Back and ready to annoy, whining about Cézembre.

[Glüc da Dhi]

(Future of Cézembre, part 4)

There is not a lot we have to do this term, but there are a few things:

1.
I once again edited the news section of our provincial website: www.cezembre.moonfruit.com. Maybe because of the information act, maybe because I'm just bored. Not because I think Cézembrians will actually read it.

2.
Our provincial assembly is almost complete. Only the CRO still has to assign one seat.

3.
The information about Cézembre on the provincial governments page is still incorrect. Last year I edited the Cézembrian page with the help of Lord Hooligan. Maybe I'll have to contact him about this as well.

4.
There are still a few holes in our constitution. Election procedures are not clear and there still isn a clear procedure about amending the constitution in case the king is inactive. Maybe we have to do something about that later this year, but amending the constitution is rather complicated. Anyway, suggestions are welcome.

5.
Maybe we should give our new assembly something to do. Everyone who wants to propose provincial legislature (maybe a second cezembrian culture act) is of course welcome.

Anyway, lets continue to grow and be a little bit more active every year. We are, after all, the best province of Talossa.

[Dame Litz Cjantscheir, UrN]

Excellent, the site looks well done and I think a big well done is in order for the work you have done thus far and may it long continue!

As regards point 4 above:

4.
There are still a few holes in our constitution. Election procedures are not clear and there still isn a clear procedure about amending the constitution in case the king is inactive. Maybe we have to do something about that later this year, but amending the constitution is rather complicated. Anyway, suggestions are welcome.

Election procedures in something that I think the Provincial Assembly should work on this term and hopefully have something in place when the next elections arise. As regards the "no clear procedure in case the King is inactive", Chapter VIII- Amendments, Article 16 of the Constitution of Cezembre makes no mention of the King of Talossa in amending the constitution, it states that the Governor-General/ Cunstaval of the province, proclaims any amendment approved by both the Citizens and Assembly of this province, so if the Governor-General is inactive, then I think that we should politely and respectfully bring this to the King's attention and ask him to replace the said inactive Governor-General with someone who is active in accordance with the Organic Law (there is also a back-up clause in Art.9 of the Constitution, stating that the King can act in lieu of the Governor-General in case of "long-term absence"). If the King (which he hopefully never will) becomes inactive, then that is a matter for the nation as a whole to address and something we, at a provincial level, don't really need to worry about.

As regards, item number 5, I think, Election Law/Procedures should be one of our main issues this term and I'm sure we'll think of lots more on the way!

[Glüc da Dhi]

May 5, 2010 16:09:16 GMT -6 Dame Litz Cjantscheir, UrN said:

Excellent, the site looks well done and I think a big well done is in order for the work you have done thus far and may it long continue!

thx ;D

Election procedures in something that I think the Provincial Assembly should work on this term and hopefully have something in place when the next elections arise. As regards the "no clear procedure in case the King is inactive", Chapter VIII- Amendments, Article 16 of the Constitution of Cezembre makes no mention of the King of Talossa in amending the constitution, it states that the Governor-General/ Cunstaval of the province, proclaims any amendment approved by both the Citizens and Assembly of this province, so if the Governor-General is inactive, then I think that we should politely and respectfully bring this to the King's attention and ask him to replace the said inactive Governor-General with someone who is active in accordance with the Organic Law (there is also a back-up clause in Art.9 of the Constitution, stating that the King can act in lieu of the Governor-General in case of "long-term absence"). If the King (which he hopefully never will) becomes inactive, then that is a matter for the nation as a whole to address and something we, at a provincial level, don't really need to worry about.

As regards, item number 5, I think, Election Law/Procedures should be one of our main issues this term and I'm sure we'll think of lots more on the way!

You probably understand the law better then I do, but I do know about the last time we tried to amend or actually create a new constitution. The province accepted this constitution before I became a citizen, when Owen Edwards (I still hope he'll once return to Talossa) was still Sénéchal (our constitution says it should be Seneschal, but I think it used to be Sénéchal, well eeh, never mind). Anyway, nothing happened. A year later, when I contacted our Governor-General, Xhorxh Asmour, who actually is an active citizen, he sent the constitution to our king for ratification, but the king never responded, until I tried to pass the constitution with help of the ziu. The king vetoed that bill, but instead proclaimed our constitution.

Therefore it seems neccesary to me that we should have a plan b for if amendments arent proclaimed, nor rejected by the king or constable.

Anyway, its great to see a Cézembrian, who is concerned with our wonderful island. I look forward to working together with you (and maybe other Cézembrians) to improve our great province.

[Dame Litz Cjantscheir, UrN]

I can see where your coming from and I agree with you that the good people of this province shouldn't have to run around chasing people to get things done in the province as this not only discourages activity, but will put people off doing any sort of bill/amendment knowing that it may take months or even a year for it to receive the stamp of approval from the powers that be.

From reading both the the Article regarding the Provinces in the Organic Law and the Cézembre constitution, what I understand is that our Governor-General, has the power to proclaim the constitution and amendments to it (provided they don't breach a number of conditions set by Organic Law), however, what our constitution lacks is some sort of clear timeline, in which the Governor-General/King must sign or veto the Bill (like that in the Organic Law in reagrds the bills of the Ziu), so our constitution should be amended to read something like "If the Governor-General does not sign or veto the bill X days after being approved by the Provincial Assembly, such Bill shall be considered signed" and maybe something like "Within X days after a Amendment has been passed by the Citizens of Cézembre, the Governor-General must proclaim this Amendment, if no such proclamation is made within this time, the Amendment will be automatically, deemed proclaimed." or something along those lines.

Lastly, I believe that the Provincial Assembly, should focus on and work with the Governor-General rather than the King and also hold the Governor-General more accountable to the province, as the Governor-General is the King's Rep. at provincial level and should be doing the the King's work, s/he's appointed to do at provincial level, rather than acting as a middle man, passing bills, constitutions and its amendments to the King, s/he should be proclaiming and signing these bills, which is what s/he was appointed to do. I would like to see this role development, so that we have a working Assembly and a working Governor-General, that can work together to better this province.