Triumvirate v5.0

The Government of the Triumvirate

Section 1 The Federal Government

A) The Legislative Branch
I. This branch consists of one house known as Citizens Assembly.

II. The Citizens Assembly shall consist of all citizens of the Nation. The Citizens Assembly shall be presided over by the Censor.

III. Only the Citizens Assembly may decide five things: Declare War/Make Peace/Alliance, to change civics, to begin construction on a Great Wonder/National Wonder/Project, a change in Taxes (the science/treasury/culture meter) greater that 30% more than once every 5 turns, and where to build new cities.

IV. Decisions of the Citizens Assembly are made by a Floor Vote which is a poll carried by a simple majority (50.01%)

IVA. Debates and Votes may be called and posted by any member of the Citizens Assembly.​

V. The Executive Branch must enforce a vote of the Citizens Assembly even if they disagree with the decision.

VI. The Citizens Assembly may bring a no confidence vote against the Triumvirate and impeach members of the Cabinet. Details in Section 7 Impeachment.


B) The Executive Branch
I. This branch consists of the Triumvirate and any and all elected and appointed Cabinet Officials and their deputies.

IA. The Triumvirate will consist of the President, Secretary of State, and the Secretary of War.
IB. The Cabinet Officials will be any office that we the citizens deem necessary to have that is not included as part of the Triumvirate, the Judiciary, a Gubernatorial office or the Designated Player. The Cabinet currently consists of the Censor, Minister of Interior, Minster of Culture, Minister of Science, and Director of Intelligence.​

II. The Powers and Duties of the Triumvirate.

1. During a time of War the Triumvirate may decide that a state of mobilization is necessary for [our nation] and declare that a State of Mobilization exists.
2. State of Mobilization

A. A State of Mobilization can only be declared in a time of War.
B. A State of Mobilization may not last more than 15 game turns. However, if Peace is declared and a State of War exists with no Civilization, the State of Mobilization ends immediately.
C. A State of Mobilization may not be declared until at least 45 game turns have elapsed since the ending of the last Mobilization.
D. A State of Mobilization may be ended prematurely by a 6/10 (60%) vote of the Governors Council after at least 7 game turns of Mobilization have passed.

1. Should Mobilization be ended prematurely, it may be declared again in only 25 game turns.​

E. Effects of Mobilization:

I. The control of all workers goes the Triumvirate during this period, but the Minister of the Interior and the Governors retain control until a worker is specifically requested by the Triumvirate. The Triumvirate may not force a worker to quit an action assigned to it by the Minister of the Interior or a Governor, but must wait until that particular action has completed or is ended by the original authority.
II. The Triumvirate may change what is under construction in any city except for those that have begun a Citizen Assembly approved Wonder or have begun prebuild for approved Wonder. The Triumvirate may only order that military units or building may be built.
III. The Triumvirate may take up to one half of the prewar garrison of a city in to the regular army during a State of Mobilization.​

IIA. The Powers and Duties of the President

1. During the Turnchat the President, or a Representative of the President, may order the ending of play if continuing requires a decision to be made that can only be made by the Citizens Assembly. If the Turns are being played offline the Designated Player must end play if he is forced to make a decision that can only be made by the Citizens Assembly, provided that no vote on said decision has concluded.
2. The President will define a budget that all other official may not exceed without permission.
3. The President retains all powers not expressly given to another official and not reserved by the Citizens Assembly.
4. The units the President controls:

A. The President shall control all Settler and the defensive units assigned to them.
B. The President shall control all naval units.​

IIB. The Powers and Duties of the Secretary of State

1. The Secretary of State shall have control of the Foreign policy of our nation with the exception in the Declaration of War/Peace/Alliance and the trade of cities.

A. The Secretary of State needs the permission of the Citizens Assembly: War/Peace/Alliance or the giving away of one of our Nation's cities.
B. The Secretary of State has the power to accept a city.​

IIC. The Powers and Duties of the Secretary of War

1. The Secretary of War shall have control of all military land units with the exception of garrisons under the control of Governors and units assigned to settlers.

A. The Secretary of War may not attack a city or unit of a neutral or allied Civilization, without the permission of the Citizens Assembly.​

2. The Secretary of War shall have control of all air units.​

III. The Cabinet

1. Addition and Subtraction of Offices from the Cabinet.

A. To add an Office to the Cabinet requires a Yea vote of 51% of total votes from the Citizens Assembly. Any Office added will be last on the seniority list.
B. To remove an Office from the Cabinet requires a Yea vote of 58% of total votes from the Citizens Assembly.​

IIIA. The Cabinet shall consist of, in order of seniority, the Censor, Minister of Interior, Minster of Culture, Minister of Science, and Director of Intelligence.
IIIB. The Powers and Duties of the Censor:

1. The Censor shall be the Official in charge of all elections.
2. Censor shall be responsible for the official results of an election and for validating an election.
3. The Censor is also responsible for validating any other official polls.
4. The Censor shall be responsible for maintaining a list of names for the naming of cities, units, and other appraise items, approved by the Citizens Assembly.​

