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Welcome to the glorious NationStates General Senate Chamber for the great nation of Aurentina.
This chamber is where all voting and official procedure will occur for the NSG Senate. You must be an NSG Senator to post.
DISCLAIMER: The following is a preliminary founding document of the NSG Senate. All legislation, and especially the NSG Constitution, including intent or implied meaning, comes before this document.
PLEASE READ ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE POSTING. ALSO, THESE RULES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE VIA PASSED LEGISLATION.
The Life of an NSG Bill
1. If there is a piece of legislation that has been submitted to me via telegram that has not yet come up for a vote, and we are not currently doing anything in the chamber, then I (and only I) will, as administrator, bring it up. I will post the text of the legislation in this thread in a quote box, and then declare that debate may begin.
2. After debate has begun, it is a free-for-all posting for or against the legislation. Make your arguments however you want to.
3. After some people feel that debate has gone on long enough, someone can do this:
"I move to close debate on this piece of legislation."
4. That motion then needs to be seconded, thirded, fourthed, and fifthed. Once that has happened, the vote will begin.
(keep in mind that you can "move" to do other things as well. These also need to be fifthed. For example, you could "move to send the current piece of legislation back to the drafting board.")
5. Once the vote has begun (which doesn't require me, it just requires the fifth) then people can either vote "Yea" or "Nay."
6. The vote will be closed automaticallytwenty-fourforty-eight hours (as of passage of legislation #1) after the "debate-closing motion" had been "fifthed." This deadline can be extended by use of a motion such as "I move to extend voting for another six hours..."
7. The vote will be tallied by me or another administrator, and action will be taken accordingly. A record of all passed legislation will be kept in this OP.
8. After a piece of legislation has been dealt with, it is just a matter of waiting until the next one gets put up by me or another administrator. If there are no new pieces of legislation, the Senate chamber will lie temporarily dormant.
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Safety and Order
International Relations
Miscellaneous
Business and Finance
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Domestic Development
Senate Procedures
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It wouldn't matter, he could continue with the new account.
