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Government of AWP; The Turlmanistan Act
Topic Started: 31 Mar 2010, 21:34 (342 Views)
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Government of 00000 A World Power – The Turlmanistan Act
Authored by Turlmanistan
Contributed to by the Democratic Republicans Party and Numero Capitan
Presented to the Senate from the Democratic Republicans Party

Introduction:
This bill if ratified will define the government of 00000 A World Power. It will define election procedures, governmental positions, executive and legislative branches of government, and redefine the responsibilities of the founder. This bill will go into effect on day 1 of the next election.

Purpose:
This bill recognizes that we have a government in place, and is designed to transform that government into a more efficient, and democratic system than what is currently in place. This bill will increase the effectiveness of the government and will encourage veteran players of the Nationstates game to join our region. This bill is also designed to further strengthen our place in the game as the most powerful.

Definitions:
AWP shall refer to 00000 A World Power
Founder shall refer to Neasmyrna, the founder of 00000 A World Power
Delegate shall refer to WA Delegate
VD shall refer to WA Vice-Delegate
MoD shall refer to the Minister of Defense
MoIE shall refer to the Minister of Immigration and Education
MoFA shall refer to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
MoPEC shall refer to the Minister of Politics and Culture
MoS shall refer to the Minister of State
RA shall refer to the Regional Attorney
Minority Government shall be defined as an election that results in a political party that has won the most seats in the senate in comparison to any other political party but did not win the majority of all available seats.

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Part A: Founder’s Rights and Responsibilities
1. The founder may dissolve the senate at any time if requested by the delegate or by the leader of the opposition party. If the opposition party requests that the senate be dissolved, the founder must seek a vote of approval from the senate, in which the senate must return a majority vote (50% +1 or greater). Upon receiving a majority vote the founder may dissolve the senate as per his discretion.
2. The founder shall have no legislative voting powers in the senate.
3. The MoD shall be appointed by, and report to, the founder.
4. The senate is required to address the founder at all times during debate. The founder is required to maintain the order of the senate and keep all elected members of the senate on point. The founder is responsible for making sure all members vote, and the founder is required to declare the defeat or passing of any piece of legislation introduced to the senate.

Part B: Election and Senate
1. Elections for all offices shall be held every 100 days
2. At the conclusion of day 100, the elected delegate must ask the founder to dissolve the senate, and the founder is required to dissolve the senate.
3. Elections take place. All election candidates run as senators. Each party shall nominate a delegate candidate. Whichever party wins the majority of all senate seats gets to have its delegate candidate declared delegate, provided the delegate candidate wins his senate seat or if an elected senator of the majority party gives up his seat for the delegate candidate. If the delegate candidate of the majority party does not win his senate seat and no member of their party will give up their seat for them, the majority party must now pick a new delegate out of the elected members of the majority party, and that person shall now be the delegate of the region.
4. There will be two representatives elected from each district.
5. A new district will be created, called the Central District.
6. There are a total of 10 electable positions
7. During an election, the leader of the region shall be the MoD. All legislative debate and voting is suspended, all bills that have not completed voting after the senate has been dissolved shall be considered defeated. Upon conclusion of the election the MoD shall return to the duties of the MoD’s office.
8. The MoD position is to be reviewed as soon as a new senate is elected, and the recommendation is to be passed on to the founder.
9. The delegate must nominate a MoFA, MoS and VD. All members of the senate must confirm those nominations before the senate can debate any other legislation put forth in the senate.
10. If nominations for the positions mentioned in provision 9 are taking longer than 20 days, the founder may step in and appoint ministers without seeking a senate vote.
11. Any political parties that didn’t win a majority vote may be nominees for any Minister position in the senate. The political party that has the second most elected seats will select an official “Leader of the Opposition.”
12. In the event of a minority government, the opposition may form a coalition government. This may not be cause for dissolving the senate within the first 30 days of the government.
13. If a member of the senate is given a minister title, they are considered Minister of their ministry as well as a Senator.
14. The senate shall consist of the 10 elected senate seats and the MoD.

Part C: WA Delegate and Senate Operations
The elected delegate of the region shall hold the highest office in the region. All members of the senate, and region shall consider this office to be the leader of the region.
1. The delegate will maintain job responsibilities as currently defined in the senate.
2. All judge nominations must come from only the Delegate of the region.
3. The Delegate must either approve or veto any bill passed by the senate.
4. In the event of a veto, the leader of the opposition may initiate an override, in which case all members of the senate vote to pass or defeat the legislation vetoed by the Delegate.
5. The Delegate shall not be exempt from any legal or civil prosecution.
6. The Delegate may introduce legislation and laws to the senate and may vote “aye” or “nay” on any bill.
7. The Delegate must maintain an acceptable level of activity among the inter-regional community board of the NationStates game.
8. The Delegate may be impeached from office with a unanimous senate vote. The impeachment must be supported with evidence of poor performance, treason, suspected illegal activity, or any guilty verdict handed down by the AWP Judicial Court while the delegate is active in office. The delegate will not be able to vote, or post in any thread discussing their impeachment. If they do, then they have committed a “Failure to Respect” crime chargeable in the AWP Judicial Court. If found guilty they will have there posting privileges suspended for 72 hours.
9. The Delegate may not terminate a member of the senate from his senate seat.

