Term 2 Nominations for Judge Advocate

[Strider]

Please post any nominations you have for the Judge Advocate poistion. You can also ask the candidates debate questions in this thread.

Prosecutes Citizen Complaints if the Citizen Complaint is filed anonymously or the accuser wishes to have the Judge Advocate prosecute. 
He/she ensures CCs are following constitution, code of laws, and court procedures guidelines.

 

[GenMarshall]

Hmm, kind of early for the Nominations?

Anyway, I wish to nominate Mhcarver for the possition.

 

[Strider]

* Please note that mhcarver posted a pre-nomination for the Judge Advocate poistion.

 

[Strider]

Hmm, kind of early for the Nominations?

Anyway, I wish to nominate Mhcarver for the possition.

Starting them up early because most Spring Breaks start the day the elections will start. That way anyone who's going away will get atleast one day to vote in the elections.

 

[GenMarshall]

Starting them up early because most Spring Breaks start the day the elections will start. That way anyone who's going away will get atleast one day to vote in the elections.

I must be the only citizen in college who just finished his spring break .

Ill toss up a question to any canidate that accepts his or her nomination.
1. How do you interperate the laws? Liberaly or Conservatively?

 

[Provolution]

I nominate Ashburnham here.

 

[mhcarver]

Lets see 5 hour flight home today college tour tommorow, ah well

1. How do you interperate the laws? Liberaly or Conservatively?

In the last Demogame I generally interpreted the laws conservatively. The only somewhat major exception to this was when I ruled that there needed to be and election for FA Minister after CG won uncontested despite a last second acceptance by DZ. However this is a different demogame, the constitution and COL are incomplete fragments and quite frankly without a more liberal interpretation in some instances it may be impossible to do anything.

In short: I consider myself to interpret the laws conservatively though I intend to take a more moderate position this demogame should I be elected .

BTW I'm sorry if this makes no sense I'm jetlagged and I have to start a college tour tommorow

 

[Ashburnham]

Despite my respect for Mhcarver's legacy of sound Judiciating last Demogame, I have decided to again run against him for Judge Advocate. I accept my nomination.

As Mhcarver himself admits, this is a different demogame. Sadly, we can no longer rely on the stability and constitutional completeness we enjoyed in DG5. What we do have, however, is a competant and hardworking Judiciary that has helped to shape our Demogame for the better. Blackheart, ravensfire, and myself have worked hard to rule on citizen-requesting Reviews in a just and expeditious manner. The current Judiciary has also fostered several amendment discussions, as well as helping them along towards completion. As it stands now, a number of proposals are currently being developed, and two are close to ratification. Our constitution is being improved as we speak. To put it bluntly: the Judiciary is working, why mess with success?

1. How do you interperate the laws? Liberaly or Conservatively?

While I hesitate to use the word "conservative" because of its obvious political meaning, I would have to say that I tend to view our laws fairly literally. There is a reason for this. We, as citizens, worked long and hard in the time leading up to the start of the game to write the best legal framework we could. Admitedly, our Constitution and CoL as a whole have plenty of room for improvement (to put it mildly). However, I think that each individual law in our books is a well-written, well-thought out piece of work. Individual citizens put a great deal of effort into crafted the law as best they could. In light of this, I would be doing a disservice to those citizens by interpreting their words liberaly. Every law has a specific meaning, and it's my job to find that meaning, not make it up.

 

[mhcarver]

c'mon, I'm back from my college tour , so can someone please give some debate questions?