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The north american unified states wrote:How is that man still PM he is an actual national embarrassment.

At least he supports Ukraine.

You know they are in trouble when the really only good thing you can say about them is that. I’m not a Brit or a British legislation freak, but I can’t find much good to say about him recently, for someone who I am probably more aligned with.

Sheepiania wrote:At least he supports Ukraine.

You know they are in trouble when the really only good thing you can say about them is that. I’m not a Brit or a British legislation freak, but I can’t find much good to say about him recently, for someone who I am probably more aligned with.

Boris led his party to a historic victory in Parliament, then threw it all away by acting like an incompetent clown. And he’s not even stupid, or demented. He’s just an ass. Probably ruined everything and UK should be on the list of countries in deep decadence along with the US.

Sheepiania and Sargk

Republic of Mesque wrote:Boris led his party to a historic victory in Parliament, then threw it all away by acting like an incompetent clown. And he’s not even stupid, or demented. He’s just an ass. Probably ruined everything and UK should be on the list of countries in deep decadence along with the US.

What do you think of this starmer fellow over at labour?
If boris gets canned, if I remember correctly the conservatives will likely have the majority till 24, who will take over? And what do you think of them?

New Sylvan wrote:Speaking of the flip side (and on a personal note as a Yank), no truly freedom-loving Yank can wholeheartedly celebrate The 4th, when not all 'Americans" are free. Unless one is white, male, eighteen and numbered within Christian privilege, freedom is lacking for most Yanks; the case among First Nations' peoples, African Americans, and women. And from the murmurings of Clarence Thomas on the heels of *SCROTUM's removal of women's basic constitutional right, the LGBTQ+ community appears to be next on the hit list for overturning rights.

I saw a placard during a recent women's rights demonstration which read, Next They'll Come for You!

Rings so true here in *Ameriran.

The situation in the United States, only more visible than the general trouble that rages in most Western democracies, fueled by obscurantism, can only worry us, because it strengthens the political regimes in the world of which we have every reason to abhor the principles.
SCOTUS has unquestionable institutional legitimacy, but some of its members appear more than ever to be a small elite of corrupt and crony haves, at odds with the global aspiration of citizens to have their fundamental rights guaranteed by a country they still love, precisely because of that freedom they want to preserve.

Supierland

Sheepiania wrote:What do you think of this starmer fellow over at labour?
If boris gets canned, if I remember correctly the conservatives will likely have the majority till 24, who will take over? And what do you think of them?

A plank of wood has more personality. I forgot he even existed until the last few weeks.

Labour should go back to their roots of actual working man's socialism than this left liberal wet blanket ideology they have now. I'd have more respect for them then.

Republic of Mesque, Sheepiania, and Sargk

And that looks to be just about all she wrote for Boris.

Supierland

Welcome Best mill!

Sheepiania, Sargk, and Shahi Bengal

When I was sixteen year old, I was jumped by 4 dudes for 5 dollars.

When I woke up from my own consciousness, I still had my dignity, my 5 dollars and a traumatic brain injury.

Sheepiania and Sargk

Communist Lukania wrote:When I was sixteen year old, I was jumped by 4 dudes for 5 dollars.

When I woke up from my own consciousness, I still had my dignity, my 5 dollars and a traumatic brain injury.

*confused sheep*

Sheepiania wrote:To all of the Brit’s in the region~
How long does Boris have left? An hour? A day? A week? The remainder of his term? A lifetime?

Ooh la la, the timing is magnificent!

Sheepiania

Shahi Bengal wrote:Ooh la la, the timing is magnificent!

Damn clown. UK getting demoted to third world politics due to this disgrace of a Prime Minister.

Sheepiania, France Europe, and Sargk

Republic of Mesque wrote:Damn clown. UK getting demoted to third world politics due to this disgrace of a Prime Minister.

We welcome them to the club!

Republic of Mesque wrote:Damn clown. UK getting demoted to third world politics due to this disgrace of a Prime Minister.

Who do you think would be best to succeed him?

Sheepiania wrote:Who do you think would be best to succeed him?

No idea. Dominic Raab is being called on as a replacement, currently.

Sheepiania

Republic of Mesque wrote:No idea. Dominic Raab is being called on as a replacement, currently.

That is interesting but it makes sense, the thing is he hasn’t even came up in American media.

Sheepiania wrote:Who do you think would be best to succeed him?

I honestly don't know. The situation in the UK at the moment is really problematic, with inflation being higher than in many other european countries, 5% GDP recession, a decrease of 14% of the country's trade, a public service in ruins, corrupted politicians (even though there are some in all countries ;-)). And BoJo has been more a cause than a solution to these problems...
We need a strong Britain, and I'm saying this because I think it is also in the interest of my own country to have a strong Britain, so I reallly hope that the next PM will be pragmatic, honest, committed to values, and not populist.

Sheepiania and Sargk

I have a first draft for the parliamentary procedures, but right now it is unconstitutional. Our reform of the legislative branch will be based on two components: a constitutional amendment (also deleting the 'adoption of a law' section), and a clear, unquestionable Parliament Procedures Act, containing an article so as to establish procedures during the alternate modus operandu as well.
So, here you have a draft for the Parliament Procedures Act. I will start working on the constitutional amendment. This is not formal, I am not introducing the bill in Parliament yet.

Title: Institutional Act on the regulation of legislative procedures in Parliament
Alternate Title: Parliament Procedures Act

Article 1: Responsibility and Introduction of Bills

1. Members of the Regional Assembly, consisting of members of the government, Senators, members of the Supreme Court, and members of the region as defined by the constitution, shall initiate legislation in the region.
2. The introduction of a law before Parliament shall take form of a post in the regional RMB, with a dispatch containing the full text of the law. It is possible to informally publish draft legislation in order to develop the law in a collaborative manner before formal introduction in Parliament. The government may hold the right to discuss bills it initiates in the Council of Ministers before they are formally introduced in Parliament.
3. Any member of the Regional Assembly may introducte a law in Parliament. The member introducing the bill is called the rapporteur of the bill. Bills introduced by a member of the government shall have the government as rapporteur.
4. Parliament can legislate on four types of legislation:

    a) Constitutional amendments, to add, repeal or edit articles or clauses in the Constitution. They are particularly important and must be treated with care by lawmakers;
    b) Institutional laws, which organize the functioning of the institutions in a more precise way, in completion of the Constitution. These laws have a special status.;
    c) Laws, which include all legislation within the area of competence of the Parliament apart from constitutional amendments and institutional laws.
    d) Treaties, setting the region's relations with other regions or political entities.

5. The rapporteur must specify the type of legislation they are introducing in Parliament. The Chairman of the Senate may correct the status of the legislation if they find it inadequate. In case of disagreement, the rapporteur may refer the matter to the Supreme Court so that it may decide on the status of the text in view of its content and legality. The rapporteur may also specify the requested debate time.
6. Foreign affairs are the reserved domain of the government. Only the government shall be allowed to introduce treaties in Parliament, after eventual talks and agreements with foreign dignitaries.
7. Every bill must be introduced with an official title, mentioning its status, optionally with an alternative title. Bills can be divided into three levels:

    - Articles (mandatory): every bill must consist of one or several articles, written 'Article' followed by the number, mandatory.
    - Sections (optional): every section, unless it is unique in the bill, must have a title. An article can be divided into several sections, written only with their number and title, mandatory.
    - Clauses (mandatory): every article and section must contain clauses, which constitute the actual statement of the law. Clauses must be written in sentences, and may contain lists, numbered or not.

