I've tried to avoid metagaming, so I hope the Secretariat can provide some guidance. I believe this should be done right, and hope for input and collaboration moving forward.
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On the Structure of Legislative Exemptions
A resolution to preserve the intended principle in Assembly jurisprudence, that all inhabitants of member states be treated equally under the law and its actions.
Category: Civil Rights
Strength: Mild
The General Assembly,
Recognizing the importance of preserving civil rights for all inhabitants of member nations, both to maintain the greatest possible sense of equality among citizens, and to ensure that citizens comprehend their responsibility to equally respect the rights of all around them.
Acknowledging the vast diversity of races, genders, ages, orders of faith, systems of belief, and forms of government, and the difficult symbolic waters that must be navigated to ensure that legislation strikes the best, attainable balance of justice and acknowledgement of rights, throughout the multiverse.
Celebrating the Democratic process, and the ability of all WA citizens, and their representatives, to review, discuss, debate, and decide on all legislation, and their inherent right to be given the full scope of information so that they may make the most informed decision possible.
Hereby:
Defines, for the purpose of this resolution:
An ‘exemption’ as any portion of a resolution that indicates that an individual, group, organization, or association is eliminated from the mandates, penalties, suggestions, or equivalent encouragements of that legislation.
Mandates that nations may no longer be subject to WA legislation that include exemptions, expressed directly or as an understood result of language used, unless:
- It is made resoundingly clear that an exemption is being given
- It is made clear who, specifically is being exempted
- It is made clear why this individual or group is being exempted
- All nations are given a clear right to legislate around the exemption, unless otherwise indicated
- The Assembly has knowingly approved the legislation containing this exemption, as an inherent and obvious part
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