Parliament Modifications

[lashrash]

I motion that we make the following changes to the parliament clause in the Constitution.

Article III. Grand Parliament
Section 3.01 Definition
(a) The Grand Parliament of Luthoria will be the legislative body of the United Kingdom.
(b) The Grand Parliament will consist of 4 provincial delegates, and will be headed by the Minister of State, who will act as a tie-breaker .
(c) The Grand Parliament will meet year round.
(i) There will be four sessions of the Grand Parliament each year:
1) Winter- December, January, February
2) Spring- March, April, May
3) Summer- June, July, August
4) Fall- September, October, November
(ii) Each session will begin on the first Monday of the first month, unless otherwise delayed
(iii) The Grand Parliament will be called to order by the Reigning Monarch
Section 3.02 Membership
(a) There will be one regional delegate from each of the four provinces:
(i) Emeraldia, Germania, New Hawai’i, and Luthoria
(ii) The Royal District of Ali’i Kaona will vote in the New Hawai’i election for delegate, and
(iii) The Royal Colony of St. Patrick will vote in the Luthoria election for delegate
(b) Elections for these delegates will occur one week prior to the opening of the Grand Parliament.
(c) To be eligible for office, a person must have been a citizen for at least one month, and officially reside in the Province he or she wishes to represent.
Section 3.03 Powers
(a) The Grand Parliament will be able to review and change any law created by the Ministry of State and or by the Monarchy
(b) The Grand Parliament will be able to establish any new law it deems necessary for Luthoria, in any area that the Government has authority in.
(c) The Grand Parliament will be able the sole body allowed to amend this constitution
(d) The Grand Parliament will not be able to:
(i) Declare war
(ii) Regulate treaties of any kind that already exist, or to make new ones.
(e) All action taken by the Grand Parliament will require the approval of the Reigning Monarch, although his or her veto may be overruled by a 3/4 vote of the Grand Parliament.
Section 3.04 Parliamentary Procedures
(a) All suggestions and or general discussion will occur on the main floor of the Parliament.
(b) A topic must receive a motion and a second from the delegates before it will be taken into the Parliamentary Discussion chamber by the Minister of State
(c) A topic in the Discussion Chamber must receive a motion and a second from the delegates before it can go to vote, and the topic must have been discussed for at least 48 hours, before the Minister of State may create a poll. ( the Minister of State, may put a longer time limit in place)
(d) Once a vote is over, and if a motion has passed, the Reigning Monarch has 48 hours to veto the motion before it becomes law.

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Article III. Grand Parliament
Section 3.01 Definition
(a) The Grand Parliament of Luthoria will be the legislative body of the United Kingdom.
(b) The Grand Parliament will consist of 4 provincial delegates, and will be headed by the Minister of State, who will act as a tie-breaker .
(c) The Grand Parliament will only meet year round.
(i) There will be 4 sessions of the Grand Parliament each year:
1) Winter-January, February, March
2) Spring- April, May, June
3) Summer- July, August, September
4) Fall- October, November, December
(ii) Each session will begin on the first Monday of the first month of the session, unless election problems cause the opening to be delayed
(iii) The Grand Parliament will be called to order by the Reigning Monarch
Section 3.02 Membership
(a) As stated above, there will be 1 regional delegate from each of the four provinces:
(i) Emeraldia, Germania, New Hawai’i, and Luthoria
(ii) The Royal District of Ali’i Kaona will vote in the New Hawai’i election for delegate, and
(iii) The Royal Colony of St. Patrick will vote in the Luthoria election for delegate
(b) Elections for these delegates will occur 1 week prior to the opening of the Grand Parliament.
(c) To be eligible for office, a person must have been a citizen for at least 1 month, and officially reside in the Province he or she wishes to represent.
Section 3.03 Powers
(a) The Grand Parliament will be able to review and change any law created by the Ministry of State and or by the Monarchy
(b) The Grand Parliament will be able to establish any new law it deems necessary for Luthoria, in any area that the Government has authority in.
(c) The Grand Parliament will be able the sole body allowed to amend this constitution
(d) The Grand Parliament will not be able to:
(i) Declare war
(ii) Regulate treaties of any kind that already exist, or to make new ones.
(e) All action taken by the Grand Parliament will require the approval of the Reigning Monarch, although his or her veto may be overruled by a 3/4 vote of the Grand Parliament.
Section 3.04 Parliamentary Procedures
(a) All suggestions and or general discussion will occur on the main floor of the Parliament.
(b) A topic must receive a motion and a second from the delegates before it will be taken into the Parliamentary Discussion chamber by the Minister of State
(c) A topic in the Discussion Chamber must receive a motion and a second from the delegates before it can go to vote, and the topic must have been discussed for at LEAST 48 hours, before the Minister of State may create a poll. ( the Minister of State, if he or she wishes, may put a longer time limit in place)
(d) Once a vote is over, and if a motion has passed, the Reigning Monarch has 48 hours to veto the motion before it becomes law.

