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Navigation for Electing Guidelines RESOLUTION NUMBER 1, Guidelines Approved 9/24/2017
Marked Eballots for RESOLUTION NUMBER 1
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Subject: RESOLUTION NUMBER 1, Proposed By Senator James Ogle 1/7/2017
Date: 2017-01-14 12:49
From: Fredi Tia Eballots factored into totals as of 11/6/2015:
Senator Alan Sydenham [Medicine] UK voted on 11/6/2015 as follows:
_2__ Parliamentary procedures, terms and pure proportional representation (PR)
for the International Parliament.
_3__ Require all the elected members to be in communication either
through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service or
else their name will be eliminated after one year.
_4__ The number of seats on the executive may remain at ten but not more than ten.
_5__ Paper Ballot Guidelines Recommended for State, National and International Elections
_6__ The paper ballots are placed in a clear ballot box by the voter, the box
is guarded, video taped all day and the votes are counted at the polling
location the night of the election.
_7__ The votes are counted two times by two different and diverse teams of
counters, recorded/taped/broadcast by two different devices with the public
able to observe and video/livestream the counting.
_8__ The results from the polling locations will be called to the Board
of Elections, emailed to the BoE and hand delivered. All three must
match. The Board of Elections will hand tally the results from all
the polling locations, again, two times by two different and diverse
teams of counters with this being taped, recorded and broadcast and
the public able to observe, tape and live-stream the entire proceedings.
And, the same goes for what happens at the state level.
_9__ The polling location should serve a maximum of 1,000 voters and
Election Day should be a national holiday with employers, if necessary,
having to arrange for special accommodations for employees that must
work, as with hospitals. A minimum of two hours personal time to vote
will be given to all citizens and voters.
_10__ The voters' names and marking on the ballot will remain secret
but the vote counting will be publicly observable.
_11__ PAPER BALLOTS will be made confidential to the highest level possible.
_12__ VOTER ELIGIBILITY:
The voter must register their name with at least two
methods of contact; and must comply with the voter eligibility
requirements for voter's country of residence.The voter must be a voting citizen of a country.
The voter must be 18 years old or older on Election Day.
The voter must not be in prison, on parole, serving a state sentence in county jail,
serving a sentence for a felony or on post-release community supervision.
The voter must not have been found to be mentally incompetent by a court.
Non-voting class membership will always be made available.
_13__ VOTER AUTHENTICATION:
When two or more methods of contact aren't provided by the voter, then
further explanation will be considered by the Vote Counting Ministry verifiers.
Additional Measures
_14__ General Counting, Balloting and Eballoting Guidelines for International Parliament Elections
_15__ RANKED VOTING ONLY: All voting and vote counting shall be in the form of
ranked paper ballots only (and eballots when practical and verifiable).
Consecutive numbers beginning with the #s 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. etc. must always be
used when marking on (e)ballot of all alternative decisions or names.
Deviation from this guideline will disqualify the ballot, and the ballot
will be marked spoiled.
_16__ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
_17__ THE SAINTE-LAGUE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM, Hagenbach-Bischoff method,
under ranked choice voting, for seat allocation in all multi-seat districts:
Divide the election's total number of votes by the number of seats.
This is the 1st quota.
Divide this quota into each candidate's votes, and round off to the
nearest whole number.
That's that candidate's seat allocation.
If, due to rounding, this awards a number of seats different from
the desired number
of seats, then adjust the quota slightly up or down, till, when
paragraph two is carried out,
it will award all seats.
_18__ Any resident of earth, nominee and/or proxy may observe the counting of the
ballots. Volunteer counters will conduct the vote counting.
_19__ Choices marked on "eballots" are posted for public view and are
not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of the Parliament.
_20__ EBALLOTS are ballots cast via email and must be emailed to
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org, a private email address used by the
secretary and observers for receiving such eballots. No reply email
will be sent to voters who cast eballots other than a verification
message, unless the voter indicates that he/she wishes to be self
appointed to the www.international-parliament.org site or when a
question regarding verification or validation is raised by a volunteer vote counter.
_21__ Volunteer vote counters may be added to the exploder email address
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org as a subscriber by sending the message
"subscribe" to vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org.
_22__ Telephone voting is permissible, acceptable and verification
and validations will be provided when requested.
_23__ Elections of rules shall be perpetual and the simple majority vote,
by elected MIPs who vote on rules, passes rules.
_24__ BALLOTS AND EBALLOTS: All world residents are eligible to vote in
International Parliament Elections 365 days year.
_25__ There will be five hundred members of International Parliament (MIPs) who
are elected members self appointed/self nominated for free under ranked
choice voting as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "MIPs"
and five hundred members who are donors, ranked in order of donation level and
are to be known as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "Senator" MIPs.
_26__ THE PARTY LEADER within the International Parliament is a label for the
highest ranked name categorized under each party. Party leaders are
responsible for the distribution of all ballots and rules to the
members of their party/category and lists.
_27__ Such ballots may be retype set or altered to specifically identify
their select nominees' correct name and party affiliation. All ballots
released to public used by the International Parliament's elected secretaries
shall count as a legitimate ballot and shall be presumed to represent
the correct and most current candidate name information.
_27__ BALLOT: ORDER OF NOMINEES of all names in the parliament elections
and subsidiary parliament elections will be determined by the results
caused by the voters' ranking of the nominees on the previous election's
ballots. This is known as the correct consecutive order of nominee.
Appointments and self-appointments will be listed chronologically.
_29__ NOMINEE ACCEPTANCE AND WRITE-INS:
Only names who formally ACCEPT the nomination of their name, self write-in
names and those currently already elected will qualify for the ballot/eballot
for the International Parliament. There will be a cap at 500 names for the
ballot/eballot for the free elections of MIPs.
_30__ A verifiable name and contact information must be provided in
order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
_31__ The final order of the parties/categories on the final prepared
ballot will be determined by the nominees' party name/category and
the parties/categories and will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
_32__ TIES: Ties will be broken by holding a runoff election only
when called by one of the two secretaries. In all other
cases, all the names/items in a tie will be included in the results
and will be in a new "tied" category, even if the size of the assembly
or agenda list must be expanded beyond normal size set forth by these rules.
_33__ ONLY ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENTARY BALLOT, IS PERMITTED TO BE MARKED BY
EACH WORLD RESIDENT: All living world citizens may vote one time and only
one time. In cases where a second ballot (or more) is cast, only
the latter of the ballots will be counted, the former will be marked
spoiled, deleted and regarded disqualified.
_34__ SENATORS
_35__ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donor's
funds will be deposited into a bank account which is controlled
by Treasury Minister, the President and the Vice President
of the International Parliament.
_36__ Senators: All donors who contribute money to the
international political entity known as the International
Parliament (IP) at the minimum donation amount of $20.,
will promptly and automatically become known as "Senator" once
the donation has been correctly registered with the Treasury
Minister and/or is received by the appropriate clerk.
The Senators will be grouped into five donor-level groups.
Senators are not elected during regular election cycles of
the parliament's elections but they do receive all of the same voting rights plus
special donor privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved. The total donation amount will apply as both an annual sum or
a total of multiple years. The annual sum is primarily for convention services
and the sum from multiple years has a secondary purpose which can apply to
different purposes other than the annual convention services.
_37__ THE FIVE DONATION LEVELS OF SENATORS
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $20. to $29.99 donation (level five)
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $20. to $29.99 donation (level five):
In Level Five, the Senator's name will listed as Senator on the IP's
Paper Share Certificate for Level Five Senator ($20. to $29.99 donation level).
--Level Five Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL FOUR. Services provided for a $30. to $49.99 donation (level four):
The Level Four Senators who donate $30. or more a year, paid before July 1st
Paper Share Certificate for Level Four Senator ($30. to $49.99 donation level).
--Level Four Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL THREE. Services provided for a $50.00 to $149.99 donation (level three):
Level Three Senators who donate $50.00 or more, paid before July 1st of that year, receive an
Paper Share Certificate for Level Three Senator ($50.00 to $149.99 donation level)
--Level Three Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL TWO. Services provided for a $150. to $599.99 donation (level two):
Senators who donate $150. to $599.99, paid before July 1st of that year,
Paper Share Certificate for Level Two Senator ($150.00 to $599.99 donation level)
--Level Two Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL ONE. Services provided for a $600. and more donation (level one):
Senators who donate $600., paid before July 1st of that year,
Paper Share Certificate for Level One Senator ($600. donation level and above)
--Level One Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
Plus, Level One Senators Also Get the Following Benefits:
Upon approval of this bylaw item, all Senators' current donation levels,
"Voting Stoppage"
Whenever a financial crisis occurs where the costs for paying basic
maintenance of the International Parliament are not being met, including
the costs of domain hosting, web design and obligations to all of the Senators, then the
Treasury and/or Vote Counting Ministry can place end to all introductions of free membership
sign ups of Members of International Parliament (MIPs) and other free services
provided by the Vote Counting Ministry and this ending will be known as a "voting stoppage".
This bylaw item can also affect the internal Cabinet voting by Ministers, but it will not
include/affect "votes of confidence" by the MIPs, voting by Senators current in dues and the
voting for election of Cabinet Ministers (parliamentary go-ahead) by the Ten Executives.
The voting stoppage will terminate either upon
the recommendation/consensus to end it by both the Treasury and Vote Counting Ministries,
or once the numbers of Senators reaches the same number of free MIPs within
the general International Parliament's assembly membership.
Diplomatic Passports
Some ministers and deputies will be traveling a lot abroad. At the airports
and borders a diplomatic passport would make sense. Even for the professional
legitimacy to foreign politicians.
ID Cards
For activities within the country an ID card is sufficient. However, a
professionally designed plastic card should be used here. Since the
International Parliament nevertheless plays an important role in the
world standard, you should already pay attention to a professional public image.
_38__ Once the top Senator seats are assigned based on ranking of donation
level, then lower ranked donors "spill over" into the "Senator MPs"
section of the subsidiary Republic of Earth, the country from which the donor originated.
_39__ The Senator's donation will be recorded and should the Senator ever wish to
"stand down", then the donation amount will be not be refunded.
_40__ The numbers of seats for Senators shall never be more than the number
of free elected members of International Parliament (MIPs).
_41__ The Senators may vote on Senate guidelines and decisions from time to time
but there is no requirement for such votes which are voluntary only. These
compilation of votes will be conducted only by the Senators themselves.
_42__ Should a MIP who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Senator, BoD, committee member
and/or the same particular seat title in any subsidiary Republic of Earth,
if their donation remained on the International Parliament's records.
_43__ All Senators shall have access to all financial records for the
International Parliament. More detailed information which isn't available
on the Treasury Ministry's web page will be made available within 90 days
to Senators when a request is made in writing to the Treasury Minister.
_44__ All payments are to be in US dollars only unless pre-approval is
obtained from the Treasury Ministry.
_45__ The International Parliament will not ever hold any election in a single-
winner district where a single-winner decision or name is elected.
_46__ Ballot Preparation
_47__ SPACE FOR THREE OR MORE WRITE-IN choices must be provided on each
and every ballot, in all elections.
_48__ CATEGORIZATION AND PARTY NAMES The first and most important
criterion in determining the nominee's party/category is the
nominee's most recently requested or declared party/category in
Parliament matters. The second most important criterion in
determining the nominee's party/category is determined by the
nominee's state's records, as written by the member while
registering to vote. Appointed members may be categorized with any
party/category that they wish, and the party/category of all
members is considered to be the true one. Elected members
may decide to change or switch their party/categorization at any time
by proclamation. Members automatically qualify for the ballot
in the next election cycle under the party/category of
their choice.
_49__ First and last names are preferred, however all names nominated
will be permitted on the ballot as well as the party/category of the
nominee. If party/category is not known, the label "[Info. Not Avail.]"
will be used. A nominee's name (and thus identity) may appear on the
ballot only once, so fusion voting is not allowed.
All world citizens who had signed up since "RESOLUTION NUMBER 1" was first approved on
10/27/2014 will be automatically added as MIPs retroactively within seven days
after the approval of this bylaw item #39.
_50__ RESIGNATIONS. When any elected member, executive or minister,
stands down, resigns, retires, or dies - the name is deleted. Then
the next highest ranked name is automatically elected to the
seat in their stead.
_51__ When a candidate who has chosen to stand down but then wishes to
return to the position which they had departed, then they must first
be re-affirmed by all the voters who had previously cast a vote for them.
_52__ TEN EXECUTIVES
_53__ MIPs: Once elected, all new Members of International Parliament
(MIPs) may change their vote as a "vote of confidence" for the ten
executives into perpetuity.
_54__ THE VOICE of the International Parliament will be the ten executives.
_55__ Each of the elected ten executives may pick a seat title once elected.
_56__ The ten executives elect up to sixty full Cabinet Ministers and sixty
Deputy Cabinet Ministers using the "parliamentary go-ahead.
_57__ The International Parliament's ten executives agree to rank all names
nominated by each of the other nine executives, thus guaranteeing that each
of the ten executives elects 1/10th of the 60 cabinet ministers and this
is known as the "parliamentary go-ahead".
_58__ THE TEN EXECUTIVES recruit as many
people as possible who will work in the Cabinet to run the efforts,
elects the planks on the platform and run the parliament's efforts free from
political conflict or bias. The executives do not control who
gets elected to the general assembly.
_59__ The ten executives of the International Parliament (IP) will
serve as "Founding Executives" on the unity business entity
named "All Party System Co., International Bureau", which is established
in order to report all unifying news, business, financial matters,
vote counting and results of vote counting of the IP to the public
and to serve as a store for generating sales of products and services..
_60__ SIXTY CABINET MINISTERS
_61__ MINISTRY: A simple majority vote by at least six of
the ten executives establishes the parliamentary go-ahead and
will elect new Ministers, even without the parliamentary go-ahead.
_62__ MINISTRY DIRECTORS: Ministries may elect up to fifty Directors
and any number of resolutions, agenda items, guidelines and administrators.
The fifty Directors must be elected in one at-large district and their titles
as "Directors" may be any title, for example each director may pick their own title too.
_63__ All International national Cabinet Ministers must be live,
real people and no avatars or anonymous names may be used by the
elected Cabinet Ministers. Only real names can be used and
verification of the member's true name may be requested when
such verifications are of interest from anyone of the ten executives.
_64__ HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MINISTRY:
The book "Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously" will be added as a guide to the proposed Health and Human
Services Ministry web page. For many ages, humanity has been
confused about what decisions regenerate and degenerate our living
systems. The Body itself has always held this wisdom of natural laws
for our organ/gland functioning on 253 circuits of personal powers
(but not always available until infrared could shine the light on it).
The Body's own immense wisdom can show us how our next decision
degenerates us or regenerates us (based on 40 years of scientific
research using infrared technology that can be tracked, measured and
decoded by the Language of the Body itself). This Self Evident and
undeniable truth from our energetic design makes it an unparalleled
guide to help humans make decisions (about voting, laws, or new
customs, etc.) that can regenerate us from within as well as from
without. (http://www.consciousnesssystems.com [1] to read the book).
Also, VOLUNTARY LAW: The blog site http://vlda.org/, the Voluntary
Law Development Association, owned by Jonathan Jaech will be added
to the proposed
_65__ VOLUNTARY LAW MINISTRY:
The Voluntary Law Ministry web page
and can accompany 'Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously' (that can both be used as the foundational principles
for voluntary international law). These 2 sources of wisdom can
promote peace, love and the clarity of energetic truth for successful
ways to promote each living systems' regeneration.
_66__ VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY:
The Vote Counting Ministry will make an annual award for
the "United Coalition Secure Paper Ballot Award".
_67__ TREASURY MINISTRY:
The Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the ten
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
The Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for Senators (donor MIPs)
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, Senator mailing addresses, contact information
and rankings, bank account savings and expenditures.
_68__ MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION MINISTRY:
Appeals of a name's removal action may be taken to the
Mediation and Conciliation Service Minister
where rules for such appeals will be written, voted upon and approved.
_69__ United Coalition
_70__ Declare that all of the elected and appointed members of the International Parliament,
all countries' national parliaments, all subsidiary super-state, mini-state
and county micro-state parliaments, to be members of a national and international
"Unity Coalition" or "United Coalition" effective November 5th, 2014.
_71__ The International Parliament's subsidiary Republic "Unity Coalition"
elections shall be in two phases; one before the country's primaries and one after the
country's primaries. That way, a strong emphasis can be placed on official state-recognized
ballot-qualified and write-in candidates both before the primaries and after the
primaries, and the dates are customized for each of the country's official primaries.
_72__ UNITY PLATFORM
_73__ Conduct an international Direct Democracy (DD) election which will elect planks
to a "Unity Platform".
_74__ The promotion of the Unity Coalition's "Unity Platform" can used used as an
example of teamwork. The team can be promoted as being dynamic so that
every item is up for a continual "vote of confidence" by all the members, all the time.
That way, the recruitment of new members can take place in order to collect
more votes for improving the planks on the Unity Platform.
_75__ PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM: The ten elected executives shall elect the
UNITY PLATFORM with a series of "planks" from all the items they pick and
rank from the DD election.
_76__ Guideline of Priority and Procedure
_77__ GENERAL PROVISIONS: Guideline of Priority and Procedure. The
GUIDELINES contained on this web page shall be the official first
GUIDELINES of procedure for the International Parliament and will be used
for all transactions of business once ratified by a majority of the
Members of Parliament (MPs). These GUIDELINES will
take precedence over any other set of GUIDELINES.
_78__ GUIDELINE CHANGES: The Executive Committee reserves the right
to make changes in these GUIDELINES by 6/10th vote and to present
these changes to the delegates/members at any time. All changes should
accommodate the desires or complaints of the MPs or staff so as to
improve the conduct of business online and offline.
_79__ EXECUTIVES: The Executives of the International
Parliament may select or approve persons to serve as Chairpersons, Legal
Counsels, and Secretaries for each committee and any other position
to help conduct the business.
