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Apologies for being off the grid for many days and not having published an article in a while. I find it tricky being Dictator as I often feel guilty speaking publicly, or even in Congress about improvements or advice because my position demands impartiality, but I am writing today predominantly to share my thoughts on an addendum to the constitution which I have put forward to be discussed by Congress over the next few days.

More often than not I don’t give very direct, specific advice to Governments or Congress besides remarks on strategy or old-fogey comments about the character of nations, but I shall declare that I have given specific advice on two issues this month, and significantly enforced a Congress vote on one of those issues.

Most recently is the issue of the French NE, which I have offered insights on (my opinions have been posted to Cabinet and the FA/Defence committee, I won’t publish them publicly as the debate has only recently concluded) and I held an emergency Congress vote as instructed by the CP Rathena Gelc. That vote has come out in favour of an NE, and unless the proposal is withdrawn, which it is not at all expected to be, I shall be voting yes ingame shortly (if I haven’t already by the time you read this!). The astute among you will notice that I missed the first vote - unfortunately I was stuck in work and couldn’t get to eRep on my phone as I would usually expect to, but that has worked in our favour regarding timings. (UPDATE: French NE has been withdrawn by the Government so we wont be going to war).

The second subject I gave an opinion on was the referendum on the peace treaty. The referendum actually put me in a sticky situation, and in the interests of transparency I will declare that after the referendum I had to mediate between the CP and Congress and I had to request that Congress held a vote on whether or not to accept the outcome of the referendum. My reason was that Constitutionally the referendum was deciding an issue that could only be resolved by Congress, and it was outside of the remit of the executive to hold a referendum on that issue if Congress did not formally vote to make said referendum binding. In order to ensure the legality of the referendum was indisputable, I stepped in and made sure it was ratified so that I could actually act upon it if I had to (otherwise I would have the Gov telling me to push buttons that should be for Congress).


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It did however give me the idea for this addition to the Constitution, which I welcome thoughts on (original document is here:http://tinyurl.com/h27casy). It has been passed to the Speaker and Congress shall formally discuss it over the next few days.

“1st Amendment to the Constitution:
A. A Procedural and Legal appeals-committee can be called at any point to discuss whether or not actions by Congress, the Country President/Ministers, or the Dictator are ‘legal’ by the definitions set out in the eUK’s Constitution and Laws.

B. The committee shall comprise of the Country President, the Speaker, the Dictator as determined by part 1 of the Constitution, and the members of the three Congressional Committees as determined by the Congressional Procedures Act.

C. The committee may be summoned to discuss the legality of an action by the consent of at least two of the following parties:
i. Five Congressmen
ii. The Country President
iii. The Speaker
iv. The Dictator

D. The legality of an action can be determined by a vote undertaken by the CP, Speaker and Dictator. Abstentions are disallowed to prevent a tie occurring.
i. The vote may not take place before 24 hours of discussion has elapsed.
ii. Members’ votes may be informed but not determined by Congressional motions or public opinion (referendums etc.)
ii. Alternatively, all three voting members may agree to dismiss a case if the decision is unanimous.

E. If an action is found to be illegal it may be (this list is not finite);
i. Overturned; if it is a Law or Bill.
ii. Passed to Congress for a discussion on their response (such as impeachment or removal from post); if it is the personal action of a Minister, Congressman or the Dictator.
iii. Over-ruled; if it is a miscellaneous action such as a non-binding referendum or motion with ramifications to national security.

F. The results of Congressional votes may not be disputed, only whether the votes were held in a legal manner and within Congressional remit.

G. Congressional votes or referendums which are deemed illegal may be retaken following alterations to make them legal as suggested by the appeals committee.”

Section E is the haziest, because I can’t really guess the circumstances under which it would be used. But I feel that should situations arise where arbitration is needed, some discussion is needed on who and how it should be arbitrated, rather than it having to wait until I show up to interpret the law for everyone.

Do share thoughts.



Oh, and if that isn’t fun enough for you I have a new job so should be holding quizzes and games again in due course. Apart from that I look forward to another month of button clicking and figuring out how to weather the poostorm that is eRep with whoever becomes our next President!

Thanks for reading,
Mr Woldy

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