Systematic Constitution Proposal

[Strider]

Possibly incomplete form of the Constitution. Will retain the majority seen here, but may have several edits or additions.

We, the people of [Insert Nation Name Here], in order to create an atmosphere of friendship and cooperation, establish this Constitution of our beloved country. We uphold the beliefs that each citizen must have a voice in the government and ruling of our country, that government itself is a construct of and servant to the people, that rules, regulations, and laws should be established to facilitate the active participation of the people and to make possible the dreams and desires of the citizens.

Article A. Governing Rules
Governing rules shall consist of these Articles of the Constitution, such amendments that shall follow and lower forms of law that may be implemented. No rule shall be valid that contradicts these Articles, excepting an amendment specifically tasked to do so.

Section 1. CivFanatics Forums
The constitution, laws and standards of Fanatica can never be contrary to the rules and regulations of the Civfanatics forums. Moderators may veto/correct any such items.

Article B. Citizen Rights
All Civfanatics Forum users who register in the Citizen Registry are citizens of Fanatica. Citizens have the right to assemble, the right to free movement, the right to free speech, the right to a fair trial, the right to representation, the right to demand satisfaction and the right to vote.

Section 1. Political Parties and Slate Voting
Political parties and slate voting are banned from the democracy game.

Section 2. Citizen Groups
A group of citizens, that unite for a single cause, excluding elections is known as a citizen group. Citizen groups are encouraged and follow the spirit of the game.

Article C. The Government
The government will consist of the Executive Branch, Legislative Branch and Judicial Branch. These branches are responsible for the management of the game.

Article D. The Executive Branch
The Executive Branch is headed by the President, the overall Leader of the land, and shall include a Council of Leaders, each of whom heads a department that is responsible for one major facet of the country. Any duties that are not given to a Leader is automatically assumed to be part of the Presidents duties, this includes management of the National Budget.

Section 1. Generals Office
The Generals Office is charged with management of all offensive and defensive units. They are also given the duty of tatical planning during war and the strategic planning of war. During times of both peace and war, the Generals Office is tasked with the management of the Nations Defense.

Section 2. Council of Culture
The Counselor of culture is charged with the movement and placement of settlers. They are also charged with the formation of boundaries and the monitoring of our culture levels. The building of wonders is also given to Council of Culture.

Section 3. Department of Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs is charged with the negotiation of treaties and all espionage related activities. They are also given the duty of exploration, and are given management over scouts and explorers. They are also charged with the management of all trade related activities.


Section 4. Office of Research and Development
The Office of Research and Development is given control over all worker related activities. They are also charged with our nations research and the domestic slider. The building of spaceship parts are also given to Research and Development.

Article E. The Legislative Branch
The Legislative Branch shall be made up of The House and the Mayors.

Section 1. The Mayors
A mayor is charged with the management and affairs of a single city. They are also charged with the defense and protection of there city. There duties include, but are not limited to: The rushing of improvements or units, the drafting of citizens, setting of build queues, and the allocation of special citizens (tax collectors, entertainers, etc.).

Section 2. The House
The house is formed by the citizenry, and is charged with the formation and passing of laws.

Article F. The Judicial Branch
The Judicial Branch will be formed of three Leaders and is tasked with verifying legality of legislation, interpreting rules, and determining when violations occur. Each also has a specific area of additional responsibility.

Section 1. The Chief Justice
The Chief Justice is the overall head of the Judiciary and can fill in for either lower position. The Chief Justice is responsible for maintaining the legal books of the country and the mechanics of Judicial Procedure.

Section 2. The Judge Advocate
The Judge Advocate functions in a role of prosecution and attorney to the state when allegations of rulebreaking have been made.

Section 3. The Public Defender
The Public Defendant functions in the roll of defense for any and all accused citizens.

Article G. The Census and amending the Constitution
The average of the number of votes cast in each of the most recent contested elections shall constitute an active census of citizens. The highest vote total of these elections shall constitute a full census (the Congress). A simple majority of congress or 2/3 majority of Yes votes must be achieved for an amendment to pass. An amendment must pass a Judicial Review and be open for discussion for 72 hours before a poll may be posted. The poll must remain open for 48 hours.

Article H. Will of the People
Elected officials must plan and act according to the will of the people.

Article I. Turnchats
All irreversible game actions must progress during a scheduled chat (AKA a turnchat), which is played by the Designated Player. The Designated Player of a turnchat is decided upon by the President. The Designated Player is responsible for scheduling his/her turnchat.

