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Saying that section 1(c) prohibits WA allocations of any sort is a misreading of the proposal. It says that the WA will "not specify explicit non-zero numbers for ... the allocation of government funds". What does that mean? It means proposals which declare that a member nation must pay 1 pc of...

GA 197, Sustainable Fishing Act

There are portions of this proposal which I think might actually be characteristic of poor drafting support and inexperience. The quality of the writing in this proposal is dismal. The first one that I saw was this: 3) Concerning the responsibility of WA states' citizens, or corporations...

When you hear the word lender, do you imagine just people who lend only to persons with collateral in the form of currency in a transaction account? I don't. I imagine people who do far more than that: C&I lending, home mortgage lending, commercial paper lending, etc. This gets back to what I...

Firstly, having to do with bowloftoast's comments. Collateralisation, currency and fair market value. The collateralisation element cannot possibly be interpreted in the manner in which you want it to be interpreted, insofar as it explicitly says "in which a security interest in the form of...

Regulatory arbitrage. This is something that comes up a lot, especially in the United States. The patchwork of competing jurisdictions means that firms can choose to headquarter in certain places, have certain types of charters, etc. that exempt them from certain types of regulation. In this...

They're not the only weaknesses to this legislation. The proposal only applies most of these regulations to corporations or government institutions. Things like limited liability partnerships are not corporations. Moreover, the idea of what a lender is excludes mortgages, which fall into the...

I have always interpreted the use of "shall" in any context except its negation (e.g. "shall not" meaning "may not") to be equivalent to "must". On this topic, people have used the word "shall" in the context of "The Crown shall appoint a Commissioner..." which courts have interpreted as "may"...

Briefly, since I'm on mobile. 1. Precedent has nothing to do with GA resolutions. The reason Contradiction (not House of Cards) exists is because of the rule set up. Moreover, I'm not sure what the alleged 'precedent' about House of Cards is. HOC is a procedural question about whether or not...

Obviously I'm not a voter. But the claim that "other proposals can always tackle unconsidered restrictions later" is untrue insofar as if this proposal is passed, legislation which contradicts the requirements of this proposal would not be allowed to be tabled before the Assembly (or, if tabled...

Regarding what bowloftoast said above, exactly what is your position regarding precedent? Either it's binding or it's not. Either precedents are established by resolution passage or they are not. You seem to fall on the position that they are both binding and they are established by resolution...

I hate to come in and just say that this is wrong, but this is wrong. Precedents are established in the GA only in relation to two things: (1) the rules and (2) actual rulings made by the Secretariat. The Secretariat not taking action is not a precedent. If you walk into the GA and say that "you...

The fact that GenSec has ruled that the use of the word 'should' does not imply requirement in this context, doesn't mean that its use in this proposal can't establish its use as meaning requirement, henceforth, when the intent s clear. I'd suggest if the repeal fails, then the future use of...

I work at the FDIC. It's not. I have a separate proposal in fact which talks about doing similar FDIC-activities. If you want a really really long-winded explanation for why that's the case, I can provide it, but trust me when I say it isn't. If you want an explanation for why these two...

Would be happy to hear comment on the proposal above.

Whereas financial crises happen, but diversifying assets and creating a system to prevent those crises from freezing up economic activity would help stop them from harming average people: And whereas securitising debt increases liquidity in capital markets, transfers risk from risk-averse...

Then regarding that: What would you believe to be a "well written" repeal?

At a fundamental level, the ability for people to identify products which contain addictive and carcinogenic substances is quite important. And I think that the packaging and form factors of those products has changed considerably over recent years. Tobacco is no longer only in the form of...

I want to note to the Minister that the proposal was not passed, it was discarded for an Honest Mistake. I take full responsibility for it. You can read more about it here: https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=453874 No, it doesn't do just that. It also prohibits (1) the ability...

Regarding this, you'll want to look at the resolution Voting Equality for Freed Inmates. It blocks a resolution such as this.

I would like to inform all of you that the proposal at vote (and the subject of the matter here) has been ruled illegal by the GA Secretariat and will be discarded.

The proposed repeal contains basically three arguments: (1) secret treaties may be useful at defeating a foe, (2) secret treaties produce deterrence, and (3) secret treaties may be useful at changing the terms of trade. Further examination shows these are simply logically false or, more...

I agree with Separatist Peoples and recommend a vote in favour of the proposal. There is a great misunderstanding about the breadth of the definition of 'biomedical research'. I too agree with his characterisation of some claims of 'trash'. While there is considerable debate on whether...

I would caution against increasing the marginal costs to democratic transition absent a democratic governance requirement. It would make it difficult at best to achieve democratic goals by expanding the barriers to the extension of suffrage to the populace as a whole.

As long as people can say 'Happy holidays', eggnog is in season.

Hello, you can find the draft there. I would usually post the entire resolution up, but this time, I am uniquely open to changes, which may run at a pace that would mean any resolution I put up here would be far out of date by the time anyone got to it. The central thread is here...

I've written a repeal that will likely make quorum in tomorrow. You can see it here: https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=429339 I'm on my phone right now, so I won't copy over the campaign telegram. But I believe that Pallaith should have a copy of it.

WA resolutions are generally thought to be one extremely long sentence with carriage return breaks. I’m not sure, however, given the amount of content here, how you would jam this into that format. I think it might irk some people, but those people’s votes don’t entirely matter. (And a...

There are compelling foreign policy interests to building up the capacity to have self-sufficient fuel production. Now, I think trade is still better, but not during wartime.

I'd think the strength in the Human Rights category would be Mild. Also, I would not use a declaration to affect CoCR compliance. Rather, I would make separate declaration of the operative statement. If CoCR were repealed, this would no longer have any effect.