User:Bucurestean/State Reform (LibDem)

This page was created with the intention to get some movement in the State Reform.
 * 1) Needed
 * 2) * Description of Deputy Governor
 * 3) * Article 4 re-written

Article 4
Needs to be rewritten

Article 4 – The structure of Lovia
 * 1) Federal level: Lovia
 * 2) Executive power: the Prime Minister and the Federal Secretaries
 * 3) Legislature: the Congress
 * 4) Judiciary: the Supreme Court
 * 5) State level: Clymene, Kings, Oceana, Seven and Sylvania
 * 6) Executive power and legislature: the Governor or the Deputy Governor
 * 7) Judiciary: the Supreme Court

Article 5
Article 5 – Legislature and executive power
 * 1) In general, the competencies of the state level are limited to local government that does not interfere with federal law and government. The following competencies belong to the state level:
 * 2) The naming, organizing and maintaining of urban parks, public places, streets, markets, roads (with the exclusion of highways), waterways, natural areas and environmentally significant places that are not protected by the federal government, culturally significant monuments that are not protected by the federal government.
 * 3) Informing the state population about the various aspects of the state, the federal government and its policies.
 * 4) The construction and planning of neighborhoods and hamlets.
 * 5) The Governor may decide on the construction, destruction, re-organization of neighborhoods and hamlets in that specific state.
 * 6) The Lovian Congress may overrule the Governor's decision by a normal majority. From the moment a bill to overrule that decision has been proposed to Congress, the Governor cannot proceed with the construction, destruction or re-organization. If the decision is in effect overruled by Congress, the Governor may not construct, destroy or re-organize neighborhoods and hamlets for thirty-one days, to protect the state and its inhabitants from whimsical construction plans.
 * 7) Bringing the people of Lovia and the different levels and branches of government closer to one another.
 * 8) Advising the Lovian Congress on issues related to the particular state.
 * 9) Advising federal institutions in relation to protected natural regions and culturally significant locations and monuments in the particular state.
 * 10) All competencies not covered by the states inhere to the federal level.
 * 11) When a state is in conflict with the federal level or with another state, in relation to their legal competencies, any of the involved parties may consult the Supreme Court.
 * 12) The Supreme Court Judge must in turn consult the laws of Lovia and must interpret these justly and with respect to the well-being of the Lovians.
 * 13) The Supreme Court Judge must then decide to which of the involved parties the competency of conflict inheres.
 * 14) The Supreme Court Judge may also find the matter inconclusive. He may then require the Congress to amend the Constitution. Such a requirement is binding and obligatory.

Article 6
Article 6 – Editing the Federal Law.
 * 1) A motion can be:
 * 2) * A proposal for a new chapter in the Federal Law
 * 3) * A proposal for a change in a certain part in the Federal Law
 * 4) * A proposal for a deletion of a certain part in the Federal Law
 * 5) Steps of tabling and voting a motion for the Federal Law:
 * 6) One or more Members of the Congress write a motion.
 * 7) The motion is proposed in the First Chamber, where all the Members of the Congress can propose little changes to the text.
 * 8) If the majority of the Members of the Congress approves with the motion, it can go to the Second Chamber.
 * 9) Every Member of the Congress can vote (pro, contra or abstention).
 * 10) If more than 50% of the valid votes is pro, the motion is accepted and will be adapted to the Federal Law.
 * 11) When a majority has accepted the motion, the Prime Minister or monarch has to adapt it to the Federal Law.

Article 8

 * Every six months State Elections are held in which the Governor and the Deputy Governor are to be chosen for every Lovian State.
 * The term of office of every Governor and Deputy Governor is exactly six months.
 * The Governor and Deputy Governor may be chosen for a new term of office.
 * The duration of an election round of the State Elections is one week.
 * The week before the start of the State Elections, Lovian citizens can propose and confirm their candidacies.
 * Steps of the State Elections:
 * Every citizen who lives in Lovia can run for Governor or may become Deputy Governor.
 * One can only candidize in one State.
 * Every citizen who lives in the specific State can vote for one candidate. It's not possible to vote contra.
 * The candidate with the majority of the votes, 50% or more, will be chosen as Governor. The candidate with the second most votes becomes Deputy Governor.
 * If no majority has been reached, a final election round should be held between the two candidates with the most votes.
 * A final election round can be avoided if the two candidates with the most votes agree on the results of the first election round. In that case, only the one with the most votes, although he did not get a majority, can become Governor. The candidate with the second most votes becomes Deputy Governor.

Article 9
Article 9 – Supreme Court Trials
 * 1) Issues for the Supreme Court:
 * 2) * Every case concerning federal, state, local or sublocal issues.
 * 3) * Crimes threatening the nation or the national population.
 * 4) Starting a case:
 * 5) The case can be started by: a plaintiff or a public plaintiff (a representative of the government, the nation, the state, the city, the town…).
 * 6) There has to be a defendant: the person or organization accused by the plaintiff. This can also be a public defendant, that’s when the government is accused by someone or something.
 * 7) Both plaintiff or defendant may use a lawyer.
 * 8) The case starts when one of both parties asks the Supreme Court for a lawsuit.
 * 9) The Judge has to examine the case and look at all the evidence.
 * 10) The lawsuit:
 * 11) The Judge starts with reading the file on this case.
 * 12) The plaintiff (or his/her lawyer) has the right to speak to the Judge in public. He or she can also bring witnesses or material on the case. He can ask the defendant questions to prove his or her guiltiness.
 * 13) Then the defendant (or his/her lawyer) can speak and ask questions to witnesses. Bringing material is also allowed, to prove his or her innocence.
 * 14) If the plaintiff wants to speak once more, he gets the chance.
 * 15) At last, the defendant has the right to speak.
 * 16) Judging the case:
 * 17) The Judge retreats and examines all the evidence and considers what both the defendant and the plaintiff have said or shown. He will use the Constitution and the Federal Law as his guidelines.
 * 18) Decision:
 * 19) The Judge will make his decision clear:
 * 20) * He or she can declare someone guilty. The Judge can fine this person or organization, or can lock somebody up, for a time according to the crime.
 * 21) * He or she can warn somebody or an organization, for doing wrong, but not that wrong there has to be a punishment.
 * 22) * He or she can declare the defendant unguilty and free.
 * 23) The Supreme Court Judge are appointed by the Federal Secretary of Justice, with the agreement of the Prime Minister.