8. Amendments and repeals of legislation are subject to the same rules as other bills.

Article 2: Senate motions

1. Senators may pass internal Senate motions in cases specified by the law. They are legally binding but they are not regional law.
2. Senate motions shall be published in the RMB of the Regional Senate. They shall be numbered with the year and motion number in the ongoing year, and preceded by 'SM': SM-YYYY-NNN.
3. There shall be two types of motions:

    a) Voting motions shall be voted on by the Senators, upon submission of the motion, during a time period set by the submitter when submitting the motion. This time period must not exceed 48 hours.
    b) Petition motions require a certain amount of Senators supporting it to pass. The motion passes when the number of supports is reached. The submitter shall set a time period, after which the motion does not pass if the required number of supporters is not reached. This time period must not exceed 72 hours.

4. To vote for / support a motion, Senators must post the following in the Regional Senate RMB: 'Motion [motion number]: Yes'. Senate motions are not regional law.
5. Senate motions are not included in the queue of legislation (see 3. 2.) and can be adopted at any time in parallel with the legislative work.

Article 3: Processing and order of business

1. When a law is introduced in Parliament, it shall be recorded in the Regional Assembly business list, kept by the Founder and available to the public.
2. The Senate shall have its own queue of legislation, at the discretion of the Chairman of the Senate, changeable at any time, available to the public in a dispatch, pinned in the Regional Senate. Upon transition to a new Chairman of the Senate, the outgoing Chairman shall pass on the queue of legislation to the new Chairman, and a new dispatch shall be created by the new Chairman.
3. The Chairman of the Senate shall respect an order of priority when establishing the Senate queue of legislation, in compliance with the following rules:

    a) Nomination and impeachment procedures involving the Senate shall be first tier business.
    b) All business issued by the government, including bills, treaties, foreign affairs and defense matters shall be second tier business. The order of treatment of the business submitted by the government shall be decided by the Prime Minister, unless the latter grants it, in part or in full, to the Chairman of the Senate.
    c) All other legislative work, unless specified in the law, shall be third tier business.

4. Urgent business consists of prioritizing items of the Senate queue of legislation, over the rules set by clause 3. There are two procedures for assigning urgent business status to an item in the legislation queue:

    a) A Senate motion (petition motion), if supported by at least two thirds of the Senators, may assign urgent business status to an item. Senators may assign urgent status to several items, but each motion may only handle one item.
    b) The Prime Minister may decide to assign urgent business status to one or several items, wether they were introduced by the government or not. The Prime Minister's urgent business takes precedence over that of the Senators.

5. The Senate has exclusive rights to the legislative queue. The Regional Assembly business list is not a formal legislative queue, and the members of the Regional Assembly, except in situations explicitly mentioned in the law, cannot determine the order in which bills are processed.

Article 4: Senate examination of bills

1. The examination of bills is performed by the Senate, but members of the Regional Assembly may hold informal debates in parallel, which may also aim to advise the Senators.
2. When a bill reaches the top of the queue of legislation, either the rapporteur of the bill or the Chairman of the Senate shall start the examination of the bill by publish the bill in the Regional Senate RMB and open the debate. The Senator starting the examination of the bill must tag all other Senators.
3. The Chairman of the Senate shall have authority over debate time. If the Chairman of the Senate starts the examination of the bill, they shall set a debate time period. If the rapporteur starts the examination of the bill, they shall set the debate time period, but it may be modified once by the Chairman of the Senate. The Chairman of the Senate must not modify the debate time period for the purpose of ending the debate, setting a debate time period that would result in less than six hours of debate remaining after the modification. Once set or modified by the Chairman of the Senate, the debate time period may not be changed. The rapporteur and other Senators may advise the President of the Senate on the debate time period to be granted.
4. The debate time period for all bills shall neither fall short of twenty-four hours, nor exceed four days. The debate time period for constitutional amendments shall not fall short of thirty-six hours.
5. Senators may modify the debate time period through a Senate motion (petition motion), requiring the support of one third of the Senators. During the debate period, Senators may submit a motion to extend the debate time period, but it must respect the four days limit. After twenty-four hours have passed, or thirty-six hours for a constitutional amendment, Senators may submit a motion to end the debate period.
6. During the debate time period only, Senators may discuss the bill and submit any amendments they may have. Debates may only take place in the Regional Senate RMB. Only Senators and, if the government is the rapporteur of the debated bill, members of the government may participate in the debate of the Senate. The government may, however, even if it is not the rapporteur, submit amendments.
7. Amendments must be submitted via a post in RMB. The content of the amendment may be contained in a dispatch, included in the RMB post, or directly written into the RMB post.
8. Members of the Regional Assembly, except Senators, may submit amendment proposals to a bill in the Regional Assembly during the period of debate on that bill in the Senate. If an amendment proposal gains the support of at least five members of the Regional Assembly, including Senators, before the end of the debate time period in the Senate, the amendment proposal shall be submitted to the Senate.
9. Senators may sponsor members of the Regional Assembly, or foreign nations with a verified puppet residing in Liberty Democratic Alliance, to participate in a debate in the Senate, during or outside the examination of bills. Senators cannot sponsor more than two nations per debate. The Chairman of the Senate may reject sponsorships. Senators may force the Chairman of the Senate to accept a sponsorship for a particular nation through a Senate motion, requiring the support of one third of the Senators.
10. If a Senator sponsors a member a Supreme Court Judge to participate in a debate, including outside the examination of a bill, so as to obtain legal advice, it shall not be possible to reject the sponsorship.
11. Sponsorships during the examination of a bill shall end when the debate time period is over. Sponsorships outside the examination of a bill shall either be valid for a determined amount of time, or be ended by the Chairman of the Senate.

Article 5: Voting and parliamentary shuttle

1. When the debate period is over, the Chairman of the Senate shall call for a vote. The Chairman of the Senate must not call for a vote later than twenty-four hours after the end of the debate time period. To cast their votes, Senators must either post 'For' or 'Against' in the Senate RMB. Senators who don't vote will be considered abstentions. Senators may also abstain by posting 'Abstain' in the Senate RMB.
2. The vote shall begin with the vote on the amendments submitted during the debate period. The vote shall be held for each amendment, one after the other. The Chairman of the Senate shall set the voting time period for all amendments. It shall, for each amendment, neither fall short of twelve hours, nor exceed thirty-six hours. No more than twenty-four hours may separate two votes on amendments.
3. Voting for the entire bill in the Senate shall take place after the eventual vote on the amendments. It must not take place more than two days after the vote on the last amendment. The Chairman of the Senate shall set the voting time period when calling for a vote. It shall neither fall short of twenty-four hours, nor exceed two days. Senators may extend the voting time period through a Senate motion (petition motion), requiring the support of one third of the Senators, but it must respect the two days limit.
4. If during a vote on the amendments or the entire bill, all Senators vote either 'For', 'Against' or 'Abstain' in the RMB before the end of the voting time period, the vote may be terminated.
5. If a bill is not adopted by the Senate, it may, if the rapporteur wants it, be moved back to the Senate queue of legislation so as to be debated, amended and voted on later again.
6. If a bill is adopted by the Senate, it shall be brought back to the Regional Assembly. The Chairman of the Senate, or a member of the government with authority over polls, shall open a poll, no later than two days after the bill was adopted by the Senate, unless the Regional Assembly is holding an election or any other vote that has precedence on the legislative votes specified in the law. The Regional Assembly voting time period shall last two days.
7. Institutional laws, laws and treaties related to regional security shall be voted on in the Senate only, except if the Senate is closed. A member of the Regional Assembly may, if they consider that the Senate defines a bill as a regional security bill in an unjustified way, with the aim of bypassing the Regional Assembly, refer the matter to the Supreme Court for a judgement on whether the bill is a regional security bill or not.
8. If a bill is not adopted by the Regional Assembly, the parliamentary shuttle shall start. Members of the Regional Assembly shall have a debate period lasting at least two days and not exceeding four days to debate and submit amendments directly, which do not require the support of a certain number of members to be submitted. (Article 4, clause 8 does not apply.) The Senate shall, after the end of the debate period in the Regional Assembly, vote on the amendments and the amended bill following the procedures in clauses 2 and 3. Clauses 4, 5 and 6 shall also apply.

Article 6: Processing, examination and voting in the alternate system of LDA

1. If the alternate system of LDA, as defined by Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution if in place, and if the Senate is closed, the Regional Assembly shall legislate alone.
2. The Prime Minister, or any designated government member, shall chair the Regional Assembly as only parliamentary chamber, establishing a Regional Assembly alternate queue of legislation, with the same priority rules as under the normal system of LDA. They shall also manage polls.
3. Members of the Regional Assembly shall not have the power to submit motions.
4. The rapporteur of the bill shall set the debate time period. The debate time period for all bills in the Regional Assembly as only parliamentary chamber shall neither fall short of twenty-four hours, nor exceed four days. The debate time period for constitutional amendments shall not fall short of thirty-six hours.
5. During the debate time period only, members of the Regional Assembly may discuss the bill and submit any amendments they may have.
6. When the debate period is over, the government official chairing the Regional Assembly shall call for a vote. They must not call for a vote later than twenty-four hours after the end of the debate time period. Members of the Regional Assembly shall cast their votes in a regional poll, unless there is an election or any other vote that has precedence on the legislative votes specified in the law.
7. The vote shall begin with the vote on the amendments submitted during the debate period. The vote shall be held for each amendment, one after the other. The rapporteur shall set the voting time period for all amendments. It shall, for each amendment, neither fall short of twelve hours, nor exceed thirty-six hours. No more than twenty-four hours may separate two votes on amendments.
8. Voting for the entire bill in the Regional Assembly shall take place after the eventual vote on the amendments. It must not take place more than two days after the vote on the last amendment. The voting period shall last two days.
9. If a bill is not adopted by the Regional Assembly as only parliamentary chamber, it may, if the rapporteur wants it, be moved back to the alternate queue of legislation so as to be debated, amended and voted on later again.
10. If the Senate is closed, the Regional Assembly may pass institutional laws, laws and treaties related to regional security.
11. If the Senate is closed, 7.4. shall be rendered null and void until the Regional Senate re-opens.

Article 7: Final adoption of a bill

1. If a bill is adopted by the Regional Assembly, either directly or after a parliamentary shuttle (see 5.8.), it shall become regional law, as soon as the Supreme Court approves the legality of the law, and unless the Prime Minister vetoes it.
2. The Supreme Court shall be granted a one-week time period to validate or veto a law.
3. If a law has been validated by the Supreme Court, the Prime Minister shall be granted a three-day time period, during which they may apply their constitutional veto right.
4. If the Prime Minister vetoes the law, the Senate shall be granted a four-day time period, during which it may apply its constitutional right to override a veto of the Prime Miniter. A Senator may propose a Senate motion (petition motion) to override the veto, and Senators shall have until the end of the four-day time period to support it.

Article 8: Technical Senate rules

1. Senate activity shall only take place in the Regional Senate dedicated RMB.
2. Residents of LDA, unless they are Senators, members of the government, or sponsored nations according to 4.9., 4.10. and 4.11., must not use the RMB of the Regional Senate. A sponsored nation in the Senate must stop using the RMB of the Senate when their sponsorhip is over.
3. An outgoing Chairman of the Senate must not delete the dispatch containing the Senate queue of legislation, in part or fully, until the new Chairman hasn't published its own complete dispatch. The new Chairman must publish a new queue of legislation dispatch within one week after being appointed.

Article 9: Field of application

1. The standards established in the Constitution and in the present institutional law concerning legislative work (defined in 1.4.) cannot be contradicted or be subject to exceptions in other laws. However, other laws may define the procedures for other actions that fall within the scope of competence of the Parliament.

Read dispatch


P.S. It is very long, but in the end, very logical, and the procedures are simple.
Please tell me if there are spelling mistakes, or sentences that just don't make sense, I won't feel offended ;-).

Rubescovia, Sheepiania, and Shahi Bengal

France Europe wrote:I have a first draft for the parliamentary procedures, but right now it is unconstitutional. Our reform of the legislative branch will be based on two components: a constitutional amendment (also deleting the 'adoption of a law' section), and a clear, unquestionable Parliament Procedures Act, containing an article so as to establish procedures during the alternate modus operandu as well.
So, here you have a draft for the Parliament Procedures Act. I will start working on the constitutional amendment. This is not formal, I am not introducing the bill in Parliament yet.
Title: Institutional Act on the regulation of legislative procedures in Parliament
Alternate Title: Parliament Procedures Act

Article 1: Responsibility and Introduction of Bills

1. Members of the Regional Assembly, consisting of members of the government, Senators, members of the Supreme Court, and members of the region as defined by the constitution, shall initiate legislation in the region.
2. The introduction of a law before Parliament shall take form of a post in the regional RMB, with a dispatch containing the full text of the law. It is possible to informally publish draft legislation in order to develop the law in a collaborative manner before formal introduction in Parliament. The government may hold the right to discuss bills it initiates in the Council of Ministers before they are formally introduced in Parliament.
3. Any member of the Regional Assembly may introducte a law in Parliament. The member introducing the bill is called the rapporteur of the bill. Bills introduced by a member of the government shall have the government as rapporteur.
4. Parliament can legislate on four types of legislation:

    a) Constitutional amendments, to add, repeal or edit articles or clauses in the Constitution. They are particularly important and must be treated with care by lawmakers;
    b) Institutional laws, which organize the functioning of the institutions in a more precise way, in completion of the Constitution. These laws have a special status.;
    c) Laws, which include all legislation within the area of competence of the Parliament apart from constitutional amendments and institutional laws.
    d) Treaties, setting the region's relations with other regions or political entities.

