Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 6:12 pm
In a proposal, can a committee be allowed to establish subcommittees, inferior bodies, et cetera?
Because sometimes even national leaders just want to hang out
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Christian Democrats wrote:In a proposal, can a committee be allowed to establish subcommittees, inferior bodies, et cetera?
Flibbleites wrote:Christian Democrats wrote:In a proposal, can a committee be allowed to establish subcommittees, inferior bodies, et cetera?
Well, resolutions have created subcommittees for committees create by other resolutions, so I don't see why a resolution couldn't create a subcommittee for a committee that it creates (heck, it might have be that it's already happened and I can't think of it).
Ghanara wrote:I have a question about campaigning in order to get your proposal approved. The rules for proposals specifically prohibit excessive campaigning, using words like "pimping," "spamming," and "hustling." However, I know it is commonplace to contact delegates and ask for their approval. So, my question is, where is the line drawn? How do I solicit approvals without breaking the rules?
Bears Armed wrote:Ghanara wrote:I have a question about campaigning in order to get your proposal approved. The rules for proposals specifically prohibit excessive campaigning, using words like "pimping," "spamming," and "hustling." However, I know it is commonplace to contact delegates and ask for their approval. So, my question is, where is the line drawn? How do I solicit approvals without breaking the rules?
You're allowed to send one TG per proposal to each delegate, unless there's a message on their region's page saying not to do so (maybe not if their nation's motto says not to do so, either, although as far as I'm aware that's still officially considered to be a matter of manners rather than of rules).
Sending repeat TGs is out, unless they've actually replied to your original one with a request for further information that you're now supplying, and if you have two or more people sending TGs for a single proposal then you need to coordinate matters so that only one of you contacts each delegate.
Posting adverts for the proposal in forum threads that are supposed to be about different subjects is also forbidden, and so is creating multiple threads of your own to advertise it.[Not-a-Mod]
Ardchoille wrote:Subcommittees that really are sub, yes -- for example, you might have a committee for making displays of military rank uniform, and suibcommittees to deal with each of the services.
You can't have a subcommittee that has more power than its originating committee.
You can't have a subcommittee that has more power than the WA.
You can't have a subcommittee that goes beyond the scope of its original committee, or the originating proposal. You'd need a separate proposal for that.
Ardchoille wrote:Seriously, I can't remember ever rejecting any proposal, or seeing one rejected, on its title alone ...
Bears Armed wrote:Maybe not, but I can certainly remember arguments about whether the title was included in the "legally binding" sections of the wording...
St Eedyets wrote:St Eedyets would like to make a Proposal - new to this, trying to understand, we find some nations' responses very unkind, they do not seem to understand we are not experienced about where to post, what to write etc. Could the GA propose that nation states attempt to be kind to other NSC when posting outside of obvious war-based threads.
Mousebumples wrote:Does the House of Cards rule apply in repeals? Presumably, any resolutions referenced in a given repeal would still be active at the time of the repeal's passage. I don't know that a repeal can be "undermined" in the same way that a resolution could be, should those referenced resolutions later be repealed.
Thanks!
Ardchoille wrote:Despite my firm belief that exceptions just confuse people, I have been over-ruled by my colleagues and Artichokeville, all of whom insist on shamelessly using logic. It goes like this: say we allow HoC in repeals. We then get a repeal of Proposal A because of an argument based on Proposal C. Proposal A is repealed. Some months later, Proposal C is also repealed. Doesn't make any difference to A, since A is long gone. Doesn't make any difference to C. C's going makes a difference only to the repeal of A: it's now is based on no valid argument. But it was based on a valid argument when it did its job of repealing A. WA delegates are smart enough to read time-stamps.
So, since it doesn't make any real difference to the way legislation operates, you can go for broke. Fill your repeals with HoCs! See if I care!