Section 1. Turnchat Instruction Thread
The next turnchat instruction thread must be stickied inside of the citizens forum. It will contain all instructions from the President and Council of leaders for the play of the save.

Section 2. Chat Logs and forbidden play of the save
Any game actions taken by the DP must be documented in a game play log (examples: Notes or chat log) and a summary at the end of the turnchat. Both must be made publicly available in a timely manner. A recent save of the game should be posted immediantly following the turnchat. The play of any turns, by any other person than the specified Designated player is strictly forbidden. However, a leader or mayor may carry out actions, that do not require the passing of a turn, with the Presidents pre-approval. These actions may include, but are not limited to: The setting of city queues, slider movements, initiation of trades, declarations of war, and research queues. Citizens may not initiate in any non-reversible actions.

Article J. The Election process
Elections shall decide who among the citizenry are trusted to manage the game. The President, Council of Leaders, Judiciary, and Mayors are all elected. Each of these poistions, excepting the Judiciary, shall have a deputy chosen by the winning citizen. The Election process shall be made up of Nominations, Debates, and the Elections themselves.

Section 1. The Election Office
The Election Office is appointed by the President and charged with the posting and carrying out of the election process (Nominations, Debates, and Election Polls).

Section 2. Nominations and Debates
Nominations shall be posted approximately 8 days before the end of the term, debates will last through the duration of the nominations. Nominations will be closed when the election polls start.

Section 3. Election Polls
Election Polls shall be posted approximately 4 days before the end of the term, and will be set to run for 3 days (72 hours). The candidate with the highest number of votes at the end of the 3 days is considered the winner. If two candidates tie, then a run-off poll, lasting 2 days (48 hours) is posted with just those two canidates.

Article K. Vacant Poistions
An official or Justice may declare themselves to be Absent for a period of time. This period may not exceed 1 week. During this time, the deputy or pro-tem will act with all power and duties of that office, surrendering them to the official or Justice when they return or at the end of the planned absence, whichever comes first. If this period exceeds one week, then the deputy or pro-term may keep the power and duties of the office, unless they decide to gie it up. Should an official fail to post in the DG forum for 3 days in a thread related to their area without prior notice, the Judiciary may declare that office Vacant.

Section 1. Judicial Absence's
If a Justice has not posted on any active Judicial matter for three days, the remaining Justices may declare the Justice Vacant. If all three Justices fail to post on any active Judicial matter for 3 days, the President may declare all Judicial offices Vacant, and immediately appoint a new Chief Justice.

 

[Strider]

Here is a still incomplete Code of Laws:

Amendment A. Judicial Matters

Section 1. Judicial Review​

• Any citizen may call judicial review whenever a question of rule interpretation or clarification arises over a proposed or existing law.
• Judicial Review is binding if 2 of 3 Judiciary members agree with the review.

Section 2. Public Investigations​

• No Member of the Judiciary may initiate or sponsor a Public Investigation.
• A citizen may only be Investigated once per charge, per particular event and is innocent until proven guilty.
• The Verdict of the Public Investigation is final and may not be appealed.
• If a Member of the Judiciary is the Accused in a Public Investigation, they are immediately suspended for that case.
• If a member of the judiciary is determined to be absent, or is the Accused in a Public Investigation, they may be replaced on a case-by-case basis by the Chief Justice. This replacement is for that case only. If the Chief Justice is under investigation, the President shall determine the replacement. This appointment may be subjected to a confirmation poll.

Section 3. Accusation​

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• Any citizen may bring a charge against another citizen whom they believe has violated our body of law. The Accusation must contain the following: Names of the Accused and Accuser, Law(s) believed to have been violated, Time and location of violation, and a description of the violation.
• An Accusation may be submitted to the Chief Justice VIA PM, or posted inside of the Judiciary thread.

