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<p>[QUOTE="Mortem Inferre, post: 920, member: 548"]Candidates, over the past few weeks I have submitted constitutional questions to the RMB, receiving responses that vary greatly. If you could, provide how you would rule and your reasoning in the following situations:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. The WA Delegate of Capitalist Paradise has been deleted by the moderators. As it was his/her sole WA nation, they no longer have a nation with Vassal status within Capitalist Paradise, but they do have a puppet in the region that meets citizenship requirements. Does the puppet nation of the deleted delegate hold claim to the delegacy, or must there be a new election? Something else?</p><p><br /></p><p>2. The constitution refers to individual nations, not entities controlling said nations. As such, does each individual nation hold the rights of membership, such as voting, vying for office, etc, or can only individual human entities behind the nations exercise such rights, eg one vote per person, not nation?</p><p><br /></p><p>3. The Constitution does not say that the President of the Legislature has the power to arbitrarily determine the requirements for running for an office, eg be the first 5 to announce a candidacy. Further, the Constitution does not say that the POL can require a winner of an election to receive 50% of the votes, and a failure to do so results in a run-off (this, as opposed to first past the post system, for example). Does the POL have unlimited discretion here? If not, what limits do you see?</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Related to No. 3, when there are issues of short-comings of the Constitution, would you rule that the Constitution does not have a position on the issue and the legislature must therefore pass an amendment to address the issue at hand or would you put down a ruling based on the situation and your own judgment?</p><p><br /></p><p>5. In instances where the inherent rights of membership laid out by the Constitution are in conflict with the powers of the government, are you inclined to side with the liberty of the individual nations or the duty of the government?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mortem Inferre, post: 920, member: 548"]Candidates, over the past few weeks I have submitted constitutional questions to the RMB, receiving responses that vary greatly. If you could, provide how you would rule and your reasoning in the following situations: 1. The WA Delegate of Capitalist Paradise has been deleted by the moderators. As it was his/her sole WA nation, they no longer have a nation with Vassal status within Capitalist Paradise, but they do have a puppet in the region that meets citizenship requirements. Does the puppet nation of the deleted delegate hold claim to the delegacy, or must there be a new election? Something else? 2. The constitution refers to individual nations, not entities controlling said nations. As such, does each individual nation hold the rights of membership, such as voting, vying for office, etc, or can only individual human entities behind the nations exercise such rights, eg one vote per person, not nation? 3. The Constitution does not say that the President of the Legislature has the power to arbitrarily determine the requirements for running for an office, eg be the first 5 to announce a candidacy. Further, the Constitution does not say that the POL can require a winner of an election to receive 50% of the votes, and a failure to do so results in a run-off (this, as opposed to first past the post system, for example). Does the POL have unlimited discretion here? If not, what limits do you see? 4. Related to No. 3, when there are issues of short-comings of the Constitution, would you rule that the Constitution does not have a position on the issue and the legislature must therefore pass an amendment to address the issue at hand or would you put down a ruling based on the situation and your own judgment? 5. In instances where the inherent rights of membership laid out by the Constitution are in conflict with the powers of the government, are you inclined to side with the liberty of the individual nations or the duty of the government?[/QUOTE]
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