5. The rapporteur must specify the type of legislation they are introducing in Parliament. The Chairman of the Senate may correct the status of the legislation if they find it inadequate. In case of disagreement, the rapporteur may refer the matter to the Supreme Court so that it may decide on the status of the text in view of its content and legality. The rapporteur may also specify the requested debate time.
6. Foreign affairs are the reserved domain of the government. Only the government shall be allowed to introduce treaties in Parliament, after eventual talks and agreements with foreign dignitaries.
7. Every bill must be introduced with an official title, mentioning its status, optionally with an alternative title. Bills can be divided into three levels:

    - Articles (mandatory): every bill must consist of one or several articles, written 'Article' followed by the number, mandatory.
    - Sections (optional): every section, unless it is unique in the bill, must have a title. An article can be divided into several sections, written only with their number and title, mandatory.
    - Clauses (mandatory): every article and section must contain clauses, which constitute the actual statement of the law. Clauses must be written in sentences, and may contain lists, numbered or not.

8. Amendments and repeals of legislation are subject to the same rules as other bills.

Article 2: Senate motions

1. Senators may pass internal Senate motions in cases specified by the law. They are legally binding but they are not regional law.
2. Senate motions shall be published in the RMB of the Regional Senate. They shall be numbered with the year and motion number in the ongoing year, and preceded by 'SM': SM-YYYY-NNN.
3. There shall be two types of motions:

    a) Voting motions shall be voted on by the Senators, upon submission of the motion, during a time period set by the submitter when submitting the motion. This time period must not exceed 48 hours.
    b) Petition motions require a certain amount of Senators supporting it to pass. The motion passes when the number of supports is reached. The submitter shall set a time period, after which the motion does not pass if the required number of supporters is not reached. This time period must not exceed 72 hours.

4. To vote for / support a motion, Senators must post the following in the Regional Senate RMB: 'Motion [motion number]: Yes'. Senate motions are not regional law.
5. Senate motions are not included in the queue of legislation (see 3. 2.) and can be adopted at any time in parallel with the legislative work.

Article 3: Processing and order of business

1. When a law is introduced in Parliament, it shall be recorded in the Regional Assembly business list, kept by the Founder and available to the public.
2. The Senate shall have its own queue of legislation, at the discretion of the Chairman of the Senate, changeable at any time, available to the public in a dispatch, pinned in the Regional Senate. Upon transition to a new Chairman of the Senate, the outgoing Chairman shall pass on the queue of legislation to the new Chairman, and a new dispatch shall be created by the new Chairman.
3. The Chairman of the Senate shall respect an order of priority when establishing the Senate queue of legislation, in compliance with the following rules:

    a) Nomination and impeachment procedures involving the Senate shall be first tier business.
    b) All business issued by the government, including bills, treaties, foreign affairs and defense matters shall be second tier business. The order of treatment of the business submitted by the government shall be decided by the Prime Minister, unless the latter grants it, in part or in full, to the Chairman of the Senate.
    c) All other legislative work, unless specified in the law, shall be third tier business.

4. Urgent business consists of prioritizing items of the Senate queue of legislation, over the rules set by clause 3. There are two procedures for assigning urgent business status to an item in the legislation queue:

    a) A Senate motion (petition motion), if supported by at least two thirds of the Senators, may assign urgent business status to an item. Senators may assign urgent status to several items, but each motion may only handle one item.
    b) The Prime Minister may decide to assign urgent business status to one or several items, wether they were introduced by the government or not. The Prime Minister's urgent business takes precedence over that of the Senators.

5. The Senate has exclusive rights to the legislative queue. The Regional Assembly business list is not a formal legislative queue, and the members of the Regional Assembly, except in situations explicitly mentioned in the law, cannot determine the order in which bills are processed.

Article 4: Senate examination of bills

1. The examination of bills is performed by the Senate, but members of the Regional Assembly may hold informal debates in parallel, which may also aim to advise the Senators.
2. When a bill reaches the top of the queue of legislation, either the rapporteur of the bill or the Chairman of the Senate shall start the examination of the bill by publish the bill in the Regional Senate RMB and open the debate. The Senator starting the examination of the bill must tag all other Senators.
3. The Chairman of the Senate shall have authority over debate time. If the Chairman of the Senate starts the examination of the bill, they shall set a debate time period. If the rapporteur starts the examination of the bill, they shall set the debate time period, but it may be modified once by the Chairman of the Senate. The Chairman of the Senate must not modify the debate time period for the purpose of ending the debate, setting a debate time period that would result in less than six hours of debate remaining after the modification. Once set or modified by the Chairman of the Senate, the debate time period may not be changed. The rapporteur and other Senators may advise the President of the Senate on the debate time period to be granted.
4. The debate time period for all bills shall neither fall short of twenty-four hours, nor exceed four days. The debate time period for constitutional amendments shall not fall short of thirty-six hours.
5. Senators may modify the debate time period through a Senate motion (petition motion), requiring the support of one third of the Senators. During the debate period, Senators may submit a motion to extend the debate time period, but it must respect the four days limit. After twenty-four hours have passed, or thirty-six hours for a constitutional amendment, Senators may submit a motion to end the debate period.
6. During the debate time period only, Senators may discuss the bill and submit any amendments they may have. Debates may only take place in the Regional Senate RMB. Only Senators and, if the government is the rapporteur of the debated bill, members of the government may participate in the debate of the Senate. The government may, however, even if it is not the rapporteur, submit amendments.
7. Amendments must be submitted via a post in RMB. The content of the amendment may be contained in a dispatch, included in the RMB post, or directly written into the RMB post.
8. Members of the Regional Assembly, except Senators, may submit amendment proposals to a bill in the Regional Assembly during the period of debate on that bill in the Senate. If an amendment proposal gains the support of at least five members of the Regional Assembly, including Senators, before the end of the debate time period in the Senate, the amendment proposal shall be submitted to the Senate.
9. Senators may sponsor members of the Regional Assembly, or foreign nations with a verified puppet residing in Liberty Democratic Alliance, to participate in a debate in the Senate, during or outside the examination of bills. Senators cannot sponsor more than two nations per debate. The Chairman of the Senate may reject sponsorships. Senators may force the Chairman of the Senate to accept a sponsorship for a particular nation through a Senate motion, requiring the support of one third of the Senators.
10. If a Senator sponsors a member a Supreme Court Judge to participate in a debate, including outside the examination of a bill, so as to obtain legal advice, it shall not be possible to reject the sponsorship.
11. Sponsorships during the examination of a bill shall end when the debate time period is over. Sponsorships outside the examination of a bill shall either be valid for a determined amount of time, or be ended by the Chairman of the Senate.

