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This is bill id#1242 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

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WHEREAS Article XVIII.10 of the Organic Law, the so-called "Three Strikes" provision, was repealed and replaced by 43RZ33 and endorsed in referendum;

and WHEREAS certain parts of El Lexhátx have not been updated accordingly yet;

Be it enacted by the Cosâ and Senäts of Talossa in Ziu assembled that El Lexhátx E.13, which currently reads:
 

shall be amended to read
 

This is bill id#1243 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

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WHEREAS, "The Glorious (but Unarmed) Royal Fleet Act" submitted by Robert Madison and Wes Erni officially created the Royal Talossan Navy on 30 November 1987, and


WHEREAS, in July of 1998, former Prime Minister Chirisch Caveir re-established Talossa’s Navy by way of Prime Dictate, and


WHEREAS, “The Naval Reorganization Act” (35RZ32) did little more than formally align the Armed Forces of the Kingdom of Talossa into the BUREAU OF THE NAVY and lay out a loose rank structure with little regard to the rich & deep history, heraldry, and tradition of the Armed Services community, now


THEREFORE, the current body of Section I of the el Lexhatx shall be rescinded and replaced TEMPORARILY with: 


“The Deputy Minister of the Interior for Defence shall, in consultation with the Admiral of the Fleet and with approval of the Interior Ministry, promulgate a code of military regulations to be known as the Uniform Code of Military Organization (UCMO) for the purpose of the organization, training and discipline of the Talossan Armed Forces. The UCMO shall reflect the professionalism of the Armed Forces of the Kingdom of Talossa as well as recognize the relations of our great nation’s place in retrospect to the other great nations and allied forces of the world.” 


Upon the completion of the UMCO and it's approval as a functional base text of a modern military code by the Zui, Section I shall be updated and replaced with the new UMCO under the condition that it is codified and structured to align properly with the other Section of the el Lexhatx. The passage of this bill authorizes the development of UMCO, and establishes said Code's authority. 
 

This is bill id#1244 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

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WHEREAS It is the right of all persons to be free, and

WHEREAS Government exists to protect that right, and

WHEREAS Freedom is all too often taken away for no good reason, and

WHEREAS When a crime has no ill effect on anyone besides the person who committed it, it should not be a crime, and

WHEREAS By now you probably realize that I am indeed talking about marijuana, and

WHEREAS I have never smoked and I never will, and

WHEREAS That is a personal choice, and

WHEREAS I should not make personal choices for people other than myself, and

WHEREAS The government definitely shouldn't make personal choices for anyone, and

WHEREAS I, or most people, have never been negatively impacted by someone else smoking marijuana, and

WHEREAS There is more reason to ban alcohol or cigarettes due to negative externalities than marijuana, and everyone agrees we shouldn't ban those, and

WHEREAS That is because when Prohibition was tried in the United States, it was an utter and spectacular failure that led to an increase in alcohol consumption and the rise of organized crime, and

WHEREAS We learned this lesson with alcohol, but few have seemed to learn that drug cartels are fueled by drug control laws, and

WHEREAS While drug laws don't succeed in stopping people from doing drugs or in stopping drug cartels, they do succeed in imprisoning thousands of people who didn't hurt anyone besides themselves, and in ensuring that now they will be unable to find a job after their release thanks to their criminal record, if you count that as success, which most people wouldn't, and

WHEREAS Even if you overlook the huge moral quandary that arises, it is still a huge waste of money, since the government has to pay to enforce the laws and imprison all of these people, and

WHEREAS That's not even considering all of the productivity lost when people are sitting around in jail for no good reason and then still can't work after their release, and 

WHEREAS I started this string of whereases with high-minded language about liberty for multiple reasons, and

WHEREAS One reason was to show that support for cannabis legalization can be defended from base principles, and that not everyone who thinks it should be legalized is a stoner, and

WHEREAS Another reason is to show that you don't have to be "socially liberal" in the macro-political world to support this cause, and

WHEREAS It's not really a secret that I am generally more conservative in macro-politics than most Talossan citizens, and

WHEREAS Nonetheless I still strongly support cannabis legalization, and

WHEREAS Our Giant Friendly Neighbor continues to move in the right direction on this issue, and

WHEREAS Let's give them a nudge


THEREFORE subsection A.1.6, which currently reads:
 

is amended to read:

This is bill id#1245 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

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Whereas according to El Lexhatx immigrants from "all nations in Africa north of the Equator not listed elsewhere" are assigned to Benito, and

Whereas according to El Lexhatx immigrants from "all nations in Africa north of the Equator not listed elsewhere" are assigned to Fiôvâ, and

Whereas this appears to be a mistake, and

Whereas the island nations of eastern Africa go unmentioned, and

Whereas if we need to make a change anyway, we might as well explicitly mention them, and

Whereas in the summary of the Catchment Area Reform Act by the author it is mentioned that "10. Southern Africa goes to Fiova", now 

Therefore Lex.E.7.11., which currently reads:

"7.11. FIOVA PROVINCE. Talossan citizens living in the following areas shall be assigned to Fiova Province: the nations of Australia, New Zealand, all Oceanian nations, all Asian nations not listed elsewhere, Brazil, South Africa, Madagascar, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, Angola, and all nations in Africa north of the Equator not listed elsewhere, and all nations of the world not included elsewhere."

shall be amended to read:

"7.11. FIOVA PROVINCE. Talossan citizens living in the following areas shall be assigned to Fiova Province: the nations of Australia, New Zealand, all Oceanian nations, all Asian nations not listed elsewhere, Brazil, South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, the Comoros, Seychelles, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, Angola, and all nations in Africa south of the Equator not listed elsewhere, and all nations of the world not included elsewhere."