Procedures Ammendment
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:10 pm
See discussion and explanation of effect of amendments here.1. After a bill has been presented to the Landsraad, it is the duty of the Praetor to open the voting by posting the amount of voting credits held by each Duke at that time. There is a period of exactly four days (96 hours) during which the members of the Landsraad can then vote on it. Each member has one vote with a value outlined below, which he or she may cast in any unambiguous way to represent a vote of aye or nay, on any bill during the voting period. A vote only applies to a bill exactly as it has been presented. At the end of the period, the Praetor counts the votes, announces the result, and if the weighting of the ayes outnumber the weighting of the nays, updates the LawBook with the changes.
2. The weighting of a vote in The Landsraad shall be pegged to the amount of Voting Credits held by each Duchy, such that each Ducal vote cast counts as as many votes as the number of Voting Credits held by the Duchy. Only Dukes have a voting right in the Landsraad, either Aye or Nay.
a. The only exception to this weighting is that no vote may pass when only one Duke has voted in support of it.