_80__ CHAIR PERSON: Absence of Chairperson. If the Chair should find
it necessary to be absent during any part of a committee meeting,
he/she shall designate an individual (preferably the Legal Counsel)
to assume his/her duties with the same authority.
_81__ Statements by the Executives. The ten elected Executives,
or any person designated by the ten elected Executives, may at
any time make oral or written statements to a committee.
_82__ MEMBERS: Number of Accredited Delegates. The number of delegates
allowed on any delegation of the Parliament shall be limited to
MIPs and Donor MIPs only.
_83__ DIPLOMATIC COURTESY: All delegates MUST accord all other
delegates diplomatic courtesy at all times. Any delegate or visitor
who, after being advised by the Chair, persists in an obvious attempt
to divert the meeting from its intended purpose, or who otherwise
attempts to disrupt the proceedings, shall be subject to disciplinary
action and expulsion by the Chairperson.
_84__ AGENDA
_85__ AGENDA Selection of Agenda Items. Agenda items shall be
selected by the Executive Committee. Once selected, these items
are fixed for the duration of the conference and no other items
will be discussed.
_86__ ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda items will
be considered in the order in which they appear in the agenda
eballot, unless that order is altered by a majority of the Committee.
_87__ PRIOR APPROVED RESOLUTIONS: Order of Consideration of
Prior-Approved Resolutions. Prior-approved resolutions are
resolutions that were received by the specified deadline and
were deemed appropriate by the staff. They will receive
priority over other resolutions. The order of appearance of
resolutions before the Committee is determined by the date
in which they were received, and is listed under the appropriate
committee topic in that order in the resolution book by the
Secretary. When the Chair opens debate on any agenda item,
any delegate may move for consideration of an approved resolution
on the agenda item that has been submitted to the chair with
signatories of 1/8 of the delegations present. If the motion
is seconded, the Chair will direct the committee to an immediate
vote without debate on the motion, a majority being required for
consideration. If no resolution receives a majority vote in favor
of consideration, the Committee will automatically have before it
for consideration the first resolution in the resolution book
under that agenda item that has been received by the chair with
the appropriate number of signatories.
_88__ CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL:
Resolutions that were not received by the specified deadline
may still be considered, but not until 1/2 of the prior approved
resolutions on the agenda item have been considered. For a
resolution without prior approval to be considered, it must
relate to the committee topic currently being debated, be
submitted to the chair with signatories of 1/8 of the delegations
present, and the delegate must supply enough copies of the
resolution for each delegation present. Once these conditions
have been met, any delegate may move for consideration of the
resolution. If the motion is seconded, the chair will direct
the committee to an immediate vote without debate on the motion,
a majority being required for consideration.
_89__ SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSALS: Delegates will receive selected
resolutions for consideration no later than at the time of the
conference registration. The delegates must submit resolutions
in the proper form by the deadline set by the Executive Committee.
_90__ Reporting Resolutions to the Parliament. The Chair
of each committee shall report resolutions passed by that committee
to the Parliament for its consideration. If a
committee fails to approve a resolution on an agenda item, it
shall submit a "Declaration of No Report" on that agenda item.
That topic area will not be considered by the Parliament.
_91__ Amendments. All amendments to resolutions must be signed
by one sponsoring delegation and at least one other seconding
delegation; they must be submitted on an official amendment
form for approval by the Legal Counsel and must be labeled
with an identifying number by the Secretary. Secondary
amendments and amendments by substitution are not acceptable.
Obvious typographical efforts will be brought to the Committee's
attention and collected by the Chair with no vote required.
To move an amendment to the floor, recognition by the Chair
and introduction of the amendment will suffice; no vote
shall be required. Once an amendment has been brought to
the floor, the Committee shall consider only the amendments
and not the Resolutions until final action on the amendment
has been taken (except to the extent that the amendment
pertains to the Resolution).
_92__ Definition of Amendment and Voting on Amendments. An
amendment is a motion that adds to, deletes from, or revises
any part of a resolution. A series of alterations proposed
by a single delegation to the same resolution shall be
considered as a single amendment unless a motion is made
to divide it.
_93__ Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all substantive
debate on the matters before the body at that time, except
when such a motion would interrupt a speaker. Two delegates
may speak against closure, and the motion will then be put to
a vote. During debate on an amendment, a delegate may move
for closure of debate on the resolution. If closure passes,
then the amendment shall be voted on first followed by the
resolution.
_94__ Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second is
required.
_95__ DEBATE AND SPEECH GUIDELINES: Speeches. No delegate
may address the committee without having previously obtained
the permission of the Chair. The Chair shall call upon
speakers in the order in which they signify their desire
to speak. Delegates may not interrupt a speaker except on
a point of order or point of personal privilege. Abusing
these rights may be considered violations of diplomatic
courtesy, and can result in disciplinary action taken by
the chair. Motions should be made at the conclusion of the
speaker's remarks; by making a motion, the speaker yields
the floor.
_96__ Time Limit on Debate. The committee or the Chair may
limit or extend the time allotted to each speaker and the
number of times each delegate may speak on a proposal.
There may be one speaker in favor and one opposed to the
limitation/extension.
_97__ Right of Reply. During debate, the Chair may accord
the right of reply to any delegate if a speech by another
delegate contains unusual or extraordinary language clearly
insulting to personal or national dignity. The decision
granting a right of reply may not be appealed. Requests
for a right of reply shall be in writing to the Chair.
The Chair will limit the time for the reply. There shall
be no reply to a reply.
_98__ POINTS - IN ORDER OF PRIORITY
Point of Order. If, during the discussion of any matter,
a delegate believes that the committee is proceeding in a
manner contrary to these GUIDELINES, he or she may rise to
a point of order. The delegate so rising will be immediately
recognized by the Chair and the point ruled upon. A delegate
rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance
of any matter under discussion.
Point of Personal Privilege. If a delegate wishes to
raise a question or make a request relating to the
organization of the meeting, personal comfort, or the
conduct of fellow delegates or staff, he/she may rise to
a point of personal privilege. When a delegate rises on
privilege, the Chair shall take such action as is necessary.
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry. A point of parliamentary
inquiry is directed to the Chair for information or guidance
on procedure. This point may not interrupt the speaker.
It is a question and does not require seconding or allow
for debate. Replies by the Chair are not appealable.
Point of Information. If a delegate wishes to obtain
a clarification of procedure or a statement of the matter
before the committee, the delegate may address a point of
information to the Chair. During debate, if a delegate
wishes to ask a question of the speaker, a request to
question the speaker may be made in the form of a point
of information directed to the Chair after the speaker
consents to be questioned, all questions and replies are
made through the Chair. Delegates shall not interrupt a
speaker on a point of information.
_99__ MOTIONS - ORDER OF PROCEDURAL MOTIONS
The motions as indicated in the Short Form of Points
and Motions have precedence, in the order given, over all
other proposals or motions before the committee.
Adjournment of Debate. During the discussion of any
matter, a delegate may move the adjournment of debate on
that matter. One delegate may speak in favor of the
motion and one opposed. The motion shall then be put to
an immediate vote. Adjournment of debate on a resolution
or amendment has the effect of tabling that item and moves
the committee on to the next order of business.
See also 8.9 on Reconsideration.
Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all
substantive debate on the matters before the body at that
time, except when such a motion would interrupt a speaker.
Two delegates may speak against closure, and the motion
will then be put to a vote. During debate on an amendment,
a delegate may move for closure of debate on the resolution.
if closure passes, then the amendment shall be voted on
first followed by the resolution.
Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second
is required.
Suspension of the Meeting. During the discussion of
any matter, a delegate may move to suspend the meeting.
Suspending a meeting recesses it until the time specified
in the motion; the Chair may request the mover to modify
the time. When the committee reconvenes it will continue
with its business from the point at which suspension was
moved.
Adjournment of the Meeting. The motion of adjournment
means that all business of the committee has been
completed, and that the committee win not reconvene
until the next Annual Session. The Chair may refuse
to recognize a motion to adjourn the meeting if the
Committee still has business before it. A motion to
adjourn is not debatable, and will be put to an immediate vote.
Decisions of Competence. Any motion calling for a
decision on the competence of the Committee to discuss
or adopt a proposal shall be put to a vote before the
vote is taken on the proposal in question. If a
Committee decides it is not competent to discuss or
vote on an amendment or resolution, the effect is the
same as adjourning debate on the matter. See also 8.9
on Reconsideration.
Withdrawal of Motions. A motion may be withdrawn
by its proposer at any time before voting on it has
begun, provided the motion has not been amended. A
withdrawn motion may be reintroduced by any other
delegation.
Reconsideration of Proposals. When a proposal has
been adopted, or rejected through a vote of adjournment
or "no competence", it may be reconsidered at the same
session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting. The motion to reconsider
must be made by a delegation which originally voted
on the prevailing side of the proposal; thus,
reconsideration may be moved only on the proposals
voted on by roll-call.
Division of the Question. A motion to divide the
question, proposing that parts of an amendment or
resolution be voted on separately, is in order at any
time prior to commencement of voting on the amendment
or resolution. Motions to divide shall apply only to
operative clauses. Permission to speak on the motion
shall be granted to one speaker in favor and one
opposed, after which there shall be an immediate vote.
The first motion for division to receive a majority
vote shall become the final manner in which the
proposal is presented. Those parts of the proposal
which are approved shall be put to a vote as a whole.
If all operative clauses of a proposal have been
rejected, the proposal as a whole has been rejected.
Dilatory Motions. The Chair may rule as dilatory,
and therefore out of order, any motion repeating or
closely approximating a substantive measure on which
the committee has already rendered an opinion. Such
rulings can not be appealed.
Appealing a Decision of the Chair. Rulings of
the chair can be appealed unless otherwise specified
in these GUIDELINES. Appeals can be debated by one
speaker in favor and one opposed.
_100__ MOTIONS are actions which trigger activity in
the California Super-state Parliament (Editing
guideline #s once approved).
_101__ : Motions : Interrupt Speaker? : Second Required? : Debatable? : Vote Required?
_102__ VOTING METHODS AND RIGHTS: Each member delegation shall
have one vote in each Committee in which it is represented. No
delegate may cast a vote on behalf of another member.
_103__ Simple Majority. Unless otherwise specified in these
GUIDELINES, decisions in the Committee shall be made by a majority
vote of those members present and voting. The phrase "MSPs present
and voting" refers to members casting ranked choice votes. Members
which cast a final abstention are not voting. If a vote is equally
divided between two sums of the same value, the motion fails.
_104__ Method of Voting. The Committee shall use ranked choice
voting (RCV). The Chair, however, may grant a request for a
roll-call vote; the decision to grant such a request is not
appealable. All final votes on resolutions shall be taken by
roll-call; the roll shall be called in English alphabetical order
beginning with a person selected at random by the Secretary.
Delegates shall reply "#1," or "abstain," or "abstain from the order
of voting." A member may abstain from the order of voting once
during the roll-call; a second abstention from the order of voting
will be recorded as an abstention. Rights of explanation are
permitted on roll-call votes and may be limited in time by the Chair.
At the end of roll-call, but before rights of explanation and the
subsequent announcement of the vote, the Secretary will ask for
changes of vote. A delegation may not change from "0" to "#1",
or "#1 with right of explanation" or from "0" to "0 with right
of explanation." Those abstaining may be accorded rights of
explanation. The result of the vote shall be inserted into the
Committee record.
_105__ ONLINE VOTING: The International Parliament will
conduct elections using online voting and all votes will be
posted where they can be easily viewed by the public with the
information as to who had cast the vote.
_106__ Conduct during Voting. Immediately prior to a vote,
the Chair shall describe to the Committee the proposal to be
voted on, and shall explain the consequence of a 1 or 0 vote.
Voting shall begin upon the chair's declaration and shall end
when the results of the vote are announced. Once voting has
begun, no delegate shall interrupt the voting except on a
point of order or information concerning the actual conduct
of the vote, or on a point of personal privilege.
_107__ Supplemental GUIDELINES
_108__ PREAMBULAR PHRASES provide background information
and establish proper context for reading and interpreting the resolution.
_109__ OPERATIVE CLAUSES are set out to achieve the committee's main policy goals on
the topic.
_110__ SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR REPUBLIC OF EARTH COUNTRIES
_111__ January 1st is the best day of the year for new countries to start an
election schedules and December 31st is the best day to end activities.
_112__ PERMANENCE. These Rules, intent, purpose and function, will not
change once approved by majority vote by the elected members, or MIPs,
of the International Parliament.
_113__ Contact the International Parliament via telephone (831) 383-1409 or the web
site at http://www.usparliament.org
for obtaining more information.
_114__ We form a global union, open to all people, and a constitution
drafted for ratification by this body which shall outline and define the
provisions of this resolution, that This union shall be governed by a
world parliament.
_115__ Voting blocks (communities, bands, tribes, federations) need no longer be
limited to geographical areas. People are now able to connect with like-minded
'others' from around the planet (and beyond).
_116__ SLANDERERS and ANTAGONISTS
_117__ NO PERSON MAY BE CENSORED, and no limits may be placed on free
speech by/of any other person or nominee,
including US Parliament's elected members and staff, at any time
except when applying guidelines to party/category labels/names
and parts of this rule which regulate antagonists.
_118__ NO HATE WORDS AS PARTY/CATEGORY NAME: Party/category's labels/names
may not be used in such a way that slanders or libels names of any
person or other party/categories or individuals. Those that refuse
to comply by continuing to libel others through their choice
of party name will be categorized as members of the Censored Party.
Elected members using a name or pseudonym rather than their actual
name, which libels, slanders or mimics (such as incorrect spellings),
shall have their name censored and instead will be known only as
Anonymous.
_119__ Members of any International Parliament entity who antagonize others more than once
use through the use of profanity, slander, insulting or offensive vulgar
language, harassing or chauvinistic speech, terrorizing threats, including
the threats of lawsuits against other members/vote counters or volunteers
within the International Parliament or those who use actual physical force or violence,
may be permanently or temporarily removed by the full Minister in that
Cabinet Ministry, by any of the ten executives of the International Parliament
or by the International Parliament's web page maintainer.
Senator Julie Bottoms [Humanities] Earth voted on 11/6/2015 as follows:
_2__ Parliamentary procedures, terms and pure proportional representation (PR)
for the International Parliament.
_3__ Require all the elected members to be in communication either
through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service or
else their name will be eliminated after one year.
_4__ The number of seats on the executive may remain at ten but not more than ten.
_5__ Paper Ballot Guidelines Recommended for State, National and International Elections
_6__ The paper ballots are placed in a clear ballot box by the voter, the box
is guarded, video taped all day and the votes are counted at the polling
location the night of the election.
_7__ The votes are counted two times by two different and diverse teams of
counters, recorded/taped/broadcast by two different devices with the public
able to observe and video/livestream the counting.
_8__ The results from the polling locations will be called to the Board
of Elections, emailed to the BoE and hand delivered. All three must
match. The Board of Elections will hand tally the results from all
the polling locations, again, two times by two different and diverse
teams of counters with this being taped, recorded and broadcast and
the public able to observe, tape and live-stream the entire proceedings.
And, the same goes for what happens at the state level.
_9__ The polling location should serve a maximum of 1,000 voters and
Election Day should be a national holiday with employers, if necessary,
having to arrange for special accommodations for employees that must
work, as with hospitals. A minimum of two hours personal time to vote
will be given to all citizens and voters.
_10__ The voters' names and marking on the ballot will remain secret
but the vote counting will be publicly observable.
_11__ PAPER BALLOTS will be made confidential to the highest level possible.
_12__ VOTER ELIGIBILITY:
The voter must register their name with at least two
methods of contact; and must comply with the voter eligibility
requirements for voter's country of residence.The voter must be a voting citizen of a country.
The voter must be 18 years old or older on Election Day.
The voter must not be in prison, on parole, serving a state sentence in county jail,
serving a sentence for a felony or on post-release community supervision.
The voter must not have been found to be mentally incompetent by a court.
Non-voting class membership will always be made available.
_13__ VOTER AUTHENTICATION:
When two or more methods of contact aren't provided by the voter, then
further explanation will be considered by the Vote Counting Ministry verifiers.
Additional Measures
_14__ General Counting, Balloting and Eballoting Guidelines for International Parliament Elections
_15__ RANKED VOTING ONLY: All voting and vote counting shall be in the form of
ranked paper ballots only (and eballots when practical and verifiable).
Consecutive numbers beginning with the #s 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. etc. must always be
used when marking on (e)ballot of all alternative decisions or names.
Deviation from this guideline will disqualify the ballot, and the ballot
will be marked spoiled.
_16__ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
_17__ THE SAINTE-LAGUE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM, Hagenbach-Bischoff method,
under ranked choice voting, for seat allocation in all multi-seat districts:
Divide the election's total number of votes by the number of seats.
This is the 1st quota.
Divide this quota into each candidate's votes, and round off to the
nearest whole number.
That's that candidate's seat allocation.
If, due to rounding, this awards a number of seats different from
the desired number
of seats, then adjust the quota slightly up or down, till, when
paragraph two is carried out,
it will award all seats.
_18__ Any resident of earth, nominee and/or proxy may observe the counting of the
ballots. Volunteer counters will conduct the vote counting.
_19__ Choices marked on "eballots" are posted for public view and are
not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of the Parliament.
_20__ EBALLOTS are ballots cast via email and must be emailed to
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org, a private email address used by the
secretary and observers for receiving such eballots. No reply email
will be sent to voters who cast eballots other than a verification
message, unless the voter indicates that he/she wishes to be self
appointed to the www.international-parliament.org site or when a
question regarding verification or validation is raised by a volunteer vote counter.
_21__ Volunteer vote counters may be added to the exploder email address
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org as a subscriber by sending the message
"subscribe" to vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org.
_22__ Telephone voting is permissible, acceptable and verification
and validations will be provided when requested.