Part D: Minister of State and Senate Operations
Effective upon activation of this legislation, the positions of MoE, MoI, MoPEC (if they exist) shall be officially repealed, and there responsibilities will be replaced by those of the Minister of State.
1. The MoS shall have full voting and debating rights in the senate.
2. The MoS, and their staff, shall be responsible for educating new members to the region, and new members to the game, what AWP does and stands for, and what the RDF does, and guides players in the game of NationStates.
3. The MoS, and their staff, shall be responsible for recruiting new members to the region on to the forum.
4. The MoS shall be responsible for the operation of the economy
5. The MoS shall be responsible for overseeing the culture of AWP.
6. The MoS shall report directly to the Delegate, and is held responsible to his position by those in his district, the senate and the delegate. The Delegate may fire the MoS with or without due cause, however, they will not lose their seat in the senate.
7. The MoS shall perform the duties generally expected of the MoPEC, MoI, and the MoE.

Part E: Office of the World Assembly Vice Delegate
1. The position of WA Vice-Delegate shall be defined below.
a. This position shall be a senate member.
i. This position shall not be a voting member of the senate.
ii. This position will have posting, and lobbying rights in the senate.
b. The WA Delegate of AWP shall appoint the position of WA Vice-Delegate.
i. The appointment is not subject to senate approval
ii. The appointment is subject to security screening by the Minister of Defense.
2. The WA Vice-Delegate shall at all times reside in the region of AWP and will always maintain lower endorsement levels than the current delegate.
a. The appointed WA Vice-Delegate must never attempt to overthrow the sitting WA Delegate. Any attempt is punishable under the judicial court of AWP.
b. The regional founder must never endorse the WA Vice-Delegate while the elected WA Delegate is still in office. Senators of the senate must never endorse the WA Vice-Delegate while the elected WA Delegate is still in office.
c. The appointed WA Vice-Delegate is responsible for monitoring his current endorsement levels, and is instructed to leave the region for a period of no less than 24 hours and no more than 48 hours, should he accidentally be over endorsed and elected through NationStates to the office of WA Delegate. Failure to do so can result in his termination, and punishment could result in the judicial court of AWP.
3. The WA Vice-Delegate will take control of the office of WA Delegate should the WA Delegate be unable to continue to perform as WA Delegate.
a. The appointed WA Vice-Delegate shall become the WA Delegate and obtain all governing powers, and rights that come with said position under the following conditions.
i. The WA Delegate has an unexplained absence of no less than 3 weeks. Should this occur the WA Delegate cannot return to office.
ii. The WA Delegate is under investigation for conspiring against the region of AWP through invader regions.
iii. The WA Delegate has been ordered by the judicial court of AWP to take a leave of absence from office.
iv. The elected WA Delegate has left the region. Should this occur, the WA Delegate cannot return to office.
v. The judicial court of AWP has found the WA Delegate guilty of any crime while in office.
b. The WA Vice-Delegate must return power to the elected WA Delegate should he be cleared of all criminal charges.
c. Failure to return power to the WA Delegate shall result in criminal charges in the judicial court of AWP.

Part F: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Senate Operations
The Minister of Foreign Affairs shall be considered the official representative of AWP in addition to the Delegate. Any inter-regional negotiations, treaty’s, or other agreements must involve the MoFA.
1. The MoFA shall have full senate debate and voting privileges.
2. The MoFA and their staff shall be responsible for all other regional embassies in AWP.
3. The MoFA shall be responsible for ensuring AWP has an ambassador in every friendly region that requires an AWP embassy.
4. The MoFA does not need senate approval to install an ambassador.
5. The MoFA shall report directly to the Delegate, and is held responsible to his position by those in his district, the senate and the delegate. The Delegate may fire the MoFA with or without due cause, however, they will not lose their senate seat.
6. The MoFA and his ambassadors shall be responsible for delivering the political message of AWP to the NS community.

Part G: The Regional Attorney
Responsibilities for this office do not change from what is already defined. However, they now report to the founder as their commanding officer.
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I think we should stop expressing what our votes are at this point unless you are voting, if you are going to say how you will vote vote, instead of that though you could propose a full list of amendments needed to change your mind.