Section 4. Investigation​

• The Judge Advocate shall investigate all charges brought to the Judiciary to determine their validity. This process shall be done in an expedious manner.
• The Chief Justice shall post in the Judicial Thread that an investigation has commenced against the Accused. The first post of the investigation must contain the following: The name Accused and Accuser, the specifics of the charge, encourage citizens to PM any evidence to the Judge Advocate.
• If the accused confirms the charges, and wishes to plead guilty at this point, the trial phase is skipped and the sentencing phase begins.
• Once the investigation has concluded, the Judge Advocate shall present the Chief Justice and the Public Defender with the results of the investigation. If the Judiciary finds that the charge is valid, the case shall move to the Trial phase
• If the Judge Advocate finds that the charge is not valid, the Accused and the Accuser are both notified by PM.
• The Judge Advocate shall post in the Judicial Thread the results of their investigation, naming both the Accused and the Accuser. If the charge is considered not valid, this post shall include the evidence used to make that conclusion. If the charge is considered valid, this post shall include a link to the trial thread.

Section 5. Trial​

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• The Chief Justice is in charge of all phases of the trial, and will make procedural rulings as needed. The Chief Justice shall create a thread in the Citizens Forum for the Trial The initial post shall contain the specific charge from the Judge Advocate and is titled "The People vs X", where X is the name of the Accused. The first post is reserved for the Judge Advocate to expand upon the charge and provide evidence. The second post is reserved for the Public Defender. The third post is reserved for the Accused. The Judge Advocate, Public Defender, and Accused also make the lasts posts to wrap up the trial.
• Once 24 hours have passed after the thread was created, or after all three parties have posted or indicated they do not wish to post, the Chief Justice shall open the thread. All citizens may produce evidence or ask questions of all parties. All posts must be on topic, and show respect to all parties. The Accused may change their plea to Guilty at any point by posting this in the thread.
• 48 hours after the general discussion started, the Chief Justice shall create a Judgement poll for each law the accused is charged with violating.

Section 6. Judgement​

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• The Chief Justice shall create a poll requesting the citizens to determine the Guilt or Innocence of the Accused. The poll shall have three options: Guilty, Innocent or Abstain. The post shall include the formal charge and a link to the discussion. Guilt is determined by a majority of the non-abstain votes. No discussion is permitted inside of the poll.
• The poll shall be open for 2 days (48 hours). If, at the end of this time, the vote is tied, the Judiciary shall meet, examine the evidence, and determine Guilt or Innocence. If the accused is found Guilty, the case shall move to the Sentencing Phase.

Section 7. Sentencing​

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• The Chief Justice shall create a poll to determine the sentence handed down to the guilty party. If there are multiple Guilty verdicts, the Chief Justice shall determine if multiple polls (one per charge) or a single, combined sentence poll shall be used.
• The poll shall include options determined by the Chief Justice. The options shall be ranked in the order of most severe to the least severe. Tshe sentencing options the Chief Justice may use are: Impeachment, Final Warning, Public Apology, Warning, and No Punishment. The poll may not omit weaker sentences that currently present in the poll.
• Once the poll has been closed, the Chief Justice shall determine the sentence for the accused. Each vote shall be determined as a vote for the option selected, and all less-severe options. The sentence selected shall be the most severe sentence that a majority of the citizens supported.

Section 8. Conclusion​

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The Chief Justice shall post a summary in the Judicial Log. The post shall include the formal charge(s), verdict(s) and sentence(s). The post shall include a link to the discussion thread and the sentencing poll(s).​

Amendment B. Code of Laws Amendments

1. Amendments to the Code of Laws must receive the vote of a
   plurality of the citizenry that choose to vote. The quorum for a citizen poll is
   1/3 of the congress or simple majority of the house.
2. A Code of Laws amendment may also pass by receiving superplurality (double the votes for Yes than in any other option) support by the citizenry.
3. A CoL amendment citizen poll must be open for at least 48
   hours for the amendment to take effect.

Amendment C. Polling Standards
Types of Polls

• Polls fall into four categories: Official, Unofficial, Informational, and Misc.
  1. Official Polls: A poll posted by the President or the Leader/Deputy. Are considered to be legally binding, and contain all the information to met the Code of Law requirements.
  2. Unofficial Polls: A poll posted by any other citizen or a leader that duties do not include the topic of the poll. Are not legally binding, and may or may not contain all the information to meet the Code of Law requirements.
  3. Informational: A poll posted by any citizen, that is not included inside of the duty of any certain official. May include, but is not limited to the following: Game Victory Type, Naming of Landmarks, etc. May or may not contain all the the information needed to meet the Code of Law requirements.
  4. Misc.: Any poll that does not fall into one of the other three categories. It's legality is decided upon by the Chief Justice. May or may not contain all the the information needed to meet the Code of Law requirements.
• A official poll may only be posted by the President or the Leader/Deputy of the respective department, as long as the topic of said poll falls under the Leader/Deputy's jurisdiction.
• There are two types of Official Polls, Strategic and Tatical. A Tatical Poll, after two weeks of closure or meeting the census, will be deemed unofficial. A Strategic poll, after one term of closure or meeting the census, will be deemed unofficial.
• In the case of the absence of an Official Poll, an Unofficial poll may be used to may gameplay decisions. However, Informational polls can not be used to make gameplay decisions.