Article 5: Voting and parliamentary shuttle

1. When the debate period is over, the Chairman of the Senate shall call for a vote. The Chairman of the Senate must not call for a vote later than twenty-four hours after the end of the debate time period. To cast their votes, Senators must either post 'For' or 'Against' in the Senate RMB. Senators who don't vote will be considered abstentions. Senators may also abstain by posting 'Abstain' in the Senate RMB.
2. The vote shall begin with the vote on the amendments submitted during the debate period. The vote shall be held for each amendment, one after the other. The Chairman of the Senate shall set the voting time period for all amendments. It shall, for each amendment, neither fall short of twelve hours, nor exceed thirty-six hours. No more than twenty-four hours may separate two votes on amendments.
3. Voting for the entire bill in the Senate shall take place after the eventual vote on the amendments. It must not take place more than two days after the vote on the last amendment. The Chairman of the Senate shall set the voting time period when calling for a vote. It shall neither fall short of twenty-four hours, nor exceed two days. Senators may extend the voting time period through a Senate motion (petition motion), requiring the support of one third of the Senators, but it must respect the two days limit.
4. If during a vote on the amendments or the entire bill, all Senators vote either 'For', 'Against' or 'Abstain' in the RMB before the end of the voting time period, the vote may be terminated.
5. If a bill is not adopted by the Senate, it may, if the rapporteur wants it, be moved back to the Senate queue of legislation so as to be debated, amended and voted on later again.
6. If a bill is adopted by the Senate, it shall be brought back to the Regional Assembly. The Chairman of the Senate, or a member of the government with authority over polls, shall open a poll, no later than two days after the bill was adopted by the Senate, unless the Regional Assembly is holding an election or any other vote that has precedence on the legislative votes specified in the law. The Regional Assembly voting time period shall last two days.
7. Institutional laws, laws and treaties related to regional security shall be voted on in the Senate only, except if the Senate is closed. A member of the Regional Assembly may, if they consider that the Senate defines a bill as a regional security bill in an unjustified way, with the aim of bypassing the Regional Assembly, refer the matter to the Supreme Court for a judgement on whether the bill is a regional security bill or not.
8. If a bill is not adopted by the Regional Assembly, the parliamentary shuttle shall start. Members of the Regional Assembly shall have a debate period lasting at least two days and not exceeding four days to debate and submit amendments directly, which do not require the support of a certain number of members to be submitted. (Article 4, clause 8 does not apply.) The Senate shall, after the end of the debate period in the Regional Assembly, vote on the amendments and the amended bill following the procedures in clauses 2 and 3. Clauses 4, 5 and 6 shall also apply.

Article 6: Processing, examination and voting in the alternate system of LDA

1. If the alternate system of LDA, as defined by Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution if in place, and if the Senate is closed, the Regional Assembly shall legislate alone.
2. The Prime Minister, or any designated government member, shall chair the Regional Assembly as only parliamentary chamber, establishing a Regional Assembly alternate queue of legislation, with the same priority rules as under the normal system of LDA. They shall also manage polls.
3. Members of the Regional Assembly shall not have the power to submit motions.
4. The rapporteur of the bill shall set the debate time period. The debate time period for all bills in the Regional Assembly as only parliamentary chamber shall neither fall short of twenty-four hours, nor exceed four days. The debate time period for constitutional amendments shall not fall short of thirty-six hours.
5. During the debate time period only, members of the Regional Assembly may discuss the bill and submit any amendments they may have.
6. When the debate period is over, the government official chairing the Regional Assembly shall call for a vote. They must not call for a vote later than twenty-four hours after the end of the debate time period. Members of the Regional Assembly shall cast their votes in a regional poll, unless there is an election or any other vote that has precedence on the legislative votes specified in the law.
7. The vote shall begin with the vote on the amendments submitted during the debate period. The vote shall be held for each amendment, one after the other. The rapporteur shall set the voting time period for all amendments. It shall, for each amendment, neither fall short of twelve hours, nor exceed thirty-six hours. No more than twenty-four hours may separate two votes on amendments.
8. Voting for the entire bill in the Regional Assembly shall take place after the eventual vote on the amendments. It must not take place more than two days after the vote on the last amendment. The voting period shall last two days.
9. If a bill is not adopted by the Regional Assembly as only parliamentary chamber, it may, if the rapporteur wants it, be moved back to the alternate queue of legislation so as to be debated, amended and voted on later again.
10. If the Senate is closed, the Regional Assembly may pass institutional laws, laws and treaties related to regional security.
11. If the Senate is closed, 7.4. shall be rendered null and void until the Regional Senate re-opens.

Article 7: Final adoption of a bill

1. If a bill is adopted by the Regional Assembly, either directly or after a parliamentary shuttle (see 5.8.), it shall become regional law, as soon as the Supreme Court approves the legality of the law, and unless the Prime Minister vetoes it.
2. The Supreme Court shall be granted a one-week time period to validate or veto a law.
3. If a law has been validated by the Supreme Court, the Prime Minister shall be granted a three-day time period, during which they may apply their constitutional veto right.
4. If the Prime Minister vetoes the law, the Senate shall be granted a four-day time period, during which it may apply its constitutional right to override a veto of the Prime Miniter. A Senator may propose a Senate motion (petition motion) to override the veto, and Senators shall have until the end of the four-day time period to support it.

Article 8: Technical Senate rules

1. Senate activity shall only take place in the Regional Senate dedicated RMB.
2. Residents of LDA, unless they are Senators, members of the government, or sponsored nations according to 4.9., 4.10. and 4.11., must not use the RMB of the Regional Senate. A sponsored nation in the Senate must stop using the RMB of the Senate when their sponsorhip is over.
3. An outgoing Chairman of the Senate must not delete the dispatch containing the Senate queue of legislation, in part or fully, until the new Chairman hasn't published its own complete dispatch. The new Chairman must publish a new queue of legislation dispatch within one week after being appointed.

Article 9: Field of application

1. The standards established in the Constitution and in the present institutional law concerning legislative work (defined in 1.4.) cannot be contradicted or be subject to exceptions in other laws. However, other laws may define the procedures for other actions that fall within the scope of competence of the Parliament.

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P.S. It is very long, but in the end, very logical, and the procedures are simple.
Please tell me if there are spelling mistakes, or sentences that just don't make sense, I won't feel offended ;-).

Might want to do this in the senate.

RIP Abe

Reform of the Parliament

I am sharing my drafts for the Parliament reform, so everyone can take a look and we can work on it together before an official introduction in Parliament. It is long and complex, so I think it's better to start informally rather than submitting tons of amendments during the debate. I will be busy in Paris in the next few days, so I will probably introduce it officially when I come back.

Axis 1: the constitutional part of the reform

Title: A constitutional amendment of Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution of Liberty Democratic Alliance to reform the legislative branch
Alternate Title: Constitutional reform of the Legislative Branch

Article 1: Amendments to the Constitution

    2. 1. The Parliament:
    1. The Parliament is the legislative body of the region. Its role is to draw up regional laws. It is composed of two chambers: the Regional Assembly and the Regional Senate.
    2. No future law or amendment may remove the Parliament and the power it has, but the executive may choose to suspend parliament (for a set period, and a maximum of 40 days) through a poll that achieves a minimum of 1/2 of the membership number +1 votes in the Regional Assembly. If parliament is suspended, senators' term will be frozen, and discussions halted. It will resume normally when the Lower Parliament votes affirmatively to lift the suspension (by a 1/2 + 1 vote), or when the date set by the executive arrives.
    3. Laws passed by the Parliament must abide by the Constitution. Any bill that does not fully respect this Constitution will be censored.
    4. Constitutional amendments require a two-thirds majority in the Regional Senate and in the Regional Assembly, or in the Regional Assembly only, if the Senate is closed, to be adopted. All other bills require a simple majority, defined as half of the votes plus one vote in both chambers, or in the Regional Assembly only, if the Senate is closed. The vote count shall never include abstentions.

