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Hello, fellow Wintreans, and welcome to my campaign platform!

I have first become a citizen of Wintreath on 26th of April, 2014. During these eleven months or so, I have mostly been keeping myself to the cultural areas of the forum and I must say I am really fortunate to have the opportunity to be part of the Wintreath family.  To be honest, if I had not been aware of the existence of such a friendly community in Wintreath, I would have left Nationstates a few months ago due to the loss of interest and the fact that my end-of-year examinations were around the corner. While it is my first time running for Underhusen, my desire to contribute more to the community has given me the necessary motivation.

Without further ado, I shall proceed to state what I seek to achieve during my term should I be elected.

My main legislative goal will be to introduce and pass the Omnibus Correction Act. It will be a compilation of amendments that can help polish the Laws of Wintreath by correcting spelling, grammatical, punctuation and sentence structure errors while having the potential to set a standard format for future legislation. In addition, I would like to include a clause to allow the equitable tolling of the statute of limitation in the Code of Criminal Laws.

I would also like to state that I strongly oppose the Default Seats of the Underhusen Act since it only serves to promote laziness by effectively removing one of the most basic tasks as a Skrifa and that I will actively seek its repeal should it be ratified. Instead, I am suggesting a referendum as an alternative to the Default Seats of the Underhusen Act since it involves citizen engagement, reduces the possibility of a completely inactive Underhusen while still being able to "prevent an accidential, or purposeful, lock-up in which no resolution CAN occur at all. Essentially preventing any elections from taking place", which is also the main purpose of passing the Default Seats of the Underhusen Act in the first place. My suggestion does not remove the power of the current Underhusen to decide for the number of legislators in its successor. As long as the current Underhusen manages to pass an Underhusen Seating Act in time before the elections, this clause will not come into effect.

To end off, at the most surface level, I can promise you a high level of activity and that every decision I make will be for the benefit of the region. If you have any questions, I will be more than glad to answer them.

Combating the default seats of the underhusen act does seem like a very poor idea. While yes, it does remove, to an extent, the amount of work that must be done it more importantly removes one of the ways to shut down our law system completely.
It seems a poor idea to leave failures in our law. How do you respond?

If the Skrifa who have been entrusted by their fellow Wintreans fail to accomplish such a basic task like deciding for the number of legislators in the next Underhusen, I would suggest removing this power from the Underhusen and transferring it to either the rest of the citizens in the form of a referendum or the Monarch himself.

While that could be a good idea, delegating more power to the monarch, while the monarch created the position to do less work in the first place, might be counter-intuitive. But I agree that meritocracy should take hold when democracy fails.

No underhusen has failed in this job so far and I doubt any will.
But it could be maliciously used to shut down the underhusen as there are no rules and procedures for what happens when that doesn't happen and there's no real way to fix it in such a situation. Which is why we put up this as a solution.
Also it's always five. The underhusen is literally always five seats.

Since we are taking it to the worst possible scenario, in that case, the next Underhusen can introduce a law or include a clause allowing a referendum to take place or for the Monarch to determine it himself should such a situation arise.

No underhusen has failed in this job so far and I doubt any will.
But it could be maliciously used to shut down the underhusen as there are no rules and procedures for what happens when that doesn't happen and there's no real way to fix it in such a situation. Which is why we put up this as a solution.
Also it's always five. The underhusen is literally always five seats.

This is true, but I can see where Sapphiron is coming from on this.  It's quite a simple task to make a decision at the end of each term, and if anything, doing it each term, while possibly seen as unnecessary since its the same number of seats, at least gives the Underhusen SOMETHING to do each term so that we'll never have a completely inactive Underhusen.

But I also disagree with giving the power to the monarch.  Having a default ensures that if the UH do fail to come to a number of seats themselves, then it'll have a pre-decided number to fall back on.  Considering the UH is supposed to be at least mostly free from the Monarch since it's a platform of representatives of the people...giving him power to control even a small detail of the UH seems highly contradictory.

Would a referendum be a reasonable alternative then? If the representatives are not able to live up to the expectations of the citizens/voters, at the very least allow the citizens to decide for themselves.

I think that'd certainly be a good thing to bring up to the citizens and gauge what they think.  I do like the idea of making up a referendum, but if we're going to let the citizens decide for themselves, the best alternative would be to ask whether they agree with the act as well or whether there needs to be an alternative.

I wholeheartedly agree with your viewpoint. To be able to represent the citizens, we must first be aware of their general stance on such issues.

Also, while the citizens voting on every single law before it can get passed would be highly impractical, I do believe we have an obligation to put every law before the citizens directly and ask: "are you okay with this?"

Specifically, once a law has been passed, hold a poll and ask that question. Otherwise the sample of data is not truly representative.

I don't believe I was asking for the citizens to vote on every single law though. That's what the Storting is for. My comments were purely targeted at the Default Seats of the Underhusen Act.

I know, but that's something that I still think should definitely be considered.

I see what you mean now.

Welcome to the campaign! Sorry to barge in on you without any direct questions for you, but I saw something that made me wonder...

If it's an obligation for the Citizens to directly vote in laws, would it not be best to eliminate elections and make the Underhusen an open assembly?