Contents of a Poll

• A Poll should contain all of the following:
  1. A Link to the discussion thread
  2. A link to the respective departments official thread.
  3. A link to all other information effecting the topic of the poll
  4. Must contain and Abstain option
• An Official Poll must also contain wether it is Strategic Planning or Tatical Planning.
• The topic of a poll should not be discussed inside of the thread, but rather discussed inside of it's respective discussion thread.

Amendment D. Information and Acquiring Information

• Information relating to the saved game may be legally acquired by the following ways:
  1. Loading up the save
  2. A Information related thread (official department thread, or Power to the People related activites)
  3. Chatlogs, Turnchats, or a DP summary
  4. Discussion threads and Polls
• You may not retire from the game inorder to obtain information.

The Power to the People Council
The Power to the People Council is a group of citizens, appointed by the President, that are charged with informing citizens of game related activities and happenings. These may include, but are not limited to:

• An Official Information thread, that supplies game save information.
• A thread detailing constitutional amendments, and how they effect the game.
• Informing citizens of important polls or discussions

Amendment E. City and Unit Naming
City naming shall be handled by the elected Mayor of the city, a city name may not be changed after decided upon by a Mayor. Unit naming is handled by the Deputy General (Deputy to the Generals Office).

Amendment F. The National Budget
The National Budgets consists of our national treasury (lump sum of gold), but does not include our additional gold per turn. It should be compiled and posted by the President each turnchat. It must include a list of the funds required for rushes, upgrades, trades, and espionage. Any instruction that is not listed inside of the national budget is to be considered void. If the President decides to give certain elected officials a base sum of gold to use, then this must also be included within the national budget, with the maximum amount that can be used by that leader.

Amendment G. Play of the Save
All play of the save, inwhich a turn is passed is strictly forbidden. However, elected officials may initiate instructions, as long as a turn is not passed. After an elected officials actions are completed, they are to post the save inside of the most recent Turnchat Instruction Thread, with a list of all that was done.

 

[Strider]

The Glossery of Terms will contain all terms, abbrevations, and defintions used within the Constitution or Code of Laws. This is to aid in Judicial Reviews, and to lessen confusion on what certain amentments mean.

1. Congress: The most current active census. Taken by averaging the number of votes in the most recent elections.
   
2. Will of The People: The 'wants' of the registered citizens of the demogame. Usually confirmed by polls and discussions.
   
3. Simple Majority: 50.01% of the vote. Used in amending the constitution.
   
4. Slate Voting: A pre-arranged agreement among citizens to vote for a set of canidates in the recent elections.
   
5. Designated Player (DP): The citizen who is charged with the responsibility of playing a turnchat.
   
6. Census: A count of the active citizens inside of the game. Used when amending the constitution or Code of Laws.
   
7. Chat Logs: A log (or history) of a scheduled turnchat posted by the designated player.
   
8. Public Investigations: An investigation into a 'breaking' of a law.
   
9. Play of the Save: A term used to mean the action of passing a turn inside of the saved game.
   
10. Gameplay: All elements that are contained inside of the save. Does not include the elements that are DG oriented only.

This may also include examples of correct Polling Pratices and how the Census shall be determined.

 

[Strider]

Edited in the Code of Laws, with Polling Standards, Unit Naming, and Information related things. Please look above for the full Code.

 

[GenMarshall]

I have mixed opinions on this proposal. Will the President be the defacto DP? The part about the winning citizen choisng a deputy is my main disagreement on this proposal since I still beleve that a deputy should be given to the runner up canidate.

 

[Strider]

I have mixed opinions on this proposal. Will the President be the defacto DP? The part about the winning citizen choisng a deputy is my main disagreement on this proposal since I still beleve that a deputy should be given to the runner up canidate.

The President will be the DP, unless he/she chooses someone else to be it. I've also attempted to lessen the length of turnchats (and chatlogs) by allowing leaders to load up the save and implement instructions that do not require the passing of a turn themself.

