SENATE RESOLUTION: Amendment to Fifth Constitution (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AMENDMENT I

To the Fifth Constitution of Atlasia.

1. The Fifth Constitution of Atlasia - pending its ratification by the regions - is amended as follows:

The Northeastern Subregion shall consist of the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Atlasian Virgin Islands.

In addition, no subregional senate election shall admit as eligible voters any person having resided in any other subregion within the fifty-six days prior to the commencement of the election.

Each subregion shall elect a Senator for a term of four months by popular election of the subregion’s residents administered by its constituent regional government in a manner prescribed by the legislature thereof. Subregional Senate elections shall be held in the months of April, August, and December.

The President shall have the power, except where limited elsewhere by this Constitution,

...

to establish such executive departments as may be necessary for the execution of the laws, and to appoint their principle principal officers with the advice and consent of the Senate;

The officers of the Republic of Atlasia, and of the several Regions, shall be bound by Oath of Affirmation to support this Constitution, but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the Republic of Atlasia.

2. Upon ratification of both the Fifth Constitution and this amendment, the text shall immediately be amended, and the amended text shall apply both when the Constitution takes full effect on the Second of July as well as to the Senate elections as held in June.

Amendment explanation: This amendment makes fixes to errors in the intial text to the Fifth Constitution.

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Sponsor: NC Yankee
Senate Designation: SR30:09 I think.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I am moving to suspend the rules and immediately open a final vote lasting for 36 hours. The vote shall begin immediately; if there be no objection in the next 24 hours then the suspension shall be agreed to and the vote shall be valid

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE

[Left Wing]

Aye

[SevenEleven]

Aye I guess.

[Pericles]

Aye

[Blair]

Aye

[Senator-elect Spark]

Aye

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Without objection the motion has carried and the vote is now valid.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Final Passage of the Amendment to the Fifth Constitution:

Aye (6): Blair, Falterin, NC Yankee, Pericles, Sev and Spark
Nay (0):
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (0):

This Resolution is adopted and is sent to the VP for verification of House passage and then regional ratification.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AMENDMENT I

To the Fifth Constitution of Atlasia.

1. The Fifth Constitution of Atlasia - pending its ratification by the regions - is amended as follows:

The Northeastern Subregion shall consist of the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Atlasian Virgin Islands.

In addition, no subregional senate election shall admit as eligible voters any person having resided in any other subregion within the fifty-six days prior to the commencement of the election.

Each subregion shall elect a Senator for a term of four months by popular election of the subregion’s residents administered by its constituent regional government in a manner prescribed by the legislature thereof. Subregional Senate elections shall be held in the months of April, August, and December.

The President shall have the power, except where limited elsewhere by this Constitution,

...

to establish such executive departments as may be necessary for the execution of the laws, and to appoint their principle principal officers with the advice and consent of the Senate;

The officers of the Republic of Atlasia, and of the several Regions, shall be bound by Oath of Affirmation to support this Constitution, but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the Republic of Atlasia.

2. Upon ratification of both the Fifth Constitution and this amendment, the text shall immediately be amended, and the amended text shall apply both when the Constitution takes full effect on the Second of July as well as to the Senate elections as held in June.

Amendment explanation: This amendment makes fixes to errors in the intial text to the Fifth Constitution.

People's Regional Senate
Passed 6-0 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,