IIIC. The Powers and Duties of the Minister of Interior:

1. The Minister of the Interior shall be in control of all workers not assigned to Governors.
2. The Minister of the Interior shall work with the Governors and create a plan of which city improvements shall be constructed in a city and when.
3. The Minister of the Interior shall keep track of the resources in our territory and where they are.
4. The Minister of the Interior shall control all Great Engineers.​

IIID. Powers and Duties of the Minister of Culture:

1. The Minister of Culture shall keep track of the Culture buildings in each city, the Culture of each city, and the religions in each city throughout the Empire, and shall may this information available to any citizen upon request.
2. The Minister of Culture shall control all Great Artists, Great Merchants, and Great Prophets.
3. The Minister of Culture shall be in charge of all Missionaries.
4. The Minister of Culture will keep list of all of our Cities, their current culture level, how fast they are gaining culture, a projection of when they will next increase in culture, their current level on the Great Person Bar, how much is being gained on that bar per turn and when that city will produce a Great Person.
5. The Minister of Culture may require a culture building to be built in a City once every 4 buildings, if none of the previous 3 buildings produced any culture. And what building it shall be.​

IIIE. Powers and Duties of the Minister of Science:

1. The Minister of Science shall choose what technology will be researched.
2. The Minister of Science shall keep a list of at least three technologies that are to be researched next and in what order.
3. The Minister of Science shall control all Great Scientists.​

IIIF. Powers and Duties of the Director of Intelligence:

1. The Director of Intelligence shall keep records of all known Empires; the cities, religion, military units, wonders, and civics of those Empires. Records shall also be kept of the size, religion, improvements, and anything else deemed necessary about their cities.
2. The Director of Intelligence shall have complete control of all spies.
3. The Director of Intelligence shall be appointed by the Triumvirate.
4. The Director of Intelligence, being an appointed position, shall not be affected by term limits.
5. The Director of Intelligence may be fired by the Triumvirate.​

IV. Vacancies

IVA. Should a vacancy occur in the Triumvirate the President shall take over the duties of the vacant office. Should the Presidency be the vacant office the Secretary of State shall take over the duties of the President. Should both the offices of President and Secretary of State be vacant the Secretary of War shall take over the duties of both offices. Should the entire Triumvirate be vacant the most senior of the Cabinet members shall take over the duties of Triumvirate until a special election can be held.
IVB. Should any vacancy occur in the Cabinet the Deputy shall take over the duties of that office. The word acting shall be included in the title of office. Should there not be a deputy the President shall appoint an acting office holder.​

Section 2 The Local Government

A) Governors
I. Governors are the elected officials that run cities or states.

IA. The Powers and Duties of the Governors:

1. The Governors may move any workers or garrison units assigned to them anywhere in there city's radius or state boundaries.
2. The Governor shall work with the Minister of the Interior to decide which improvement shall be built.
3. The Designated Player shall act as Governor of any cities build during his play session at the end of which, the office is declared vacant.
4. The first elected governor of a city or state may select the official flag of that city or state.​

IB. Powers and Duties of the Governors Council:

1. The Governors Council shall consist of the Governors of all Cities and States.
2. Any vacant Gubernatorial offices will be filled by an appointment of the Governors Council.
3. The Governors Council may veto the actions of any member of the Cabinet with a 6/10 (60%) majority.
4. The Governors Council may end a State of Mobilization prematurely by a 6/10 (60%) vote after at least 7 game turns of Mobilization have passed.​

IC. States

1. No states may be created until our Civilization owns at least five cites.
2. A minimum of 3 cities must exist in a proposed state at the time of its creation.
3. The Creation of a state requires a 6/10 (60%) majority of both the Citizens Assembly and the Governors Council.​

Section 3 Items affecting both Federal and Local

A) Deputies

I. Deputies

IA. Members of the Triumvirate and Judiciary shall not have a Deputy.
IB. All members of the Cabinet and Governors shall have a Deputy, appointed by the principals of those respective offices.​

II. Control of Units

IIA. Workers

1. Workers, when created, are under the control of the President. The President must assign the workers to either the Minister of the Interior or a Governor before or after a play session; if the worker is not so assigned it will be under the control of the Designated Player for the duration of the play session.
2. The assignment of a worker is permanent unless the party that has control over the worker releases it back to the President.​

IIA. Military Land Units

1. Military Land Units, when created, are under the control of the Secretary of War.
2. The Secretary of War may assign units to guard settlers or as garrisons in cities.

A. Units assigned to guard settlers are under the control President until the settler founds a city. At the founding of a city the President may assign the units guarding that settler to be part of that city’s garrison or may shift control back to the Secretary of War as long as at least one half of the units, rounded up, that guarded the settler become part of the city’s garrison.
B. Units assigned as garrison units fall under the direct control of the Governor of that city.​

3. Should a unit be left unmoving in a city or a city radius for at least 5 consecutive turns the governor of that city may claim that unit as a garrison unit as long as it has not started to move again.

