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1. This act is to be cited as the Fundamental Laws Supremacy Amendment.

Amendments
2. Article XIII is added to the Fundamental Laws, and the Article is titled Miscellaneous.
3. Section 1 is added to Article XIII of the Fundamental Laws, and the section reads as follows:

No law, decree, ruling, or any other action with the force of law can supersede, violate, conflict with, or override these Fundamental Laws. In the event of a conflict, violation, or an attempt at superseding this act, the law is invalid and these Fundamental Laws take precedence. This does not include amendments to these Fundamental Laws.

I'm reintroducing this for debate, given that it didn't make it to voting last time.

Wait, why does it not include amendments? You wouldn't want amendments to conflict with the main document.

Wait, why does it not include amendments? You wouldn't want amendments to conflict with the main document.

An amendment would be changing the document, therefore a conflict would lead to the amendment taking precedence, generally.

Is this neccesary? I'm not sure how to feel about laws that cannot, ever, be ammended.

Is this neccesary? I'm not sure how to feel about laws that cannot, ever, be ammended.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Ah. I misunderstood the final line. Nevermind.

It sounds good, but you might want to either add on a part describing what happens in a conflict of two ordinary laws, or do that in a separate document.

It sounds good, but you might want to either add on a part describing what happens in a conflict of two ordinary laws, or do that in a separate document.

That is a statutory thing, and would be better left to a law or judicial ruling. Additionally, laws generally don't conflict, and in the past, IIIRC, the general assumption was that implicit repeal was not a thing, as usually the Storting has resolved the conflict by amending the later law.

The reason this amendment exists is because the constitution of our realm is a VERY important law, and as such we need to enshrine that. The main reason for introducing it is to close a loophole that would be rather bad.

OK, thanks for clearing that up.

I move to vote on this Amendment.

Do we have a second?

I second.

Motion passes and is now heading to a vote

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