_23__ Elections of rules shall be perpetual and the simple majority vote,
by elected MIPs who vote on rules, passes rules.
_24__ BALLOTS AND EBALLOTS: All world residents are eligible to vote in
International Parliament Elections 365 days year.
_25__ There will be five hundred members of International Parliament (MIPs) who
are elected members self appointed/self nominated for free under ranked
choice voting as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "MIPs"
and five hundred members who are donors, ranked in order of donation level and
are to be known as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "Senator" MIPs.
_26__ THE PARTY LEADER within the International Parliament is a label for the
highest ranked name categorized under each party. Party leaders are
responsible for the distribution of all ballots and rules to the
members of their party/category and lists.
_27__ Such ballots may be retype set or altered to specifically identify
their select nominees' correct name and party affiliation. All ballots
released to public used by the International Parliament's elected secretaries
shall count as a legitimate ballot and shall be presumed to represent
the correct and most current candidate name information.
_27__ BALLOT: ORDER OF NOMINEES of all names in the parliament elections
and subsidiary parliament elections will be determined by the results
caused by the voters' ranking of the nominees on the previous election's
ballots. This is known as the correct consecutive order of nominee.
Appointments and self-appointments will be listed chronologically.
_29__ NOMINEE ACCEPTANCE AND WRITE-INS:
Only names who formally ACCEPT the nomination of their name, self write-in
names and those currently already elected will qualify for the ballot/eballot
for the International Parliament. There will be a cap at 500 names for the
ballot/eballot for the free elections of MIPs.
_30__ A verifiable name and contact information must be provided in
order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
_31__ The final order of the parties/categories on the final prepared
ballot will be determined by the nominees' party name/category and
the parties/categories and will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
_32__ TIES: Ties will be broken by holding a runoff election only
when called by one of the two secretaries. In all other
cases, all the names/items in a tie will be included in the results
and will be in a new "tied" category, even if the size of the assembly
or agenda list must be expanded beyond normal size set forth by these rules.
_33__ ONLY ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENTARY BALLOT, IS PERMITTED TO BE MARKED BY
EACH WORLD RESIDENT: All living world citizens may vote one time and only
one time. In cases where a second ballot (or more) is cast, only
the latter of the ballots will be counted, the former will be marked
spoiled, deleted and regarded disqualified.
_34__ SENATORS
_35__ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donor's
funds will be deposited into a bank account which is controlled
by Treasury Minister, the President and the Vice President
of the International Parliament.
_36__ Senators: All donors who contribute money to the
international political entity known as the International
Parliament (IP) at the minimum donation amount of $20.,
will promptly and automatically become known as "Senator" once
the donation has been correctly registered with the Treasury
Minister and/or is received by the appropriate clerk.
The Senators will be grouped into five donor-level groups.
Senators are not elected during regular election cycles of
the parliament's elections but they do receive all of the same voting rights plus
special donor privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved. The total donation amount will apply as both an annual sum or
a total of multiple years. The annual sum is primarily for convention services
and the sum from multiple years has a secondary purpose which can apply to
different purposes other than the annual convention services.
_37__ THE FIVE DONATION LEVELS OF SENATORS
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $20. to $29.99 donation (level five)
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $20. to $29.99 donation (level five):
In Level Five, the Senator's name will listed as Senator on the IP's
Paper Share Certificate for Level Five Senator ($20. to $29.99 donation level).
--Level Five Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL FOUR. Services provided for a $30. to $49.99 donation (level four):
The Level Four Senators who donate $30. or more a year, paid before July 1st
Paper Share Certificate for Level Four Senator ($30. to $49.99 donation level).
--Level Four Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL THREE. Services provided for a $50.00 to $149.99 donation (level three):
Level Three Senators who donate $50.00 or more, paid before July 1st of that year, receive an
Paper Share Certificate for Level Three Senator ($50.00 to $149.99 donation level)
--Level Three Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL TWO. Services provided for a $150. to $599.99 donation (level two):
Senators who donate $150. to $599.99, paid before July 1st of that year,
Paper Share Certificate for Level Two Senator ($150.00 to $599.99 donation level)
--Level Two Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL ONE. Services provided for a $600. and more donation (level one):
Senators who donate $600., paid before July 1st of that year,
Paper Share Certificate for Level One Senator ($600. donation level and above)
--Level One Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
Plus, Level One Senators Also Get the Following Benefits:
Upon approval of this bylaw item, all Senators' current donation levels,
"Voting Stoppage"
Whenever a financial crisis occurs where the costs for paying basic
maintenance of the International Parliament are not being met, including
the costs of domain hosting, web design and obligations to all of the Senators, then the
Treasury and/or Vote Counting Ministry can place end to all introductions of free membership
sign ups of Members of International Parliament (MIPs) and other free services
provided by the Vote Counting Ministry and this ending will be known as a "voting stoppage".
This bylaw item can also affect the internal Cabinet voting by Ministers, but it will not
include/affect "votes of confidence" by the MIPs, voting by Senators current in dues and the
voting for election of Cabinet Ministers (parliamentary go-ahead) by the Ten Executives.
The voting stoppage will terminate either upon
the recommendation/consensus to end it by both the Treasury and Vote Counting Ministries,
or once the numbers of Senators reaches the same number of free MIPs within
the general International Parliament's assembly membership.
Diplomatic Passports
Some ministers and deputies will be traveling a lot abroad. At the airports
and borders a diplomatic passport would make sense. Even for the professional
legitimacy to foreign politicians.
ID Cards
For activities within the country an ID card is sufficient. However, a
professionally designed plastic card should be used here. Since the
International Parliament nevertheless plays an important role in the
world standard, you should already pay attention to a professional public image.
_38__ Once the top Senator seats are assigned based on ranking of donation
level, then lower ranked donors "spill over" into the "Senator MPs"
section of the subsidiary Republic of Earth, the country from which the donor originated.
_39__ The Senator's donation will be recorded and should the Senator ever wish to
"stand down", then the donation amount will be not be refunded.
_40__ The numbers of seats for Senators shall never be more than the number
of free elected members of International Parliament (MIPs).
_41__ The Senators may vote on Senate guidelines and decisions from time to time
but there is no requirement for such votes which are voluntary only. These
compilation of votes will be conducted only by the Senators themselves.
_42__ Should a MIP who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Senator, BoD, committee member
and/or the same particular seat title in any subsidiary Republic of Earth,
if their donation remained on the International Parliament's records.
_43__ All Senators shall have access to all financial records for the
International Parliament. More detailed information which isn't available
on the Treasury Ministry's web page will be made available within 90 days
to Senators when a request is made in writing to the Treasury Minister.
_44__ All payments are to be in US dollars only unless pre-approval is
obtained from the Treasury Ministry.
_45__ The International Parliament will not ever hold any election in a single-
winner district where a single-winner decision or name is elected.
_46__ Ballot Preparation
_47__ SPACE FOR THREE OR MORE WRITE-IN choices must be provided on each
and every ballot, in all elections.
_48__ CATEGORIZATION AND PARTY NAMES The first and most important
criterion in determining the nominee's party/category is the
nominee's most recently requested or declared party/category in
Parliament matters. The second most important criterion in
determining the nominee's party/category is determined by the
nominee's state's records, as written by the member while
registering to vote. Appointed members may be categorized with any
party/category that they wish, and the party/category of all
members is considered to be the true one. Elected members
may decide to change or switch their party/categorization at any time
by proclamation. Members automatically qualify for the ballot
in the next election cycle under the party/category of
their choice.
_49__ First and last names are preferred, however all names nominated
will be permitted on the ballot as well as the party/category of the
nominee. If party/category is not known, the label "[Info. Not Avail.]"
will be used. A nominee's name (and thus identity) may appear on the
ballot only once, so fusion voting is not allowed.
All world citizens who had signed up since "RESOLUTION NUMBER 1" was first approved on
10/27/2014 will be automatically added as MIPs retroactively within seven days
after the approval of this bylaw item #39.
_50__ RESIGNATIONS. When any elected member, executive or minister,
stands down, resigns, retires, or dies - the name is deleted. Then
the next highest ranked name is automatically elected to the
seat in their stead.
_51__ When a candidate who has chosen to stand down but then wishes to
return to the position which they had departed, then they must first
be re-affirmed by all the voters who had previously cast a vote for them.
_52__ TEN EXECUTIVES
_53__ MIPs: Once elected, all new Members of International Parliament
(MIPs) may change their vote as a "vote of confidence" for the ten
executives into perpetuity.
_54__ THE VOICE of the International Parliament will be the ten executives.
_55__ Each of the elected ten executives may pick a seat title once elected.
_56__ The ten executives elect up to sixty full Cabinet Ministers and sixty
Deputy Cabinet Ministers using the "parliamentary go-ahead.
_57__ The International Parliament's ten executives agree to rank all names
nominated by each of the other nine executives, thus guaranteeing that each
of the ten executives elects 1/10th of the 60 cabinet ministers and this
is known as the "parliamentary go-ahead".
_58__ THE TEN EXECUTIVES recruit as many
people as possible who will work in the Cabinet to run the efforts,
elects the planks on the platform and run the parliament's efforts free from
political conflict or bias. The executives do not control who
gets elected to the general assembly.
_59__ The ten executives of the International Parliament (IP) will
serve as "Founding Executives" on the unity business entity
named "All Party System Co., International Bureau", which is established
in order to report all unifying news, business, financial matters,
vote counting and results of vote counting of the IP to the public
and to serve as a store for generating sales of products and services..
_60__ SIXTY CABINET MINISTERS
_61__ MINISTRY: A simple majority vote by at least six of
the ten executives establishes the parliamentary go-ahead and
will elect new Ministers, even without the parliamentary go-ahead.
_62__ MINISTRY DIRECTORS: Ministries may elect up to fifty Directors
and any number of resolutions, agenda items, guidelines and administrators.
The fifty Directors must be elected in one at-large district and their titles
as "Directors" may be any title, for example each director may pick their own title too.
_63__ All International national Cabinet Ministers must be live,
real people and no avatars or anonymous names may be used by the
elected Cabinet Ministers. Only real names can be used and
verification of the member's true name may be requested when
such verifications are of interest from anyone of the ten executives.
_64__ HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MINISTRY:
The book "Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously" will be added as a guide to the proposed Health and Human
Services Ministry web page. For many ages, humanity has been
confused about what decisions regenerate and degenerate our living
systems. The Body itself has always held this wisdom of natural laws
for our organ/gland functioning on 253 circuits of personal powers
(but not always available until infrared could shine the light on it).
The Body's own immense wisdom can show us how our next decision
degenerates us or regenerates us (based on 40 years of scientific
research using infrared technology that can be tracked, measured and
decoded by the Language of the Body itself). This Self Evident and
undeniable truth from our energetic design makes it an unparalleled
guide to help humans make decisions (about voting, laws, or new
customs, etc.) that can regenerate us from within as well as from
without. (http://www.consciousnesssystems.com [1] to read the book).
Also, VOLUNTARY LAW: The blog site http://vlda.org/, the Voluntary
Law Development Association, owned by Jonathan Jaech will be added
to the proposed
_65__ VOLUNTARY LAW MINISTRY:
The Voluntary Law Ministry web page
and can accompany 'Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously' (that can both be used as the foundational principles
for voluntary international law). These 2 sources of wisdom can
promote peace, love and the clarity of energetic truth for successful
ways to promote each living systems' regeneration.
_66__ VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY:
The Vote Counting Ministry will make an annual award for
the "United Coalition Secure Paper Ballot Award".
_67__ TREASURY MINISTRY:
The Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the ten
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
The Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for Senators (donor MIPs)
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, Senator mailing addresses, contact information
and rankings, bank account savings and expenditures.
_68__ MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION MINISTRY:
Appeals of a name's removal action may be taken to the
Mediation and Conciliation Service Minister
where rules for such appeals will be written, voted upon and approved.
_69__ United Coalition
_70__ Declare that all of the elected and appointed members of the International Parliament,
all countries' national parliaments, all subsidiary super-state, mini-state
and county micro-state parliaments, to be members of a national and international
"Unity Coalition" or "United Coalition" effective November 5th, 2014.
_71__ The International Parliament's subsidiary Republic "Unity Coalition"
elections shall be in two phases; one before the country's primaries and one after the
country's primaries. That way, a strong emphasis can be placed on official state-recognized
ballot-qualified and write-in candidates both before the primaries and after the
primaries, and the dates are customized for each of the country's official primaries.
_72__ UNITY PLATFORM
_73__ Conduct an international Direct Democracy (DD) election which will elect planks
to a "Unity Platform".
_74__ The promotion of the Unity Coalition's "Unity Platform" can used used as an
example of teamwork. The team can be promoted as being dynamic so that
every item is up for a continual "vote of confidence" by all the members, all the time.
That way, the recruitment of new members can take place in order to collect
more votes for improving the planks on the Unity Platform.
_75__ PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM: The ten elected executives shall elect the
UNITY PLATFORM with a series of "planks" from all the items they pick and
rank from the DD election.
_76__ Guideline of Priority and Procedure
_77__ GENERAL PROVISIONS: Guideline of Priority and Procedure. The
GUIDELINES contained on this web page shall be the official first
GUIDELINES of procedure for the International Parliament and will be used
for all transactions of business once ratified by a majority of the
Members of Parliament (MPs). These GUIDELINES will
take precedence over any other set of GUIDELINES.
_78__ GUIDELINE CHANGES: The Executive Committee reserves the right
to make changes in these GUIDELINES by 6/10th vote and to present
these changes to the delegates/members at any time. All changes should
accommodate the desires or complaints of the MPs or staff so as to
improve the conduct of business online and offline.
_79__ EXECUTIVES: The Executives of the International
Parliament may select or approve persons to serve as Chairpersons, Legal
Counsels, and Secretaries for each committee and any other position
to help conduct the business.
_80__ CHAIR PERSON: Absence of Chairperson. If the Chair should find
it necessary to be absent during any part of a committee meeting,
he/she shall designate an individual (preferably the Legal Counsel)
to assume his/her duties with the same authority.
_81__ Statements by the Executives. The ten elected Executives,
or any person designated by the ten elected Executives, may at
any time make oral or written statements to a committee.
_82__ MEMBERS: Number of Accredited Delegates. The number of delegates
allowed on any delegation of the Parliament shall be limited to
MIPs and Donor MIPs only.
_83__ DIPLOMATIC COURTESY: All delegates MUST accord all other
delegates diplomatic courtesy at all times. Any delegate or visitor
who, after being advised by the Chair, persists in an obvious attempt
to divert the meeting from its intended purpose, or who otherwise
attempts to disrupt the proceedings, shall be subject to disciplinary
action and expulsion by the Chairperson.
_84__ AGENDA
_85__ AGENDA Selection of Agenda Items. Agenda items shall be
selected by the Executive Committee. Once selected, these items
are fixed for the duration of the conference and no other items
will be discussed.
_86__ ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda items will
be considered in the order in which they appear in the agenda
eballot, unless that order is altered by a majority of the Committee.
_87__ PRIOR APPROVED RESOLUTIONS: Order of Consideration of
Prior-Approved Resolutions. Prior-approved resolutions are
resolutions that were received by the specified deadline and
were deemed appropriate by the staff. They will receive
priority over other resolutions. The order of appearance of
resolutions before the Committee is determined by the date
in which they were received, and is listed under the appropriate
committee topic in that order in the resolution book by the
Secretary. When the Chair opens debate on any agenda item,
any delegate may move for consideration of an approved resolution
on the agenda item that has been submitted to the chair with
signatories of 1/8 of the delegations present. If the motion
is seconded, the Chair will direct the committee to an immediate
vote without debate on the motion, a majority being required for
consideration. If no resolution receives a majority vote in favor
of consideration, the Committee will automatically have before it
for consideration the first resolution in the resolution book
under that agenda item that has been received by the chair with
the appropriate number of signatories.
_88__ CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL:
Resolutions that were not received by the specified deadline
may still be considered, but not until 1/2 of the prior approved
resolutions on the agenda item have been considered. For a
resolution without prior approval to be considered, it must
relate to the committee topic currently being debated, be
submitted to the chair with signatories of 1/8 of the delegations
present, and the delegate must supply enough copies of the
resolution for each delegation present. Once these conditions
have been met, any delegate may move for consideration of the
resolution. If the motion is seconded, the chair will direct
the committee to an immediate vote without debate on the motion,
a majority being required for consideration.
_89__ SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSALS: Delegates will receive selected
resolutions for consideration no later than at the time of the
conference registration. The delegates must submit resolutions
in the proper form by the deadline set by the Executive Committee.
_90__ Reporting Resolutions to the Parliament. The Chair
of each committee shall report resolutions passed by that committee
to the Parliament for its consideration. If a
committee fails to approve a resolution on an agenda item, it
shall submit a "Declaration of No Report" on that agenda item.
That topic area will not be considered by the Parliament.
_91__ Amendments. All amendments to resolutions must be signed
by one sponsoring delegation and at least one other seconding
delegation; they must be submitted on an official amendment
form for approval by the Legal Counsel and must be labeled
with an identifying number by the Secretary. Secondary
amendments and amendments by substitution are not acceptable.
Obvious typographical efforts will be brought to the Committee's
attention and collected by the Chair with no vote required.
To move an amendment to the floor, recognition by the Chair
and introduction of the amendment will suffice; no vote
shall be required. Once an amendment has been brought to
the floor, the Committee shall consider only the amendments
and not the Resolutions until final action on the amendment
has been taken (except to the extent that the amendment
pertains to the Resolution).
_92__ Definition of Amendment and Voting on Amendments. An
amendment is a motion that adds to, deletes from, or revises
any part of a resolution. A series of alterations proposed
by a single delegation to the same resolution shall be
considered as a single amendment unless a motion is made
to divide it.
_93__ Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all substantive
debate on the matters before the body at that time, except
when such a motion would interrupt a speaker. Two delegates
may speak against closure, and the motion will then be put to
a vote. During debate on an amendment, a delegate may move
for closure of debate on the resolution. If closure passes,
then the amendment shall be voted on first followed by the
resolution.
_94__ Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second is
required.
_95__ DEBATE AND SPEECH GUIDELINES: Speeches. No delegate
may address the committee without having previously obtained
the permission of the Chair. The Chair shall call upon
speakers in the order in which they signify their desire
to speak. Delegates may not interrupt a speaker except on
a point of order or point of personal privilege. Abusing
these rights may be considered violations of diplomatic
courtesy, and can result in disciplinary action taken by
the chair. Motions should be made at the conclusion of the
speaker's remarks; by making a motion, the speaker yields
the floor.
_96__ Time Limit on Debate. The committee or the Chair may
limit or extend the time allotted to each speaker and the
number of times each delegate may speak on a proposal.
There may be one speaker in favor and one opposed to the
limitation/extension.
_97__ Right of Reply. During debate, the Chair may accord
the right of reply to any delegate if a speech by another
delegate contains unusual or extraordinary language clearly
insulting to personal or national dignity. The decision
granting a right of reply may not be appealed. Requests
for a right of reply shall be in writing to the Chair.
The Chair will limit the time for the reply. There shall
be no reply to a reply.
_98__ POINTS - IN ORDER OF PRIORITY
Point of Order. If, during the discussion of any matter,
a delegate believes that the committee is proceeding in a
manner contrary to these GUIDELINES, he or she may rise to
a point of order. The delegate so rising will be immediately
recognized by the Chair and the point ruled upon. A delegate
rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance
of any matter under discussion.
Point of Personal Privilege. If a delegate wishes to
raise a question or make a request relating to the
organization of the meeting, personal comfort, or the
conduct of fellow delegates or staff, he/she may rise to
a point of personal privilege. When a delegate rises on
privilege, the Chair shall take such action as is necessary.
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry. A point of parliamentary
inquiry is directed to the Chair for information or guidance
on procedure. This point may not interrupt the speaker.
It is a question and does not require seconding or allow
for debate. Replies by the Chair are not appealable.
Point of Information. If a delegate wishes to obtain
a clarification of procedure or a statement of the matter
before the committee, the delegate may address a point of
information to the Chair. During debate, if a delegate
wishes to ask a question of the speaker, a request to
question the speaker may be made in the form of a point
of information directed to the Chair after the speaker
consents to be questioned, all questions and replies are
made through the Chair. Delegates shall not interrupt a
speaker on a point of information.
_99__ MOTIONS - ORDER OF PROCEDURAL MOTIONS
The motions as indicated in the Short Form of Points
and Motions have precedence, in the order given, over all
other proposals or motions before the committee.
Adjournment of Debate. During the discussion of any
matter, a delegate may move the adjournment of debate on
that matter. One delegate may speak in favor of the
motion and one opposed. The motion shall then be put to
an immediate vote. Adjournment of debate on a resolution
or amendment has the effect of tabling that item and moves
the committee on to the next order of business.
See also 8.9 on Reconsideration.
Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all
substantive debate on the matters before the body at that
time, except when such a motion would interrupt a speaker.
Two delegates may speak against closure, and the motion
will then be put to a vote. During debate on an amendment,
a delegate may move for closure of debate on the resolution.
if closure passes, then the amendment shall be voted on
first followed by the resolution.
Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second
is required.
Suspension of the Meeting. During the discussion of
any matter, a delegate may move to suspend the meeting.
Suspending a meeting recesses it until the time specified
in the motion; the Chair may request the mover to modify
the time. When the committee reconvenes it will continue
with its business from the point at which suspension was
moved.
Adjournment of the Meeting. The motion of adjournment
means that all business of the committee has been
completed, and that the committee win not reconvene
until the next Annual Session. The Chair may refuse
to recognize a motion to adjourn the meeting if the
Committee still has business before it. A motion to
adjourn is not debatable, and will be put to an immediate vote.
Decisions of Competence. Any motion calling for a
decision on the competence of the Committee to discuss
or adopt a proposal shall be put to a vote before the
vote is taken on the proposal in question. If a
Committee decides it is not competent to discuss or
vote on an amendment or resolution, the effect is the
same as adjourning debate on the matter. See also 8.9
on Reconsideration.
Withdrawal of Motions. A motion may be withdrawn
by its proposer at any time before voting on it has
begun, provided the motion has not been amended. A
withdrawn motion may be reintroduced by any other
delegation.
Reconsideration of Proposals. When a proposal has
been adopted, or rejected through a vote of adjournment
or "no competence", it may be reconsidered at the same
session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting. The motion to reconsider
must be made by a delegation which originally voted
on the prevailing side of the proposal; thus,
reconsideration may be moved only on the proposals
voted on by roll-call.
Division of the Question. A motion to divide the
question, proposing that parts of an amendment or
resolution be voted on separately, is in order at any
time prior to commencement of voting on the amendment
or resolution. Motions to divide shall apply only to
operative clauses. Permission to speak on the motion
shall be granted to one speaker in favor and one
opposed, after which there shall be an immediate vote.
The first motion for division to receive a majority
vote shall become the final manner in which the
proposal is presented. Those parts of the proposal
which are approved shall be put to a vote as a whole.
If all operative clauses of a proposal have been
rejected, the proposal as a whole has been rejected.
Dilatory Motions. The Chair may rule as dilatory,
and therefore out of order, any motion repeating or
closely approximating a substantive measure on which
the committee has already rendered an opinion. Such
rulings can not be appealed.
Appealing a Decision of the Chair. Rulings of
the chair can be appealed unless otherwise specified
in these GUIDELINES. Appeals can be debated by one
speaker in favor and one opposed.
_100__ MOTIONS are actions which trigger activity in
the California Super-state Parliament (Editing
guideline #s once approved).
_101__ : Motions : Interrupt Speaker? : Second Required? : Debatable? : Vote Required?
_102__ VOTING METHODS AND RIGHTS: Each member delegation shall
have one vote in each Committee in which it is represented. No
delegate may cast a vote on behalf of another member.
_103__ Simple Majority. Unless otherwise specified in these
GUIDELINES, decisions in the Committee shall be made by a majority
vote of those members present and voting. The phrase "MSPs present
and voting" refers to members casting ranked choice votes. Members
which cast a final abstention are not voting. If a vote is equally
divided between two sums of the same value, the motion fails.
_104__ Method of Voting. The Committee shall use ranked choice
voting (RCV). The Chair, however, may grant a request for a
roll-call vote; the decision to grant such a request is not
appealable. All final votes on resolutions shall be taken by
roll-call; the roll shall be called in English alphabetical order
beginning with a person selected at random by the Secretary.
Delegates shall reply "#1," or "abstain," or "abstain from the order
of voting." A member may abstain from the order of voting once
during the roll-call; a second abstention from the order of voting
will be recorded as an abstention. Rights of explanation are
permitted on roll-call votes and may be limited in time by the Chair.
At the end of roll-call, but before rights of explanation and the
subsequent announcement of the vote, the Secretary will ask for
changes of vote. A delegation may not change from "0" to "#1",
or "#1 with right of explanation" or from "0" to "0 with right
of explanation." Those abstaining may be accorded rights of
explanation. The result of the vote shall be inserted into the
Committee record.
_105__ ONLINE VOTING: The International Parliament will
conduct elections using online voting and all votes will be
posted where they can be easily viewed by the public with the
information as to who had cast the vote.
_106__ Conduct during Voting. Immediately prior to a vote,
the Chair shall describe to the Committee the proposal to be
voted on, and shall explain the consequence of a 1 or 0 vote.
Voting shall begin upon the chair's declaration and shall end
when the results of the vote are announced. Once voting has
begun, no delegate shall interrupt the voting except on a
point of order or information concerning the actual conduct
of the vote, or on a point of personal privilege.
_107__ Supplemental GUIDELINES
_108__ PREAMBULAR PHRASES provide background information
and establish proper context for reading and interpreting the resolution.
_109__ OPERATIVE CLAUSES are set out to achieve the committee's main policy goals on
the topic.
_110__ SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR REPUBLIC OF EARTH COUNTRIES
_111__ January 1st is the best day of the year for new countries to start an
election schedules and December 31st is the best day to end activities.
_112__ PERMANENCE. These Rules, intent, purpose and function, will not
change once approved by majority vote by the elected members, or MIPs,
of the International Parliament.
_113__ Contact the International Parliament via telephone (831) 383-1409 or the web
site at http://www.usparliament.org
for obtaining more information.
_114__ We form a global union, open to all people, and a constitution
drafted for ratification by this body which shall outline and define the
provisions of this resolution, that This union shall be governed by a
world parliament.
_115__ Voting blocks (communities, bands, tribes, federations) need no longer be
limited to geographical areas. People are now able to connect with like-minded
'others' from around the planet (and beyond).
_116__ SLANDERERS and ANTAGONISTS
_117__ NO PERSON MAY BE CENSORED, and no limits may be placed on free
speech by/of any other person or nominee,
including US Parliament's elected members and staff, at any time
except when applying guidelines to party/category labels/names
and parts of this rule which regulate antagonists.
_118__ NO HATE WORDS AS PARTY/CATEGORY NAME: Party/category's labels/names
may not be used in such a way that slanders or libels names of any
person or other party/categories or individuals. Those that refuse
to comply by continuing to libel others through their choice
of party name will be categorized as members of the Censored Party.
Elected members using a name or pseudonym rather than their actual
name, which libels, slanders or mimics (such as incorrect spellings),
shall have their name censored and instead will be known only as
Anonymous.
_119__ Members of any International Parliament entity who antagonize others more than once
use through the use of profanity, slander, insulting or offensive vulgar
language, harassing or chauvinistic speech, terrorizing threats, including
the threats of lawsuits against other members/vote counters or volunteers
within the International Parliament or those who use actual physical force or violence,
may be permanently or temporarily removed by the full Minister in that
Cabinet Ministry, by any of the ten executives of the International Parliament
or by the International Parliament's web page maintainer.
Senator Dr Brig General Lord Buck Rogers [Conservative] UK voted on 11/6/2015 as follows:
_2__ Parliamentary procedures, terms and pure proportional representation (PR)
for the International Parliament.
_3__ Require all the elected members to be in communication either
through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service or
else their name will be eliminated after one year.
_4__ The number of seats on the executive may remain at ten but not more than ten.
_5__ Paper Ballot Guidelines Recommended for State, National and International Elections
_6__ The paper ballots are placed in a clear ballot box by the voter, the box
is guarded, video taped all day and the votes are counted at the polling
location the night of the election.
_7__ The votes are counted two times by two different and diverse teams of
counters, recorded/taped/broadcast by two different devices with the public
able to observe and video/livestream the counting.
_8__ The results from the polling locations will be called to the Board
of Elections, emailed to the BoE and hand delivered. All three must
match. The Board of Elections will hand tally the results from all
the polling locations, again, two times by two different and diverse
teams of counters with this being taped, recorded and broadcast and
the public able to observe, tape and live-stream the entire proceedings.
And, the same goes for what happens at the state level.
_9__ The polling location should serve a maximum of 1,000 voters and
Election Day should be a national holiday with employers, if necessary,
having to arrange for special accommodations for employees that must
work, as with hospitals. A minimum of two hours personal time to vote
will be given to all citizens and voters.
_10__ The voters' names and marking on the ballot will remain secret
but the vote counting will be publicly observable.
_11__ PAPER BALLOTS will be made confidential to the highest level possible.
_12__ VOTER ELIGIBILITY:
The voter must register their name with at least two
methods of contact; and must comply with the voter eligibility
requirements for voter's country of residence.The voter must be a voting citizen of a country.
The voter must be 18 years old or older on Election Day.
The voter must not be in prison, on parole, serving a state sentence in county jail,
serving a sentence for a felony or on post-release community supervision.
The voter must not have been found to be mentally incompetent by a court.
Non-voting class membership will always be made available.
_13__ VOTER AUTHENTICATION:
When two or more methods of contact aren't provided by the voter, then
further explanation will be considered by the Vote Counting Ministry verifiers.
Additional Measures
_14__ General Counting, Balloting and Eballoting Guidelines for International Parliament Elections
_15__ RANKED VOTING ONLY: All voting and vote counting shall be in the form of
ranked paper ballots only (and eballots when practical and verifiable).
Consecutive numbers beginning with the #s 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. etc. must always be
used when marking on (e)ballot of all alternative decisions or names.
Deviation from this guideline will disqualify the ballot, and the ballot
will be marked spoiled.
_16__ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
_17__ THE SAINTE-LAGUE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM, Hagenbach-Bischoff method,
under ranked choice voting, for seat allocation in all multi-seat districts:
Divide the election's total number of votes by the number of seats.
This is the 1st quota.
Divide this quota into each candidate's votes, and round off to the
nearest whole number.
That's that candidate's seat allocation.
If, due to rounding, this awards a number of seats different from
the desired number
of seats, then adjust the quota slightly up or down, till, when
paragraph two is carried out,
it will award all seats.
_18__ Any resident of earth, nominee and/or proxy may observe the counting of the
ballots. Volunteer counters will conduct the vote counting.
_19__ Choices marked on "eballots" are posted for public view and are
not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of the Parliament.
_20__ EBALLOTS are ballots cast via email and must be emailed to
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org, a private email address used by the
secretary and observers for receiving such eballots. No reply email
will be sent to voters who cast eballots other than a verification
message, unless the voter indicates that he/she wishes to be self
appointed to the www.international-parliament.org site or when a
question regarding verification or validation is raised by a volunteer vote counter.
_21__ Volunteer vote counters may be added to the exploder email address
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org as a subscriber by sending the message
"subscribe" to vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org.
_22__ Telephone voting is permissible, acceptable and verification
and validations will be provided when requested.
_23__ Elections of rules shall be perpetual and the simple majority vote,
by elected MIPs who vote on rules, passes rules.
_24__ BALLOTS AND EBALLOTS: All world residents are eligible to vote in
International Parliament Elections 365 days year.
_25__ There will be five hundred members of International Parliament (MIPs) who
are elected members self appointed/self nominated for free under ranked
choice voting as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "MIPs"
and five hundred members who are donors, ranked in order of donation level and
are to be known as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "Senator" MIPs.
_26__ THE PARTY LEADER within the International Parliament is a label for the
highest ranked name categorized under each party. Party leaders are
responsible for the distribution of all ballots and rules to the
members of their party/category and lists.
_27__ Such ballots may be retype set or altered to specifically identify
their select nominees' correct name and party affiliation. All ballots
released to public used by the International Parliament's elected secretaries
shall count as a legitimate ballot and shall be presumed to represent
the correct and most current candidate name information.
_27__ BALLOT: ORDER OF NOMINEES of all names in the parliament elections
and subsidiary parliament elections will be determined by the results
caused by the voters' ranking of the nominees on the previous election's
ballots. This is known as the correct consecutive order of nominee.
Appointments and self-appointments will be listed chronologically.
_29__ NOMINEE ACCEPTANCE AND WRITE-INS:
Only names who formally ACCEPT the nomination of their name, self write-in
names and those currently already elected will qualify for the ballot/eballot
for the International Parliament. There will be a cap at 500 names for the
ballot/eballot for the free elections of MIPs.
_30__ A verifiable name and contact information must be provided in
order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
_31__ The final order of the parties/categories on the final prepared
ballot will be determined by the nominees' party name/category and
the parties/categories and will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
_32__ TIES: Ties will be broken by holding a runoff election only
when called by one of the two secretaries. In all other
cases, all the names/items in a tie will be included in the results
and will be in a new "tied" category, even if the size of the assembly
or agenda list must be expanded beyond normal size set forth by these rules.
_33__ ONLY ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENTARY BALLOT, IS PERMITTED TO BE MARKED BY
EACH WORLD RESIDENT: All living world citizens may vote one time and only
one time. In cases where a second ballot (or more) is cast, only
the latter of the ballots will be counted, the former will be marked
spoiled, deleted and regarded disqualified.
_34__ SENATORS
_35__ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donor's
funds will be deposited into a bank account which is controlled
by Treasury Minister, the President and the Vice President
of the International Parliament.
_36__ Senators: All donors who contribute money to the
international political entity known as the International
Parliament (IP) at the minimum donation amount of $20.,
will promptly and automatically become known as "Senator" once
the donation has been correctly registered with the Treasury
Minister and/or is received by the appropriate clerk.
The Senators will be grouped into five donor-level groups.
Senators are not elected during regular election cycles of
the parliament's elections but they do receive all of the same voting rights plus
special donor privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved. The total donation amount will apply as both an annual sum or
a total of multiple years. The annual sum is primarily for convention services
and the sum from multiple years has a secondary purpose which can apply to
different purposes other than the annual convention services.
_37__ THE FIVE DONATION LEVELS OF SENATORS
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $20. to $29.99 donation (level five)
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $20. to $29.99 donation (level five):
In Level Five, the Senator's name will listed as Senator on the IP's
Paper Share Certificate for Level Five Senator ($20. to $29.99 donation level).
--Level Five Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL FOUR. Services provided for a $30. to $49.99 donation (level four):
The Level Four Senators who donate $30. or more a year, paid before July 1st
Paper Share Certificate for Level Four Senator ($30. to $49.99 donation level).