A. There are three exceptions: if a unit is healing, the 5 turns start when healing is completed; if the unit is in defensive works of some sort; or if the unit is picketing the border.​

Section 4 The Designated Player

A) The Designated Player
I. The Designated Player is the person who is tasked to perform the instructions of the officials in the game.
II. The President shall choose at the beginning of his term whether he shall be the Designated Play or if the saves will be played by members of the Designated Player Pool.
III. Nominations and elections for the Designated Player shall occur at the time as the other nominations and elections.

IIIA. Elections for Designated player shall be a multiple choice poll with any and all nominees gathering over 50.00% being elected to the Designated Player Pool.
IIIB. The Designated Players will play in the order of .​

IV. A Designated Player shall choose whether his Play Session will be online or offline.


B) Actions of the Designated Player
I. Instructions of Elected and appointed officials:

IB. The Designated Player shall follow all instructions from elected and appointed officials regarding their respective areas.

1. If no instructions from a given office are posted for a game session the Designated Player assumes the powers of that office for the game session.
2. The Designated Player must refuse all illegal instructions. The Designated Player may request a Judicial Review to determine the validity of an instruction and delay play until the Judicial Review has been completed.​

IB. Legal Exploits

1. Any Legal Exploits pertaining to Article E section 4 of the Constitution will go here.​

Section 5 Elections

A) Triumvirate Elections
I. Elections of the Triumvirate shall be of all nominated candidates who have accepted their nominations.
II. Nominations for Triumvirate positions may be self nominations or a citizen may be nominated by another citizens.

B) Cabinet Elections
I. Elections of the Cabinet shall be of all nominated candidates who have accepted their nominations.
II. Nominations for Cabinet positions may be self nominations or a citizen may be nominated by another citizens.

C) Gubernatorial Elections
I. Elections of the Governors shall be of all nominated candidates who have accepted their nominations.
II. Nominations for Governors may be self nominations or a citizen may be nominated by another citizens.

D) Judicial Elections
I. Elections of the Judiciary shall be of all nominated candidates who have accepted their nominations.
II. Nominations for the Judiciary may be self nominations or a citizen may be nominated by another citizens.


Section 6 Term Limits
[Term Limits will go here after the Poll has concluded]

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Section 7 Impeachment

A) Impeachment of the Triumvirate
I. The Citizens Assembly may bring a No Confidence Vote against the Triumvirate as a whole.
II. A No Confidence Vote requires a 6/10 (60%) majority to pass.
III. A successful No Confidence Vote shall remove the entire Triumvirate from office.

B) Impeachment of Cabinet Officials
I. The Citizens Assembly may bring an Impeachment Vote against any Cabinet Official.
II. An Impeachment Vote requires a 51/100 (51%) majority to pass.
III. A successful Impeachment Vote shall remove the specific official named in it from office.

C) Impeachment of Governors
I. Governors may not be Impeached.

D) Impeachment of Judges
I. Judges may not be Impeached.


Section 8 Limit to Running and Holding Offices

A) Limits to Running for Offices.
I. No Citizen may run for more than one office during an election cycle.

B) Limits to Holding Offices.
I. No member of the Triumvirate or the Judiciary may hold a second office.

IA. An exception to this is a member of the Triumvirate assuming the duties and powers of a vacant Triumvirate office.​

II. A member of the Cabinet may hold one other Cabinet office, Gubernatorial office or a Deputy position.
III. A Governor may hold one other Gubernatorial office, a Cabinet office, or a Deputy position.
IV. A citizen with no other positions may hold two Deputy positions.
V. Being a member of the Designated Player Pool is not considered holding an office.


Section 9 Code of Standards

A) Creating a Code of Standards
To create a Code of Standards a poll will need to be taken and at least 50.01% of votes cast on said poll will need to vote yea. Different proposals may then be considered. A poll will be taken between the different proposals with the winning one being put up for ratification. The ratification poll will need at least 50.01% of votes cast to vote yea to ratify the Code of Standards.


Section 10 Amending the Code of Laws

A) Amending the Code of Laws
I. The Code of Laws may be amended by a 60% majority of votes cast in a public poll which shall be open for no fewer than 4 days.
II. Minor changes to the Constitution, such as correcting typographical and clerical errors, reorganization and reformatting for better readability, and addition of text which does not impact legal definitions (such as a preamble) may be made at any time.

IIA. If any citizen objects to a minor change within the 48 hour period commencing when the minor change is proposed, the change shall be considered an amendment and must undergo ratification as such.​

B) Steps to Amend the Code of Laws
I. A Citizen may posts an idea about the amendment as a thread.
II. Amendment is debated in the thread.
III. After at least 48hours the proponent posts a posts a proposed poll.
IV. Once 24 hours have passed with no significant comments to the thread poll, the issue goes to the Judiciary for review.
V. After Judicial Review passes, the ratification poll is posted.

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the no member of the Triumvirate shall not have a Deputy

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Nobody said:

It is allot nicer to read and understand now, makes it a harder decision for the vote.

This dosent sound right.

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Also the censors job is responsable for maintaining the cencus what is this and what is it used for?