    2. 1. 1. The Regional Assembly
    1. The Regional Assembly is the Lower House of Parliament in the region. Every member (see definition in Article 1. Section 2.) nation in the region is a Member of the Regional Assembly Parliament when they join the region.
    2. Members of the Regional Assembly can propose new bills at any time, and write drafts.
    3. Discussions of the Regional Assembly shall take place on the main Regional Message Board of the region. The Prime Minister and his officers government are is responsible for overseeing the discussions on the main RMB.
    4. Members of the Regional Assembly can propose constitutional amendments and a draft may be sent to the Regional Senate if it achieves 1/2 of the vote in the Lower House of Parliament.
    4. The legislative procedures in parliament shall be regulated by a dedicated institutional law.
    5. Laws adopted by the Parliament shall be publicly available and kept by the Founder. Constitutional amendments, once adopted, shall amend the Constitution.

    2. 1. 2. The Regional Senate
    1. The Regional Senate is the Upper House of Parliament. It is composed of elected members of the Regional Assembly as defined in Article 2.1.1.1. World Assembly nations, and the non-WA nations with WA registered controllers are also eligible. Members of the Regional Senate remain are also members of the Regional Assembly when they become Senators.
    2. Members of the Regional Senate are elected by the Regional Assembly in a serial process, usually during the 7 days after the Prime Minister elections and, if necessary, the weeks afterwards. Campaigning can begin right after the Prime Minister election. The election for members of the Regional Senate is called Legislative Election.
    3. The Regional Senate has a number of seats depending on the regional population. There is one seat per seven residents. If there are less than five Senators, the Supreme Court must close the Senate, and all its legislative powers revert to the Regional Assembly until a sufficient number of candidates stand for election to fill the five seats. To run for the Senate, a nation must tag the Founder, announcing their campaign.
    4. The election shall occur in a series of polls of 24 hours with a minimum number of three and a maximum number of five candidates each poll across a maximum of seven different polls in the first week (maximum of 35 candidates per week) and, if necessary, in the weeks afterwards. A candidate for Senate will be placed among the other candidates in a poll according to the order of their candidacy announcement. If there aren't enough candidates, a poll will not be prepared. A candidate not elected in one poll may participate in a subsequent poll if there are not enough newer candidacies. This, too, shall be set by the original order of candidacy announcement. If not elected in the first poll, a nation may withdraw from subsequent polls if they wish to do so. When a nation decides to be a candidate for the Senate, they can designate an alternate who will take their seat if they leave office.
    5. Discussions on the Regional Senate will take place in a separate Regional Message Board: LDA Regional Senate.
    6. The Regional Senate can propose amendments to the Constitution, write drafts or adopt drafts from the Regional Assembly, but 2/3 vote is necessary to pass an amendment to the constitution.
    6. The Senate will conduct one internal election to decide the nation that will be Chairman of the Regional Senate. The Chairman of the Regional Senate presides debates and is the spokesperson of the Senate. They have a maximum term of 80 days. Senators have the power to end the term of the Chairman of the Senate, with a three-quarters majority.
    7. Members of the executive or the judiciary shall not have a legislative seat. If a candidate for the office of Prime Minister is a senator and that nation wins the election, or if a nation is appointed to serve in the Government or as Chief Justice, their position on the Senate shall be lost, and it will be available in the next Legislative Election, unless they have designated an eligible alternate when declaring their candidacy.
    8. The term for a member of the Senate is double of the PM's (80 days) and this legislative body will be recomposed with each new Legislative Election. The Senate Chairman may call for a special election if too many Senate seats have been vacant.
    9. The two most voted nations in a poll will be granted a Senate seat if their votes amount to more than or equal to 1/5 of the region's number of members. If none of the candidates achieve this 1/5 or only the winner of the poll receives more than or equal to 1/5 of the membership number, only the most voted, and winner of the poll, shall be elected.
    10. The Senate can override a veto of the Prime Minister with a three-quarters majority.

    2. 2. Adoption of a law
    1. Laws adopted by the Parliament will be written in Civil Code section on the Constitution. Constitutional amendments will be added to the Constitution. It is illegal to pass laws in order to expand the duties, participation, and access of the Founder, except for Head of State duties (non-executive involvement).
    2. Members of the Regional Assembly (all members of the region, Senators included) can propose bill drafts.
    3. Every draft will be sent to the Regional Senate.
    4.The Regional Senate will analyse the draft and debate during a period of at least twelve hours and it can be amended if necessary. After a minimum of twelve hours and a maximum of thirty hours, the Chairman of the Senate may call for a vote. The law passes with a 1/2+1 majority vote. If the law is a Constitutional Amendment, a 2/3 vote in the Senate, as well as a 1/2+1 majority vote in the Regional Assembly are necessary.
    5. If the law is not passed, any member of the Regional Assembly can present a new similar but amended bill.
    6. Members of the Regional Assembly can organise parallel debates about the bill which will only have an advisory role for the Senators.
    7. If a bill is passed by the Parliament, the Chief Justice can veto it if he thinks the law is against the Constitution (see article about the Chief Justice). Any member of parliament can advise the Chief Justice to veto the bill.
    8. If a bill is passed by the Parliament, the Prime Minister has the right to veto it and make the bill null and void. If the Prime Minister agrees with the bill, he will sign it and the bill will be adopted as Regional Law. In the event of a veto, the government, if it wishes to do so, can inform the Parliament of the point they disagree with and the bill can then be sent back to the Parliament and the Senate.
    9. The Regional Senate can override a government veto by a 3/4 vote of no confidence.
    10. A vote for a bill will have to last twelve hours in the Regional Assembly, and twenty four hours in the Regional Senate. If all Senators vote (approve, reject or abstain) before the end of the fifteen hours, the vote ends.
    11. If a nation does not vote, its vote will count as an abstention.
    12. To vote in the Parliament, members will have to post their vote in the appropriate RMB (approve or reject) or a poll will be set up to count the votes.
    13. If the Senate is closed under the circumstances of article 2. 1. 2. 3. the laws will be passed by a 1/2+1 membership majority in the Regional Assembly, and the debate time will be the same as in the Senate. The Prime Minister will be the one calling for a vote. A 2/3 vote is necessary to pass a Consitutional Amendment in the Regional Assembly during the closure of the Senate.

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This constitutional amendment will have to be passed though the current procedure detailed in the constitution. It will require a simple majority in the Regional Assembly before being sent to the Senate, where it will require a 2/3 majority, before being sent back to the Regional Assembly if the Senate amended it, where it will require a simple majority again. See, the procedure is unclear and bureaucratic. That's why this constitutional amendment simplifies the Constitution (removal of a whole section), and a clear and detailed law replaces the former flawed clauses in the constitution -> Axis 2

Axis 2: the institutional law to complete in detail the general principles of the constitution

Title: Institutional Act on the regulation of legislative procedures in Parliament
Alternate Title: Parliament Procedures Act

Article 1: Responsibility and Introduction of Bills

1. Members of the Regional Assembly, consisting of members of the government, Senators, members of the Supreme Court, and members of the region as defined by the constitution, shall initiate legislation in the region.
2. The introduction of a law before Parliament shall take form of a post in the regional RMB, with a dispatch containing the full text of the law. It is possible to informally publish draft legislation in order to develop the law in a collaborative manner before formal introduction in Parliament. The government may hold the right to discuss bills it initiates in the Council of Ministers before they are formally introduced in Parliament.
3. Any member of the Regional Assembly may introducte a law in Parliament. The member introducing the bill is called the rapporteur of the bill. Bills introduced by a member of the government shall have the government as rapporteur.
4. Parliament can legislate on four types of legislation:

    a) Constitutional amendments, to add, repeal or edit articles or clauses in the Constitution. They are particularly important and must be treated with care by lawmakers;
    b) Institutional laws, which organize the functioning of the institutions in a more precise way, in completion of the Constitution. These laws have a special status.;
    c) Laws, which include all legislation within the area of competence of the Parliament apart from constitutional amendments and institutional laws.
    d) Treaties, setting the region's relations with other regions or political entities.

