[Congress] eUK Constitution First and Second Amendment
Speaker of the House
Here are the first and second amendment to the eUK Constitution. It is an updated version of the constitution. AMENDMENTS ARE IN BOLD and ITALICS.
Amendments are Part 1:g and Part 5:a
Written by a Sir Humphrey Appleby
Adopted by the eUK Congress, 26th April 2015
This Act can be amended or repealed with a 51%+ result of the Congress vote, excluding abstentions/those that didn’t vote. Voting lasts 48 hours to avoid a low turnout.
Part 1: Appointment of a Dictator
a. A new Dictator can be nominated by any Party President with 10 sponsors from outside their party. This process will last 3 days to allow for campaigning. It is up to the candidates to verify their supporters with the current Dictator/CP and publish their nomination and campaign.
b. The candidates will then contest the position in a national referendum hosted by the CP/Supporting Congressman in an ingame article comment-based election lasting 2 days - the winner taking the Dictatorship after voters have been verified for UK Cit. A Re-Open Nominations option should be added.
c. The Dictator can resign at any time with 5 days notice, triggering a new election as soon as the notice begins.
d. The Dictator can be forced to automatically run against a prospective candidate should they have achieved the required level of support, triggering the 3 day nomination process for other prospective candidates to join the race.
e. In the event the leading candidate hasn’t achieved the minimum requirement of 10 sponsors for the required level of support when the election is due to begin, they and the second leading candidate will be put to election.
f. Elections cannot be called for a week after an election has been concluded unless there is an emergency defined in Part 4 of this Act. eUK Citizens are free to collect sponsorships and nominations for the next possibility.
g.(FIRST AMENDMENT) At no point may a known thief or traitor to the eUK (defined as someone who has stolen from the eUK, PTO’d the eUK or been openly hostile towards the eUK, or those placed on a form of congressional blacklist) be considered for or take, the position of the Dictator of the eUK.
Part 2: Dual responsibility of the CP and Dictator
a. The Country President is compelled to keep the elected Dictator completely informed about the day to day running of the government and proposed future policy.
b.The Country President is completely free to ignore the Dictator’s advice, however the Dictator is free to publish their advice as part of their electoral responsibility.
c.The Dictator can only request the banning of a CP after an impeachment vote from Congress AND it has been proven they have betrayed the eUK with 66% of the Congressional vote as if we were under a democracy.
d.The Country President cannot call for a democracy without a new dictatorial election and all prospective candidates failing to reach the minimum required level of support to run, or without this Act being repealed.
If a random liberation has been started then it is the duty of the CP and their government to support the current Dictatorship unless the resistance bonus is considered too high. If the dictatorship falls without this act being repealed then the government must organise a fresh coup as soon as the cooldown has expired.
e. The Dictator can only recommend the impeachment of the CP to Congress. They cannot prevent the day to day running of the government without an impeachment proposal from Congress.
Should an impeachment against the CP succeed, the Dictator will take on the responsibility of day to day government until the next CP election, when this enabling mandate will expire.
Part 3: Congress and the Dictator
a. Congress cannot directly remove the Dictator however a Congressman can stand against the Dictator in an election.
b. The Dictator is compelled to enforce Congress’s vote in ingame administration after reasonable consultation and a vote between MPs via Congressional messages.
c. The Dictator has the right to ask the CP to refuse a Congressman’s request to give someone citizenship. The Congressman can however directly appeal to the CP.
Part 4: When the Dictator goes rogue
a. Anyone can challenge the Dictator for their position at any time, and if defeated it is the duty of the incumbent Dictator to hand over the dictatorship MU to the winner, failing which they will be considered a traitor and deposed by the CP through an organised liberation.
b. Further, if the Dictator has been proven to break the restrictions set by this Act without it first being repealed, it is the duty of the CP to organise an immediate restoration to democracy.
c. Within a week of a deposed Dictator it is the duty of the CP of the day to organize fresh elections for the Dictatorship if this Act has not been repealed.
Part 5: Future amendments to the Constitution
a. Future alterations to the eUK Constitution and its amendments will require an absolute majority vote by congress to pass, here defined as %66+ of votes in favour of the alterations not including abstentions.
Link to original Constitution: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-congress-constitution-of-the-euk--2519533/1/20
Link to Amendments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LS1OmIPx_m8-K9gEuZlNHwZB2z9lfI8Hib-S18aALUY/edit?usp=sharing
Votes on Amendments are as follows:
Amendment 1:
Ayes: Aaron Mark Daniels, Mitzuno, Dougal4chaos, PerilousPanther, Pannonian Nomad, Max Blue, Adastros, Roachford, NigelFarage, Colin Chipphilfer Brown
Nays: King William the Great, Bruce Wayne, WookieO, Karacticus, Madelina de Melrose
Abstentions: Rodney McKay, CrispyDragon
Amendment 2:
Ayes: Aaron Mark Daniels, CrispyDragon, Madelina de Melrose, Mitzuno, PerilousPanther, Adastros, Karacticus, WookieO, Roachford, NigelFarage, Colin Chipphiler Brown
Nays: King William the Great, dougal4chaos, Max Blue, Bruce Wayne
Abstentions: Rodney McKay
Voting has concluded, both Amendments signed into law on June 27th 2015
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Personally I would hope people would have the sense not to vote someone who is an obvious thief into the Dictatorship as a matter of common sense as the constitution initially took for granted.
Additionally the old PP cabal decided to leave out a 66% clause as it is fairly obvious if over half the elected community is against it then there's little the remaining 33% can do to try and enforce it.
but meh 😛
ik i was in the previous PP Cabal 😉 Ah well Appleby, We got these now my friend 😉
there is obvious logic behind it, just a shame we have to meta-legislate to try and force them 😛
Precaution mon ami 😉
No amount of words will override game mechanics. The dictator is whoever has the cc and military power to keep it.
As we have no congress, no one has any validity to vote on this until we have a congress of some sort.
I see this as yet another example of political nonentities attempting to justify themselves
Anything done meta game is unofficial anyway. The main point is that our dictator, Woldy, currently abides by all this meta game stuff. You are correct in that every dictator may choose not to abide by it.Hell, for the meantime we are pretty lucky.
Signed into law April 27th? Why the month's secrecy??
not secrecy, merely a mistake, bare with
Then the amendments are invalid. Has no one noticed that we have no congress?
If any random citizen can vote why wasn't there more publicity?
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we did the best we could in a bad situation and voted to meta game keep the current congress in the event of a wipe, I know, predictable that congress would do that but what are you gonna do. Any laws this unofficial congress make Woldy would still uphold
The best you could do is get us a congress, this is just BS to keep failures in "power" indefinitely.
Looks like someone needs to break out their visa card to fix things
Sexagenarian is gonna splash the pension pot! Whoooo we are saved!
Thanks mate. o7
failures in power? How exactly? If you are referring to being wiped, there is not much congress can actually do, and speaking as a member of the government I am intrigued, what would you have done differently were you running the show?
All I know is none of this happened before all this legislation BS was in place.
Yes the Argie invasion is an annual event but in the past it's been short lived. Maybe if the effort put into legislation was put into playing the game things might be different
you realise that in terms of strength, time of attack, and allies Argentina completely outnumber us. This would have happened regardless. They are extremely powerful and some work is being done towards it. The government have been focused on that whilst congress dealt with the meta legislation. It all happened coinciding each other yes but we would still be in the same situation. What would you have done differently?