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Also for Ammending the constitution it should have a judical review in their somewhere. and the whole ammending rule seems funny, say 3 people agree and 3 disagree but a good dicussion is taking place, do they need to poll instanly

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• I'm still against ever disallowing self nominations. Any such rule will probably result in my nominating everyone in the citizens registry to ensure that everyone who could possibly want an office gets their chance.
• I posted the conditions under which I would accept preemption of power in the thread on that subject. In short, before preempting anyone else's normal powers, the official doing the preemption must ask the other official to make changes, and must allow a reasonable chance to conform before putting on their jack boots.

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My wife is beating me up about cleaning before our trip. If I'm lucky, I will edit this post and add more.

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DaveShack said:

A. IV. (manner of how citizens assembly decides issues) is not something that can be left out and get my vote.

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*I'm still against ever disallowing self nominations. Any such rule will probably result in my nominating everyone in the citizens registry to ensure that everyone who could possibly want an office gets their chance.

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*I posted the conditions under which I would accept preemption of power in the thread on that subject. In short, before preempting anyone else's normal powers, the official doing the preemption must ask the other official to make changes, and must allow a reasonable chance to conform before putting on their jack boots.

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My wife is beating me up about cleaning before our trip. If I'm lucky, I will edit this post and add more.

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Nobody said:

dont being picky when you clean it up next the numbering is wrong sometimes like Article 10 A, and A

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DaveShack said:

A. IV. (manner of how citizens assembly decides issues) is not something that can be left out and get my vote.

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Alphawolf said:

I changed that specifically because of an earlier comment by you about how floor votes were a bad idea if they were the only way of doing thing, so I left this blank to be added in later after comments and suggestion of what should be there. I looked at what you put in the flexible government and it says that items will be solved by a poll with a simple majority, which is what a floor vote was. I will include the language from an earlier version there.

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• I didn't like the process for having a floor vote. Having one person request it, and then two more agree, and then the Censor posts a poll was too much process. You fixed that in an intermediate version, I think.
• The way this section and the Tri sections were written made it seem like the only way citizens could give input was via floor votes. I tried to ask if the citizens could give their input any other way.

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... about I'll nominate everyone if I have to to prevent self nominations from being disallowed

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That is your right as a citizen and I respect that. It is, however, not a good argument.

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You have previously said that you do not want such language that states how the relations between officials must be in the Code of Laws.....
I did not say the Triumvirate *must* declare Mobilization just that they *may*. I would assume that they would first request and give the Governors some time, but if they don't the Governors can end Mobilization, if they choose. To quote you, DS, this "must ask" and "must allow" sounds very much like "Mother may I?".

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I hope that you will put up some more comments. Also please remember that this is my first Demogame, I do NOT know everything, do not expect me to.

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DaveShack said:

It is entirely possible that someone wants to be in office, but nobody in the DG would think of that person as a good candidate. Not because it's a bad idea to have them as a candidate, they might be a tremendous citizen. Just they might not be someone who springs to mind when the monthly task of nominating someone comes along.

Should such a citizen have to go beg someone to nominate them? Should they be forced to drop little hints like "I would love to run if someone would just nominate me?" Why demean potential leaders in this way. If they want to run, then let them self-nominate.

I can't think of a single reason why we should not allow a self nomination. I will listen to such a reason, and if it is sufficiently convincing I might be willing to soften my stance on this item.

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The way I'm reading the proposed law, if the Tri is power hungry and does declare mobilization without just cause, they are scot-free for some number of turns, and totally in charge with no recourse. This might be too narrow a reading, but that's what I think I saw. This is something that is worth a little process before it gets implemented.

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It's my 6th CFC Demogame, and I'm far from knowing everything. Nothing pisses me off more in the few people who have been here longer than for them to try to claim a little more longevity makes their ideas better. If I, or anyone else, seem to act that way, please slap us with a large fish. Don't forget the smilies so the flames don't get fanned, but if we act "better" than newcomers we deserve to get what's coming to us.

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Edit: Just realized that last comment was a little too general to avoid the trout. We vets reserve the right to disagree on philosophical grounds or from experience telling us something is a bad idea. What I won't condone and will try never to do is to use the "just because I've been here longer" style that parents are known for using on kids.

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Swissempire said:

Very nice Alphawolf. I read the entire thing and found nothing i considered wrong or bad, i only thought of a couple constructive desires.

1. There should be some kind of emergency power able to be granted to the secretary of war for control of the navy.

2. During a state of mobilization, the citziens assembly should be able to vote to allow the Secretary of war to

I. Force specific worker to quit action
II. Put wonder on hold( requires 65% majority)
III.Take more than half of a cities garrison.

This can only happen with a CA vote of 60% or in the case of II 65%

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Alphawolf said:

For clarification you do understand that this (ds: self nominations) only applies to the President, right?

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If anything your reading is not too narrow but too broad. I think about adding a caveat, but you do understand that this can only be declared during war and by no means are they totally in charge.

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1. Citizen posts an idea about the amendment as a thread.
2. Other citizens comment.
3. Once debate has died down (a subjective term) the proponent posts a mock poll.
4. Once 24 hours have passed with no significant comments to the mock poll, the issue goes to the Judiciary for review.
5. After Judicial Review passes, the ratification poll is posted.

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Yes, but the principle is the same no matter what office it is.

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You're right, narrow should have been broad. The concern is a slippery slope syndrome, once the section is there; adding things to it becomes psychologically easier.

We're getting darn close.

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Please change all article -> section. This makes the Judiciary's job easier because Article == Constitution, Section == CoL. I'll keep making comments in article terminology for now.

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The Basileus (me) said:

A. To add an Office to the Cabinet requires a Yea vote of 51% from the Citizens Assembly. Any Office added will be last on the seniority list.

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Article 4 -- where is it defined who the DP is, how they are selected, etc? I suggest lifting the DG7 definition, and then making a slight change. In prior DG's the President was the DP. In DG7 the idea was to add a pool of candidate DPs, but we lost the concept that the President could choose to play any turnset him/herself and make the DP pool optional. I would like us to consider making it optional this time, and allowing the President to be DP for whatever terms he or she wants to.

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We don't actually need articles 5 and 8. Article 9 is implied by the Constitution "and any lower forms of law which may follow".

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Constitution said:

A lower form of law may specify judicial procedures and standards for the conduct of Judicial Reviews and Citizen Complaints. If the law does not define such procedures, then the responsibility for setting procedures is granted to the Judiciary.

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A lower form of law may specify a procedure which must be followed to amend the Constitution.

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For article 10, what has worked well before is:

1. Citizen posts an idea about the amendment as a thread.
2. Other citizens comment.
3. Once debate has died down (a subjective term) the proponent posts a mock poll.
4. Once 24 hours have passed with no significant comments to the mock poll, the issue goes to the Judiciary for review.
5. After Judicial Review passes, the ratification poll is posted.

As written the process could result in a poll being posted before any chance for true discussion. At a minimum that possibility should be fixed.

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III. Only the Citizens Assembly may decide five things: Declare War/Make Peace/Alliance, to change civics, to begin construction on a Great Wonder/National Wonder/Project, a change in Taxes (the science/treasury/culture meter) greater that 30% more than once every 5 turns, and where to build new cities.

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3. The President will define a budget that all other official may not exceed without permission.

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IIID. Powers and Duties of the Minister of Culture:

1. The Minister of Culture shall keep track of the Culture buildings in each city, the Culture of each city, and the religions in each city throughout the Empire, and shall may this information available to any citizen upon request.
2. The Minister of Culture shall control all Great Artists, Great Merchants, and Great Prophets.
3. The Minister of Culture shall be in charge of all Missionaries.
4. The Minister of Culture may require a culture building to built in a City once every 4 buildings, if none of the previous 3 buildings was a culture building. And what type of building it shall be.

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me said:

You're right, narrow should have been broad. The concern is a slippery slope syndrome, once the section is there; adding things to it becomes psychologically easier.

We're getting darn close.

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There's not a question or argument there. Explain if you would, but please do not claim that this gives the Triumvirate total control, it does not.

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You're right, narrow should have been broad. The concern is a slippery slope syndrome, once the section is there; adding things to it becomes psychologically easier.
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? I don't think you understand how this is laid out.

This is Article 1, Section B, Sub-Section III, Clause 1, Sub-Clause A.

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For Articles 5 & 8:

I don’t see the problem; I am within the constitution to do so.

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Once again I don’t understand your problem with it. Also if you are so concerned with slippery slope, wouldn’t you want it codified that anyone can start an amendment? Is doesn’t say that anywhere in the Constitution, or was this intentional and you plan on becoming a tyrant?
For Article 9 I have learned (Ravensfire) that it is always better to codify something than to leave it implied.

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Thank you for the ideas, I’ll think about it. What is a mock poll?

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The Government of the Triumvirate

Article 1 The Federal Government

A) The Legislative Branch
I. This branch consists of one house known as Citizens Assembly.

II. The Citizens Assembly shall consist of all citizens of the Nation. The Citizens Assembly shall be presided over by the Censor.

III. Only the Citizens Assembly may decide five things: Declare War/Make Peace/Alliance, to change civics, to begin construction on a Great Wonder/National Wonder/Project, a change in Taxes (the science/treasury/culture meter) greater that 30% more than once every 5 turns, and where to build new cities.

IV. Decisions of the Citizens Assembly are made by a Floor Vote which is a poll carried by a simple majority (50.01%)

IVA. Debates and Votes may be called and posted by any member of the Citizens Assembly.​

V. The Executive Branch must enforce a vote of the Citizens Assembly even if they disagree with the decision.

VI. The Citizens Assembly may bring a no confidence vote against the Triumvirate and impeach members of the Cabinet.


B) The Executive Branch
I. This branch consists of the Triumvirate and any and all elected and appointed Cabinet Officials and their deputies.

IA. The Triumvirate will consist of the President, Secretary of State, and the Secretary of War.
IB. The Cabinet Officials will be any office that we the citizens deem necessary to have that is not included as part of the Triumvirate, the Judiciary, a Gubernatorial office or the Designated Player. The Cabinet currently consists of the Censor, Minister of Interior, Minster of Culture, Minister of Science, and Director of Intelligence.​

II. The Powers and Duties of the Triumvirate.

1. During a time of War the Triumvirate may decide that a state of mobilization is necessary for [our nation] and declare that a State of Mobilization exists.
2. State of Mobilization

A. A State of Mobilization can only be declared in a time of War.
B. A State of Mobilization may not last more than 15 game turns. However, if Peace is declared and a State of War exists with no Civilization, the State of Mobilization ends immediately.
C. A State of Mobilization may not be declared until at least 45 game turns have elapsed since the ending of the last Mobilization.
D. A State of Mobilization may be ended prematurely by a 6/10 (60%) vote of the Governors Council after at least 7 game turns of Mobilization have passed.

1. Should Mobilization be ended prematurely, it may be declared again in only 25 game turns.​

E. Effects of Mobilization:

I. The control of all workers goes the Triumvirate during this period, but the Minister of the Interior and the Governors retain control until a worker is specifically requested by the Triumvirate. The Triumvirate may not force a worker to quit an action assigned to it by the Minister of the Interior of a Governor, but must wait until that particular action has completed or is ended by the original authority.
II. The Triumvirate may change what is under construction in any city except for those that have begun a Citizen Assembly approved Wonder or have begun prebuild for approved Wonder. The Triumvirate may only order that military units or building may be built.
III. The Triumvirate may take up to one half of the prewar garrison of a city in to the regular army during a State of Mobilization.​

IIA. The Powers and Duties of the President

1. During the Turnchat the President, or a Representative of the President, may order the ending of play in continuing requires a decision to be made that can only be made by the Citizens Assembly. If the Turns are being played offline the Designated Player must end play if he is forced to make a decision that can only be made by the Citizens Assembly.
2. President is the only officer that may ask the officially ask the Citizens Assembly for a Declaration of WAR. Other officials may request a vote on War from their positions in the Citizens Assembly, but only the President may ask for War.
3. The President will define a budget that all other official may not exceed without permission.
4. The units the President controls:

A. The President shall control all Settler and the defensive units assigned to them.
B. The President shall control all naval units.​

IIB. The Powers and Duties of the Secretary of State

1. The Secretary of State shall have control of the Foreign policy of our nation with the exception in the Declaration of War/Peace/Alliance and trade of cities.

A. The Secretary of State needs the permission of the Citizens Assembly: War/Peace/Alliance or the giving away of one of our Nation's cities.
B. The Secretary of State needs the permission of the Triumvirate to accept a city, if applicable.​

IIC. The Powers and Duties of the Secretary of War

1. The Secretary of War shall have control of all military land units with the exception of garrisons under the control of Governors and units assigned to settlers.

A. The Secretary of War may not attack a city or unit of a neutral or allied Civilization, without the permission of the Citizens Assembly.​

2. The Secretary of War shall have control of all air units.​

III. The Cabinet

1. Addition and Subtraction of Offices from the Cabinet.

A. To add an Office to the Cabinet requires a Yea vote of 51% from the Citizens Assembly. Any Office added will be last on the seniority list.
B. To remove an Office from the Cabinet requires a Yea vote of 58% from the Citizens Assembly.​

IIIA. The Cabinet shall consist of, in order of seniority, the Censor, Minister of Interior, Minster of Culture, Minister of Science, and Director of Intelligence.
IIIB. The Powers and Duties of the Censor:

1. The Censor shall be the Official in charge of all elections.
2. Censor shall be responsible for the official results of an election and for validating an election.
3. The Censor is also responsible for validating any other official polls.
4. The Censor shall be responsible for maintaining a list of names for the naming of cities, units, and other appraise items, approved by the Citizens Assembly.​

IIIC. The Powers and Duties of the Minister of Interior:

1. The Minister of the Interior shall be in control of all workers not assigned to Governors.
2. The Minister of the Interior shall work with the Governors and create a plan of which city improvements shall be constructed in a city and when.
3. The Minister of the Interior shall keep track of the resources in our territory and where they are.
4. The Minister of the Interior shall control all Great Engineers.​

IIID. Powers and Duties of the Minister of Culture:

1. The Minister of Culture shall keep track of the Culture buildings in each city, the Culture of each city, and the religions in each city throughout the Empire, and shall may this information available to any citizen upon request.
2. The Minister of Culture shall control all Great Artists, Great Merchants, and Great Prophets.
3. The Minister of Culture shall be in charge of all Missionaries.
4. The Minister of Culture may require a culture building to built in a City once every 4 buildings, if none of the previous 3 buildings was a culture building. And what type of building it shall be.​

IIIE. Powers and Duties of the Minister of Science:

1. The Minister of Science shall choose what technology will be researched.
2. The Minister of Science shall keep a list of at least three technologies that are to be researched next and in what order.
3. The Minister of Science shall control all Great Scientists.​

IIIF. Powers and Duties of the Director of Intelligence:

1. The Director of Intelligence shall keep records of all known Empires; the cities, religion, military units, wonders, and civics of those Empires. Records shall also be kept of the size, religion, improvements, and anything else deemed necessary about their cities.
2. The Director of Intelligence shall have complete control of all spies.
3. The Director of Intelligence shall be appointed by the Triumvirate.
4. The Director of Intelligence, being an appointed position, shall not be affected by term limits.
5. The Director of Intelligence may be fired by the Triumvirate.​

IV. Vacancies

IVA. Should a vacancy occur in the Triumvirate the President shall take over the duties of the vacant office. Should the President be the vacant office the Secretary of State shall take over the duties of the President. Should both the offices of President and Secretary of State be vacant the Secretary of War shall take over the duties of both offices. Should the entire Triumvirate be vacant the most senior of the Cabinet members shall take over the duties of Triumvirate until a special election can be held.
IVB. Should any vacancy occur in the Cabinet the Deputy shall take over the duties of that office. The word acting shall be included in the title of office. Should there not be a deputy the President shall appoint an acting office holder.​

Article 2 The Local Government

A) Governors
I. Governors are the elected officials that run cities or states.

IA. The Powers and Duties of the Governors:

1. The Governors may move any workers or garrison units assigned to them anywhere in there city's radius or state boundaries.
2. The Governor shall work with the Minister of the Interior to decide which improvement shall be built.
3. The Designated Player shall act as Governor of any cities build during his play secession at the end of which, the office is declared vacant.
4. The first elected governor of a city or state may select the official flag of that city or state.​

IB. Powers and Duties of the Governors Council:

1. The Governors Council shall consist of the Governors of all Cities and States.
2. Any vacant Gubernatorial offices will be filled by an appointment of the Governors Council.
3. The Governors Council may veto the actions of any member of the Cabinet with a 6/10 (60%) majority, this veto may be overridden by only the Triumvirate. [Should it be possible to override the veto?]
4. The Governors Council may end a State of Mobilization prematurely by a 6/10 (60%) vote after at least 7 game turns of Mobilization have passed.​

IC. States

1. No states may be created until our Civilization owns at least five cites.
2. A minimum of 3 cities must exist in a proposed state at the time of its creation.
3. The Creation of a state requires a 6/10 (60%) majority of both the Citizens Assembly and the Governors Council.​

Article 3 Items affecting both Federal and Local

A) Deputies

I. Deputies

IA. Members of the Triumvirate shall not have a Deputy.
IB. All members of the Cabinet and Governors shall have a Deputy, appointed by the principals of those respective offices.​

II. Control of Units

IIA. Workers

1. Workers, when created, are under the control of the President. The President must assign the workers to either the Minister of the Interior or a Governor before or after a play session; if the worker is not so assigned it will be under the control of the Designated Player for the duration of the play session.
2. The assignment of a worker is permanent unless the party that has control over the worker releases it back to the President.​

IIA. Military Land Units

1. Military Land Units, when created, are under the control of the Secretary of War.
2. The Secretary of War may assign units to guard settlers or as garrisons in cities.

A. Units assigned to guard settlers are under the control President until the settler founds a city. At the founding of a city the President may assign the units guarding that settler to be part of that city’s garrison or may shift control back to the Secretary of War as long as at least one half of the units, rounded up, that guarded the settler become part of the city’s garrison.
B. Units assigned as garrison units fall under the direct control of the Governor of that city.​

3. Should a unit be left unmoving in a city or a city radius for at least 5 consecutive turns the governor of that city may claim that unit as a garrison unit as long as it has not started to move again.

A. There are three exceptions: if a unit is healing, the 5 turns start when healing is completed; if the unit is in defensive works of some sort; or if the unit is picketing the border.​

Article 4 The Designated Player

A) Actions of the Designated Player
I. Instructions of Elected and appointed officials:

IA. The Designated Player shall follow all instructions from elected and appointed officials regarding their respective areas.

1. If no instructions from a given office are posted for a game session the Designated Player assumes the powers of that office for the game session.
2. The Designated Player must reuse all illegal instructions. The Designated Player may request a Judicial Review to determine the validity of an instruction.​

IB. Legal Exploits

1. Any Legal Exploits pertaining to Article E section 4 of the Constitution will go here.​

Article 5 The Judiciary
[Procedures and Standard of the Judiciary goes here]


Article 6 Elections

A) Triumvirate Elections
I. The Triumvirate shall be elected as a whole, not by individual positions.
II. Nomination must include all three members of the Triumvirate, self nominations of a group are
allowed.
III. Sun Set Clause

IIIA. A vote will held at the end of the second term if the Yeas number less than 51% Articles I and II will be nullified and Articles IV and V shall be activated. Should the above election law be retained Sections IV and V shall be expunged.
Elections Laws will be replaced by the following set.​

IV. The offices of President, Secretary of State, and the Secretary of War shall be elected in their own polls.
V. Nominations

VA. The nominations for President can not be self nominations.
VB. Nominations for Secretary of State, and the Secretary of War may be self nominations or a citizen may be nominated by another citizens.​

B) Cabinet Elections
I. Elections of the Cabinet shall be of all nominated candidates who have accepted their nominations.
II. Nominations for Cabinet positions may be self nominations or a citizen may be nominated by another citizens.