[Mo'i Kakali]

I am opposed to the changing of the acctual sessions. All though the labels of winter spring fall and summer may not make sense, they were set up for logical reasons. Having elections in January, In April, in July, and in October.

I don't think we should change this.

[Kilikopela]

I don't either. I am opposed to this legislation.

Thank You and Humbly,

[lashrash]

So is making sense gong to be a practicality that we ignore from now on? I changed grammatical errors in the constitution, the only large thing was making the season align with the months, if we are not willing to change the months, we need to change the names of the sessions.

[Mo'i Kakali]

technically, winter usuallystarts at the end of december. a possible better name would be first quarter, second quarter, ect.....
however, winter session sounds better, i think, than first quarter session.

i dont mind the fixing of grammatical errors.

[Mo'i Kakali]

I'd like to recant my previous opinion about the changing of the sessions. After trying to get an election to be held over the holiday season (and not having much luck at it), I have decided that we should change the session periods.

Thank you for your time

[Kilikopela]

What are your suggested changes?

Thank You and Humbly,

[Mo'i Kakali]

I'd also like to make an additional suggestion. I think that we should (temporarily) shorten the number of delegates in Parliament from 4 to 2. We just don't have enough people right now. That way, we can have real elections. We could have Germania and Emeraldia elect 1 delegate, and New Hawaii and Luthoria elect the other.

What do you all think?

[Kilikopela]

I don't think that is a wise choice. I think it hurts the province from which the delegate is not choosed from. I would support it if you combined the provinces. Say you combine New Hawaii and Germania, Luthoria and Emeraldia.

Thank You and Humbly,

[Mo'i Kakali]

Well, the intention is to keep the seperate provinces, so that when our population does go up, we can have a delegate from every province.

[Kilikopela]

Later we can also split the provinces. I don't think it is fair to the province that doesn't get a member. It isn't equal representation.

Thank You and Humlby,

[Mo'i Kakali]

It would be if we institued a regional delegate system. Then each region would be represented. We just don't have enough people to support a delegate per province, but at the same time, we can't just mess with our culture by removing provinces.

[Kilikopela]

If you would like to change so that we have regional delegates thats fine but it needs to be done right. I don't want Parliament to have to come back and fix this, I would like a permanent solution.

[Mo'i Kakali]

Here's what I say we do. We put a clause in that says that from now until we have X number of people (which I will tabulate for us shortly, based on total available gov't jobs) parliament will consist of 1 representatvie from each of two regions. When we hit X number of people, we switch from that to having one delegate per province.

[Kilikopela]

I guess it sounds good for now.

Thank You and Humbly,

[lashrash]

This would mean that we would also need to modify how and when a delegate can be removed from office. Right now as it is, any delegate refusing to be removed....can't be unless they wish, so in the same manner of adding a clause about population, there also needs to be a statement of when the King and the Minister of State, when acting in agreement, coupled with the number of active citizens, can reduce the number of parliament delegates and for how long.

[lashrash]

I need a second from a member of parliament so I can take this into the session.

[lashrash]

If no motion has been made in three days, I will consider this matter closed.

[Mo'i Kakali]

This matter really needs to be addressed. If you haven't noticed, the Germanian delegate has yet to be seated in Parliament, because neither candidates have agreed to anything regarding the position (in fact, I don't think the candidates have even been on.) We need to do something.

[lashrash]

I agree, but there is nothing I can do if there are no motions to discuss. I will do what I can.