Constitutional Committee

[DeathByTheSword]

question i put in the constitution that the commissioner has to do turnchats/threads ever X times how long is that X times. or should i poll that?

[Pandemoniak]

Okay, quick example : there's an attractive pod just next to this base named New Tassagrad. Unfortunetaly, New Tassagrad is not defended yet, there's just this other colony pod hanging around in the area.
The exploration advisor says its his duty to explore and therefore stands to pop the pod right now.
The Terraforming and Colonization advisor says its his job to colonize, and that he does not want to risk 10,000 lives (+all the persons in New Tassagrad) by just popping a pod which could be full of mindworms.

For that example, we could make a poll of course, but it would be simpler and faster to have a Court which would 1. Make a decision 2. Create a poll for an amendment about what just occured.

[Anodyne]

Hmm... some notes on the Impeachment-process;

As there are three options; Yes, Nay and Abstain, I'd suggest that the Impeachment would occur when

a) the amount of Yes-votes is over 66%, OR
b) the amount of No-votes is under 33%.

Otherwise, if only the a)-choice (as in present suggestion) is taken, the Abstain-option would be quite useless and identical with Nay...

[Pandemoniak]

Theres no need of an abstain option, abstain means you dont vote. If you dont vote, you dont vote " i ddidnt voted", you just dont vote in the poll. Its pure logic.

[Anodyne]

(I copy/pasted my previous post the 2nd Constitutional Committee-thread where it really belongs)

Pande> Sure, yes, but by the number of Abstain-votes we can see how "interested" people are in the choices, or do they really care at all.

And like pointed out before, those three options are usually the ones IRL, too...

[DeathByTheSword]

Pande about the example: the DEI can only ask for troops from the DOP and the colonypods are always under DCT so here by there is no problem and i think that i already made the job discreption rather clear with the, somewhat simple, lines under the rights/duties part. ?

[lucky22]

So the director of social engineering deals with distribution of tax income, tax rates, etc. ?

[DeathByTheSword]

yes

[Pandemoniak]

Originally posted by Ade

Pande> Sure, yes, but by the number of Abstain-votes we can see how "interested" people are in the choices, or do they really care at all.

And like pointed out before, those three options are usually the ones IRL, too...

I never saw an "abstain" note in a ballot... And we french people vote very often !

[DeathByTheSword]

still in the planet councel you can be abstain and you can vote so here too

[Anodyne]

Pandemoniak> You can always leave an empty ballot...

[DeathByTheSword]

If the people want it out it will be out ask them if you are really upset about it

[Pandemoniak]

Originally posted by DeathByTheSword
Pande about the example: the DEI can only ask for troops from the DOP and the colonypods are always under DCT so here by there is no problem and i think that i already made the job discreption rather clear with the, somewhat simple, lines under the rights/duties part. ?

Hmmm... Okay about that, but I still support a Court, just in case. We cannot pretend that we wont have any constitutional problems, especially in the beginning of the game. This court would be a very useful tool, I think, providing the initiatives and pointing things that dont work perfectly. the Court is a watchdog, its it main task. The second one is to decide how must the constitution be read in case of problems, and clarify it when needed.

[DeathByTheSword]

ok if you write the lines about the court for the constitution we can make a poll about it but can you then also start this court....I for one am a citizen this term and is closely involved with the making of the Constitution so I wouldnt mind doing it.

[Pandemoniak]

I ll post a poll about the Court