--Level Four Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL THREE. Services provided for a $50.00 to $149.99 donation (level three):
Level Three Senators who donate $50.00 or more, paid before July 1st of that year, receive an
Paper Share Certificate for Level Three Senator ($50.00 to $149.99 donation level)
--Level Three Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL TWO. Services provided for a $150. to $599.99 donation (level two):
Senators who donate $150. to $599.99, paid before July 1st of that year,
Paper Share Certificate for Level Two Senator ($150.00 to $599.99 donation level)
--Level Two Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL ONE. Services provided for a $600. and more donation (level one):
Senators who donate $600., paid before July 1st of that year,
Paper Share Certificate for Level One Senator ($600. donation level and above)
--Level One Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
Plus, Level One Senators Also Get the Following Benefits:
Upon approval of this bylaw item, all Senators' current donation levels,
"Voting Stoppage"
Whenever a financial crisis occurs where the costs for paying basic
maintenance of the International Parliament are not being met, including
the costs of domain hosting, web design and obligations to all of the Senators, then the
Treasury and/or Vote Counting Ministry can place end to all introductions of free membership
sign ups of Members of International Parliament (MIPs) and other free services
provided by the Vote Counting Ministry and this ending will be known as a "voting stoppage".
This bylaw item can also affect the internal Cabinet voting by Ministers, but it will not
include/affect "votes of confidence" by the MIPs, voting by Senators current in dues and the
voting for election of Cabinet Ministers (parliamentary go-ahead) by the Ten Executives.
The voting stoppage will terminate either upon
the recommendation/consensus to end it by both the Treasury and Vote Counting Ministries,
or once the numbers of Senators reaches the same number of free MIPs within
the general International Parliament's assembly membership.
Diplomatic Passports
Some ministers and deputies will be traveling a lot abroad. At the airports
and borders a diplomatic passport would make sense. Even for the professional
legitimacy to foreign politicians.
ID Cards
For activities within the country an ID card is sufficient. However, a
professionally designed plastic card should be used here. Since the
International Parliament nevertheless plays an important role in the
world standard, you should already pay attention to a professional public image.
_38__ Once the top Senator seats are assigned based on ranking of donation
level, then lower ranked donors "spill over" into the "Senator MPs"
section of the subsidiary Republic of Earth, the country from which the donor originated.
_39__ The Senator's donation will be recorded and should the Senator ever wish to
"stand down", then the donation amount will be not be refunded.
_40__ The numbers of seats for Senators shall never be more than the number
of free elected members of International Parliament (MIPs).
_41__ The Senators may vote on Senate guidelines and decisions from time to time
but there is no requirement for such votes which are voluntary only. These
compilation of votes will be conducted only by the Senators themselves.
_42__ Should a MIP who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Senator, BoD, committee member
and/or the same particular seat title in any subsidiary Republic of Earth,
if their donation remained on the International Parliament's records.
_43__ All Senators shall have access to all financial records for the
International Parliament. More detailed information which isn't available
on the Treasury Ministry's web page will be made available within 90 days
to Senators when a request is made in writing to the Treasury Minister.
_44__ All payments are to be in US dollars only unless pre-approval is
obtained from the Treasury Ministry.
_45__ The International Parliament will not ever hold any election in a single-
winner district where a single-winner decision or name is elected.
_46__ Ballot Preparation
_47__ SPACE FOR THREE OR MORE WRITE-IN choices must be provided on each
and every ballot, in all elections.
_48__ CATEGORIZATION AND PARTY NAMES The first and most important
criterion in determining the nominee's party/category is the
nominee's most recently requested or declared party/category in
Parliament matters. The second most important criterion in
determining the nominee's party/category is determined by the
nominee's state's records, as written by the member while
registering to vote. Appointed members may be categorized with any
party/category that they wish, and the party/category of all
members is considered to be the true one. Elected members
may decide to change or switch their party/categorization at any time
by proclamation. Members automatically qualify for the ballot
in the next election cycle under the party/category of
their choice.
_49__ First and last names are preferred, however all names nominated
will be permitted on the ballot as well as the party/category of the
nominee. If party/category is not known, the label "[Info. Not Avail.]"
will be used. A nominee's name (and thus identity) may appear on the
ballot only once, so fusion voting is not allowed.
All world citizens who had signed up since "RESOLUTION NUMBER 1" was first approved on
10/27/2014 will be automatically added as MIPs retroactively within seven days
after the approval of this bylaw item #39.
_50__ RESIGNATIONS. When any elected member, executive or minister,
stands down, resigns, retires, or dies - the name is deleted. Then
the next highest ranked name is automatically elected to the
seat in their stead.
_51__ When a candidate who has chosen to stand down but then wishes to
return to the position which they had departed, then they must first
be re-affirmed by all the voters who had previously cast a vote for them.
_52__ TEN EXECUTIVES
_53__ MIPs: Once elected, all new Members of International Parliament
(MIPs) may change their vote as a "vote of confidence" for the ten
executives into perpetuity.
_54__ THE VOICE of the International Parliament will be the ten executives.
_55__ Each of the elected ten executives may pick a seat title once elected.
_56__ The ten executives elect up to sixty full Cabinet Ministers and sixty
Deputy Cabinet Ministers using the "parliamentary go-ahead.
_57__ The International Parliament's ten executives agree to rank all names
nominated by each of the other nine executives, thus guaranteeing that each
of the ten executives elects 1/10th of the 60 cabinet ministers and this
is known as the "parliamentary go-ahead".
_58__ THE TEN EXECUTIVES recruit as many
people as possible who will work in the Cabinet to run the efforts,
elects the planks on the platform and run the parliament's efforts free from
political conflict or bias. The executives do not control who
gets elected to the general assembly.
_59__ The ten executives of the International Parliament (IP) will
serve as "Founding Executives" on the unity business entity
named "All Party System Co., International Bureau", which is established
in order to report all unifying news, business, financial matters,
vote counting and results of vote counting of the IP to the public
and to serve as a store for generating sales of products and services..
_60__ SIXTY CABINET MINISTERS
_61__ MINISTRY: A simple majority vote by at least six of
the ten executives establishes the parliamentary go-ahead and
will elect new Ministers, even without the parliamentary go-ahead.
_62__ MINISTRY DIRECTORS: Ministries may elect up to fifty Directors
and any number of resolutions, agenda items, guidelines and administrators.
The fifty Directors must be elected in one at-large district and their titles
as "Directors" may be any title, for example each director may pick their own title too.
_63__ All International national Cabinet Ministers must be live,
real people and no avatars or anonymous names may be used by the
elected Cabinet Ministers. Only real names can be used and
verification of the member's true name may be requested when
such verifications are of interest from anyone of the ten executives.
_64__ HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MINISTRY:
The book "Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously" will be added as a guide to the proposed Health and Human
Services Ministry web page. For many ages, humanity has been
confused about what decisions regenerate and degenerate our living
systems. The Body itself has always held this wisdom of natural laws
for our organ/gland functioning on 253 circuits of personal powers
(but not always available until infrared could shine the light on it).
The Body's own immense wisdom can show us how our next decision
degenerates us or regenerates us (based on 40 years of scientific
research using infrared technology that can be tracked, measured and
decoded by the Language of the Body itself). This Self Evident and
undeniable truth from our energetic design makes it an unparalleled
guide to help humans make decisions (about voting, laws, or new
customs, etc.) that can regenerate us from within as well as from
without. (http://www.consciousnesssystems.com [1] to read the book).
Also, VOLUNTARY LAW: The blog site http://vlda.org/, the Voluntary
Law Development Association, owned by Jonathan Jaech will be added
to the proposed
_65__ VOLUNTARY LAW MINISTRY:
The Voluntary Law Ministry web page
and can accompany 'Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously' (that can both be used as the foundational principles
for voluntary international law). These 2 sources of wisdom can
promote peace, love and the clarity of energetic truth for successful
ways to promote each living systems' regeneration.
_66__ VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY:
The Vote Counting Ministry will make an annual award for
the "United Coalition Secure Paper Ballot Award".
_67__ TREASURY MINISTRY:
The Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the ten
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
The Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for Senators (donor MIPs)
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, Senator mailing addresses, contact information
and rankings, bank account savings and expenditures.
_68__ MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION MINISTRY:
Appeals of a name's removal action may be taken to the
Mediation and Conciliation Service Minister
where rules for such appeals will be written, voted upon and approved.
_69__ United Coalition
_70__ Declare that all of the elected and appointed members of the International Parliament,
all countries' national parliaments, all subsidiary super-state, mini-state
and county micro-state parliaments, to be members of a national and international
"Unity Coalition" or "United Coalition" effective November 5th, 2014.
_71__ The International Parliament's subsidiary Republic "Unity Coalition"
elections shall be in two phases; one before the country's primaries and one after the
country's primaries. That way, a strong emphasis can be placed on official state-recognized
ballot-qualified and write-in candidates both before the primaries and after the
primaries, and the dates are customized for each of the country's official primaries.
_72__ UNITY PLATFORM
_73__ Conduct an international Direct Democracy (DD) election which will elect planks
to a "Unity Platform".
_74__ The promotion of the Unity Coalition's "Unity Platform" can used used as an
example of teamwork. The team can be promoted as being dynamic so that
every item is up for a continual "vote of confidence" by all the members, all the time.
That way, the recruitment of new members can take place in order to collect
more votes for improving the planks on the Unity Platform.
_75__ PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM: The ten elected executives shall elect the
UNITY PLATFORM with a series of "planks" from all the items they pick and
rank from the DD election.
_76__ Guideline of Priority and Procedure
_77__ GENERAL PROVISIONS: Guideline of Priority and Procedure. The
GUIDELINES contained on this web page shall be the official first
GUIDELINES of procedure for the International Parliament and will be used
for all transactions of business once ratified by a majority of the
Members of Parliament (MPs). These GUIDELINES will
take precedence over any other set of GUIDELINES.
_78__ GUIDELINE CHANGES: The Executive Committee reserves the right
to make changes in these GUIDELINES by 6/10th vote and to present
these changes to the delegates/members at any time. All changes should
accommodate the desires or complaints of the MPs or staff so as to
improve the conduct of business online and offline.
_79__ EXECUTIVES: The Executives of the International
Parliament may select or approve persons to serve as Chairpersons, Legal
Counsels, and Secretaries for each committee and any other position
to help conduct the business.
_80__ CHAIR PERSON: Absence of Chairperson. If the Chair should find
it necessary to be absent during any part of a committee meeting,
he/she shall designate an individual (preferably the Legal Counsel)
to assume his/her duties with the same authority.
_81__ Statements by the Executives. The ten elected Executives,
or any person designated by the ten elected Executives, may at
any time make oral or written statements to a committee.
_82__ MEMBERS: Number of Accredited Delegates. The number of delegates
allowed on any delegation of the Parliament shall be limited to
MIPs and Donor MIPs only.
_83__ DIPLOMATIC COURTESY: All delegates MUST accord all other
delegates diplomatic courtesy at all times. Any delegate or visitor
who, after being advised by the Chair, persists in an obvious attempt
to divert the meeting from its intended purpose, or who otherwise
attempts to disrupt the proceedings, shall be subject to disciplinary
action and expulsion by the Chairperson.
_84__ AGENDA
_85__ AGENDA Selection of Agenda Items. Agenda items shall be
selected by the Executive Committee. Once selected, these items
are fixed for the duration of the conference and no other items
will be discussed.
_86__ ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda items will
be considered in the order in which they appear in the agenda
eballot, unless that order is altered by a majority of the Committee.
_87__ PRIOR APPROVED RESOLUTIONS: Order of Consideration of
Prior-Approved Resolutions. Prior-approved resolutions are
resolutions that were received by the specified deadline and
were deemed appropriate by the staff. They will receive
priority over other resolutions. The order of appearance of
resolutions before the Committee is determined by the date
in which they were received, and is listed under the appropriate
committee topic in that order in the resolution book by the
Secretary. When the Chair opens debate on any agenda item,
any delegate may move for consideration of an approved resolution
on the agenda item that has been submitted to the chair with
signatories of 1/8 of the delegations present. If the motion
is seconded, the Chair will direct the committee to an immediate
vote without debate on the motion, a majority being required for
consideration. If no resolution receives a majority vote in favor
of consideration, the Committee will automatically have before it
for consideration the first resolution in the resolution book
under that agenda item that has been received by the chair with
the appropriate number of signatories.
_88__ CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL:
Resolutions that were not received by the specified deadline
may still be considered, but not until 1/2 of the prior approved
resolutions on the agenda item have been considered. For a
resolution without prior approval to be considered, it must
relate to the committee topic currently being debated, be
submitted to the chair with signatories of 1/8 of the delegations
present, and the delegate must supply enough copies of the
resolution for each delegation present. Once these conditions
have been met, any delegate may move for consideration of the
resolution. If the motion is seconded, the chair will direct
the committee to an immediate vote without debate on the motion,
a majority being required for consideration.
_89__ SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSALS: Delegates will receive selected
resolutions for consideration no later than at the time of the
conference registration. The delegates must submit resolutions
in the proper form by the deadline set by the Executive Committee.
_90__ Reporting Resolutions to the Parliament. The Chair
of each committee shall report resolutions passed by that committee
to the Parliament for its consideration. If a
committee fails to approve a resolution on an agenda item, it
shall submit a "Declaration of No Report" on that agenda item.
That topic area will not be considered by the Parliament.
_91__ Amendments. All amendments to resolutions must be signed
by one sponsoring delegation and at least one other seconding
delegation; they must be submitted on an official amendment
form for approval by the Legal Counsel and must be labeled
with an identifying number by the Secretary. Secondary
amendments and amendments by substitution are not acceptable.
Obvious typographical efforts will be brought to the Committee's
attention and collected by the Chair with no vote required.
To move an amendment to the floor, recognition by the Chair
and introduction of the amendment will suffice; no vote
shall be required. Once an amendment has been brought to
the floor, the Committee shall consider only the amendments
and not the Resolutions until final action on the amendment
has been taken (except to the extent that the amendment
pertains to the Resolution).
_92__ Definition of Amendment and Voting on Amendments. An
amendment is a motion that adds to, deletes from, or revises
any part of a resolution. A series of alterations proposed
by a single delegation to the same resolution shall be
considered as a single amendment unless a motion is made
to divide it.
_93__ Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all substantive
debate on the matters before the body at that time, except
when such a motion would interrupt a speaker. Two delegates
may speak against closure, and the motion will then be put to
a vote. During debate on an amendment, a delegate may move
for closure of debate on the resolution. If closure passes,
then the amendment shall be voted on first followed by the
resolution.
_94__ Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second is
required.
_95__ DEBATE AND SPEECH GUIDELINES: Speeches. No delegate
may address the committee without having previously obtained
the permission of the Chair. The Chair shall call upon
speakers in the order in which they signify their desire
to speak. Delegates may not interrupt a speaker except on
a point of order or point of personal privilege. Abusing
these rights may be considered violations of diplomatic
courtesy, and can result in disciplinary action taken by
the chair. Motions should be made at the conclusion of the
speaker's remarks; by making a motion, the speaker yields
the floor.
_96__ Time Limit on Debate. The committee or the Chair may
limit or extend the time allotted to each speaker and the
number of times each delegate may speak on a proposal.
There may be one speaker in favor and one opposed to the
limitation/extension.
_97__ Right of Reply. During debate, the Chair may accord
the right of reply to any delegate if a speech by another
delegate contains unusual or extraordinary language clearly
insulting to personal or national dignity. The decision
granting a right of reply may not be appealed. Requests
for a right of reply shall be in writing to the Chair.
The Chair will limit the time for the reply. There shall
be no reply to a reply.
_98__ POINTS - IN ORDER OF PRIORITY
Point of Order. If, during the discussion of any matter,
a delegate believes that the committee is proceeding in a
manner contrary to these GUIDELINES, he or she may rise to
a point of order. The delegate so rising will be immediately
recognized by the Chair and the point ruled upon. A delegate
rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance
of any matter under discussion.
Point of Personal Privilege. If a delegate wishes to
raise a question or make a request relating to the
organization of the meeting, personal comfort, or the
conduct of fellow delegates or staff, he/she may rise to
a point of personal privilege. When a delegate rises on
privilege, the Chair shall take such action as is necessary.
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry. A point of parliamentary
inquiry is directed to the Chair for information or guidance
on procedure. This point may not interrupt the speaker.
It is a question and does not require seconding or allow
for debate. Replies by the Chair are not appealable.
Point of Information. If a delegate wishes to obtain
a clarification of procedure or a statement of the matter
before the committee, the delegate may address a point of
information to the Chair. During debate, if a delegate
wishes to ask a question of the speaker, a request to
question the speaker may be made in the form of a point
of information directed to the Chair after the speaker
consents to be questioned, all questions and replies are
made through the Chair. Delegates shall not interrupt a
speaker on a point of information.
_99__ MOTIONS - ORDER OF PROCEDURAL MOTIONS
The motions as indicated in the Short Form of Points
and Motions have precedence, in the order given, over all
other proposals or motions before the committee.
Adjournment of Debate. During the discussion of any
matter, a delegate may move the adjournment of debate on
that matter. One delegate may speak in favor of the
motion and one opposed. The motion shall then be put to
an immediate vote. Adjournment of debate on a resolution
or amendment has the effect of tabling that item and moves
the committee on to the next order of business.
See also 8.9 on Reconsideration.
Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all
substantive debate on the matters before the body at that
time, except when such a motion would interrupt a speaker.
Two delegates may speak against closure, and the motion
will then be put to a vote. During debate on an amendment,
a delegate may move for closure of debate on the resolution.
if closure passes, then the amendment shall be voted on
first followed by the resolution.
Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second
is required.
Suspension of the Meeting. During the discussion of
any matter, a delegate may move to suspend the meeting.
Suspending a meeting recesses it until the time specified
in the motion; the Chair may request the mover to modify
the time. When the committee reconvenes it will continue
with its business from the point at which suspension was
moved.
Adjournment of the Meeting. The motion of adjournment
means that all business of the committee has been
completed, and that the committee win not reconvene
until the next Annual Session. The Chair may refuse
to recognize a motion to adjourn the meeting if the
Committee still has business before it. A motion to
adjourn is not debatable, and will be put to an immediate vote.
Decisions of Competence. Any motion calling for a
decision on the competence of the Committee to discuss
or adopt a proposal shall be put to a vote before the
vote is taken on the proposal in question. If a
Committee decides it is not competent to discuss or
vote on an amendment or resolution, the effect is the
same as adjourning debate on the matter. See also 8.9
on Reconsideration.
Withdrawal of Motions. A motion may be withdrawn
by its proposer at any time before voting on it has
begun, provided the motion has not been amended. A
withdrawn motion may be reintroduced by any other
delegation.
Reconsideration of Proposals. When a proposal has
been adopted, or rejected through a vote of adjournment
or "no competence", it may be reconsidered at the same
session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting. The motion to reconsider
must be made by a delegation which originally voted
on the prevailing side of the proposal; thus,
reconsideration may be moved only on the proposals
voted on by roll-call.
Division of the Question. A motion to divide the
question, proposing that parts of an amendment or
resolution be voted on separately, is in order at any
time prior to commencement of voting on the amendment
or resolution. Motions to divide shall apply only to
operative clauses. Permission to speak on the motion
shall be granted to one speaker in favor and one
opposed, after which there shall be an immediate vote.
The first motion for division to receive a majority
vote shall become the final manner in which the
proposal is presented. Those parts of the proposal
which are approved shall be put to a vote as a whole.
If all operative clauses of a proposal have been
rejected, the proposal as a whole has been rejected.
Dilatory Motions. The Chair may rule as dilatory,
and therefore out of order, any motion repeating or
closely approximating a substantive measure on which
the committee has already rendered an opinion. Such
rulings can not be appealed.
Appealing a Decision of the Chair. Rulings of
the chair can be appealed unless otherwise specified
in these GUIDELINES. Appeals can be debated by one
speaker in favor and one opposed.
_100__ MOTIONS are actions which trigger activity in
the California Super-state Parliament (Editing
guideline #s once approved).
_101__ : Motions : Interrupt Speaker? : Second Required? : Debatable? : Vote Required?
_102__ VOTING METHODS AND RIGHTS: Each member delegation shall
have one vote in each Committee in which it is represented. No
delegate may cast a vote on behalf of another member.
_103__ Simple Majority. Unless otherwise specified in these
GUIDELINES, decisions in the Committee shall be made by a majority
vote of those members present and voting. The phrase "MSPs present
and voting" refers to members casting ranked choice votes. Members
which cast a final abstention are not voting. If a vote is equally
divided between two sums of the same value, the motion fails.
_104__ Method of Voting. The Committee shall use ranked choice
voting (RCV). The Chair, however, may grant a request for a
roll-call vote; the decision to grant such a request is not
appealable. All final votes on resolutions shall be taken by
roll-call; the roll shall be called in English alphabetical order
beginning with a person selected at random by the Secretary.
Delegates shall reply "#1," or "abstain," or "abstain from the order
of voting." A member may abstain from the order of voting once
during the roll-call; a second abstention from the order of voting
will be recorded as an abstention. Rights of explanation are
permitted on roll-call votes and may be limited in time by the Chair.
At the end of roll-call, but before rights of explanation and the
subsequent announcement of the vote, the Secretary will ask for
changes of vote. A delegation may not change from "0" to "#1",
or "#1 with right of explanation" or from "0" to "0 with right
of explanation." Those abstaining may be accorded rights of
explanation. The result of the vote shall be inserted into the
Committee record.
_105__ ONLINE VOTING: The International Parliament will
conduct elections using online voting and all votes will be
posted where they can be easily viewed by the public with the
information as to who had cast the vote.
_106__ Conduct during Voting. Immediately prior to a vote,
the Chair shall describe to the Committee the proposal to be
voted on, and shall explain the consequence of a 1 or 0 vote.
Voting shall begin upon the chair's declaration and shall end
when the results of the vote are announced. Once voting has
begun, no delegate shall interrupt the voting except on a
point of order or information concerning the actual conduct
of the vote, or on a point of personal privilege.
_107__ Supplemental GUIDELINES
_108__ PREAMBULAR PHRASES provide background information
and establish proper context for reading and interpreting the resolution.
_109__ OPERATIVE CLAUSES are set out to achieve the committee's main policy goals on
the topic.
_110__ SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR REPUBLIC OF EARTH COUNTRIES
_111__ January 1st is the best day of the year for new countries to start an
election schedules and December 31st is the best day to end activities.
_112__ PERMANENCE. These Rules, intent, purpose and function, will not
change once approved by majority vote by the elected members, or MIPs,
of the International Parliament.
_113__ Contact the International Parliament via telephone (831) 383-1409 or the web
site at http://www.usparliament.org
for obtaining more information.
_114__ We form a global union, open to all people, and a constitution
drafted for ratification by this body which shall outline and define the
provisions of this resolution, that This union shall be governed by a
world parliament.
_115__ Voting blocks (communities, bands, tribes, federations) need no longer be
limited to geographical areas. People are now able to connect with like-minded
'others' from around the planet (and beyond).
_116__ SLANDERERS and ANTAGONISTS
_117__ NO PERSON MAY BE CENSORED, and no limits may be placed on free
speech by/of any other person or nominee,
including US Parliament's elected members and staff, at any time
except when applying guidelines to party/category labels/names
and parts of this rule which regulate antagonists.
_118__ NO HATE WORDS AS PARTY/CATEGORY NAME: Party/category's labels/names
may not be used in such a way that slanders or libels names of any
person or other party/categories or individuals. Those that refuse
to comply by continuing to libel others through their choice
of party name will be categorized as members of the Censored Party.
Elected members using a name or pseudonym rather than their actual
name, which libels, slanders or mimics (such as incorrect spellings),
shall have their name censored and instead will be known only as
Anonymous.
_119__ Members of any International Parliament entity who antagonize others more than once
use through the use of profanity, slander, insulting or offensive vulgar
language, harassing or chauvinistic speech, terrorizing threats, including
the threats of lawsuits against other members/vote counters or volunteers
within the International Parliament or those who use actual physical force or violence,
may be permanently or temporarily removed by the full Minister in that
Cabinet Ministry, by any of the ten executives of the International Parliament
or by the International Parliament's web page maintainer.
Senator Mahmoud Assaf [Democratic] voted on 11/6/2015 as follows:
_2__ Parliamentary procedures, terms and pure proportional representation (PR)
for the International Parliament.
_3__ Require all the elected members to be in communication either
through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service or
else their name will be eliminated after one year.
_4__ The number of seats on the executive may remain at ten but not more than ten.
_5__ Paper Ballot Guidelines Recommended for State, National and International Elections
_6__ The paper ballots are placed in a clear ballot box by the voter, the box
is guarded, video taped all day and the votes are counted at the polling
location the night of the election.
_7__ The votes are counted two times by two different and diverse teams of
counters, recorded/taped/broadcast by two different devices with the public
able to observe and video/livestream the counting.
_8__ The results from the polling locations will be called to the Board
of Elections, emailed to the BoE and hand delivered. All three must
match. The Board of Elections will hand tally the results from all
the polling locations, again, two times by two different and diverse
teams of counters with this being taped, recorded and broadcast and
the public able to observe, tape and live-stream the entire proceedings.
And, the same goes for what happens at the state level.
_9__ The polling location should serve a maximum of 1,000 voters and
Election Day should be a national holiday with employers, if necessary,
having to arrange for special accommodations for employees that must
work, as with hospitals. A minimum of two hours personal time to vote
will be given to all citizens and voters.
_10__ The voters' names and marking on the ballot will remain secret
but the vote counting will be publicly observable.
_11__ PAPER BALLOTS will be made confidential to the highest level possible.
_12__ VOTER ELIGIBILITY:
The voter must register their name with at least two
methods of contact; and must comply with the voter eligibility
requirements for voter's country of residence.The voter must be a voting citizen of a country.
The voter must be 18 years old or older on Election Day.
The voter must not be in prison, on parole, serving a state sentence in county jail,
serving a sentence for a felony or on post-release community supervision.
The voter must not have been found to be mentally incompetent by a court.
Non-voting class membership will always be made available.
_13__ VOTER AUTHENTICATION:
When two or more methods of contact aren't provided by the voter, then
further explanation will be considered by the Vote Counting Ministry verifiers.
Additional Measures
_14__ General Counting, Balloting and Eballoting Guidelines for International Parliament Elections
_15__ RANKED VOTING ONLY: All voting and vote counting shall be in the form of
ranked paper ballots only (and eballots when practical and verifiable).
Consecutive numbers beginning with the #s 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. etc. must always be
used when marking on (e)ballot of all alternative decisions or names.
Deviation from this guideline will disqualify the ballot, and the ballot
will be marked spoiled.
_16__ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
_17__ THE SAINTE-LAGUE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM, Hagenbach-Bischoff method,
under ranked choice voting, for seat allocation in all multi-seat districts:
Divide the election's total number of votes by the number of seats.
This is the 1st quota.
Divide this quota into each candidate's votes, and round off to the
nearest whole number.
That's that candidate's seat allocation.
If, due to rounding, this awards a number of seats different from
the desired number
of seats, then adjust the quota slightly up or down, till, when
paragraph two is carried out,
it will award all seats.
_18__ Any resident of earth, nominee and/or proxy may observe the counting of the
ballots. Volunteer counters will conduct the vote counting.
_19__ Choices marked on "eballots" are posted for public view and are
not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of the Parliament.
_20__ EBALLOTS are ballots cast via email and must be emailed to
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org, a private email address used by the
secretary and observers for receiving such eballots. No reply email
will be sent to voters who cast eballots other than a verification
message, unless the voter indicates that he/she wishes to be self
appointed to the www.international-parliament.org site or when a
question regarding verification or validation is raised by a volunteer vote counter.
_21__ Volunteer vote counters may be added to the exploder email address
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org as a subscriber by sending the message
"subscribe" to vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org.
_22__ Telephone voting is permissible, acceptable and verification
and validations will be provided when requested.
_23__ Elections of rules shall be perpetual and the simple majority vote,
by elected MIPs who vote on rules, passes rules.
_24__ BALLOTS AND EBALLOTS: All world residents are eligible to vote in
International Parliament Elections 365 days year.
_25__ There will be five hundred members of International Parliament (MIPs) who
are elected members self appointed/self nominated for free under ranked
choice voting as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "MIPs"
and five hundred members who are donors, ranked in order of donation level and
are to be known as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "Senator" MIPs.
_26__ THE PARTY LEADER within the International Parliament is a label for the
highest ranked name categorized under each party. Party leaders are
responsible for the distribution of all ballots and rules to the
members of their party/category and lists.
_27__ Such ballots may be retype set or altered to specifically identify
their select nominees' correct name and party affiliation. All ballots
released to public used by the International Parliament's elected secretaries
shall count as a legitimate ballot and shall be presumed to represent
the correct and most current candidate name information.
_27__ BALLOT: ORDER OF NOMINEES of all names in the parliament elections
and subsidiary parliament elections will be determined by the results
caused by the voters' ranking of the nominees on the previous election's
ballots. This is known as the correct consecutive order of nominee.
Appointments and self-appointments will be listed chronologically.
_29__ NOMINEE ACCEPTANCE AND WRITE-INS:
Only names who formally ACCEPT the nomination of their name, self write-in
names and those currently already elected will qualify for the ballot/eballot
for the International Parliament. There will be a cap at 500 names for the
ballot/eballot for the free elections of MIPs.
_30__ A verifiable name and contact information must be provided in
order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
_31__ The final order of the parties/categories on the final prepared
ballot will be determined by the nominees' party name/category and
the parties/categories and will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
_32__ TIES: Ties will be broken by holding a runoff election only
when called by one of the two secretaries. In all other
cases, all the names/items in a tie will be included in the results
and will be in a new "tied" category, even if the size of the assembly
or agenda list must be expanded beyond normal size set forth by these rules.
_33__ ONLY ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENTARY BALLOT, IS PERMITTED TO BE MARKED BY
EACH WORLD RESIDENT: All living world citizens may vote one time and only
one time. In cases where a second ballot (or more) is cast, only
the latter of the ballots will be counted, the former will be marked
spoiled, deleted and regarded disqualified.
_34__ SENATORS
_35__ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donor's
funds will be deposited into a bank account which is controlled
by Treasury Minister, the President and the Vice President
of the International Parliament.
_36__ Senators: All donors who contribute money to the
international political entity known as the International
Parliament (IP) at the minimum donation amount of $20.,
will promptly and automatically become known as "Senator" once
the donation has been correctly registered with the Treasury
Minister and/or is received by the appropriate clerk.
The Senators will be grouped into five donor-level groups.
Senators are not elected during regular election cycles of
the parliament's elections but they do receive all of the same voting rights plus
special donor privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved. The total donation amount will apply as both an annual sum or
a total of multiple years. The annual sum is primarily for convention services
and the sum from multiple years has a secondary purpose which can apply to
different purposes other than the annual convention services.
_37__ THE FIVE DONATION LEVELS OF SENATORS
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $20. to $29.99 donation (level five)
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $20. to $29.99 donation (level five):
In Level Five, the Senator's name will listed as Senator on the IP's
Paper Share Certificate for Level Five Senator ($20. to $29.99 donation level).
--Level Five Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL FOUR. Services provided for a $30. to $49.99 donation (level four):
The Level Four Senators who donate $30. or more a year, paid before July 1st
Paper Share Certificate for Level Four Senator ($30. to $49.99 donation level).
--Level Four Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL THREE. Services provided for a $50.00 to $149.99 donation (level three):
Level Three Senators who donate $50.00 or more, paid before July 1st of that year, receive an
Paper Share Certificate for Level Three Senator ($50.00 to $149.99 donation level)
--Level Three Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL TWO. Services provided for a $150. to $599.99 donation (level two):
Senators who donate $150. to $599.99, paid before July 1st of that year,
Paper Share Certificate for Level Two Senator ($150.00 to $599.99 donation level)
--Level Two Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL ONE. Services provided for a $600. and more donation (level one):
Senators who donate $600., paid before July 1st of that year,
Paper Share Certificate for Level One Senator ($600. donation level and above)
--Level One Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
Plus, Level One Senators Also Get the Following Benefits:
Upon approval of this bylaw item, all Senators' current donation levels,
"Voting Stoppage"
Whenever a financial crisis occurs where the costs for paying basic
maintenance of the International Parliament are not being met, including
the costs of domain hosting, web design and obligations to all of the Senators, then the
Treasury and/or Vote Counting Ministry can place end to all introductions of free membership
sign ups of Members of International Parliament (MIPs) and other free services
provided by the Vote Counting Ministry and this ending will be known as a "voting stoppage".
This bylaw item can also affect the internal Cabinet voting by Ministers, but it will not
include/affect "votes of confidence" by the MIPs, voting by Senators current in dues and the
voting for election of Cabinet Ministers (parliamentary go-ahead) by the Ten Executives.
The voting stoppage will terminate either upon
the recommendation/consensus to end it by both the Treasury and Vote Counting Ministries,
or once the numbers of Senators reaches the same number of free MIPs within
the general International Parliament's assembly membership.
Diplomatic Passports
Some ministers and deputies will be traveling a lot abroad. At the airports
and borders a diplomatic passport would make sense. Even for the professional
legitimacy to foreign politicians.
ID Cards
For activities within the country an ID card is sufficient. However, a
professionally designed plastic card should be used here. Since the
International Parliament nevertheless plays an important role in the
world standard, you should already pay attention to a professional public image.
_38__ Once the top Senator seats are assigned based on ranking of donation
level, then lower ranked donors "spill over" into the "Senator MPs"
section of the subsidiary Republic of Earth, the country from which the donor originated.
_39__ The Senator's donation will be recorded and should the Senator ever wish to
"stand down", then the donation amount will be not be refunded.
_40__ The numbers of seats for Senators shall never be more than the number
of free elected members of International Parliament (MIPs).
_41__ The Senators may vote on Senate guidelines and decisions from time to time
but there is no requirement for such votes which are voluntary only. These
compilation of votes will be conducted only by the Senators themselves.
_42__ Should a MIP who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Senator, BoD, committee member
and/or the same particular seat title in any subsidiary Republic of Earth,
if their donation remained on the International Parliament's records.
_43__ All Senators shall have access to all financial records for the
International Parliament. More detailed information which isn't available
on the Treasury Ministry's web page will be made available within 90 days
to Senators when a request is made in writing to the Treasury Minister.
_44__ All payments are to be in US dollars only unless pre-approval is
obtained from the Treasury Ministry.
_45__ The International Parliament will not ever hold any election in a single-
winner district where a single-winner decision or name is elected.
_46__ Ballot Preparation
_47__ SPACE FOR THREE OR MORE WRITE-IN choices must be provided on each
and every ballot, in all elections.
_48__ CATEGORIZATION AND PARTY NAMES The first and most important
criterion in determining the nominee's party/category is the
nominee's most recently requested or declared party/category in
Parliament matters. The second most important criterion in
determining the nominee's party/category is determined by the
nominee's state's records, as written by the member while
registering to vote. Appointed members may be categorized with any
party/category that they wish, and the party/category of all
members is considered to be the true one. Elected members
may decide to change or switch their party/categorization at any time
by proclamation. Members automatically qualify for the ballot
in the next election cycle under the party/category of
their choice.
_49__ First and last names are preferred, however all names nominated
will be permitted on the ballot as well as the party/category of the
nominee. If party/category is not known, the label "[Info. Not Avail.]"
will be used. A nominee's name (and thus identity) may appear on the
ballot only once, so fusion voting is not allowed.
All world citizens who had signed up since "RESOLUTION NUMBER 1" was first approved on
10/27/2014 will be automatically added as MIPs retroactively within seven days
after the approval of this bylaw item #39.
_50__ RESIGNATIONS. When any elected member, executive or minister,
stands down, resigns, retires, or dies - the name is deleted. Then
the next highest ranked name is automatically elected to the
seat in their stead.
_51__ When a candidate who has chosen to stand down but then wishes to
return to the position which they had departed, then they must first
be re-affirmed by all the voters who had previously cast a vote for them.
