SR 21-25: Forced Labor Isn't Good Amendment (Final Vote)

[Pyro]

Aye

[Devout Centrist]

Aye

[Pericles]

This amendment has passed 4-1-0-1.
Aye; 4 (ON Progressive, MB, PyroTheFox, Devout Centrist)
Nay; 1 (North Carolina Yankee)
Abstaining; 0
Not voting; 1 (Peanut)

[Pericles]

FORCED LABOR ISN'T GOOD AMENDMENT

A RESOLUTION

Abolishes all forms of slavery and forced conscription in Atlasia

Be it resolved by two-thirds of each chamber that the Constitution be amended, as follows, upon ratification by the regions

SECTION 1.

1. This Act may be cited as the "Forced Labor Isn't Good Amendment”.

SECTION 2.

Article I, Section 6, of the Fourth Constitution, is amended to read as follows:

Neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crimes of which the accused has been duly convicted, shall exist within the Republic of Atlasia, nor in any place under its jurisdiction, nor may any draft or other form of compulsory service be instituted, unless approved by a public referendum in all three regions with a sixty percent threshold. The President shall have the sole authority to authorize the draft referendum.

This amendment abolishes legalized forced labor (including forced prison labor) once and for good by striking out parts of the Constitution that allow it.

House of Representatives
Passed the House of Representatives 6-3-0-0
X YE
People's Regional Senate
Passed 4-1-0-1 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled