ravensfire
Member of the Opposition
The small group of citizens gathered to hear the last ruling from the Court at the Big Rock. Seeing the baliff walk towards the bench the 3 Justices sat on, the chatter quieted. Although a quiet term, there were some mutterings of possible disagreements over this decision. Seom citizens were here for the ruling, others were here for a possible arguement. Most, however, just didn't have anything better to do.
"Hear ya, the citizens of Yasutan," called the baliff, "the words of the Judiciary. The honorable, wait, can I really say that? Ravensfire? Honorable? After what happened last week? What? Fine, I'll finish. The honorable Ravensfire presiding, the honorable Octavian X and the honorable Lockesdonkey."
Ravensfire swung his stick against the table in front of him, calling the court to order. "I thank the baliff, and remind him that it wasn't my fault she lied about her boyfriend!"
"Today, the court rules on the final question brought before us, but also starts a discussion on that question. Please, allow me to finish. Copies of the ruling by each Justice will be made available at the end."
"DaveShack asked us to determine if citizens already holding an elected office could be appointed to another elected office. The implications of this are interesting - it would be possible for someone to hold multiple offices, even though we only allow citizens to run for just one office!"
"The election law is quite clear on this matter - one citizen, one nomination. A quick review of our oldest records shows that this was the preferred approach. Oddly though, the section of law concerning appointments is silent on this matter. I find that I must chastise my anscestor that wrote that section, and did not specify an approach."
"Absent any guidance, and with the generally permissive aspect of our rules, this Court rules that no law prohibits appointing a citizen to an elected office if that citizen already holds an elected office."
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Whew - that's the setup for this discussion - appointments, vacant offices and you!
So, last term the Judiciary said that people holding an elected office can be appointed to hold another elected office.
What do you think? Should this be allowed? Should it be allowed under certain conditions?
Here's the plan - we'll talk about this for a couple of days, and then I'll post a poll asking if we should allow this or not. If people say it should be allowed, we'll work on when it would be allowed (probably with a couple more days of discussion, and then another poll). Once all the polling is done, I'll put together an amendment for the appointment section that will try to make sure we don't have to do this again!
Thanks!
-- Ravensfire
"Hear ya, the citizens of Yasutan," called the baliff, "the words of the Judiciary. The honorable, wait, can I really say that? Ravensfire? Honorable? After what happened last week? What? Fine, I'll finish. The honorable Ravensfire presiding, the honorable Octavian X and the honorable Lockesdonkey."
Ravensfire swung his stick against the table in front of him, calling the court to order. "I thank the baliff, and remind him that it wasn't my fault she lied about her boyfriend!"
"Today, the court rules on the final question brought before us, but also starts a discussion on that question. Please, allow me to finish. Copies of the ruling by each Justice will be made available at the end."
"DaveShack asked us to determine if citizens already holding an elected office could be appointed to another elected office. The implications of this are interesting - it would be possible for someone to hold multiple offices, even though we only allow citizens to run for just one office!"
"The election law is quite clear on this matter - one citizen, one nomination. A quick review of our oldest records shows that this was the preferred approach. Oddly though, the section of law concerning appointments is silent on this matter. I find that I must chastise my anscestor that wrote that section, and did not specify an approach."
"Absent any guidance, and with the generally permissive aspect of our rules, this Court rules that no law prohibits appointing a citizen to an elected office if that citizen already holds an elected office."
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Whew - that's the setup for this discussion - appointments, vacant offices and you!
So, last term the Judiciary said that people holding an elected office can be appointed to hold another elected office.
What do you think? Should this be allowed? Should it be allowed under certain conditions?
Here's the plan - we'll talk about this for a couple of days, and then I'll post a poll asking if we should allow this or not. If people say it should be allowed, we'll work on when it would be allowed (probably with a couple more days of discussion, and then another poll). Once all the polling is done, I'll put together an amendment for the appointment section that will try to make sure we don't have to do this again!
Thanks!
-- Ravensfire