The fact of the matter is it technically should have gone up to vote a few days ago so Turl should have started the vote but I think we need to carry on the debate.
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What's the point in carrying on the debate? All people have put in is that they don't like either the bill in general or large portions of it and then stating their reason why. It's clearly not what's wanted, so lets just vote, let it get defeated, and move on. I can see that we'll NEVER get this bill, being as it's a very large bill, to a point where everyone here is 100% satisfied, I am a realistic person, and I don't ever see us getting to that point, and I knew that when writing it. So lets just get it over with, I agreed to the motion of the vote, so unless someone wants to invoke a continuence clause and actually make a suggestion with their choice of written language, then hop to it, but if not, lets get this over and done with. If someone wants to then pick up the ball that I'm now dropping, make some changes, we can bring it up for a second vote.
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Turl, you said this was a proposal for discussion, then you dropped it, instead of trying to work with some of the suggestions given. Were the ideas that upsetting to the structure you'd designed? Only one person (that I saw) said they were totally against a change of this magnitude.

I was under the impression this was NOT a voting draft.

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name all these suggestions? I saw no one propose any change in the language. All I saw was people against the bill in its entirety, and people against the combination of MoE, and MoI into the MoS. People are saying they want this and that, and I don't have the time to constantly write and rewrite legislation language. Fact is if someone wants to write something then go for it. BUT NOTHING IS BEING DEBATED. You guys are somehow missing that fact. No one is suggesting anything, only saying I like this better or this better, or I don't like this at all. But no one has put anything forward that we can substitute into the bill. Wibble, YOU asked me if I want to call a vote on it, and I did. So why are you all ragging on me for doing that? If you don't like it, vote nay, if you do vote aye, this is a simple process people.
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Well I like the bill and agree there actually is no reason to keep debating carry on if no one will debate.

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Mar 31 2010, 02:42 PM
Mhh I still think 10 elected positions is too much being we barely scrape a government together at the moment. Most of the rest I like though.

Thats what I said :D

I'd prefer to keep it at four districts, but I'm down with two senators

These look like amendment suggestions to me (i.e. reduce the number from 10)
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I really like this bill I think it is a fantastic idea, but one thing is we have to remember our manpower, which is limited, so too many senators wouldn't really work. Also we need an uneven number of senators/ministers for a tiebreaker. Other than that I officially support this bill.
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can we get a bill with changes in a new thread plz?
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Apr 12 2010, 10:17 PM
can we get a bill with changes in a new thread plz?

Apparently not.

Turl, I apologize, I didn't review the full thread before asking if this was moving on.

Nonetheless - in it's present form, I vote nay. My reasons and objections are on the first page. I support the idea of reform, but the not the implmentation here. On iPhone, no details now, will go into length on thurs.
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Biain the First
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Mhh I still think 10 elected positions is too much being we barely scrape a government together at the moment. Most of the rest I like though.

Thats what I said :D

I'd prefer to keep it at four districts, but I'm down with two senators

These look like amendment suggestions to me (i.e. reduce the number from 10)

hmm...

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I definitely am in support of eliminating the central district from this legislation, and reducing the total senate size to 8 elected, and 1 appointed (the MoD being appointed by the founder). And the voting for 2 senators in the district, however, that still doesn't guarantee that 2 people will get voted on for each ballot.


That kinda looks like my response to that suggestion...

You see, part of the problem here is that you people aren't reading this bill in its entirety. I've seen more than 2 people now suggest that we need a tiebreaker. With a senate of 9 people, where does this complication exist? Go back and re-read! And re-read the first 2 times when I explained where the tiebreaker exist's...
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--BITS FROM THE DOCUMENT--
2. The founder shall have no legislative voting powers in the senate.

4. There will be two representatives elected from each district.

14. The senate shall consist of the 10 elected senate seats and the MoD.

1. The MoS shall have full voting and debating rights in the senate.

1. The position of WA Vice-Delegate shall be defined below.
a. This position shall be a senate member.
i. This position shall not be a voting member of the senate.

1. The MoFA shall have full senate debate and voting privileges.


To sum up:

8 elected senators.
1 Appointed MoD, who is in charge of the government between senates. and is "Part of the senate", although it is never specified if they having voting rights. From your responses, I gather they are intended to have them?

The Delegate is a member of the senate already.
The VD has no right to vote in the senate, unless they're already a senator.

The MoFa gets to vote in the senate, and may be anyone.
The MoS gets to vote in the senate, and may be anyone.

Turlmanistan
Apr 2 2010, 11:08 AM
where exactly do you see me taking his voting rights away in this bill?

of the 8 elected members under this type of legislation, you'd have 1 delegate, 1 MoS, 1 MoFA, and 5 senators, plus the MoD to complete the voting senate, plus the Vice Delegate and Founder as non voting members.


There is NOTHING stating that MoS and MOFA must already be senate members. The above statement is the closest you ever came to addressing 'tiebreakers' that I can find. And given that ALL senate seats may or may not be filled at any given time, we NEED some sort of general tiebreaking rule as a backup. This document provides for literally anything between 1 and 11 persons with a right to vote in the senate at any given point - Including 8 and 10 will a full Senate, depending on who fills what offices.

Also, your response indicated you did not object to reducing back to 4 Districts, but you did not implement that change before voting.
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