5. The rapporteur must specify the type of legislation they are introducing in Parliament. The Chairman of the Senate may correct the status of the legislation if they find it inadequate. In case of disagreement, the rapporteur may refer the matter to the Supreme Court so that it may decide on the status of the text in view of its content and legality. The rapporteur may also specify the requested debate time.
6. Foreign affairs are the reserved domain of the government. Only the government shall be allowed to introduce treaties in Parliament, after eventual talks and agreements with foreign dignitaries.
7. Every bill must be introduced with an official title, mentioning its status, optionally with an alternative title. Bills can be divided into three levels:

    - Articles (mandatory): every bill must consist of one or several articles, written 'Article' followed by the number, mandatory.
    - Sections (optional): every section, unless it is unique in the bill, must have a title. An article can be divided into several sections, written only with their number and title, mandatory.
    - Clauses (mandatory): every article and section must contain clauses, which constitute the actual statement of the law. Clauses must be written in sentences, and may contain lists, numbered or not.

8. Amendments and repeals of legislation are subject to the same rules as other bills.

Article 2: Senate motions

1. Senators may pass internal Senate motions in cases specified by the law. They are legally binding but they are not regional law.
2. Senate motions shall be published in the RMB of the Regional Senate. They shall be numbered with the year and motion number in the ongoing year, and preceded by 'SM': SM-YYYY-NNN.
3. There shall be two types of motions:

    a) Voting motions shall be voted on by the Senators, upon submission of the motion, during a time period set by the submitter when submitting the motion. This time period must not exceed 48 hours.
    b) Petition motions require a certain amount of Senators supporting it to pass. The motion passes when the number of supports is reached. The submitter shall set a time period, after which the motion does not pass if the required number of supporters is not reached. This time period must not exceed 72 hours.

4. To vote for / support a motion, Senators must post the following in the Regional Senate RMB: 'Motion [motion number]: Yes'. Senate motions are not regional law.
5. Senate motions are not included in the queue of legislation (see 3. 2.) and can be adopted at any time in parallel with the legislative work.

Article 3: Processing and order of business

1. When a law is introduced in Parliament, it shall be recorded in the Regional Assembly business list, kept by the Founder and available to the public.
2. The Senate shall have its own queue of legislation, at the discretion of the Chairman of the Senate, changeable at any time, available to the public in a dispatch, pinned in the Regional Senate. Upon transition to a new Chairman of the Senate, the outgoing Chairman shall pass on the queue of legislation to the new Chairman, and a new dispatch shall be created by the new Chairman.
3. The Chairman of the Senate shall respect an order of priority when establishing the Senate queue of legislation, in compliance with the following rules:

    a) Nomination and impeachment procedures involving the Senate shall be first tier business.
    b) All business issued by the government, including bills, treaties, foreign affairs and defense matters shall be second tier business. The order of treatment of the business submitted by the government shall be decided by the Prime Minister, unless the latter grants it, in part or in full, to the Chairman of the Senate.
    c) All other legislative work, unless specified in the law, shall be third tier business.

4. Urgent business consists of prioritizing items of the Senate queue of legislation, over the rules set by clause 3. There are two procedures for assigning urgent business status to an item in the legislation queue:

    a) A Senate motion (petition motion), if supported by at least two thirds of the Senators, may assign urgent business status to an item. Senators may assign urgent status to several items, but each motion may only handle one item.
    b) The Prime Minister may decide to assign urgent business status to one or several items, wether they were introduced by the government or not. The Prime Minister's urgent business takes precedence over that of the Senators.

5. The Senate has exclusive rights to the legislative queue. The Regional Assembly business list is not a formal legislative queue, and the members of the Regional Assembly, except in situations explicitly mentioned in the law, cannot determine the order in which bills are processed.

Article 4: Senate examination of bills

1. The examination of bills is performed by the Senate, but members of the Regional Assembly may hold informal debates in parallel, which may also aim to advise the Senators.
2. When a bill reaches the top of the queue of legislation, either the rapporteur of the bill or the Chairman of the Senate shall start the examination of the bill by publish the bill in the Regional Senate RMB and open the debate. The Senator starting the examination of the bill must tag all other Senators.
3. The Chairman of the Senate shall have authority over debate time. If the Chairman of the Senate starts the examination of the bill, they shall set a debate time period. If the rapporteur starts the examination of the bill, they shall set the debate time period, but it may be modified once by the Chairman of the Senate. The Chairman of the Senate must not modify the debate time period for the purpose of ending the debate, setting a debate time period that would result in less than six hours of debate remaining after the modification. Once set or modified by the Chairman of the Senate, the debate time period may not be changed. The rapporteur and other Senators may advise the President of the Senate on the debate time period to be granted.
4. The debate time period for all bills shall neither fall short of twenty-four hours, nor exceed four days. The debate time period for constitutional amendments shall not fall short of thirty-six hours.
5. Senators may modify the debate time period through a Senate motion (petition motion), requiring the support of one third of the Senators. During the debate period, Senators may submit a motion to extend the debate time period, but it must respect the four days limit. After twenty-four hours have passed, or thirty-six hours for a constitutional amendment, Senators may submit a motion to end the debate period.
6. During the debate time period only, Senators may discuss the bill and submit any amendments they may have. Debates may only take place in the Regional Senate RMB. Only Senators and, if the government is the rapporteur of the debated bill, members of the government may participate in the debate of the Senate. The government may, however, even if it is not the rapporteur, submit amendments.
7. Amendments must be submitted via a post in RMB. The content of the amendment may be contained in a dispatch, included in the RMB post, or directly written into the RMB post.
8. Members of the Regional Assembly, except Senators, may submit amendment proposals to a bill in the Regional Assembly during the period of debate on that bill in the Senate. If an amendment proposal gains the support of at least five members of the Regional Assembly, including Senators, before the end of the debate time period in the Senate, the amendment proposal shall be submitted to the Senate.
9. Senators may sponsor members of the Regional Assembly, or foreign nations with a verified puppet residing in Liberty Democratic Alliance, to participate in a debate in the Senate, during or outside the examination of bills. Senators cannot sponsor more than two nations per debate. The Chairman of the Senate may reject sponsorships. Senators may force the Chairman of the Senate to accept a sponsorship for a particular nation through a Senate motion, requiring the support of one third of the Senators.
10. If a Senator sponsors a member a Supreme Court Judge to participate in a debate, including outside the examination of a bill, so as to obtain legal advice, it shall not be possible to reject the sponsorship.
11. Sponsorships during the examination of a bill shall end when the debate time period is over. Sponsorships outside the examination of a bill shall either be valid for a determined amount of time, or be ended by the Chairman of the Senate.

