Mideast Constitutional Convention

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I hereby call this Constitutional Convention of the Mideast region of Atlasia to order at 4:37 P.M. EST, on this 10th day of January in the year 2009 of our Lord.

The first order of business is to read to the citizens of the region the following resolution passed by the Mideast Assembly:

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The second order of business is to establish rules of order.  Any proposals for such rules will be accepted by myself, the presiding officer of this convention.

The third order of business is to open the candidacy for presiding officer.  Anybody interested in being presiding officer, please post your interest.  Elections for presiding officer will be held in 7 days.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I will be running for the position of presiding officer.

[Purple State]

Good to have this up and running. I will express my support for Inks for presiding officer of this convention.

Until then, let's begin setting up ideas for the Constitution. Do we want to move section by section? I propose we establish the different branches first and then work on things like amendments and propositions and the more intricate pieces. Executive would probably be the best to start on.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I fully support Inks for Presiding Officer.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Good to have this up and running. I will express my support for Inks for presiding officer of this convention.

Until then, let's begin setting up ideas for the Constitution. Do we want to move section by section? I propose we establish the different branches first and then work on things like amendments and propositions and the more intricate pieces. Executive would probably be the best to start on.

First we must set down rules of order.

I bring the following resolution to discuss:

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[HappyWarrior]

I fully support Inks for Presiding Officer.

I agree with inks as presiding officer and also with his resolution.

[Purple State]

Just change "matter" in Section 1 to "manner" and you're good. If you will accept that as a friendly you can start a vote on that right away.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Just change "matter" in Section 1 to "manner" and you're good. If you will accept that as a friendly you can start a vote on that right away.

I accepted it, but I'm going to leave it up for discussion until tomorrow.  3 hours is a little quick for a vote, especially in our region.

[Purple State]

Just change "matter" in Section 1 to "manner" and you're good. If you will accept that as a friendly you can start a vote on that right away.

I accepted it, but I'm going to leave it up for discussion until tomorrow.  3 hours is a little quick for a vote, especially in our region.

Sure thing. I didn't expect you to get back so quickly (I should probably have figured out that you're often on at this hour by now).

[Franzl]

I support Inks as presiding officer and his resolution.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Alright, we're now voting on the following resolution.  This will be open for 48 hours:

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[Kaine for Senate '18]

Aye.

[Franzl]

Aye

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

How many voters do we have in the region?  Are we going to be able to get 50% of the voters to vote, or should we lower that?

[Hash]

Huh? A convention again?

Aye ftr

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Mideast Third Constitutional Convention Rules of Order

AYE

[Meeker]

Aye

[Purple State]

Aye

And we should probably lower it to one-third. Looking at the participation so far, at least. We can always return that number to 50% if we get greater than expected activity.

The DoFA reports 19 residents in the Mideast, plus I am not included in there because it hasn't been edited since I registered. So with 50% we need 10 voters. With one-third we would need 7 voters. With one-fourth we would need 5. I would lean more towards one of these options, probably one-third first and, if that still doesn't work, one-fourth. By the looks of it we have 6 votes on this already, we can probably pull 7 votes off each time.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I support lowering the required number to 7 votes.

[SPC]

Aye

[Purple State]

The only problem with lowering the number to 7 votes is that we need to get 10 votes to do it. Oh, the irony.

SPC, your Aye was for the Rules of Order, correct?

[SPC]

The only problem with lowering the number to 7 votes is that we need to get 10 votes to do it. Oh, the irony.

SPC, your Aye was for the Rules of Order, correct?

Yes.

[Purple State]

Current Vote
Aye: 7
Nay: 0

We just need 3 more members to vote for this to pass. While we're at it I'll propose the following bill to be brought to a vote by Inks as soon as possible.

Amendment to the Convention Bylaws

Section D of the Mideast Constitutional Convention Bylaws shall now read "All elections and votes required by this law shall require the participation of one-third of all Mideast residents, as determined by the voter rolls posted by the Depart of Forum Affairs, at the start of the election or vote to be valid unless otherwise determined by the aforementioned rules of order. The required participation may not be determined to be any less than 25% of all Mideast residents at the start of the election or vote."


And I realized that the original law allows us to change the required number voting to be one-third, so we will only need seven votes to pass this. I edited it as well so that if we ever need to reduce it to one-fourth for quorum we can do that with less than one-third. Let's get it done.

[HappyWarrior]

Aye

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Current Vote
Aye: 7
Nay: 0

We just need 3 more members to vote for this to pass. While we're at it I'll propose the following bill to be brought to a vote by Inks as soon as possible.

Amendment to the Convention Bylaws

Section D of the Mideast Constitutional Convention Bylaws shall now read "All elections and votes required by this law shall require the participation of one-third of all Mideast residents, as determined by the voter rolls posted by the Depart of Forum Affairs, at the start of the election or vote to be valid unless otherwise determined by the aforementioned rules of order. The required participation may not be determined to be any less than 25% of all Mideast residents at the start of the election or vote."


And I realized that the original law allows us to change the required number voting to be one-third, so we will only need seven votes to pass this. I edited it as well so that if we ever need to reduce it to one-fourth for quorum we can do that with less than one-third. Let's get it done.

No, we still need 10 votes to pass the lowering, since the change wouldn't go into affect until after it's passed.  If we can't get 10 votes to lower it, the Assembly could lower it by amending the original bill.