SENATE BILL: North American Federal Transition Act (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AN ACT
to unite the states of Atlas and Canada

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Congress assembled:

Section 1 (Title)
i. The title of this Act shall be, the North American Federal Transition Act. It may be cited as “NAFTA.”

Section 2 (Federal North America)
i. The Republic of Atlasia will absorb the provinces and territories now confederated as “Canada” as coequal states of the Republic.
ii. The provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, and the territories of Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and Yukon, shall be admitted to the Union as constituent states of the Commonwealth of Frémont.
iii. The provinces New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Quebec shall be admitted to the Union as constituent states of the region of Lincoln.

Section 3 (Enactment)
i. This Act shall take effect upon its ratification by the Parliament of Canada.

Sponsor: MB
Senate Designation: SB21:05

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The sponsor has 24 hours to commence an advocacy for this Resolution and the other members have 48 hours to commence a response.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This establishes a vast increase in land for the Fremont and Lincoln regions.

The South is being left out here and thus I couldn't condone supporting this unless provisions were made to equalize the land allotted.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I mean if you are going to call it NAFTA you might as well include Mexico as well.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What happened to the map discussion?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I would support tack's division of Canada absent the Mexican Acquisition.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

WE are now voting on the amendment, Senators please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I am tempted to do a skit based on the Treaty of Westphalia skit.


Yankee: Now hold on, you can't just give Fremont and Lincoln more territory
MB: I thought you didn't want it  
Yankee: Yeah, but that doesn't mean you can just give them another province
ASV: What about Mexico?
Truman: Now here then let's split it, Fremont gets the Western Half and South gets the Eastern Half
MB: Is it wise to split a country in such wild and ragged a fashion? In the future we will have Fremontese Mexicans and Southern Mexicans, both at each other's throats.
Truman: Oh that will just give articles in the future something to write about...
Yankee: I must say with this redraw of the Euro...North American Borders, you really do spoil us.  

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Joking aside, we are voting here.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Abstain

Vote on Amendment S21:02 by MB:

Aye (4): Devout Centrist, Ontario, Peanut and Pyro
Nay (1): MB
Abstain (1): NC Yankee

The amendment is adopted.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A final vote is now open on the North American Federal Transition Act, Senators please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Kind-of hilarious that a compromise intended to satisfy the South was passed by a 4-1-1 vote without the support of either Southern senator.

It seemed a bit too expansive overall and I feared it would cause opposition to build particularly in the other chamber since there was already criticism of the Mexican acquisition on the grounds that it would just be empty land.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Aye FTR 


Well, juicier game play or expansive empty land, either way the House is going to figure this one.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Final Passage of the North American Federal Transition Act:

Aye (5): Devout Centrist, NC Yankee (technically several hours later but won't change the result), Ontario Progressive, Peanut and Pyro
Nay (0):
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (1): MB

This bill has now passed and is sent to the VP for House action.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE BILL

to establish a federal North America

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Congress assembled

:

Section 1 (Title)
i. The title of this Act shall be, the North American Federal Transition Act. It may be cited as “NAFTA.”

Section 2 (Federal North America)
i. The republics of Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas (The Bahamas), Greenland, Jamaica, the United Mexican States (Mexico), and Canada are admitted to the Union.
ii.Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama; the Canadianprovinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan and the territories of Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and Yukon; as well as the reorganized Mexican states of Sonora (comprising the current states Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Durango, Jalisco, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora), Mexico City (comprising the current states of Chiapas, Mexico City, Guerrero, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla and Tlaxcala), and Mexico (comprising the current states of Colima, Hidalgo, Estado de México and Michoacán); shall be admitted to the Union as constituent states of the Commonwealth of Frémont.
iii. Greenland and the Canadianprovinces New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Quebec shall be admitted to the Union as constituent states of the region of Lincoln.
iv. The Bahamas; Belize; Cuba; the Dominican Republic; Haiti; and Jamaica; as well as the reorganized Mexican states of Nuevo Leon (comprising the current states of Aguascalientes, Coahuila, Guanajuato, Nuevo León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas) and Yucatan (comprising the current states of Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz and Yucatán); shall be admitted to the Union as constituent states of the Southern Region.

Section 3 (Enactment)
i. This Act shall take effect upon its ratification by each of the aforementioned signatories.

People's Regional Senate
Passed 5-0 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I am tempted to do a skit based on the Treaty of Westphalia skit.


Yankee: Now hold on, you can't just give Fremont and Lincoln more territory
MB: I thought you didn't want it  
Yankee: Yeah, but that doesn't mean you can just give them another province
ASV: What about Mexico?
Truman: Now here then let's split it, Fremont gets the Western Half and South gets the Eastern Half
MB: Is it wise to split a country in such wild and ragged a fashion? In the future we will have Fremontese Mexicans and Southern Mexicans, both at each other's throats.
Truman: Oh that will just give articles in the future something to write about...
Yankee: I must say with this redraw of the Euro...North American Borders, you really do spoil us.  

MB: what about South America
Truman: Oh we forgot South America. Okay here we go 1,2,3 Brazil, Argentina and Grand Colombia.