Article 5: Voting and parliamentary shuttle

1. When the debate period is over, the Chairman of the Senate shall call for a vote. The Chairman of the Senate must not call for a vote later than twenty-four hours after the end of the debate time period. To cast their votes, Senators must either post 'For' or 'Against' in the Senate RMB. Senators who don't vote will be considered abstentions. Senators may also abstain by posting 'Abstain' in the Senate RMB.
2. The vote shall begin with the vote on the amendments submitted during the debate period. The vote shall be held for each amendment, one after the other. The Chairman of the Senate shall set the voting time period for all amendments. It shall, for each amendment, neither fall short of twelve hours, nor exceed thirty-six hours. No more than twenty-four hours may separate two votes on amendments.
3. Voting for the entire bill in the Senate shall take place after the eventual vote on the amendments. It must not take place more than two days after the vote on the last amendment. The Chairman of the Senate shall set the voting time period when calling for a vote. It shall neither fall short of twenty-four hours, nor exceed two days. Senators may extend the voting time period through a Senate motion (petition motion), requiring the support of one third of the Senators, but it must respect the two days limit.
4. If during a vote on the amendments or the entire bill, all Senators vote either 'For', 'Against' or 'Abstain' in the RMB before the end of the voting time period, the vote may be terminated.
5. If a bill is not adopted by the Senate, it may, if the rapporteur wants it, be moved back to the Senate queue of legislation so as to be debated, amended and voted on later again.
6. If a bill is adopted by the Senate, it shall be brought back to the Regional Assembly. The Chairman of the Senate, or a member of the government with authority over polls, shall open a poll, no later than two days after the bill was adopted by the Senate, unless the Regional Assembly is holding an election or any other vote that has precedence on the legislative votes specified in the law. The Regional Assembly voting time period shall last two days.
7. Institutional laws, laws and treaties related to regional security shall be voted on in the Senate only, except if the Senate is closed. A member of the Regional Assembly may, if they consider that the Senate defines a bill as a regional security bill in an unjustified way, with the aim of bypassing the Regional Assembly, refer the matter to the Supreme Court for a judgement on whether the bill is a regional security bill or not.
8. If a bill is not adopted by the Regional Assembly, the parliamentary shuttle shall start. Members of the Regional Assembly shall have a debate period lasting at least two days and not exceeding four days to debate and submit amendments directly, which do not require the support of a certain number of members to be submitted. (Article 4, clause 8 does not apply.) The Senate shall, after the end of the debate period in the Regional Assembly, vote on the amendments and the amended bill following the procedures in clauses 2 and 3. Clauses 4, 5 and 6 shall also apply.

Article 6: Processing, examination and voting in the alternate system of LDA

1. If the alternate system of LDA, as defined by Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution if in place, and if the Senate is closed, the Regional Assembly shall legislate alone.
2. The Prime Minister, or any designated government member, shall chair the Regional Assembly as only parliamentary chamber, establishing a Regional Assembly alternate queue of legislation, with the same priority rules as under the normal system of LDA. They shall also manage polls.
3. Members of the Regional Assembly shall not have the power to submit motions.
4. The rapporteur of the bill shall set the debate time period. The debate time period for all bills in the Regional Assembly as only parliamentary chamber shall neither fall short of twenty-four hours, nor exceed four days. The debate time period for constitutional amendments shall not fall short of thirty-six hours.
5. During the debate time period only, members of the Regional Assembly may discuss the bill and submit any amendments they may have.
6. When the debate period is over, the government official chairing the Regional Assembly shall call for a vote. They must not call for a vote later than twenty-four hours after the end of the debate time period. Members of the Regional Assembly shall cast their votes in a regional poll, unless there is an election or any other vote that has precedence on the legislative votes specified in the law.
7. The vote shall begin with the vote on the amendments submitted during the debate period. The vote shall be held for each amendment, one after the other. The rapporteur shall set the voting time period for all amendments. It shall, for each amendment, neither fall short of twelve hours, nor exceed thirty-six hours. No more than twenty-four hours may separate two votes on amendments.
8. Voting for the entire bill in the Regional Assembly shall take place after the eventual vote on the amendments. It must not take place more than two days after the vote on the last amendment. The voting period shall last two days.
9. If a bill is not adopted by the Regional Assembly as only parliamentary chamber, it may, if the rapporteur wants it, be moved back to the alternate queue of legislation so as to be debated, amended and voted on later again.
10. If the Senate is closed, the Regional Assembly may pass institutional laws, laws and treaties related to regional security.
11. If the Senate is closed, 7.4. shall be rendered null and void until the Regional Senate re-opens.

Article 7: Final adoption of a bill

1. If a bill is adopted by the Regional Assembly, either directly or after a parliamentary shuttle (see 5.8.), it shall become regional law, as soon as the Supreme Court approves the legality of the law, and unless the Prime Minister vetoes it.
2. The Supreme Court shall be granted a one-week time period to validate or veto a law.
3. If a law has been validated by the Supreme Court, the Prime Minister shall be granted a three-day time period, during which they may apply their constitutional veto right.
4. If the Prime Minister vetoes the law, the Senate shall be granted a four-day time period, during which it may apply its constitutional right to override a veto of the Prime Miniter. A Senator may propose a Senate motion (petition motion) to override the veto, and Senators shall have until the end of the four-day time period to support it.

Article 8: Technical Senate rules

1. Senate activity shall only take place in the Regional Senate dedicated RMB.
2. Residents of LDA, unless they are Senators, members of the government, or sponsored nations according to 4.9., 4.10. and 4.11., must not use the RMB of the Regional Senate. A sponsored nation in the Senate must stop using the RMB of the Senate when their sponsorhip is over.
3. An outgoing Chairman of the Senate must not delete the dispatch containing the Senate queue of legislation, in part or fully, until the new Chairman hasn't published its own complete dispatch. The new Chairman must publish a new queue of legislation dispatch within one week after being appointed.

Article 9: Field of application

1. The standards established in the Constitution and in the present institutional law concerning legislative work (defined in 1.4.) cannot be contradicted or be subject to exceptions in other laws. However, other laws may define the procedures for other actions that fall within the scope of competence of the Parliament.

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Next on the list (for me anyway): a Criminal Code and an institutional law to give a framework for decrees. A lot of fun!

The land of spyo

France Europe wrote:I really like italian. And for a french speaker like me, it is quite easy to learn considering the similarities in grammar, vocabulary and also pronounciation, which is great!

As do I.

Boris Johnson resigned and Shinzo Abe got assissinated, what a day.

4-H is challenging my sanity.

Nova tyrnavia

Sheepiania wrote:4-H is challenging my sanity.

Whats that?

Nova tyrnavia wrote:Whats that?

Long story, basically it is one of the organizations that runs the county fairs. It’s also a lot of other things but if your curious look up 4-h

Nova tyrnavia

Sheepiania wrote:Long story, basically it is one of the organizations that runs the county fairs. It’s also a lot of other things but if your curious look up 4-h

4-H is a U.S.-based network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development".

Yeah no, sounds like gov funded bs to influence kids to grow up and think in a certain way.

Sheepiania

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