4. Upon the conclusion of the election, the Underhusen shall, under supervision of the Monarch, select a member of its own to preside over the Underhusen. Further procedure shall be declared in the Procedural Rules of the Underhusen.
12. The Storting shall have the authority to declare war upon another region or organization.
9. The recall election shall compose of a forty-eight hour nomination period in which candidates may stand for election, followed by a seventy-two hour election period. The winner of the recall election shall assume the seat in question upon its conclusion.
8. The Preamble of the Fundamental Laws of Wintreath shall be amended to read as follows:
3. Section 4 shall be added to the Declassification of Private Storting Discussion Procedure Act, and it shall read:
"Any powers given to the Speaker or Chairman by this act will also be given to the Speaker Pro Tempore and Acting Chairman if they are empowered by their respective Procedural Rules.”
3.1 The Storing shall have the authority to recognize any previous or current Citizen as a Paragon of Wintreath if it feels the individual was an essential member of the regional community, or performed invaluable service to the region, and/or otherwise embodied the principles, values, culture, or honour of the region.
2.2 The term of a judicial appointment lasts either the length of a case or a duration of 1 month from appointment, whichever comes first. At the end of the 1 month period, if the case is still being heard, it falls to the Monarch to reappoint members of the Storting to the Judiciary, or to the Speaker of the Underhusen and the Speaker of the Overhusen in the case of Monarchical absence.
3.1 Charax shall receive the Commendation of Wintreath for the following:
3.1.1 Running the Foreign Affairs Department
8. Statute of Limitation on this Act.
1. This shall be titled the Definition of Public Act.
(b) A motion to Extend Debate may include a time period shorter or longer than 48 hours, but is not shorter than 4 hours and is not longer than 1 week. Should no time period be given or should the time period be shorter or longer than what is allowed, the extension shall be 48 hours. If little to no active discussion has happened by the deadline of the first extension, the ability to extend debate/discussion shall be relinquished and a Skrifa other than the Speaker must motion to vote or table the bill. Active discussion shall be defined as any debate or discussion on a bill or its merits with significant or productive contributions from a majority (50% or more) of Skrifa.
(c) Abstain, indicating that the representative is voting neither in favor of nor against the proposal but wishes his or her vote to be recorded.
(c) The Speaker may close a vote but leave the record open to allow other Skrifa to record their votes. Votes cast after the vote has been closed will not affect the result of the vote.
(b) The Speaker pro tempore, whenever he or she is presiding over the Underhusen, shall assume all of the responsibilities of the Speaker as listed in relevant law and shall be subject to the same constitutional and statutory restraints placed upon the Speaker.
16. (a)The Speaker (or standing Speaker) may deem members of the Underhusen "inactive" if they are not present for a prolonged period of time; this status can be ignored if supplanted by either the "inactive" member stating they are no longer inactive in the Underhusen or by majority vote of all current Skrifa. This status must be noted and maintained in a public listing in the Underhusen.
(d) If all Skrifa bar the Speaker (or standing Speaker) are deemed "inactive" then the session will be immediately suspended until either 1] The Skrifa return, or 2] The session ends. During this suspension, no proposals may be introduced, motioned on, or voted on in the Underhusen.
I see no problem with this other than one thing.That's not a change from earlier wording. Unless I'm sorely mistaken, the point of this act is just to fix grammar errors, of which this is not one.
For 2. Section 3b, I'm not to keen on it having such vauge descriptions. What is considered "little" discussion or a "significant" or "productive" contribution?
3.1 The Storing shall have the authority to recognize any previous or current Citizen as a Paragon of Wintreath if it feels the individual was an essential member of the regional community, or performed invaluable service to the region, and/or otherwise embodied the principles, values, culture, or honour of the region.
...And I just noticed a typo on one of the grammar laws (http://wintreath.com/forums/index.php?topic=4693.0). Godammit.Quote3.1 The Storing shall have the authority to recognize any previous or current Citizen as a Paragon of Wintreath if it feels the individual was an essential member of the regional community, or performed invaluable service to the region, and/or otherwise embodied the principles, values, culture, or honour of the region.
