General Membership Amendment: Voting Regulations

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General Membership Amendment: Voting Regulations

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Treaty of General Membership to the Small Commonwealth

1. There is a commonwealth, called the Small Commonwealth, which shall consist of all signatory members of this Treaty. All member nations may send one representative to the Commonwealth Assembly.

2. Nations wishing to join the commonwealth must be approved by the Commonwealth Assembly with at least a 1/3rd plurality. If rejected, a nation may reapply in 3 months.

3. The commonwealth's day to day operations are headed and overseen by a chairman known as the Primate which shall be a permanent position once appointed by the Commonwealth Assembly. The Primate oversees the Commonwealth Assembly.

3b. The Commonwealth Assembly may elect an official known as the Secundus, subject to all the same election and removal procedures as the Primate, whom shall be vested with the responsibility of assisting the Primate. Should the Primate be unavailable or unable to fulfill his/her duties the Secundus shall stand in for the Primate, until available, or a new one is elected.

3c. All votes of the Assembly shall be administered by the Primate in accordance with rules created by the Assembly. Treaties dependent upon the signing of this treaty shall use the rules created by the Assembly, unless treaty specific voting regulations are created by that treaty or its' membership.

4. At any time the Commonwealth Assembly may hold a vote of no confidence and remove the current Primate. A simple majority (50%+1) is needed to remove a Primate and elect a new one. This vote is managed by the representative who proposed it.

5. Nations may leave at any time, but must give public notice of their intent to leave this treaty for it to be recognized. Upon leaving this treaty the departing nation is removed from all other treaties dependent upon this one.

6. This treaty may be amended by the Commonwealth Assembly with a 3/4th (75.0%) majority.
This will help to address the issue we had about voting regulations in subordinate treaties, and help legitimize our current voting regulations which are not accounted for in the treaty. I don't want the regulations put into the treaty itself so they can be updated and changed with more easy then this treaty.

I put in a clause that allowed treaties to ignore the Assemblies rules if they have bothered to create rules.

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Any amendment to a treaty of the Commonwealth requires much thought and deliberation. We should try and see if we can find ways of improving the foundation treaty. I am inclined to favour Lord Brookshire's proposal.
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Shireroth votes Aye.

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(I see this amendment as unnecessary. Usually deliberative bodies can create their own rules of order, without having to formalise them in this way.)
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Yes. But this would help prevent confusion in the future. It also allows dependent treaties to use the Assembly rules if they haven't bothered to create rules of there own.

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