[TTH] Bring Change to America and eRepublik
Franklin Stone
The Red Gazette | Lateral Thought | Loose Cannon | Circus Americana
For those of you in game who truly desire change, who truly want Congress to reflect the desires of the 'In Game Majority' and not the minority 'Congressional Majority'; I call your attention to the Code in bold below from the eUS Constitution. You want change you need a 2/3 majority to have that one sentence removed, is having that one sentenced removed going to fix America's problems? Hardly for the 'Meta Lords' are entrenched in the Fortress of Congressional Majority, so it will be just the beginning of a journey down a long hard road full of dirty work in order to affect social change. The 'Meta Lords' have been in power for many, many years and it will take all Americans working together to force them from power, they will not give up the 15% tax income quietly nor will they do so without a fight.
As a Citizen you must first realize this is a SOCIAL game and there is no more SOCIAL aspect of this game than Politics and its factions. Second you MUST realize that Social Change doesn't happen over night in the Real World and it certainly won't happen here and third Social Change can not and will not happen without you the Citizen taking part. If you truly desire in game change then right now right here in this moment of virtual time you MUST be in Congress, even if you find Congress to be a Dictatorial Cesspool of Religious Hatred and Bigotry full of Terrorist Trolls who drive away any opposition to their 'Congressional Majority'; at this moment in time the 'Meta Lords' have all the power and that means you must enter the cesspool with the other sharks. If you are not there voicing your opposition to their Dictatorial Congressional Majority Rule then 'Congress shall organize itself as it sees fit.'
eUS Constitution
For those of you who don't wish to visit the above thread, don't have an account or have been blacklisted from Congress:
eUS Constitution
I. Governing Principle:
The two branches of government are the Executive and Congress. The branches conduct themselves based on how they and the Code define their internal and external procedures.
II. Congressional Principles:
1. Congress shall organize itself as it sees fit.
2. Congress controls the nation's money, holds authority and responsibility over allocation of tax revenue, and shall take under advisement expert opinion from the executive and military.
3. Any citizen or organization receiving funds from congress should employ those funds as indicated in the budget or funding request approved by congress.
4. In the case the eUS has no regions and there will be no in game congress, a shadow congress shall be created. Each party will keep the same number of congress members as they received the previous month. The Party President of each non-PTO Top 5 Party will create a list of their members to be given congressional access. Congress will then continue as it normally would.
III. Executive Principles:
1. The country president is the head of state, chief diplomat and Commander in Chief of the eUSA and its armed forces. The President as the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces maintains complete control over the Armed Forces. The country president may delegate power to congress or appoint advisers and aides to assist.
2. The country president appoints a cabinet, which administers all national programs which do not fall under the military or congress. Unless directed otherwise, programs created by Congress will transfer to the executive branch once the SoH approves of the transfer.
3. The country president may make proposals to congress which fall under his responsibilities as head of state, chief diplomat, Commander-in-Chief, and eUSA country president, after consultation with relevant bodies within the three branches if necessary.
4. As Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, the President may temporarily suspend funding of the military.
Congress will then hold an immediate vote, approving or opposing this decision, lasting for 30 hours, where a majority decision is required. The outcome of the Congressional vote determines whether funding resumes.
Now IMHO if America truly wants change, before striking the sentence 'Congress shall organize itself as it sees fit.' from the Constitution; the first Proposal that should be supported in Congress would be a change in the Congressional Sign In and Voting Procedure. Even though one Congress Member was censured for not following procedure, a procedure Congress Members had not been able to use in months; others thumb their noses at or believe they are too good to follow procedure and go uncensured. Therefore Congress needs to implement censure for members who do not follow Congressional Procedure; said censure to be implemented automatically. Therefore I would suggested the following US Constitutional changes, this would require a 2/3 majority as it is an Amendment and not a Code change; this Constitutional Amendment would aim to censure those who are unwilling to follow Congress Procedure:
The Code of the eUS - Title 1: Procedure
The Code of the eUS - Title 1: Procedure
1.11: Definition of a Quorum
A Quorum, the minimum number of votes necessary for any measure to become law whether those votes are “yes” votes, “no” votes, or abstentions which do not count toward quorum and are considered a non vote.
1.12: Initial Congressional Sign In
Newly elected Congress Members (hereafter "member") will be required to Sign in via a sign-in thread in the The Legislative Branch sub forum. Sign in shall last 48 hours and may not be extended. Congressional voting size shall be based on the number of members who sign in and the vote of those failing to Sign in will not be counted for the duration of the Congressional Session.
