defining it here eliminates the loophole and keeps our tradition of a non-partisan speaker intact. Whenever possible, especially with the Speaker being non-partisan, more than a majority should be required to remove them, thus explaining the threshold change for any future seven member chamber with respect to for-cause firings. In accordance with what the Atlasian House has, I also added a motion to expel other members by a 2/3 vote. The Original Clause 7 is eliminated for being duplicitous. Clause 8 is substantially modified, the chamber at large has no place in mandating the exact format and timing for elections within a caucus, especially for positions that we do not have much need for nowadays, beyond a few common sense restrictions that I left in.

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Rationale: Since the Speaker's term ends upon the arrival of a Friday, there's no need to postpone the beginning of a Speaker Election to the next Monday. Also brought back the role of an Elected Deputy Speaker.

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Rationale: The Noticeboard thread has not been managed by the Governor in quite a while, so updated to reflect longstanding practices.

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Rationale: Simple Clarification that the Deputy Speaker can start threads as well, since this section isn't technically part of the powers of the Speaker as established earlier. Prevents the Speaker from arbitrarily reordering the queue. Clarifies that the Statute designation is also used if a veto is overridden.

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Rationale: Clause 2 is modified to clarify the nature of the regular slots and to specify that 2 slots are reserved for the governor, in accordance with the practices of last session. Also, since the Speaker is always the presiding officer, we don't need to say that multiple times, so fixed that up.

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Rationale: Section V is good as-is. Section VI is duplicitous and is thus removed - Amendments are covered within Section V.

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Rationale: Sections are renumbered. Our practice during at least the last 2 sessions has been 48-hour maximum votes and to close votes when all have voted, so modified the rules to reflect what we actually have been doing. The rest is good as-is.

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