The following serves as a notice for proposals brought to the Lord Chancellor, and proposals passed through the Lower House of the Assembly, to be brought before His Imperial Holiness during the Upper House Assembly for deliberation and final consideration. Additional proposals to be brought to the docket can be pitched to the Lord Chancellor, at their discretion. OOC Notes & Clarifications I will post each High Assembly's date/proposals as a new comment. Please do not comment on this thread, I will have it deleted. See THIS thread for explanations of what this is.
Tuesday the 23rd of November Upper House Assembly ((this Assembly was moved due to OOC considerations. I do not think this will be a common occurrence, so expect all other Upper Houses to be on Saturdays. Time is exactly the same.)) Individuals with overt and grotesque extra-planar mutations are forced to conceal their afflictions while visiting the center-isle of our fair capital. To enact a permanent ban on the holding of Government Offices for those who have converted away from unionism. Upper House Assembly Verdicts: -Motion failed, as none came to support. -Motion partially passed, with the following words from His Imperial Highness, Dominic Kade, acting as the voice of the Crown and His Imperial Holiness: The Crown considers the law inadequate at redressing faltering loyalty of those who convert away from unionism. It is the Emperor's opinion that it is the right of those in families to dictate their patriarchial or matriarchal or other family institution of spirituality, the Emperor finds too often that Unionism, or indeed any faith like Old Gods, is forced onto the child, instead of letting the child come to the natural conclusions of spiritual rightness by providence found in the world all around us. The Everwatcher acts, and is proven to act in the miracles brought about for Unionism. But all too often is a child forced to believe the words of the Everwatcher at the threat of a beating. A belief fostered by punihsment as opposed to righteous being is one born out of deceit and willfull betrayal. it is not a matter of whether the individual will convert at that point, the betrayal is already made. [The Imperial Prince addresses possible rebuttals to this.] We arrive at the complicated solution that many in this room claim to be Unionist, but we all know very dearly most of you just pay lip service to the Everwatcher and say the holy words to please the matter of Optics. As a matter of fact, if anyone were to convert, we wouldn't even know because many may hide their religious articles in their drawers. Or hope that public declarations of conversion are quickly forgotten, like Mister Rodsvar. The Crown will thus institute this first: A policy of public declaration of faith of any one individual to the bureaucracy. Any person who is of adult age may proceed to the Bureaucracy adn declare their faith on citizenship record. Even if a child is raised in a Unionist household, no presumption of faith shall be made until this person has legally and with their own consent made a declaration before the Bureaucracy. This shall also go into effect for all adults of all ages in the coming two weeks, and those who fail to present will be presumed Unionist if Noble, and Agnostic if Common. Then, when faith is successfully registered, we shall approve the proposal to ban those who convert away from Unionism from holding government office, but only applicable for those who were registered as Unionist and convert /after/ registration. For purposes of adequate registry, we shall permit the registrations of Unionists by Denomination, Wavering Unionist, Atheist, Agnostic, or indeed any other religion that is legal in the Empire. And this data will be made publicly available. -[Brought forward by the Crown] A proposal regarding the War in Ellador, tabled until the next Upper House after inadequate solutions brought forth.
Saturday the 4th of December Upper House Assembly Petition his Imperial Holiness to create bill of protections and rights for all citizens of the empire, as he is the one who can best capture these founding principles of grace, protection, and compassion whilst extending them to us, his Loyal Subjects and followers. This would serve to protect all from potential corruption, excessive punishment, and undue cruelty from noble, state officials, and fellow citizens. It is illegal to impersonate or assume the privilege of a class of which one is not a member. Protected classes should include nobility, vassals , guardsmen, government, clergy, military, and knights. It is illegal to interrupt or interfere with Knightly duels. Upper House Assembly Verdicts: -Declined by the crown, for the following reason: "[...] True majority is not a number, but a sentiment and a thematic concept. When the heart tells us there is yet too much resistance to the common man basking in the love of the Crown, the Crown must with heavy heart talso decline approval of this proposal, as our rule is one styled with the consent and support of the peerage, not with tyrannical intent to overrule the minority." -Delegated to Chancellor. -Also delegated to Chancellor.
Saturday the 18th of December Upper House Assembly -A five-minute time limit to get to the ‘meat [sic, the point] ’ of a proposal, as to avoid wasted time with flowery language and unnecessary theatrics. -The Regald is permitted to hurry along speakers if the Regald is of the opinion that the speaker is delaying. -It shall be illegal for any individual with the exception of VIlliers Eclaire, those with Celatial approval, and the Violets on curing missions to enter the temple of Ness’s courtyard with weapon or armor. -The Crown sees no issue with this proposal. However, the current temple is in ruins and the grounds around it are barely fit for such a cordon. As such, the state is charged with exploring the costs and serving the bill for reconstruction and fortification of the surrounding area to make the street and temple grounds more discernable from one another. -Slaves within Imperial Borders be considered a separate legal class under Regalian Legal Code. This will supersede and replace the current code, which classifies those in involuntary servitude as the simple property of the owner. The rights and privileges of that class to be determined by appointment. -The Crown declines this proposal. -It is illegal to intentionally deceive the crown, officials acting in their capacity in the government or officials acting in their capacity in the violet order through falsification, verbal deception or forgery. -The Crown does not view this law as feasibly applicable in day to day guard business. The crime is already implied, and as such, the proposal is redundant.
Saturday the 22nd of January Upper House Assembly -Petition his Imperial Holiness to create bill of protections and rights for all citizens of the empire, as he is the one who can best capture these founding principles of grace, protection, and compassion whilst extending them to us, his Loyal Subjects and followers. This would serve to protect all from potential corruption, excessive punishment, and undue cruelty from noble, state officials, and fellow citizens. -Notion failed by 'vote' of assent from Nobles, as this bill would directly reduce their rights. -Mercenary contracts with the intent to harm be made illegal against individuals under the age of 18. -Declined by crown, as it is job of Mercenary Officer to prevent such bounties from passing.