As for the part of the winning citizen choosing a deputy, it will remain that way. I am going to give deputies more power (first off by allowing them to post official polls). While this should increase the usefullness of the deputy poistions alittle, it also gives a deputy a chance to disobey and not coorporate with the leader. This can turn out to be diasterious, and as such I want a leader and deputy that will and can work together.. not apart.

 

[Strider]

Still have many updates to go.. here's what can be expected either later tonight or tommorow:

• Vacant Poistions (Con.)
• National Budget (COL)
• Rules of Leader Turn Play (COL)
• Chain of Command (Con.)
• Turnchat/Turnchat Instruction Guidelines (COL)
• Efficiency System (Con.)
• Will of the People (COL)
• Edit of Polling Standards (COL)
• Possible Edit of The Election Process/Election Office (Con.)

 

[Strider]

No one except CG has any comments or suggestions? Come on guys, I know I couldn't have made this thing perfect.

 

[DaveShack]

Constitution:

1. Where does control of the "acquired" cities lie?

2. R&D says "domestic slider" -- which one is that? Or is it both?

3. Good work adding the language about allowing actions which don't "pass a turn".

4. As in Ravensfire's version, I most strongly disagree with requiring 2/3 majority to pass an amendment. This is particularily true in your version which doesn't even soften the blow by lowering the quorum requirement -- as written, this one requires 100% of the census to vote, or a higher winning percentage the fewer people vote. If that is not your intent, then please add the quorum provision.

 

[Strider]

Constitution:

1. Where does control of the "acquired" cities lie?

2. R&D says "domestic slider" -- which one is that? Or is it both?

3. Good work adding the language about allowing actions which don't "pass a turn".

4. As in Ravensfire's version, I most strongly disagree with requiring 2/3 majority to pass an amendment. This is particularily true in your version which doesn't even soften the blow by lowering the quorum requirement -- as written, this one requires 100% of the census to vote, or a higher winning percentage the fewer people vote. If that is not your intent, then please add the quorum provision.

1. Should be the President.. I believe I mentioned that the President gets all of the duties not mentioned. Think I should actually mention it as a Presidential duty though?

2. I meant it as both, both the Sci and Lux slider.

3. Thanks, but I'm not completely done with that. Going to go into more detail inside of the COL. I'm hoping it does it's intended purpose of giving leaders the feeling that there actually "doing something" and also lessen the length of turnchats.

4. My plan is to make the constitution hard to change, because it should contain the things we shouldn't change often. I want to make the COL the "changeable" document. If you notice, I'm putting alot of things inside of the COL that I put inside of the Constitution before. Although this may be a bit to wishful, so I'll consider lessening the blow.

 

[DaveShack]

CoL:

CoL A should not be there at all. The judicial procedures idea from DG6 worked to perfection, no reason to monkey with it.

On the types of polls, only two kinds are needed, official or unofficial. If a leader or deputy fails to post an official poll when it is reasonable that one is required, then a citizen should be allowed to post it. Furthermore I disagree that citizen polls must by their nature be unofficial. Instead I would like to say that a poll which follow the correct procedure (discussion, proper format, public, non-biased, open 2 days) must be considered official unless it is competing with an official poll placed by the leader/deputy. Even that is suspect, because if a citizen is polling the same thing a leader is posting, the leader's poll is immediately suspect and should be reviewed for legitimacy.

I agree with the sunset provision though we might not want a definite length. in particular we can't very well be at war and have the poll which put us at war get sunset, and just willy-nilly make peace. The reputation, trade, gpt, etc. ramifications of such an action need to be taken into account. I would say something like the in-game situation the poll relates to must have expired before the poll can expire.

On the information section, I disagree with saying anything against using utilities. That's so completely out of left field that I can't even think of what it could be aimed at.

On city naming, I disagree with mayors getting to name cities. That means exactly 5 people will name a city with absolutely no input from anyone else. We would be better off just taking the default names from the game. Put the names up for a vote by all citizens, or don't have naming at all.

 

[Strider]

CoL A should not be there at all. The judicial procedures idea from DG6 worked to perfection, no reason to monkey with it.

Actually, this is basically just the same thing.. just easier to fine. It also requires that the Judiciary actually look to the citizens and not just decide themselves how to interpret our laws.

It's not very democratic, if the ones who interpret our laws, also decides on how they do so. Anyway, it's not like it would be that hard to change 1/3 is barely anything.

