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Members of the A.S.E., I'm planning to make a bill against slavery. I want to know if you as members of the A.S.E. would support this bill. As I have seen that there is no support in the Senate for an immediate emancipationof all slaves, it shall be a moderate bill. I would like to make at least a start to give the slaves civil rights and so create equality before the law. Perhaps further emancipation can be achieved as the conservatives discover that unequality and poverty is not a good basis for a strong nation and happy and educated workers can serve our nation much better than poor illiterate slaves. Therefore I want to include this in the bill:
1. The government must start immediately freeing slaves by housing them in our current cities and newly conquered cities.
2. The government must free as many slaves as new citizens can be housed in our current cities and in the newly conquered cities.
3. The government needn't to house more slaves in the new cities if the city should fall into disorder when more slaves are being housed that particular city.
4. The government needn't to house slaves in cities in which parts of the population resists the government.
5. The government may keep 50% of the slaves to complete public works on tiles that are currently under our rule and regions that may come under our rule. As there are no more public works to be built, those slaves must immediately be freed according to the rules above.
6. The government may only stop freeing slaves when either our national income drops below 70 percent of our current national income: 804 lytons par turn or we are attacked by six or more countries on the same continent of which two must have adjacent borders and there exists a threat of losing cities to these six or other enemies whether they be on the same continent or not.
I'd like to hear any comments. If people think that any requirements should be added, removed or altered please let me know in this thread. Keep in mind that there is not enough support for immediate freeing of all the slaves and the bill should be moderate. If people think this bill isn't moderate enough, or just too moderate I'd like to hear that too, but please come with arguments.
Equality before the law should not be something to fight for, but a self-evidency.
Thanks,
Aidun
1. The government must start immediately freeing slaves by housing them in our current cities and newly conquered cities.
2. The government must free as many slaves as new citizens can be housed in our current cities and in the newly conquered cities.
3. The government needn't to house more slaves in the new cities if the city should fall into disorder when more slaves are being housed that particular city.
4. The government needn't to house slaves in cities in which parts of the population resists the government.
5. The government may keep 50% of the slaves to complete public works on tiles that are currently under our rule and regions that may come under our rule. As there are no more public works to be built, those slaves must immediately be freed according to the rules above.
6. The government may only stop freeing slaves when either our national income drops below 70 percent of our current national income: 804 lytons par turn or we are attacked by six or more countries on the same continent of which two must have adjacent borders and there exists a threat of losing cities to these six or other enemies whether they be on the same continent or not.
I'd like to hear any comments. If people think that any requirements should be added, removed or altered please let me know in this thread. Keep in mind that there is not enough support for immediate freeing of all the slaves and the bill should be moderate. If people think this bill isn't moderate enough, or just too moderate I'd like to hear that too, but please come with arguments.
Equality before the law should not be something to fight for, but a self-evidency.
Thanks,
Aidun
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