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**Griffindor** · 03-02-2017, 10:45 PM

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Escade · 03-02-2017, 10:52 PM

Err, first and foremost maybe this was a discussion on Discord but I thought were were going to remove extra votes altogether? For one thing LC's are not as perhaps originally envisioned people who started out on the game side and then moved to forums\etc and instead are players on the forum side who transitioned to the game side. While that may be an envolution based on necessity, I don't see any reasons for LC's to have extra votes at all.

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Omega · 03-02-2017, 11:51 PM

(03-02-2017, 10:52 PM)Escade Wrote: Err, first and foremost maybe this was a discussion on Discord but I thought were were going to remove extra votes altogether? For one thing LC's are not as perhaps originally envisioned people who started out on the game side and then moved to forums\etc and instead are players on the forum side who transitioned to the game side. While that may be an envolution based on necessity, I don't see any reasons for LC's to have extra votes at all.

I thought that was just an example of how to propose an amendment.

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Escade · 03-03-2017, 12:06 AM

Oops, silly me Tounge

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**Belschaft** · 03-03-2017, 11:55 AM

I'm really not sure this needs to be a law, and not a normative-standard enforced by the Chair.

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***sandaoguo*** · 03-04-2017, 04:29 PM

@Rebeltopia: For my sanity, so I don't have to go through every law and change it to new format, what do you think of the following? It basically describes the format of the current well-formatted laws:

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Law Standards Act

An Act to define the standard of all laws in the Coalition of The South Pacific

1. Scope

(1) All bills, amendments, and repeals brought before the Assembly should be written in a formal and consistent manner

(2) No bill or amendment will be brought to a vote in the Assembly unless it follows the formatting outlined in this Act

2. Formatting of Bills and Amendments

(1) Titles should be bolded and centered.

(2) Subtitles should be italicized and centered.

(3) The following should be observed for articles, sections, and sub-sections:
a. Articles should be numbered and bolded.
b. Sections should be numbered with parentheses, unless there is only one section without any sub-sections.
c. Sub-sections should be lettered with lowercase letters.

(4) Addendums should be numbered and at the bottom of all bills, regardless of where the referenced material is in the bill, and placed in a quote box.

3. Amendments and Repeals

(1) The standard format for an amendment will be to note which section of a law is being amended, and to quote only that part of the law.

(2) Additions of words will be formatted in green text.

(3) Subtractions of words will be formatted in red text with a strike-through.

(4) The Chair will not put to vote an amendment that copies an entire law, when only individual parts of the law are being amended.

(5) If a legislator moves to repeal only specific sections of a law, then the amendment procedure must be used.

(6) If a legislator moves to repeal an entire law, the Chair will quote the entire law and note that the entirety of it will be repealed.

4. General Rules

(1) Sections should be written in such a way to reduce wordiness without losing the spirit of the text.

(2) All titled sections should be followed by a line break before starting a new section.

5. Reformatting of Laws

For the purpose of this Act, the Chair of Assembly will bring all previously written laws into the standards outlined by this Act

Addendum 1 – Example of an Amendment

Amendment to Article IV, Section 7 Wrote:7. The Local Council representative will have the power to cast have an additional weighted block vote worth of one-fifth 20% of all non-abstaining votes cast on bills, not including the block vote, giving them a one-sixth share of the total vote, excluding abstentions. The Chair will calculate how many votes are allotted to the representative at the close of each vote, rounding them to the nearest whole number, and will then add the representative’s total votes to the final tally.

**Rebeltopia** · 03-04-2017, 09:12 PM

Im ok with that.

I rescind my motion, and motion Glens version - If I can do that, as the original was already 2nd'd...dd.d.d.d.ddd.......

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**Seraph** · 03-04-2017, 09:18 PM

I second Rebel's second motion. (I motion a second second to Rebels second motion?)

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**Griffindor** · 03-05-2017, 01:12 AM

I rescind my second, in favor of this new version, in which I third.

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Spenty · 03-05-2017, 08:19 AM

I fourth the new motion

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