_52__ TEN EXECUTIVES
_53__ MIPs: Once elected, all new Members of International Parliament
(MIPs) may change their vote as a "vote of confidence" for the ten
executives into perpetuity.
_54__ THE VOICE of the International Parliament will be the ten executives.
_55__ Each of the elected ten executives may pick a seat title once elected.
_56__ The ten executives elect up to sixty full Cabinet Ministers and sixty
Deputy Cabinet Ministers using the "parliamentary go-ahead.
_57__ The International Parliament's ten executives agree to rank all names
nominated by each of the other nine executives, thus guaranteeing that each
of the ten executives elects 1/10th of the 60 cabinet ministers and this
is known as the "parliamentary go-ahead".
_58__ THE TEN EXECUTIVES recruit as many
people as possible who will work in the Cabinet to run the efforts,
elects the planks on the platform and run the parliament's efforts free from
political conflict or bias. The executives do not control who
gets elected to the general assembly.
_59__ The ten executives of the International Parliament (IP) will
serve as "Founding Executives" on the unity business entity
named "All Party System Co., International Bureau", which is established
in order to report all unifying news, business, financial matters,
vote counting and results of vote counting of the IP to the public
and to serve as a store for generating sales of products and services..
_60__ SIXTY CABINET MINISTERS
_61__ MINISTRY: A simple majority vote by at least six of
the ten executives establishes the parliamentary go-ahead and
will elect new Ministers, even without the parliamentary go-ahead.
_62__ MINISTRY DIRECTORS: Ministries may elect up to fifty Directors
and any number of resolutions, agenda items, guidelines and administrators.
The fifty Directors must be elected in one at-large district and their titles
as "Directors" may be any title, for example each director may pick their own title too.
_63__ All International national Cabinet Ministers must be live,
real people and no avatars or anonymous names may be used by the
elected Cabinet Ministers. Only real names can be used and
verification of the member's true name may be requested when
such verifications are of interest from anyone of the ten executives.
_64__ HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MINISTRY:
The book "Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously" will be added as a guide to the proposed Health and Human
Services Ministry web page. For many ages, humanity has been
confused about what decisions regenerate and degenerate our living
systems. The Body itself has always held this wisdom of natural laws
for our organ/gland functioning on 253 circuits of personal powers
(but not always available until infrared could shine the light on it).
The Body's own immense wisdom can show us how our next decision
degenerates us or regenerates us (based on 40 years of scientific
research using infrared technology that can be tracked, measured and
decoded by the Language of the Body itself). This Self Evident and
undeniable truth from our energetic design makes it an unparalleled
guide to help humans make decisions (about voting, laws, or new
customs, etc.) that can regenerate us from within as well as from
without. (http://www.consciousnesssystems.com [1] to read the book).
Also, VOLUNTARY LAW: The blog site http://vlda.org/, the Voluntary
Law Development Association, owned by Jonathan Jaech will be added
to the proposed
_65__ VOLUNTARY LAW MINISTRY:
The Voluntary Law Ministry web page
and can accompany 'Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously' (that can both be used as the foundational principles
for voluntary international law). These 2 sources of wisdom can
promote peace, love and the clarity of energetic truth for successful
ways to promote each living systems' regeneration.
_66__ VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY:
The Vote Counting Ministry will make an annual award for
the "United Coalition Secure Paper Ballot Award".
_67__ TREASURY MINISTRY:
The Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the ten
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
The Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for Senators (donor MIPs)
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, Senator mailing addresses, contact information
and rankings, bank account savings and expenditures.
_68__ MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION MINISTRY:
Appeals of a name's removal action may be taken to the
Mediation and Conciliation Service Minister
where rules for such appeals will be written, voted upon and approved.
_69__ United Coalition
_70__ Declare that all of the elected and appointed members of the International Parliament,
all countries' national parliaments, all subsidiary super-state, mini-state
and county micro-state parliaments, to be members of a national and international
"Unity Coalition" or "United Coalition" effective November 5th, 2014.
_71__ The International Parliament's subsidiary Republic "Unity Coalition"
elections shall be in two phases; one before the country's primaries and one after the
country's primaries. That way, a strong emphasis can be placed on official state-recognized
ballot-qualified and write-in candidates both before the primaries and after the
primaries, and the dates are customized for each of the country's official primaries.
_72__ UNITY PLATFORM
_73__ Conduct an international Direct Democracy (DD) election which will elect planks
to a "Unity Platform".
_74__ The promotion of the Unity Coalition's "Unity Platform" can used used as an
example of teamwork. The team can be promoted as being dynamic so that
every item is up for a continual "vote of confidence" by all the members, all the time.
That way, the recruitment of new members can take place in order to collect
more votes for improving the planks on the Unity Platform.
_75__ PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM: The ten elected executives shall elect the
UNITY PLATFORM with a series of "planks" from all the items they pick and
rank from the DD election.
_76__ Guideline of Priority and Procedure
_77__ GENERAL PROVISIONS: Guideline of Priority and Procedure. The
GUIDELINES contained on this web page shall be the official first
GUIDELINES of procedure for the International Parliament and will be used
for all transactions of business once ratified by a majority of the
Members of Parliament (MPs). These GUIDELINES will
take precedence over any other set of GUIDELINES.
_78__ GUIDELINE CHANGES: The Executive Committee reserves the right
to make changes in these GUIDELINES by 6/10th vote and to present
these changes to the delegates/members at any time. All changes should
accommodate the desires or complaints of the MPs or staff so as to
improve the conduct of business online and offline.
_79__ EXECUTIVES: The Executives of the International
Parliament may select or approve persons to serve as Chairpersons, Legal
Counsels, and Secretaries for each committee and any other position
to help conduct the business.
_80__ CHAIR PERSON: Absence of Chairperson. If the Chair should find
it necessary to be absent during any part of a committee meeting,
he/she shall designate an individual (preferably the Legal Counsel)
to assume his/her duties with the same authority.
_81__ Statements by the Executives. The ten elected Executives,
or any person designated by the ten elected Executives, may at
any time make oral or written statements to a committee.
_82__ MEMBERS: Number of Accredited Delegates. The number of delegates
allowed on any delegation of the Parliament shall be limited to
MIPs and Donor MIPs only.
_83__ DIPLOMATIC COURTESY: All delegates MUST accord all other
delegates diplomatic courtesy at all times. Any delegate or visitor
who, after being advised by the Chair, persists in an obvious attempt
to divert the meeting from its intended purpose, or who otherwise
attempts to disrupt the proceedings, shall be subject to disciplinary
action and expulsion by the Chairperson.
_84__ AGENDA
_85__ AGENDA Selection of Agenda Items. Agenda items shall be
selected by the Executive Committee. Once selected, these items
are fixed for the duration of the conference and no other items
will be discussed.
_86__ ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda items will
be considered in the order in which they appear in the agenda
eballot, unless that order is altered by a majority of the Committee.
_87__ PRIOR APPROVED RESOLUTIONS: Order of Consideration of
Prior-Approved Resolutions. Prior-approved resolutions are
resolutions that were received by the specified deadline and
were deemed appropriate by the staff. They will receive
priority over other resolutions. The order of appearance of
resolutions before the Committee is determined by the date
in which they were received, and is listed under the appropriate
committee topic in that order in the resolution book by the
Secretary. When the Chair opens debate on any agenda item,
any delegate may move for consideration of an approved resolution
on the agenda item that has been submitted to the chair with
signatories of 1/8 of the delegations present. If the motion
is seconded, the Chair will direct the committee to an immediate
vote without debate on the motion, a majority being required for
consideration. If no resolution receives a majority vote in favor
of consideration, the Committee will automatically have before it
for consideration the first resolution in the resolution book
under that agenda item that has been received by the chair with
the appropriate number of signatories.
_88__ CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL:
Resolutions that were not received by the specified deadline
may still be considered, but not until 1/2 of the prior approved
resolutions on the agenda item have been considered. For a
resolution without prior approval to be considered, it must
relate to the committee topic currently being debated, be
submitted to the chair with signatories of 1/8 of the delegations
present, and the delegate must supply enough copies of the
resolution for each delegation present. Once these conditions
have been met, any delegate may move for consideration of the
resolution. If the motion is seconded, the chair will direct
the committee to an immediate vote without debate on the motion,
a majority being required for consideration.
_89__ SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSALS: Delegates will receive selected
resolutions for consideration no later than at the time of the
conference registration. The delegates must submit resolutions
in the proper form by the deadline set by the Executive Committee.
_90__ Reporting Resolutions to the Parliament. The Chair
of each committee shall report resolutions passed by that committee
to the Parliament for its consideration. If a
committee fails to approve a resolution on an agenda item, it
shall submit a "Declaration of No Report" on that agenda item.
That topic area will not be considered by the Parliament.
_91__ Amendments. All amendments to resolutions must be signed
by one sponsoring delegation and at least one other seconding
delegation; they must be submitted on an official amendment
form for approval by the Legal Counsel and must be labeled
with an identifying number by the Secretary. Secondary
amendments and amendments by substitution are not acceptable.
Obvious typographical efforts will be brought to the Committee's
attention and collected by the Chair with no vote required.
To move an amendment to the floor, recognition by the Chair
and introduction of the amendment will suffice; no vote
shall be required. Once an amendment has been brought to
the floor, the Committee shall consider only the amendments
and not the Resolutions until final action on the amendment
has been taken (except to the extent that the amendment
pertains to the Resolution).
_92__ Definition of Amendment and Voting on Amendments. An
amendment is a motion that adds to, deletes from, or revises
any part of a resolution. A series of alterations proposed
by a single delegation to the same resolution shall be
considered as a single amendment unless a motion is made
to divide it.
_93__ Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all substantive
debate on the matters before the body at that time, except
when such a motion would interrupt a speaker. Two delegates
may speak against closure, and the motion will then be put to
a vote. During debate on an amendment, a delegate may move
for closure of debate on the resolution. If closure passes,
then the amendment shall be voted on first followed by the
resolution.
_94__ Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second is
required.
_95__ DEBATE AND SPEECH GUIDELINES: Speeches. No delegate
may address the committee without having previously obtained
the permission of the Chair. The Chair shall call upon
speakers in the order in which they signify their desire
to speak. Delegates may not interrupt a speaker except on
a point of order or point of personal privilege. Abusing
these rights may be considered violations of diplomatic
courtesy, and can result in disciplinary action taken by
the chair. Motions should be made at the conclusion of the
speaker's remarks; by making a motion, the speaker yields
the floor.
_96__ Time Limit on Debate. The committee or the Chair may
limit or extend the time allotted to each speaker and the
number of times each delegate may speak on a proposal.
There may be one speaker in favor and one opposed to the
limitation/extension.
_97__ Right of Reply. During debate, the Chair may accord
the right of reply to any delegate if a speech by another
delegate contains unusual or extraordinary language clearly
insulting to personal or national dignity. The decision
granting a right of reply may not be appealed. Requests
for a right of reply shall be in writing to the Chair.
The Chair will limit the time for the reply. There shall
be no reply to a reply.
_98__ POINTS - IN ORDER OF PRIORITY
Point of Order. If, during the discussion of any matter,
a delegate believes that the committee is proceeding in a
manner contrary to these GUIDELINES, he or she may rise to
a point of order. The delegate so rising will be immediately
recognized by the Chair and the point ruled upon. A delegate
rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance
of any matter under discussion.
Point of Personal Privilege. If a delegate wishes to
raise a question or make a request relating to the
organization of the meeting, personal comfort, or the
conduct of fellow delegates or staff, he/she may rise to
a point of personal privilege. When a delegate rises on
privilege, the Chair shall take such action as is necessary.
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry. A point of parliamentary
inquiry is directed to the Chair for information or guidance
on procedure. This point may not interrupt the speaker.
It is a question and does not require seconding or allow
for debate. Replies by the Chair are not appealable.
Point of Information. If a delegate wishes to obtain
a clarification of procedure or a statement of the matter
before the committee, the delegate may address a point of
information to the Chair. During debate, if a delegate
wishes to ask a question of the speaker, a request to
question the speaker may be made in the form of a point
of information directed to the Chair after the speaker
consents to be questioned, all questions and replies are
made through the Chair. Delegates shall not interrupt a
speaker on a point of information.
_99__ MOTIONS - ORDER OF PROCEDURAL MOTIONS
The motions as indicated in the Short Form of Points
and Motions have precedence, in the order given, over all
other proposals or motions before the committee.
Adjournment of Debate. During the discussion of any
matter, a delegate may move the adjournment of debate on
that matter. One delegate may speak in favor of the
motion and one opposed. The motion shall then be put to
an immediate vote. Adjournment of debate on a resolution
or amendment has the effect of tabling that item and moves
the committee on to the next order of business.
See also 8.9 on Reconsideration.
Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all
substantive debate on the matters before the body at that
time, except when such a motion would interrupt a speaker.
Two delegates may speak against closure, and the motion
will then be put to a vote. During debate on an amendment,
a delegate may move for closure of debate on the resolution.
if closure passes, then the amendment shall be voted on
first followed by the resolution.
Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second
is required.
Suspension of the Meeting. During the discussion of
any matter, a delegate may move to suspend the meeting.
Suspending a meeting recesses it until the time specified
in the motion; the Chair may request the mover to modify
the time. When the committee reconvenes it will continue
with its business from the point at which suspension was
moved.
Adjournment of the Meeting. The motion of adjournment
means that all business of the committee has been
completed, and that the committee win not reconvene
until the next Annual Session. The Chair may refuse
to recognize a motion to adjourn the meeting if the
Committee still has business before it. A motion to
adjourn is not debatable, and will be put to an immediate vote.
Decisions of Competence. Any motion calling for a
decision on the competence of the Committee to discuss
or adopt a proposal shall be put to a vote before the
vote is taken on the proposal in question. If a
Committee decides it is not competent to discuss or
vote on an amendment or resolution, the effect is the
same as adjourning debate on the matter. See also 8.9
on Reconsideration.
Withdrawal of Motions. A motion may be withdrawn
by its proposer at any time before voting on it has
begun, provided the motion has not been amended. A
withdrawn motion may be reintroduced by any other
delegation.
Reconsideration of Proposals. When a proposal has
been adopted, or rejected through a vote of adjournment
or "no competence", it may be reconsidered at the same
session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting. The motion to reconsider
must be made by a delegation which originally voted
on the prevailing side of the proposal; thus,
reconsideration may be moved only on the proposals
voted on by roll-call.
Division of the Question. A motion to divide the
question, proposing that parts of an amendment or
resolution be voted on separately, is in order at any
time prior to commencement of voting on the amendment
or resolution. Motions to divide shall apply only to
operative clauses. Permission to speak on the motion
shall be granted to one speaker in favor and one
opposed, after which there shall be an immediate vote.
The first motion for division to receive a majority
vote shall become the final manner in which the
proposal is presented. Those parts of the proposal
which are approved shall be put to a vote as a whole.
If all operative clauses of a proposal have been
rejected, the proposal as a whole has been rejected.
Dilatory Motions. The Chair may rule as dilatory,
and therefore out of order, any motion repeating or
closely approximating a substantive measure on which
the committee has already rendered an opinion. Such
rulings can not be appealed.
Appealing a Decision of the Chair. Rulings of
the chair can be appealed unless otherwise specified
in these GUIDELINES. Appeals can be debated by one
speaker in favor and one opposed.
_100__ MOTIONS are actions which trigger activity in
the California Super-state Parliament (Editing
guideline #s once approved).
_101__ : Motions : Interrupt Speaker? : Second Required? : Debatable? : Vote Required?
_102__ VOTING METHODS AND RIGHTS: Each member delegation shall
have one vote in each Committee in which it is represented. No
delegate may cast a vote on behalf of another member.
_103__ Simple Majority. Unless otherwise specified in these
GUIDELINES, decisions in the Committee shall be made by a majority
vote of those members present and voting. The phrase "MSPs present
and voting" refers to members casting ranked choice votes. Members
which cast a final abstention are not voting. If a vote is equally
divided between two sums of the same value, the motion fails.
_104__ Method of Voting. The Committee shall use ranked choice
voting (RCV). The Chair, however, may grant a request for a
roll-call vote; the decision to grant such a request is not
appealable. All final votes on resolutions shall be taken by
roll-call; the roll shall be called in English alphabetical order
beginning with a person selected at random by the Secretary.
Delegates shall reply "#1," or "abstain," or "abstain from the order
of voting." A member may abstain from the order of voting once
during the roll-call; a second abstention from the order of voting
will be recorded as an abstention. Rights of explanation are
permitted on roll-call votes and may be limited in time by the Chair.
At the end of roll-call, but before rights of explanation and the
subsequent announcement of the vote, the Secretary will ask for
changes of vote. A delegation may not change from "0" to "#1",
or "#1 with right of explanation" or from "0" to "0 with right
of explanation." Those abstaining may be accorded rights of
explanation. The result of the vote shall be inserted into the
Committee record.
_105__ ONLINE VOTING: The International Parliament will
conduct elections using online voting and all votes will be
posted where they can be easily viewed by the public with the
information as to who had cast the vote.
_106__ Conduct during Voting. Immediately prior to a vote,
the Chair shall describe to the Committee the proposal to be
voted on, and shall explain the consequence of a 1 or 0 vote.
Voting shall begin upon the chair's declaration and shall end
when the results of the vote are announced. Once voting has
begun, no delegate shall interrupt the voting except on a
point of order or information concerning the actual conduct
of the vote, or on a point of personal privilege.
_107__ Supplemental GUIDELINES
_108__ PREAMBULAR PHRASES provide background information
and establish proper context for reading and interpreting the resolution.
_109__ OPERATIVE CLAUSES are set out to achieve the committee's main policy goals on
the topic.
_110__ SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR REPUBLIC OF EARTH COUNTRIES
_111__ January 1st is the best day of the year for new countries to start an
election schedules and December 31st is the best day to end activities.
