On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Charles Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > A party is a type of second-class person and a player.
What happens if one is deregistered? > A player CAN flip eir party membership by > announcement, provided that e satisfies any conditions for doing > so in the constitutions of the prior party (if any) and the new > party (if any). Best to include "determinate" somewhere, ditto all the rest of the places where the constitution is authorizing something. > Each party has a constitution, which must contain its name and > any conditions for joining and leaving the party; it CAN be > amended by any of its members without objection from another > member. What happens if it's amended to not contain a name? > Party members SHALL obey eir party's constitution. their > Party members SHOULD vote according to eir party's Whip on an > Agoran decision. If ey fail to do so, ey SHALL transfer the > relevant Rebellion Fine (if any) to eir party in a timely manner > afterwards. they, their > For an Agoran decision with an adoption index the party of the > proposal's author and the Whips of each party, if any, on the > proposal are essential parameters. This should only apply to decisions to adopt proposals. > a) Majority Leader. The Majority Leader CAN veto a specified > ordinary decision in its voting period by announcement; this > increases its Adoption Index by 1. As many times as e wants? > b) Minority Leader. The Minority Leader CAN filibuster a > specified ordinary decision in its voting period by > announcement; this makes it Democratic and sets its quorum to > half the number of eligible voters, except if that would > decrease the quorum, Rules to the contrary notwithstanding. Should reword to clarify that this is a persistent redefinition of quorum rather than an attempt at instantaneous change. I'd rather have a rubberstamp than two different forms of veto. > c) Chief Whip. The Chief Whip's voting limit on an Ordinary > decision is 1.5 times what it would otherwise be. Rounded? > 3) Each eligible voter's voting limit is what it would be on an > Ordinary decision initiated at the same time, and can be > changed in the same manner as on an Ordinary decision, except > that the decision cannot be made Democratic. Yuck. I'd rather make all decisions possess Chamber. > Upon the resolution of this decision, if the outcome is a party > leader, and e got more votes than all other party leaders > combined, e becomes the Speaker. I would redefine outcome instead. In general, I'm not sure if there are enough active players to make this work well (unlike in, say, BlogNomic), but we could certainly try.
