Constitutional Committee: article II

DeathByTheSword · August 25, 2002, 11:20

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ARTICLE II: Government policy

Amendments:
Amendments to the Constitution can be submitted by any member of our faction. First in a form of a thread where exact lines can be discussed and after that in a poll. An amendment is passed and made official by a 2/3 or greater vote on the amendment's inclusion.

Office Terms:
All office terms shall last one month. A member can run for a different office at the end of his term, but he cannot change offices during it. If a member is elected three times into any government office, that member mat not run for any government office the fourth consecutive term. After the fourth term he may run for any government office that is available. If this rule let not have a fully seated government, the rule will be deemed invalid for that term.

Impeachment and Resignations:
Every ‘group of X’ members of our faction are recognized the right to bring foreword the issue of impeachment of any government official at any time.
The rules for the poll:
*there has to be started a one-choice-poll with the options: YEA, NEA and ABSTAIN
*5 days open
* 2/3 YEA vote to pass the proposal or under 1/3 NEA vote to pas the proposal
the rules for the first post:
*The unbiased reason why the person in question could be impeached
*The job of the person in question
*the time when the poll ends

If impeachment happens the alpha talent takes his place until a new election has been held

Every government official may resign from office the alpha talent will do the same as with impeachment. If the alpha talent has to take over 2 or more goverment places we will freeze the game until new election are held

Playing ahead:
No person is allowed to play ahead to:
*gain information about foreign factions

base names:

the alpha talent or the commissioner will pick 5 names from the name thread and will put them in a poll where a name for a new city can be chosen. this poll has to be open for atleast 2 days. the name with the most votes will be chosen for the base and will be scraped from the list. the same counts for landmarks. if someone wants to name a place without a landmark a poll has started about giving it a name or not. this poll will also have minimum of 2 days.

waht does everone think?

*PLEASE* feedback, typing errors,

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*PLEASE*

DeathByTheSword · August 25, 2002, 11:23

there will be an addon with:

*information spreading................................X
*playing ahead................................done
*base names................................done
*...?
CC members when do we meet in IRC have some issues that have to be discussed

Pandemoniak · August 25, 2002, 12:02

DBTS, dont you read my posts ?

What about this Court I seem obsessed with ?

Method · August 25, 2002, 12:09

can i make a suggestion, or do i have to be in the committee

Pandemoniak · August 25, 2002, 12:10

TKG, go back to your punishment sphere !

jk, of course you can make a suggestion

Anodyne · August 25, 2002, 12:14

Oops!
I just posted this in the other Constitutional Committee-thread, but; (copy / paste)

Some notes on the Impeachment-process;

As there are three options; Yes, Nay and Abstain, I'd suggest that the Impeachment would occur when

a) the amount of Yes-votes is over 66%, OR
b) the amount of No-votes is under 33%.

Otherwise, if only the a)-choice (as in present suggestion) is taken, the Abstain-option would be quite useless and identical with Nay...

Method · August 25, 2002, 12:20

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Originally posted by Pandemoniak
TKG, go back to your punishment sphere !

i thought i made myself clear on that matter

besides, i even changed my avatar!

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Originally posted by DBTS
If impeachment happens these are our options:
*alpha talent takes his place
*the commissioner appoints a substitute for the rest of the term
*the games freezes until a new 3 day election has been held

or the alpha talent takes his place for the duration of the election, rather than freezing the game. the second option is no good because the citizens might not want that person in place.

Anodyne · August 25, 2002, 12:29

Well, the 2nd option would be possible in a case when a Director has been impeached.

But in case of commissioner being impeached, that would have to be disregarded (wouldn't be quite logical having the invalid commissioner choose his own successor

).

DeathByTheSword · August 25, 2002, 12:35

if the commissioner is impeached the alpha takes over and Pande if you work out the court part (or al ready have) we can vote on it that my opinion.

But overall is this in the right way?

Method · August 25, 2002, 12:36

i don't like the second option in any case.

if commissioner impeached

alpha talent takes over
New elections are held

if director impeached

Alpha Talent takes over
Commissioner appoints someone
Game freezes for 3 day election period
Alpha talent takes over during 3 day election period, and returns to his duties after election.

thoughts?

DeathByTheSword · August 25, 2002, 12:38

commissioner: like A (that is alpha`s jobdiscription anyways)
director: liking D (better then freezing and better then totally taking over for the rest of the term)

DeathByTheSword · August 25, 2002, 12:44

ADE you are right with the 66% and 33% thingy updating.........updated

DeathByTheSword · August 25, 2002, 12:48

posting a poll about it

EDIT: posted

2xEDIT: damn 3 post in a row

(and 3 smilies in a row

)

DeathByTheSword · August 25, 2002, 16:01

updated with 'playing ahead'

damn 4 in a row

Anodyne · August 25, 2002, 16:15

Ok, perhaps I should break it so you can post again?

DeathByTheSword · August 25, 2002, 16:19

ok lets start all over again

one

Pandemoniak · August 25, 2002, 16:34

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Originally posted by DeathByTheSword

ok lets start all over again

one

DeathByTheSword · August 25, 2002, 16:36

oh and your post isnt.....

but about the CC where are the other members?

Anodyne · August 25, 2002, 16:41

(the pervert is back)

DeathByTheSword · August 25, 2002, 16:47

what do you think about the 2 articles?

GeneralTacticus · August 26, 2002, 06:59

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Office Terms:
All office terms shall last one month. A member can run for a different office at the end of his term, but he cannot change offices during it. If a member is elected three times into any government office, that member mat not run for any government office the fourth consecutive term. After the fourth term he may run for any government office that is available. If this rule let not have a fully seated government, the rule will be deemed invalid for that term.

Can one be elected to the same office multiple times in a row?

DeathByTheSword · August 26, 2002, 08:14

yes 3 times in a row

DeathByTheSword · August 26, 2002, 14:32

updated with basenames and changed impeachment a little

feedback is handy

Method · August 26, 2002, 16:58

on base naming. about landmarks though, are we naming new landmarks, remaning old ones, or both? (garland crater doesn't apply...Markos Crater? i like that

)

DeathByTheSword · August 26, 2002, 17:01

i think renaming old and making new, (after a great battle with many death we can call an area the vally of not alive persons) or something like that

Method · August 26, 2002, 17:09

i think landmarks should only be named after

A)Commissioners
B)Military Directors (in the case of a battleground)
C)Alpha Talents (???)
D)Directors of Exploration (the one who discovered it)
E)Markos