User:TimeMaster/2011 State Reform

This is my 2011 State Reform proposal.

NOTE: All he's should be changed to they to make it gender neutral.

Article 1
Article 1 A - Lovian National State
 * 1) Lovia is a sovereign, independent, unitary and indivisible National State.
 * 2) Lovia is a democratic and social state, governed by the rule of law, in which human dignity, the citizens' rights and freedoms, the free development of human personality, justice and political pluralism represent supreme values, in the spirit of the democratic traditions of the Lovian people and shall be guaranteed.
 * 3) Lovia shall be organized based on the principle of the separation and balance of powers - legislative, executive, and judicial - within the framework of constitutional democracy. Therefore no person is entitled to combine a top function in two or three branches of government; thus, the ruling monarch, the Prime Minister and the Supreme Court Judge shall be no less than three different persons.
 * 4) In Lovia, the observance of the Constitution, its supremacy and the laws shall be mandatory.
 * 5) The national sovereignty shall reside within the Lovia people, that shall exercise it by means of their representative bodies, resulting from free, periodical and fair elections, as well as by referendum.
 * 6) No group or person may exercise sovereignty in one's own name.

Article 1 B - Lovia is a monarchy, ruled by the ruling monarch.
 * 1) The ruling monarch is the person who legally inherited the throne from the previous ruling monarch. He or she is thus a descendant of the first Lovian monarch, King Arthur I of Lovia (Arthur Noble).
 * 2) The ruling monarch can be either male (the King) or female (the Queen).
 * 3) The partner of the ruling monarch is the person who legally married the ruling monarch. She is a member of the royal family, but does not enjoy privileges over the citizens of Lovia.
 * 4) The method of the line of succession to the Lovian throne is absolute cognatic primogeniture. Therefore, the person who legally inherits the Lovian throne, after the previous ruling monarch has either deceased or abdicated, is the person who is the eldest child of the previous monarch. If the monarch had no children, the throne goes to the next oldest sibling, followed by younger siblings and cousins.
 * 5) The person first in line to the throne is known as the heir apparent, and becomes monarch after the previous monarch has abdicated or deceased.
 * 6) The heir to the throne will sign the Constitution upon their coronation.
 * 7) The ruling monarch has the right to demand financial support from the Department of Finances, in which case the Secretary of Finance can decide to grant the ruling monarch an amount of money, in agreement with Congress.
 * 8) The maximum amount of financial support that can be given is 5000 Lovian dollars per month.
 * 9) With the exception of the ruling monarch in function, no member of the royal family is granted extra-legal privileges. Each member of the royal family, with the exception of the ruling monarch in function, is a regular citizen as determined by the Constitution.

Article 8
Article 8 – Elections and the formation of a federal government
 * 1) Federal Elections:
 * 2) Every year federal elections must be held.
 * 3) The term of office of every Member of the Congress is exactly one year. Therefore every year the elections should be held at the same date.
 * 4) Election procedure during Federal Elections:
 * 5) During a period of three weeks, any Lovian citizen can, without restrictions, become a candidate in the Federal Elections. This period begins exactly one month and twenty-one days before Inauguration Day.
 * 6) During a period of three weeks, any Lovian citizen can cast his or her votes in favor of candidates in the Federal Elections.
 * 7) Every citizen may cast three favorable votes in the Federal Elections: a Major Vote, a Minor Vote and a Favor Vote. A Major Vote is worth three points, a Minor Vote two and a Favor Vote one.
 * 8) Citizens may choose not to cast their votes, or to only cast some of them.
 * 9) Citizens may not cast multiple votes for the same candidate. All cast votes must be given to different candidates.
 * 10) All candidates will complete the elections with a percentage of the total votes.
 * 11) The percentage of votes that a congressperson receives is the amount of seats in the 100 seat Congress that the candidate will control.
 * 12) The congressperson may delegate their seats to all the parties that they wish, but still control the votes of each congressperson.
 * 13) Mid-term Elections can be organized if proposed in Congress and approved by a Congressial majority. The procedure is equal to that of the normal federal elections; with only these differences:
 * 14) The candidacy period as well as the voting period are chosen by the Congress.
 * 15) Members of the Congress remain in Congress and do not have to participate in the Mid-term elections. All elected candidates join Congress.
 * 16) The percentages of each congressperson are to be reshuffled after the conclusion of the Mid-term elections.
 * 17) New federal elections must be held when more than half of the Members of the Congress are inactive; either self-declared or if they have not edited for over a month (30 days); or when the Prime Minister steps down.
 * 18) The Prime Minister and Federal Secretaries:
 * 19) The Prime Minister is the declared leader of a coalition of political parties that consist of more than 50% of the seats in Congress.
 * 20) If a coalition agreement is not reached by Inauguration Day, government activities are shut down until an agreement is reached.
 * 21) The Prime Minister will chose which Members of the Congress will become Secretaries of a certain Department. Their proposal needs to be accepted by a normal majority in Congress.
 * 22) Congress should be able to question all executing members of government - of any level - about their activities. If the congress has lost their trust in the questioned person, a motion of distrust may be proposed in congress against him or her. When this motion is accepted by a normal majority, he or she has to resign from the government and a replacement has to be proposed by the Prime Minister and approved by Congress.
 * 23) When Congress has lost its trust in the incumbent government, it can vote a motion of no confidence. When this motion is accepted by a normal majority, both government and Congress are dissolved and new federal elections are to be held.
 * 24) When the Prime Minister and their government resign, Congress is dissolved and new federal elections are to be held.
 * 25) State Elections:
 * 26) Every Lovian citizen has the right to become a candidate for Governor of a state wherein he or she has an official residence.
 * 27) It is not permitted to be a candidate during a state election in more than one state.
 * 28) The term of office of the elected Governor and Deputy Governor is exactly six months. Therefore every six months the elections should be held at the same date.
 * 29) Election procedure during State Elections:
 * 30) During a period of two weeks, any Lovian citizen and resident of the state can become a candidate in the State Elections. This period begins exactly one month before the day of the inauguration of the Governor and Deputy Governor.
 * 31) During a period of two weeks, any Lovian citizen can cast his or her vote in favor of a candidate in the State Elections of the state of which he or she is an official resident.
 * 32) Every citizen may cast one vote per state election. Inhabitants of multiple states have the right to cast one vote for each state in which they have an official residence.
 * 33) Citizens may choose not to cast their vote.
 * 34) The candidate who received the highest number of votes and at least three will become Governor of the state in which he or she participated in the state elections.
 * 35) In the case of an ex aequo, a second voting round must be held within two weeks' time.
 * 36) The Governor is in charge of the competencies given to the state government.
 * 37) The candidate who received the second highest number of votes and at least three will become Deputy Governor of the state in which he or she participated in the state elections.
 * 38) The Deputy Governor is in temporary charge of the state competencies during the absence of the Governor.
 * 39) Upon the resignation of the Governor, or any other instance causing the Governor to quit, the Deputy Governor becomes Governor and will keep this office until the next elections.