The Share The Cosâ Act (Amendment)

[Hooligan]

The Share The Cosâ Act

WHEREAS Article VIII Section 3 of the Organic Law reads, “Seats won by each party shall be divided by that party among its own members and supporters as it sees fit, with the proviso that each Member of the Cosâ may hold no more than thirty seats”, but

WHEREAS in today’s more populous Talossa, thirty seats is way too many for any one MC to hold, and

WHEREAS in tomorrow's even more populous Talossa, it would be cool (and cool is what we're all about) if the number of seats per MC would maybe drop proportionally, enabling more and more Talossan citizens to become involved in the national government, and

WHEREAS letting the Ziu decide and re-decide things that are worth changing with the times is better than setting them forever in stone in the Organic Law, and

WHEREAS we just spent a couple WHEREAS's showing that this seating thing is just such a "worth changing with the times" kind of thing, now

THEREFORE the Senäts and Cosâ hereby approve the following Amendment to the Organic Law, and transmit it to the populace for ratification.

Article VIII Section 3 of the Organic Law is amended to read:

Each party shall assign the seats won by that party as it sees fit, except that no Member of the Cosâ may hold more than thirty seats. But the Ziu may further limit, by a law to take effect only after the next General Election, the number of seats that any one Member of the Cosâ may hold, in which case the same limit shall apply to all Members of the Cosâ.

FURTHERMORE, since counting the eyes, ears, nostrils, lungs, and thumbnails of 59 Talossans gives us 590, which is as good a number as any to start with, the King, the Senäts, and the Cosâ in this present Ziu assembled, hereby enact, effective immediately after the next General Election after the ratification and proclamation of the above amendment, that:

No person shall hold more seats in the Cosâ than 590 divided by the number of ballots cast in the most recent General Election, rounded up to the next integer.

Uréu q'estadra så:
Mà Barôn Tepistà (MC, RUMP)

[Lord Q]

Why don't we just go back to a 20-seat Cosa? I think we're vibrant enough once again to drop the EM200 system.

[Hooligan]

Milord --

The 36th Cosâ actually saw us so vibrant that we had 21 or 22 MC's. One of the great things about Talossa is the ability to get involved in drafting and deciding legislation at the national level immediately if a new immigrant so desires. Restricting the Cosâ to 20 would mean that as we grow in population, it will immediately become more difficult for new citizens to find a way to contribute to their nation.

Keeping the EM200 system allows us quite a bit more flexibility. The present proposal will actually help to keep the number of human Cosâ members growing, which is more beneficial to the nation, I believe, than fixing the number of humans at a specific number.

Fixing the count of legislators at a specific number would tend to cause an Old Boy's Club to be seen (even if it is not actually there).

Additionally, lowering the seat count to 20 would inhibit the growth of new parties, since it would require a new party to achieve ten-times as many votes in a general election as they currently need to poll simply to have a voice in the Cosâ.

My preference is to leave us with plenty of seats, and make sure that this means we will always have a growing number of citizens who can be involved in legislating from Cosâ seats.

Hooligan

[Sir C. M. Siervicül]

castiglha said:

Why don't we just go back to a 20-seat Cosa? I think we're vibrant enough once again to drop the EM200 system.

I've thought about returning to a "Real Cosa." I think it's something we ought to seriously consider in another two or three election cycles. I don't think we're quite there yet, though. I wouldn't want to make that change until we're certain we can do it better than it was done last time.

[Xhorxh Asmour]

I'm for the EM200 system.

[Hooligan]

S:reu Secretary of State --

The required five-days before the First Clark of a Cosâ having come and gone, with this bill sitting here, and with the only question on it having been addressed, I believe this bill is as ready for prime-time as it will ever be. Let's see what the Cosâ thinks of it. I ask that it be added to the Clark for the upcoming session of the Ziu, beginning tomorrow.

Thanky muchly,
Lord Hooligan