C) Gubernatorial Elections
I. Elections of the Governors shall be of all nominated candidates who have accepted their nominations.
II. Nominations for Governors may be self nominations or a citizen may be nominated by another citizens.

D) Judicial Elections
I. Elections of the Judiciary shall be of all nominated candidates who have accepted their nominations.
II. Nominations for the Judiciary may be self nominations or a citizen may be nominated by another citizens.


Article 7 Term Limits
[Term Limits will go here after the Poll has concluded]


Article 8 Process of Amending the Constitution

A) Steps to Amend the Constitution
I. Any Citizens may post a thread in an appropriate sub-forum, stating what he would like to see changed.
II. If at least three other citizens post that they agree with the proposed amendment, the Censor or Deputy Censor has 24 hours from the third agreeing post to post a poll in the Polls sub-forum.

IIA. If the Censor does not post a poll with in 24 hours any citizen may then do so.

1. Should the Censor not post a poll within 24 hours the Judiciary has ground to declare the office Vacant.​

III. During the Polling the Judiciary must issue a ruling on whether the proposed amendment contradicts a part of the Constitution that it does not change and whether the amendment is legal.


Article 9 Code of Standards

A) Creating a Code of Standards
To create a Code of Standards a poll will need to be taken and at least 50.01% on said poll will need to vote yea. Different proposals may then be considered. A poll will be taken between the different proposals with the winning one being put up for ratification. The ratification poll will need at least 50.01% to vote yea to ratify the Code of Standards.


Article 10 Amending the Code of Laws

A) Amending the Code of Laws
I. The Code of Laws may be amended by a 60% majority of votes cast in a public poll which shall be open for no fewer than 4 days.
II. Minor changes to the Constitution, such as correcting typographical and clerical errors, reorganization and reformatting for better readability, and addition of text which does not impact legal definitions (such as a preamble) may be made at any time.

IIA. If any citizen objects to a minor change within the 48 hour period commencing when the minor change is proposed, the change shall be considered an amendment and must undergo ratification as such.​

B) Steps to Amend the Code of Laws
I. Any Citizens may post a thread in an appropriate sub-forum, stating what he would like to see changed.
II. If at least three other citizens post that they agree with the proposed amendment, the Censor or Deputy Censor has 24 hours from the third agreeing post to post a poll in the Polls sub-forum.

IIA. If the Censor does not post a poll with in 24 hours any citizen may then do so.

1. Should the Censor not post a poll within 24 hours the Judiciary has ground to declare the office Vacant.​

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IVA. Debates and Votes may be called and posted by any member of the Citizens Assembly.

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VI. The Citizens Assembly may bring a no confidence vote against the Triumvirate and impeach members of the Cabinet.

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IB. The Cabinet Officials will be any office that we the citizens deem necessary

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II.2.E.1. "The Triumvirate may not force a worker to quit an action assigned to it by the Minister of the Interior of a Governor"

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II.IIA.1 may order the ending of play in continuing requires a decision to be made that can only be made by the Citizens Assembly

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II.IIA.1 Designated Player must end play if he is forced to make a decision that can only be made by the Citizens Assembly.

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II.IIA.2 2. President is the only officer that may ask the officially ask the Citizens Assembly for a Declaration of WAR. Other officials may request a vote on War from their positions in the Citizens Assembly, but only the President may ask for War.

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III.1 A. To add an Office to the Cabinet requires a Yea vote of 51% from the Citizens Assembly. Any Office added will be last on the seniority list.
B. To remove an Office from the Cabinet requires a Yea vote of 58% from the Citizens Assembly.

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III.C 2. The Minister of the Interior shall work with the Governors and create a plan of which city improvements shall be constructed in a city and when.

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Section B.IIID.4 4. The Minister of Culture may require a culture building to built in a City once every 4 buildings, if none of the previous 3 buildings was a culture building. And what type of building it shall be.

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Section 2.A.IA.3. The Designated Player shall act as Governor of any cities build during his play secession at the end of which, the office is declared vacant.

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Section 2.A.1B.2. Any vacant Gubernatorial offices will be filled by an appointment of the Governors Council.

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Section 2.A.1b.3. The Governors Council may veto the actions of any member of the Cabinet with a 6/10 (60%) majority.

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Section 2.A.1B.5. The Governors Council may remove a Governor from his office by a vote of 6/10 (60%).

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Section 4.A.IIIB. The members of the Designated Pool shall sort out in what order they will play.

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Section 4.B.IB.2. The Designated Player must reuse all illegal instructions. The Designated Player may request a Judicial Review to determine the validity of an instruction.

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Section 5.A.I. The Triumvirate shall be elected as a whole, not by individual positions.

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Section 7.D

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Section 8.B.II. A member of the Cabinet may hold one other Cabinet office, Gubernatorial office or a Deputy position.

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Section 8.B.III. A Governor may hold one other Gubernatorial office, a Cabinet office, or a Deputy position.

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Section 10.B.III. After at least 48hours the proponent posts a thread poll.

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