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/A2GN_jM1DuI/maxresdefault.jpg)...And I just noticed a typo on one of the grammar laws (http://wintreath.com/forums/index.php?topic=4693.0). Godammit.Quote3.1 The Storing shall have the authority to recognize any previous or current Citizen as a Paragon of Wintreath if it feels the individual was an essential member of the regional community, or performed invaluable service to the region, and/or otherwise embodied the principles, values, culture, or honour of the region.
That is the most ironic thing I've seen in my life xD
I think we have enough of these to create a "missing period in title clause amendment act." :PI looked over some of those smaller laws quickly during my grammar check, so it makes sense that I missed some small mistakes like that. But that's a lot of laws! I'll look them over later today.
Laws with missing periods:
Declassification of Private Storting Discussion Procedure Act
Declassification Amendment Act
The Repeal of the Treaty Between Wintreath and the People's Republic of Lazarus Act
Repeal of the Treaty of Friendship with Ainur Act
The Anti-NPO/NLO Citizenship Requirement Act (this one is even worse, though it also repealed, so I'm guessing that's why Mathy ignored it)
Repeal of The Anti-NPO/NLO Act
Amendment to the Citizenship and Demonym Act (hey we just passed this! why didn't we noticed this?)
The Charax Romanov Act
The Amalya Paragon Act
The Underhusen Elections Clarification Act (hey we also just passed this!)
I don't know if you can change this, but the position of "Paragons" is the only one listed as a plural, it should be "Paragon" to match all the others. Unless "Underhusen" and "Riksråd" are the same singular and plural and I just don't know it because I don't speak Scandinavian.What law is this about?
"Diplomatic" also doesn't fit in, seems like it should be "Diplomat", but it's hard to tell since nobody is in that group.
She isn't talking about laws, but rather user maskings on the forums, I think (which is an issue for @Wintermoot).I don't know if you can change this, but the position of "Paragons" is the only one listed as a plural, it should be "Paragon" to match all the others. Unless "Underhusen" and "Riksråd" are the same singular and plural and I just don't know it because I don't speak Scandinavian.What law is this about?
"Diplomatic" also doesn't fit in, seems like it should be "Diplomat", but it's hard to tell since nobody is in that group.
Title
1. This act shall be cited as the Statutory Law Punctuation Correction Act.
Amendment to the Repeal of The Anti-NPO/NLO Act
2. Section 1 of the Repeal of the Anti-NPO/NLO Act shall be amended to read:Quote1. This act shall be titled as the Repeal of the Anti-NPO/NLO Act.
Amendment to the Amendment to the Citizenship and Demonym Act
3. Section 1 of the Amendment to the Citizenship and Demonym Act shall be amended to read:Quote1. This bill shall be cited as the Amendment to the Citizenship and Demonym Act.
Amendment to the Charax Romanov Act
4. Section 1.1 of the Charax Romanov Act shall be amended to read:Quote1.1 This shall be titled the Charax Romanov Act.
Amendment to the Amalya Paragon Act
5. Section 1 of the Amalya Paragon Act shall be amended to read:Quote1. This shall be titled the Amalya Paragon Act.
Amendment to the Underhusen Elections Clarification Act
6. Section 1 of the Underhusen Elections Clarification Act shall be amended to read:Quote1. This bill shall be cited as The Underhusen Elections Clarification Act.
I'm holding off on the treaty amendments and the Declassification Acts because I'm not sure how to go about amending them. Especially the Declassification Acts because I'm not sure if those work the same as amendments to the constitution that have to go through a referendum.If we look at precedence, both the Declassification Act and its Amendment did not go through referendum, so I suspect that they're actually Statutory Law that was misentered on the Laws page.
When drafting the above bill, I almost wanted to omit the period in the first section to see if anyone noticed, then fix it, but I decided against it. :PDude.
Amendment to the Amalya Paragon Act
5. Section 1 of the Amalya Paragon Act shall be amended to read:Quote1. This shall be titled the Amalya Paragon Act
Dude.*ninja edits*Amendment to the Amalya Paragon Act
5. Section 1 of the Amalya Paragon Act shall be amended to read:Quote1. This shall be titled the Amalya Paragon Act
@taulover , for the discussion in the Grammar Corrections Resolution, could you not just use the word "encourages"?I didn't want to use "encourage" twice in a row. Silly, I know, but this is a non-binding resolution, so style is most important.
1. This act shall be cited as The Weissriech Commendation Act.