Proposal: Rule of Law (resubmitted)
Times out 7-6-2 and is enacted. -coppro
Adminned at 01 Nov 2011 21:35:03 UTC
REPRESENTING: coppro, southpointingchariot, ais523, Bucky, Spitemaster
In today’s economy, business leaders should be more powerful than other Players, so it’s important to give lobbyists a large amount of leverage on politics. Amend the rule “The Government” by replacing the first paragraph with:
The Government is a non-Player entity that has the same types of GNDT-tracked information a Player does. For the purposes of the rules “Proposals” and “Votable Matters” and their subrules, the Government is treated as the Emperor and a Player, and may take any action those rules allow the Emperor or Players to take, but does not affect Quorum.
The Government may not directly veto a Proposal, but it may Object to any Proposal by posting a comment to the corresponding post containing the text “OBJECTION!” If a Proposal has been Objected to at least twice, the Government is considered to have Voted to VETO it.
Any Player may transfer 2 SP to the Government to cause it to take an action the rules allow the Government to take, specifying any required parameters; this is known as Lobbying. If the action would normally be taken by making a comment or blog post, the Player must make a corresponding comment or post, noting that it was submitted on the Government’s behalf.
Same as the last version, but I forgot to check whether Bucky had dead-body-collected “Urgent Proposals” before submitting that one.
Too much power
It’s been pointed out on IRC that this lets people buy the Emperor’s vote; more importantly, it actually increases quorum, which is probably not a good thing, and could easily lead to a proposal being misadminned.
Spitemaster: