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Is this proposal legal and abides terms of general assembly?

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Is this proposal legal and abides terms of general assembly?

Postby AJ Empire » Sun Oct 24, 2021 1:58 am

I have made a mild proposal that will recommend to limit arms, but not sure if it abides all terms, can anyone please cross check and tell if it's legal as I don't want proposal to get illegal status.
World assembly,

Recognising the world tensions and disharmony among nations; global arms and nuclear race; unnecessary high defence budget that neglects other budgets including welfare, education and health; increasing global radiations affecting all nations; proposes the following -:

1) limited manufacturing of hydrogen/atomic bombs and ballistics missiles and implementation of proper anti radiation measures in building and maintaining of these.

2) no nation should have a compulsory conscription for a long period and soldiers should have their free will to resign/desert. Some basic rights of soldiers should be valued.

3) limited manufacturing of dangerous weaponry including battleships, fighting jets, heavy tanks, artillery and high tech automobiles such as war robots. Transport helicopters and armed personnel carriers are exceptions.

4) tax cut on unnecessary military spending and providing other important facilities including healthcare, education and welfare for citizens.

5) it should be the duty of developed and pacific nations to provide foreign aid on war torn regions and maintaining peace throughout. Diplomatic solutions should be opted instead of aggressive/military.

Can I post this?
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Postby Bears Armed » Sun Oct 24, 2021 4:24 am

AJ Empire wrote:I have made a mild proposal that will recommend to limit arms, but not sure if it abides all terms, can anyone please cross check and tell if it's legal as I don't want proposal to get illegal status.
World assembly,
Should be "The World Assembly,"

Recognising the world tensions and disharmony among nations; global arms and nuclear race; unnecessary high defence budget that neglects other budgets including welfare, education and health; increasing global radiations affecting all nations;
NationStates' nations are not all situated in a single "world", and there are some of them for which these listed problems do not apply. Also, remember that the Assembly can only legislate for its member nations and therefore can not have direct effects on non-members. A better wording would be something along the lines of
Recognising that many nations face problems due to international rivalries and tension; arms and nuclear races; resultant high defence budgets that reduce spending on other matters such as welfare, education, and health; and in some cases increasing global radiation levels;


proposes the following -:
That's definitely Illegal. Proposals must be written as the laws that they would be if already passed, so the verb used here needs to be one along the line of "requires", "decrees", or "mandates"... and then replace "the following" with "that member nations must" to make it clear that you aren't trying to legislate on non-members' behaviour as well.

1) limited manufacturing of hydrogen/atomic bombs and ballistics missiles and implementation of proper anti radiation measures in building and maintaining of these.
You need to set some rules about the limits, otherwise some nations will just set "limits" at or above their current levels of production anyway. Also, there should be a hyphen in "anti-radiation".
Also, as you can't limit production by non-members you would need to limit imports from those as well... or, more simply, set limits on the numbers that can be owned.

2) no nation should have a compulsory conscription for a long period and soldiers should have their free will to resign/desert. Some basic rights of soldiers should be valued.
Mostly covered by existing resolutions already, I think, and a "right to desert" would be extremely unlikely to pass. Also, in G.A. legislation, precedent says that "should" doesn't do anything. As this clause isn't really part of the proposal's main theme anyway, I suggest removing it altogether.


3) limited manufacturing of dangerous weaponry including battleships, fighting jets, heavy tanks, artillery and high tech automobiles such as war robots. Transport helicopters and armed personnel carriers are exceptions.
See what I said for clause '1'.

4) tax cut on unnecessary military spending and providing other important facilities including healthcare, education and welfare for citizens.
Are you talking about the division of government spending, rather than "tax", here? If you did mean "tax" then that is illegal, because an earlier resolution means that the Assembly cannot interfere with member nation's internal taxation. If you are talking about division of spending instead, then this clause would be effectively toothless unless it actually set minimum levels for those changes... but if you did set minimum levels then the proposal would be illegal for 'Game Mechanics', because the changes made due to passing resolutions are coded into the game as set values depending on Category and Strength/'Area of Effect'. The best that you can do here, legally, is "encourage" or "urge" member nations to make such changes.

5) it should be the duty of developed and pacific nations to provide foreign aid on war torn regions and maintaining peace throughout. Diplomatic solutions should be opted instead of aggressive/military.
As already noted, "should" actually doesn't do anything, and it would be advisable to say "member nations" rather than just "nations". Also, there should be a hyphen in "war-torn" and that should be "opted for" rather than just "opted".

Can I post this?
No.
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