The Great Experiment

Purpose

This bill seeks expand the scope that proposed bills can take. There are a few ambiguities within the field system that need to be resolved, and there are also certain actions that should be legal to take yet are not included in the Constitution.

Proposed Law

1. This bill acts upon Field M3 of the Constitution to change the Constitution in a way that includes more actions that bills can mandate.

2. Field X2 is reclassified to C3 to accurately reflect the communicative nature of recruitment telegrams. Field X2 will instead deal with the actions that an Officer position can take outside the scope of NationStates permissions.

   1. The new Fields C3 and X2 will both have a pass ratio of 1/1.

3. Field M4 is created to call an early election, whose date must be no closer than 48 hours in advance.

   1. Field M4 has a pass ratio of 2/1.

4. Field M5 is created to clarify an ambiguous function of regional administrative procedure.

   1. Field M5 has a pass ratio of 1/1.

5. Field M6 is created to create an official government institution.

   1. Field M6 has a pass ratio of 2/1.

6. Effectively, Section 1 of the Constitution would be amended to include the following:

   Fields

   Field ID	Field	Pass Ratio	Action	Required information
   A1	Appearance	1/1	Change the regional factbook	Exact raw factbook text
   A2	Appearance	2/1	Change the regional flag	Exact raw factbook text
   A3	Appearance	1/1	Pin or unpin a dispatch	Link to dispatch to pin or unpin
   A4	Appearance	1/1	Add or remove tags	List of tags to add or remove
   E1	Embassies	1/1	Send an embassy request	Name of region to send request to
   E2	Embassies	1/1	Accept an embassy request	Name of region to accept the request of
   E3	Embassies	2/1	Close an embassy	Name of region to close the embassy of
   E4	Embassies	1/1	Change embassy posting privileges	Setting to change posting privileges to
   C1	Communications	1/1	Send a regionwide telegram	Exact text of telegram
   C2	Communications	1/1	Change the welcome telegram	Exact text of telegram
   C3	Communications	1/1	Change the recruitment telegram	Exact text of telegram
   P1	Polls	1/1	Form a poll	Title, description, duration (72 hours maximum), and options of poll
   X1	External	1/1	Appoint, dismiss, or modify the position of an Officer	Where applicable, nation name, office name, and permissions list
   X2	External	1/1	Define actions an Official can take outside NationStates permissions	Office name, defined scope of actions
   X3	External	1/1	Grant or revoke appointment/dismissal power	Who to appoint/dismiss and what offices they are allowed to appoint or dismiss
   X4	External	1/1	Pass a resolution	Text of the resolution
   X5	External	1/1	Amend a resolution	Link to dispatch with resolution to amend, with amendment if applicable
   X6	External	1/1	Repeal a resolution	Link to dispatch with resolution to repeal
   M1	Meta	Same as linked bill	Amend a bill	Link to bill to amend, along with specific instructions to amend the bill as needed
   M2	Meta	Same as linked bill	Repeal a bill	Link to bill to repeal, along with specific instructions to repeal the bill if applicable
   M3	Meta	2/1	Amend this Constitution	Unambiguous description of change to be made
   M4	Meta	2/1	Call early election	Early election date (at least 48 hours in advance)
   M5	Meta	1/1	Clarify ambiguous government function	Explicit statement of defined actions to be taken
   M6	Meta	2/1	Create a government institution	New institution, its purpose, leadership (if applicable)

   
   

Notes

Last edited on 2019-09-11, 11:17 AM EDT by Scalizagasti.

The first version of this amendment failed 2-1 on 2019-09-05