[CA] Amendment to Article B, Section 3

[Ladona]

Now that the CA that shouldn’t have been voted on has failed, I would like to bring the following amendments to discussion.

Article B: Legislative

Section 3: Legislative Process

1. Enactment, amendment, or repeal of legislation, and both ratification and repeal of a treaty or declaration of war submitted by the Delegate, shall be decided by majority vote.

2. If all other parties in a treaty formally withdraw from it, the treaty shall be repealed, immediately and without a vote of the Magisterium, unless alternate procedures have been specified within the treaty.

3. The Delegate may elect to, within ten days of passage in the Magisterium, veto or sign into immediate effect an enactment of a law, amendment, or repeal of legislation.

4. A lack of Delegate veto or signature within ten days of passage by Magisterium vote shall lead to the relevant law, amendment, or repeal of legislation being put into immediate effect after the ten day period expires.

5. The Magisterium may elect to override a Delegate veto of a law, amendment, or repeal of legislation by a 3/4 vote.

Old Versions

OV001

If all other parties in a treaty formally withdraw from it, The East Pacific shall repeal the treaty automatically and with immediate effect unless alternate procedures have been specified within the treaty.

[Sammy23]

Yes

[Bachtendekuppen]

"shall repeal"as in we are obligated to do it but it needs an action, or “shall be automatically considered repealed”?

[Ladona]

The second. Would it be better worded as

If all other parties in a treaty formally withdraw from it, The East Pacific shall automatically repeal the treaty with immediate effect, unless alternate procedures have been specified within the treaty.

to achieve that intent?

[Bachtendekuppen]

This still implies an action to be taken? “Shall” by itself doesn’t result in automatic effect?

[Ladona]

Mmm. Maybe I’m relying too heavily on the word automatically within the clause instead of spelling it out.

Does this better address the implication that an action needed to be taken?

If all other parties in a treaty formally withdraw from it, The East Pacific shall, immediately and without a vote of the Magisterium, repeal the treaty unless alternate procedures have been specified within the treaty.

[Bachtendekuppen]

Maybe I’m looking too deep into this.

Just like this probably suffices:

If all other parties in a treaty formally withdraw from it, the treaty shall be repealed, immediately and without a vote of the Magisterium, unless alternate procedures have been specified within the treaty.

[Ladona]

Thank you for you contributions. I’ve included your writeup as the intended final text for the proposal, pending any other feedback.