SENATE BILL: Wartime Authorization of FAM to sign Treaties

[Togas]

This bill will give the FAM flexibility to sign treaties, alliances, embargos, and pacts with other nations for the duration of our present war. It will allow the turnchat team the freedom to manage foreign relations during the chat without stopping to create a Senate Poll.

This poll will be open for 3 days.

Text of the bill:

"The Senate hereby defers to the President in giving permission to the FAM to sign any and all treaties with foreign nations for the duration of our war with Rome, Germany, and their allies.

By the passing of this bill, the Senate approves any treaty that is proposed by the FAM and approved by the President for the duration of this bill.

This bill expires when Apolyton is no longer in a state of war with any nation."

--Togas

[joncnunn]

My sugestion is that we sign alliances with Japan & India against China to make a turn this into a true World Wide War.

If Zulu joins the Axis of Evil, have our Asian partners attack them as well.

[GodKing]

As it is of a temporary nature, I fully support this. If the other bill as discussed (perminant in nature) comes up (they are not mutually exclusive) then I will vote against it. I don't like the idea of making this perminant yet. Perhaps after sitting and thinking about it for a while I may change my mind.

GK

[Arnelos]

This bill is needed

[ManicStarSeed]

Uhhh gee, how can I say no?

Mss

[Aidun]

I'm just new today, so perhaps do don't understand things yet, but when does a war against some country and its allies end? I think never until one side has won. See WWI. If I'm not wrong, this law gives the government ultimate power on Foreign Affairs while the Senate is unable to control. Please explain before I vote.

- Aidun

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by Aidun
I'm just new today, so perhaps do don't understand things yet, but when does a war against some country and its allies end? I think never until one side has won. See WWI. If I'm not wrong, this law gives the government ultimate power on Foreign Affairs while the Senate is unable to control. Please explain before I vote.

- Aidun

Basically, the idea here is that the government currently has to keep stopping the game every single time another power enters the war and that heavily bogs down the game.

To prevent this, we would give the government the power to sign alliances against powers we are already at war with so that we can ensure that additional powers don't side with the enemy rather than us. The idea is that hte government could do that DURING A TURNCHAT (we do the game in 5-turn bursts) so that we don't have to horrendously slow down the game so the Senate has to vote on each individual treaty.

That said, you are correct that this does give the government VERY BROAD leeway to sign alliances treaties in time of war. If you're not keen to give the government that type of power, don't vote for it.

I think that basically covers the issue (others please add if I'm forgetting something).

(BTW, I wonder how an endorsement to give the government emergency powers comes from a President who happens to be using Palpatine as his avatar )

[ManicStarSeed]

Originally posted by Arnelos
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(BTW, I wonder how an endorsement to give the government emergency powers comes from a President who happens to be using Palpatine as his avatar )

I am glad you said it... I was itching to say it

[Aidun]

Right, I understand. Ill agree with it. Consociacialism, "let the government govern without too much parliamentary intervention", is after all a successive type of democracy.

Who can tell me btw about the turnchat? Or can I red is somewhere?

[Meshelic]

Originally posted by Arnelos

(BTW, I wonder how an endorsement to give the government emergency powers comes from a President who happens to be using Palpatine as his avatar )

I suggest we all keep a close eye on Palpa...um Arnelos....he could be up to something sheisty......

From the desk of Chairman Meshelic
Labor Party

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by Aidun
Who can tell me btw about the turnchat? Or can I red is somewhere?

WHEN: For some reason, I can't seem to find the thread I posted for people to tell me their time availability (stupid cloaking thread bug... I seem to be the only one who has this problem). There's a thread (if you can see it) that's called something like "Time for First Chat of Term 7 (scheduling problems....)". Watch that thread to see for when I eventually post a TIME for the chat (or I may post a new thread, probably in all caps).

WHERE: Chats are always held (now that it works properly) on the Apolyton IRC server. If you have an IRC client, you can use that. If not, you can use Apolyton's javachat client (click on "chat" at the top of the screen). The channel name on the server is #civ3dem. If you need help with using IRC and getting on the Apolyton server, adaMada wrote some excellent instructions somewhere... hopefully he's watching this thread.

adaMada, if you're reading this, please post a link to your instructions for getting on 'poly chat. Thanks

[Arnelos]

Aidun,

Found the thread about chat time - CLICK HERE. It's also permanently at the top of the thread list (for now...) if you're looking for it.

[joncnunn]

War Werriousness is based on loss of units on both sides in foreign territory, so even if we stay in a technical state of war but aren't really fighting (read: China & Zulu), War Werriousness won't increase but instead will slowly decrease over time.

(Yes, Zulu isn't at war with us yet, but since they have an embargo with the Chinese against us, they'll be declaring war against us soon.)

Our focus is going to be on elimenating Germany.

Russia & the Irq combined should be enough to eliminate Rome & the Babs, especally if Greece helps out.

Once we get India & Japan to declare war on China (making it truely a world-wide war) either India or China will elimate the other.

Japan is in no danger of falling to China because of how bad the AI is with sea invasions; the worst that could happen to Japan is that they lose one of their smaller islands and temporarly lose a city on a bigger island but take it back shortly thereafter.

I dought that the Zulu's could be wiped out by the AI players, but that island is small enough where it could happen.

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by joncnunn
Japan is in no danger of falling to China because of how bad the AI is with sea invasions; the worst that could happen to Japan is that they lose one of their smaller islands and temporarly lose a city on a bigger island but take it back shortly thereafter.

Japan being taken over by China?!

Japan is something like 6-8 technologies ahead of China in research and at least twice China's size. We shouldn't be worried about Japan getting hurt, we should worry about Japan invading pathetically primitive China and making Japan a more major rival down the road...

[joncnunn]

I dought we have to worry about China being overrun by Japan. At most Japan get's 2 or 3 cities while India on the same land mass gets the rest of the Chinese cities.