Bills

This is bill id#1228 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

THE ORGANIC LAW AMENDMENT (Amendments (I Can't Believe This Is Still Ambiguous But Apparently It Is)) BILL

WHEREAS it seemed clear that the decision of the Cort pü Înalt in April 2016 which resolved the "Proclamation Crisis" and the subsequent adoption of the current text of Article XV of the OrgLaw had sorted out whether an Organic Law amendment must be "proclaimed" or "promulgated" to take effect;

and WHEREAS a recently withdrawn lawsuit, and the orders made by one CpI justice in the course of that lawsuit, and the subsequent ill-tempered threads on Wittenberg have shown that the above is surely not the case;

and WHEREAS this sort of tomfoolery should never happen again:

BE IT ENACTED by the King, Cosâ and Senäts of Talossa in Ziu assented and by the consent of the people in referendum that the text of Article XV, Section 4 of the Organic Law be amended by the addition of the following underlined text:
 

This is bill id#1229 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

WHEREAS Every citizen has their own concept of the perfect role of the King in Talossa today, and

WHEREAS I realized that my own such concept was founded on a highly romanticized version of the King, in which he was omnibenevolent and respected the will of the people except in the direst circumstances, and

WHEREAS Even if this were currently the case, it would be no reason to believe that the Crown would always behave this way, and

WHEREAS I have just recently grasped the full consequences of an unelected head of state possessing such broad powers, and

WHEREAS Despite this, misdeeds by one King is no reason to abolish the office entirely, and

WHEREAS in a country as small as Talossa, retaining the same, heavily involved head of state is good for stability, even if the King is not as involved as we would like, and

WHEREAS The Crown has, does, and will likely continue to provide valuable advice concerning matters of governance, so he should retain at least some amount of political power, and

WHEREAS This is the heart of the matter: while an unelected official can offer new perspectives and encourage legislators to stop and think, someone without a democratic mandate should not have final say on anything, nor even be able to indefinitely put roadblocks in the path of the duly elected Ziu, and

WHEREAS for all these reasons, applying the concepts of the ¾ Majority Amendment to regular legislation seems like a pretty good idea


THEREFORE, Org.X.6, which currently reads:

is amended to read:

This is bill id#1230 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

WHEREAS the whole world uses the Metric system for the exception of the USA, Liberia, and Myanmar, and

WHEREAS multiplying and dividing by 10 is very easy because we use a base-10 number system, and

WHEREAS the Imperial system is so convoluted that even math enthusiasts can't keep track of it all, and

WHEREAS it is easy to know that there are 100,000 centimeters in a kilometer, but not so easy to know that there 63,360 inches in a mile, and

WHEREAS NASA once lost $125 million because Lockheed Martin used Imperial units instead of the agreed-upon Metric units, and

WHEREAS we would not want the same thing happening to our own scientific pursuits, and

WHEREAS I realized that keeping the Fahrenheit scale is dumb if we convert everything else to metric, and

WHEREAS I first introduced this bill as a freshman MC, and

WHEREAS Now that I am Distain I like to think that I have more political capital

THEREFORE the twenty-ninth section of Title F of el Lexhatx, which currently reads:

The sole official system of weights and measures within the Kingdom of Talossa is the so-called "American" or English System.

Shall be replaced in full by the following:

The official system of weights and measures within the Kingdom of Talossa is the Metric System.  

This is bill id#1231 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

WHEREAS, fairly recently, I expressed my opinion to some people that Talossan voters would always vote to approve whatever referendum is sent their way by the Ziu, and

WHEREAS, in my opinion, this seemingly automatic approval doesn’t necessarily reflect the actual beliefs of citizens regarding a referendum, and

WHEREAS, I boldly claimed that, if sent to the people in a referendum, they would vote in favor of a ham sandwich, and

WHEREAS, the ham sandwich idea is coined from the commonly held belief that a prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, in case one was unaware, and

WHEREAS, I said that I’d offer such an amendment to prove my point, and

WHEREAS, here it is, NOW

THEREFORE, Should it be proposed by a two-thirds majority of the Cosa, a majority of the Senats, and thereafter approved by a majority of voters participating in a referendum on the question of the amendment, 

OrgLaw Article II shall be amended to create a new Section 11, which shall read as follows:
 

This is bill id#1232 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

Whereas there will be a non-binding referendum on the issue of the monarchy, and

Whereas this is an important issue relating to our identity as a nation, and

Whereas holding this referendum during general election might result in it being snowed under by partisan politics, and

Whereas holding the referendum earlier would also allow party to consider the implications of the result for their political programme, and

Whereas there might be an early referendum already with regards to the EC, and

Whereas an early referendum needs to be authorised by the Seneschal, and

Whereas neither the referendum bill on the monarchy nor the lexhatx specifies any rules for non binding referenda, now therefore

the Ziu requests the pm to authorise an earlier date, coinciding with the early referendum planned for the electoral commission bills, for the referendum on the monarchy as described in 50RZ14, and to issue a PD clarifying the rules of this referendum with regards to balloting and validation and to let these rules be the same as for other referenda on the ballot.