On the types of polls, only two kinds are needed, official or unofficial. If a leader or deputy fails to post an official poll when it is reasonable that one is required, then a citizen should be allowed to post it. Furthermore I disagree that citizen polls must by their nature be unofficial. Instead I would like to say that a poll which follow the correct procedure (discussion, proper format, public, non-biased, open 2 days) must be considered official unless it is competing with an official poll placed by the leader/deputy. Even that is suspect, because if a citizen is polling the same thing a leader is posting, the leader's poll is immediately suspect and should be reviewed for legitimacy.

I added the following to the COL, you must have missed it:

In the case of the absence of an Official Poll, an Unofficial poll may be used to may gameplay decisions. However, Informational polls can not be used to make gameplay decisions.

I added the other two "types of polls," because they were needed to atleast be explained. Anyway, it would be like the Culture fiasco we had at the end of last game. Would you have been happy if Culture Victory won, yet they used that to make a gameplay decision to justify disbanding a city? With these polling standards, a "What type of victory should we go for?" type poll will fall under the Informational area... and as such can not be used to make gameplay decisions.

I also actually planned on giving the Chief Justice the power to "make" Unofficial polls Official. Just incase.

I agree with the sunset provision though we might not want a definite length. in particular we can't very well be at war and have the poll which put us at war get sunset, and just willy-nilly make peace. The reputation, trade, gpt, etc. ramifications of such an action need to be taken into account. I would say something like the in-game situation the poll relates to must have expired before the poll can expire.

Didn't think of that, I'll try to remember to make the needed changes.

On the information section, I disagree with saying anything against using utilities. That's so completely out of left field that I can't even think of what it could be aimed at.

Number Crunching ring a bell? Also, we wouldn't have had that culture crap at the end of last game, if it wasn't for utilities.

On city naming, I disagree with mayors getting to name cities. That means exactly 5 people will name a city with absolutely no input from anyone else. We would be better off just taking the default names from the game. Put the names up for a vote by all citizens, or don't have naming at all.

My reasoning behind this, is that the mayors poistion is utter bullcrap. It's boring, there is almost nothing to do, almost no real power. I was hoping to just add alittle spice to the piece of crap poistion. If it wasn't for making this 5BC friendly, it wouldn't be in here. I will think about changing it though.

 

[Nobody]

make sure you state exactly who controls city placement because people will complain about this

 

[DaveShack]

make sure you state exactly who controls city placement because people will complain about this

Looks like Culture owns this (movement of settlers implies city placement).

 

[Strider]

make sure you state exactly who controls city placement because people will complain about this

I have it fixed .

 

[Strider]

Okay I updated the constitution with the following:

• Added Article L. dealing with Vacant Poistions
• Did some minor tweaks to the Election Process
• Added that the DP is responsible for the scheduling of there turnchat
• Did a tweak to the amending the Constitution (Article G.)

I also updated the COL:

• Added Amendment F. dealing with the National Budget
• Added Amendment G. dealing with the Play of the Save
• Made an Edit to Amendment D.
• Made some changes to Amendment C. giving the Chief Justice the ability to lengthen the time (by one week) before an Official Poll is deemed Unofficial.

What these changes attempt to do:

• Make Deputy poistions more powerful
• Make leader poistions more powerful
• Increase the information avaible to citizens on the forums
• Shorten the length of Turnchats
• Makes it possible for a CC to be handled privately, instead of publicly
• Makes the Judiciary more answerable to the people, however gives the Chief Justice more power.

I'm hoping to do the Glossery of Terms soon.

 

[Strider]

I must be really good at this... usually everything I propose is so littered with problems that the thread hits page 2 within a few hours.

I'm working on the Glossery of Terms right now.

 

[GenMarshall]

I agree giving deputies more power than just "a person stashed away in a cubical in the corner".

 

[Strider]

Okay.. Glossery of Terms is up! It's *very* far from being finished however. That's all of the terms I could think of right now.

Also, yes I know it's not inside of an certain type of order.

 

[Strider]

I agree giving deputies more power than just "a person stashed away in a cubical in the corner".

That's part of my plan with this constitution. Make the elected (and even some of the non-elected) offices interesting. Hopefully that will increase people's commitment to the game (there hold an office, so they will have a commitment) and as such stay longer.

Anyway, what's the point of having a deputy, if they are hardly ever needed?