1.13 Requirement for Quorum to have been deemed reached
Quorum size shall be based on a weekly sign-in thread on the Public Congressional Proceedings sub forum, hereafter 'Quorum Voters'. Sign in will last 24 hours and may not be extended. If the number of sign-ins is odd, then Quorum Voters shall be half that number rounded up to the nearest integer. If the number of Quorum Voters is even, then quorum is half that number plus 1.
1.2 Discussions, Proposals, Votes, and Laws
1.21 Discussions
A Discussion thread may be started by any Member of Congress (hereafter "member"). Before a proposal can be made, a member must pose the subject for discussion and allow 24 hours to pass.
1.22 Proposals
Before a proposal may go to a vote ten members must approve an identically worded proposal. The proposal must be opened by the originator of the discussion thread for it to come to a vote. A proposal must be brought to a vote with 48 Hours of receiving 10 approvals and may not be extended, after 48 hours a proposal must start the process over.
1.23 Voting
Voting on proposals will last 24 hours and may not be extended. Only Quorum Voters may vote. Only votes in the form of "yes" "no" or "abstain" will be counted. Proposals that require a 2/3rd majority in game to execute will require a 2/3rd majority to pass. Only the member who opened the discussion may start a voting thread for a proposal after it reaches 10 approvals.
Earlier today President Gnilraps released the article The Pretext, Purpose, Powers and Periphery of an eSupreme Court, wherin he presented the idea of an eSupreme Court as a counter balance to the Executive and Congressional bodies; for me personally this is an excellent idea and long over due. The 'Meta Lords' have created such bodies before and I will not try to add to the knowledge my Comrade and former Commander; I will simply state that I plan to give my full support to this endevor and I will be encouraging the Socialist Freedom Party to put its full support behind it also.
So once again let me say that if you want change then YOU must get involved in the cesspool of Politics. I encourage you to join a party and work toward change. I believe the song I provided for your enjoyment while reading my article presents my stand on change fairly accurately, IMHO change must come form the People Up rather than Government Down and should be done Democratically; however when a government -any government- becomes a Dioist Religious Inquisition and its hold on power is through a 'Congressional Majority' full of Terrorist Trolls it must be overthrown and therefore it becomes the moral obligation of its citizen to revolt -even if that means armed rebellion against the 'Congressional Majority'.
Join the Revolution and get involved with your government.
Join the People's party the Socialist Freedom Party and help bring about change.
Join the People's forums, Socialist Freedom Party Forum and interact with our Community of Activist.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em...
...it's 4:20 somewhere.
Comrade Frank
Socialist Freedom Party
Strength & Honor
C'est la vie, mon chéri....
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*tosses pennies* there's your change
[TTH] Bring Change to America and eRepublik
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Obama has arrived in eRep 🙂
Mexican subpole xD
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Viva Zapata!
ctrl-f: Kemal -> 0
ctrl-f: Inquisition -> 1
Bruh, don't forget to write my name and title.
Thought you were in the SFP?
Instead here you are decked out in the flag of the iNCi, a party who let in Serbians until the 'Meta Lords' bribed then to stop. So not only are you a religious terrorist your a traitor also....
Your mother told me otherwise.
My mother has been dead for 15 years, pretty sick molesting the dead with something the size of a peanut; but what do you expect from someone whose Religion supports conversion to Dioism or death.
So your solution to the outrageous power of the Meta Lords is to create another meta institution to give them more power?
Smart.
A eSupreme Court to start will handle Congressional Censures and Blacklisting, instead of a hostile Congress who presents NO PROOF of any wrong doing; they will face an unbias Court who will review any and all evidence.
I will probably be a justice, Franklin 😉
If there were a fair way to pick the justices; I'd rally behind this. I'm still learning about that part.
An in game vote to elect 5 in game citizens who do not use the eUSA Forums.
Supreme Court to be established on a forum outside of the eUSA Forums.
We shouldn't pick them in the forum, for sure. That would, certainly, be bias.
Considering the amount of multis a lot of people control, it would be problematic to put it to a ingame vote thought.
and how would you count participation, would you say as long as you have 50% of the people that voted in congress election (ie. a majority) or would you just take whoever voted?
There was a supreme court years ago. It was crap. It was run by 'meta lords' who used it to harass the people who took the forum seriously. It was just another tool (or weapon) for the forum bullies.
This makes zero sense.
You can pass a million laws, statutes, and ordinances, but without any provision for enforcement of those laws, what is the point?
I will say it again - you cannot enforce anything from a make-believe court, congress, or president. It's all pretend.
I've seen Supreme Court in many countries, it doesn't work, it's not enforceable and it's very prone to be abused. Having a Supreme Court isn't a solution, it just just causes more problems.
I have thought about the Supreme Court idea and I am beginning to lean towards establishing it on the eRepublik Forums.