_112__ PERMANENCE. These Rules, intent, purpose and function, will not
change once approved by majority vote by the elected members, or MIPs,
of the International Parliament.
_113__ Contact the International Parliament via telephone (831) 383-1409 or the web
site at http://www.usparliament.org
for obtaining more information.
_114__ We form a global union, open to all people, and a constitution
drafted for ratification by this body which shall outline and define the
provisions of this resolution, that This union shall be governed by a
world parliament.
_115__ Voting blocks (communities, bands, tribes, federations) need no longer be
limited to geographical areas. People are now able to connect with like-minded
'others' from around the planet (and beyond).
_116__ SLANDERERS and ANTAGONISTS
_117__ NO PERSON MAY BE CENSORED, and no limits may be placed on free
speech by/of any other person or nominee,
including US Parliament's elected members and staff, at any time
except when applying guidelines to party/category labels/names
and parts of this rule which regulate antagonists.
_118__ NO HATE WORDS AS PARTY/CATEGORY NAME: Party/category's labels/names
may not be used in such a way that slanders or libels names of any
person or other party/categories or individuals. Those that refuse
to comply by continuing to libel others through their choice
of party name will be categorized as members of the Censored Party.
Elected members using a name or pseudonym rather than their actual
name, which libels, slanders or mimics (such as incorrect spellings),
shall have their name censored and instead will be known only as
Anonymous.
_119__ Members of any International Parliament entity who antagonize others more than once
use through the use of profanity, slander, insulting or offensive vulgar
language, harassing or chauvinistic speech, terrorizing threats, including
the threats of lawsuits against other members/vote counters or volunteers
within the International Parliament or those who use actual physical force or violence,
may be permanently or temporarily removed by the full Minister in that
Cabinet Ministry, by any of the ten executives of the International Parliament
or by the International Parliament's web page maintainer.
Senator James Ogle [Republican] voted on 11/6/2015 as follows:
_2__ Parliamentary procedures, terms and pure proportional representation (PR)
for the International Parliament.
_3__ Require all the elected members to be in communication either
through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service or
else their name will be eliminated after one year.
_4__ The number of seats on the executive may remain at ten but not more than ten.
_5__ Paper Ballot Guidelines Recommended for State, National and International Elections
_6__ The paper ballots are placed in a clear ballot box by the voter, the box
is guarded, video taped all day and the votes are counted at the polling
location the night of the election.
_7__ The votes are counted two times by two different and diverse teams of
counters, recorded/taped/broadcast by two different devices with the public
able to observe and video/livestream the counting.
_8__ The results from the polling locations will be called to the Board
of Elections, emailed to the BoE and hand delivered. All three must
match. The Board of Elections will hand tally the results from all
the polling locations, again, two times by two different and diverse
teams of counters with this being taped, recorded and broadcast and
the public able to observe, tape and live-stream the entire proceedings.
And, the same goes for what happens at the state level.
_9__ The polling location should serve a maximum of 1,000 voters and
Election Day should be a national holiday with employers, if necessary,
having to arrange for special accommodations for employees that must
work, as with hospitals. A minimum of two hours personal time to vote
will be given to all citizens and voters.
_10__ The voters' names and marking on the ballot will remain secret
but the vote counting will be publicly observable.
_11__ PAPER BALLOTS will be made confidential to the highest level possible.
_12__ VOTER ELIGIBILITY:
The voter must register their name with at least two
methods of contact; and must comply with the voter eligibility
requirements for voter's country of residence.The voter must be a voting citizen of a country.
The voter must be 18 years old or older on Election Day.
The voter must not be in prison, on parole, serving a state sentence in county jail,
serving a sentence for a felony or on post-release community supervision.
The voter must not have been found to be mentally incompetent by a court.
Non-voting class membership will always be made available.
_13__ VOTER AUTHENTICATION:
When two or more methods of contact aren't provided by the voter, then
further explanation will be considered by the Vote Counting Ministry verifiers.
Additional Measures
_14__ General Counting, Balloting and Eballoting Guidelines for International Parliament Elections
_15__ RANKED VOTING ONLY: All voting and vote counting shall be in the form of
ranked paper ballots only (and eballots when practical and verifiable).
Consecutive numbers beginning with the #s 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. etc. must always be
used when marking on (e)ballot of all alternative decisions or names.
Deviation from this guideline will disqualify the ballot, and the ballot
will be marked spoiled.
_16__ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
_17__ THE SAINTE-LAGUE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM, Hagenbach-Bischoff method,
under ranked choice voting, for seat allocation in all multi-seat districts:
Divide the election's total number of votes by the number of seats.
This is the 1st quota.
Divide this quota into each candidate's votes, and round off to the
nearest whole number.
That's that candidate's seat allocation.
If, due to rounding, this awards a number of seats different from
the desired number
of seats, then adjust the quota slightly up or down, till, when
paragraph two is carried out,
it will award all seats.
_18__ Any resident of earth, nominee and/or proxy may observe the counting of the
ballots. Volunteer counters will conduct the vote counting.
_19__ Choices marked on "eballots" are posted for public view and are
not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of the Parliament.
_20__ EBALLOTS are ballots cast via email and must be emailed to
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org, a private email address used by the
secretary and observers for receiving such eballots. No reply email
will be sent to voters who cast eballots other than a verification
message, unless the voter indicates that he/she wishes to be self
appointed to the www.international-parliament.org site or when a
question regarding verification or validation is raised by a volunteer vote counter.
_21__ Volunteer vote counters may be added to the exploder email address
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org as a subscriber by sending the message
"subscribe" to vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org.
_22__ Telephone voting is permissible, acceptable and verification
and validations will be provided when requested.
_23__ Elections of rules shall be perpetual and the simple majority vote,
by elected MIPs who vote on rules, passes rules.
_24__ BALLOTS AND EBALLOTS: All world residents are eligible to vote in
International Parliament Elections 365 days year.
_25__ There will be five hundred members of International Parliament (MIPs) who
are elected members self appointed/self nominated for free under ranked
choice voting as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "MIPs"
and five hundred members who are donors, ranked in order of donation level and
are to be known as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "Senator" MIPs.
_26__ THE PARTY LEADER within the International Parliament is a label for the
highest ranked name categorized under each party. Party leaders are
responsible for the distribution of all ballots and rules to the
members of their party/category and lists.
_27__ Such ballots may be retype set or altered to specifically identify
their select nominees' correct name and party affiliation. All ballots
released to public used by the International Parliament's elected secretaries
shall count as a legitimate ballot and shall be presumed to represent
the correct and most current candidate name information.
_27__ BALLOT: ORDER OF NOMINEES of all names in the parliament elections
and subsidiary parliament elections will be determined by the results
caused by the voters' ranking of the nominees on the previous election's
ballots. This is known as the correct consecutive order of nominee.
Appointments and self-appointments will be listed chronologically.
_29__ NOMINEE ACCEPTANCE AND WRITE-INS:
Only names who formally ACCEPT the nomination of their name, self write-in
names and those currently already elected will qualify for the ballot/eballot
for the International Parliament. There will be a cap at 500 names for the
ballot/eballot for the free elections of MIPs.
_30__ A verifiable name and contact information must be provided in
order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
_31__ The final order of the parties/categories on the final prepared
ballot will be determined by the nominees' party name/category and
the parties/categories and will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
_32__ TIES: Ties will be broken by holding a runoff election only
when called by one of the two secretaries. In all other
cases, all the names/items in a tie will be included in the results
and will be in a new "tied" category, even if the size of the assembly
or agenda list must be expanded beyond normal size set forth by these rules.
_33__ ONLY ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENTARY BALLOT, IS PERMITTED TO BE MARKED BY
EACH WORLD RESIDENT: All living world citizens may vote one time and only
one time. In cases where a second ballot (or more) is cast, only
the latter of the ballots will be counted, the former will be marked
spoiled, deleted and regarded disqualified.
_34__ SENATORS
_35__ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donor's
funds will be deposited into a bank account which is controlled
by Treasury Minister, the President and the Vice President
of the International Parliament.
_36__ Senators: All donors who contribute money to the
international political entity known as the International
Parliament (IP) at the minimum donation amount of $20.,
will promptly and automatically become known as "Senator" once
the donation has been correctly registered with the Treasury
Minister and/or is received by the appropriate clerk.
The Senators will be grouped into five donor-level groups.
Senators are not elected during regular election cycles of
the parliament's elections but they do receive all of the same voting rights plus
special donor privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved. The total donation amount will apply as both an annual sum or
a total of multiple years. The annual sum is primarily for convention services
and the sum from multiple years has a secondary purpose which can apply to
different purposes other than the annual convention services.
_37__ THE FIVE DONATION LEVELS OF SENATORS
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $20. to $29.99 donation (level five)
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $20. to $29.99 donation (level five):
In Level Five, the Senator's name will listed as Senator on the IP's
Paper Share Certificate for Level Five Senator ($20. to $29.99 donation level).
--Level Five Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL FOUR. Services provided for a $30. to $49.99 donation (level four):
The Level Four Senators who donate $30. or more a year, paid before July 1st
Paper Share Certificate for Level Four Senator ($30. to $49.99 donation level).
--Level Four Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL THREE. Services provided for a $50.00 to $149.99 donation (level three):
Level Three Senators who donate $50.00 or more, paid before July 1st of that year, receive an
Paper Share Certificate for Level Three Senator ($50.00 to $149.99 donation level)
--Level Three Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL TWO. Services provided for a $150. to $599.99 donation (level two):
Senators who donate $150. to $599.99, paid before July 1st of that year,
Paper Share Certificate for Level Two Senator ($150.00 to $599.99 donation level)
--Level Two Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL ONE. Services provided for a $600. and more donation (level one):
Senators who donate $600., paid before July 1st of that year,
Paper Share Certificate for Level One Senator ($600. donation level and above)
--Level One Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
Plus, Level One Senators Also Get the Following Benefits:
Upon approval of this bylaw item, all Senators' current donation levels,
"Voting Stoppage"
Whenever a financial crisis occurs where the costs for paying basic
maintenance of the International Parliament are not being met, including
the costs of domain hosting, web design and obligations to all of the Senators, then the
Treasury and/or Vote Counting Ministry can place end to all introductions of free membership
sign ups of Members of International Parliament (MIPs) and other free services
provided by the Vote Counting Ministry and this ending will be known as a "voting stoppage".
This bylaw item can also affect the internal Cabinet voting by Ministers, but it will not
include/affect "votes of confidence" by the MIPs, voting by Senators current in dues and the
voting for election of Cabinet Ministers (parliamentary go-ahead) by the Ten Executives.
The voting stoppage will terminate either upon
the recommendation/consensus to end it by both the Treasury and Vote Counting Ministries,
or once the numbers of Senators reaches the same number of free MIPs within
the general International Parliament's assembly membership.
Diplomatic Passports
Some ministers and deputies will be traveling a lot abroad. At the airports
and borders a diplomatic passport would make sense. Even for the professional
legitimacy to foreign politicians.
ID Cards
For activities within the country an ID card is sufficient. However, a
professionally designed plastic card should be used here. Since the
International Parliament nevertheless plays an important role in the
world standard, you should already pay attention to a professional public image.
_38__ Once the top Senator seats are assigned based on ranking of donation
level, then lower ranked donors "spill over" into the "Senator MPs"
section of the subsidiary Republic of Earth, the country from which the donor originated.
_39__ The Senator's donation will be recorded and should the Senator ever wish to
"stand down", then the donation amount will be not be refunded.
_40__ The numbers of seats for Senators shall never be more than the number
of free elected members of International Parliament (MIPs).
_41__ The Senators may vote on Senate guidelines and decisions from time to time
but there is no requirement for such votes which are voluntary only. These
compilation of votes will be conducted only by the Senators themselves.
_42__ Should a MIP who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Senator, BoD, committee member
and/or the same particular seat title in any subsidiary Republic of Earth,
if their donation remained on the International Parliament's records.
_43__ All Senators shall have access to all financial records for the
International Parliament. More detailed information which isn't available
on the Treasury Ministry's web page will be made available within 90 days
to Senators when a request is made in writing to the Treasury Minister.
_44__ All payments are to be in US dollars only unless pre-approval is
obtained from the Treasury Ministry.
_45__ The International Parliament will not ever hold any election in a single-
winner district where a single-winner decision or name is elected.
_46__ Ballot Preparation
_47__ SPACE FOR THREE OR MORE WRITE-IN choices must be provided on each
and every ballot, in all elections.
_48__ CATEGORIZATION AND PARTY NAMES The first and most important
criterion in determining the nominee's party/category is the
nominee's most recently requested or declared party/category in
Parliament matters. The second most important criterion in
determining the nominee's party/category is determined by the
nominee's state's records, as written by the member while
registering to vote. Appointed members may be categorized with any
party/category that they wish, and the party/category of all
members is considered to be the true one. Elected members
may decide to change or switch their party/categorization at any time
by proclamation. Members automatically qualify for the ballot
in the next election cycle under the party/category of
their choice.
_49__ First and last names are preferred, however all names nominated
will be permitted on the ballot as well as the party/category of the
nominee. If party/category is not known, the label "[Info. Not Avail.]"
will be used. A nominee's name (and thus identity) may appear on the
ballot only once, so fusion voting is not allowed.
All world citizens who had signed up since "RESOLUTION NUMBER 1" was first approved on
10/27/2014 will be automatically added as MIPs retroactively within seven days
after the approval of this bylaw item #39.
_50__ RESIGNATIONS. When any elected member, executive or minister,
stands down, resigns, retires, or dies - the name is deleted. Then
the next highest ranked name is automatically elected to the
seat in their stead.
_51__ When a candidate who has chosen to stand down but then wishes to
return to the position which they had departed, then they must first
be re-affirmed by all the voters who had previously cast a vote for them.
_52__ TEN EXECUTIVES
_53__ MIPs: Once elected, all new Members of International Parliament
(MIPs) may change their vote as a "vote of confidence" for the ten
executives into perpetuity.
_54__ THE VOICE of the International Parliament will be the ten executives.
_55__ Each of the elected ten executives may pick a seat title once elected.
_56__ The ten executives elect up to sixty full Cabinet Ministers and sixty
Deputy Cabinet Ministers using the "parliamentary go-ahead.
_57__ The International Parliament's ten executives agree to rank all names
nominated by each of the other nine executives, thus guaranteeing that each
of the ten executives elects 1/10th of the 60 cabinet ministers and this
is known as the "parliamentary go-ahead".
_58__ THE TEN EXECUTIVES recruit as many
people as possible who will work in the Cabinet to run the efforts,
elects the planks on the platform and run the parliament's efforts free from
political conflict or bias. The executives do not control who
gets elected to the general assembly.
_59__ The ten executives of the International Parliament (IP) will
serve as "Founding Executives" on the unity business entity
named "All Party System Co., International Bureau", which is established
in order to report all unifying news, business, financial matters,
vote counting and results of vote counting of the IP to the public
and to serve as a store for generating sales of products and services..
_60__ SIXTY CABINET MINISTERS
_61__ MINISTRY: A simple majority vote by at least six of
the ten executives establishes the parliamentary go-ahead and
will elect new Ministers, even without the parliamentary go-ahead.
_62__ MINISTRY DIRECTORS: Ministries may elect up to fifty Directors
and any number of resolutions, agenda items, guidelines and administrators.
The fifty Directors must be elected in one at-large district and their titles
as "Directors" may be any title, for example each director may pick their own title too.
_63__ All International national Cabinet Ministers must be live,
real people and no avatars or anonymous names may be used by the
elected Cabinet Ministers. Only real names can be used and
verification of the member's true name may be requested when
such verifications are of interest from anyone of the ten executives.
_64__ HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MINISTRY:
The book "Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously" will be added as a guide to the proposed Health and Human
Services Ministry web page. For many ages, humanity has been
confused about what decisions regenerate and degenerate our living
systems. The Body itself has always held this wisdom of natural laws
for our organ/gland functioning on 253 circuits of personal powers
(but not always available until infrared could shine the light on it).
The Body's own immense wisdom can show us how our next decision
degenerates us or regenerates us (based on 40 years of scientific
research using infrared technology that can be tracked, measured and
decoded by the Language of the Body itself). This Self Evident and
undeniable truth from our energetic design makes it an unparalleled
guide to help humans make decisions (about voting, laws, or new
customs, etc.) that can regenerate us from within as well as from
without. (http://www.consciousnesssystems.com [1] to read the book).
Also, VOLUNTARY LAW: The blog site http://vlda.org/, the Voluntary
Law Development Association, owned by Jonathan Jaech will be added
to the proposed
_65__ VOLUNTARY LAW MINISTRY:
The Voluntary Law Ministry web page
and can accompany 'Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously' (that can both be used as the foundational principles
for voluntary international law). These 2 sources of wisdom can
promote peace, love and the clarity of energetic truth for successful
ways to promote each living systems' regeneration.
_66__ VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY:
The Vote Counting Ministry will make an annual award for
the "United Coalition Secure Paper Ballot Award".
_67__ TREASURY MINISTRY:
The Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the ten
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
The Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for Senators (donor MIPs)
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, Senator mailing addresses, contact information
and rankings, bank account savings and expenditures.
_68__ MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION MINISTRY:
Appeals of a name's removal action may be taken to the
Mediation and Conciliation Service Minister
where rules for such appeals will be written, voted upon and approved.
_69__ United Coalition
_70__ Declare that all of the elected and appointed members of the International Parliament,
all countries' national parliaments, all subsidiary super-state, mini-state
and county micro-state parliaments, to be members of a national and international
"Unity Coalition" or "United Coalition" effective November 5th, 2014.
_71__ The International Parliament's subsidiary Republic "Unity Coalition"
elections shall be in two phases; one before the country's primaries and one after the
country's primaries. That way, a strong emphasis can be placed on official state-recognized
ballot-qualified and write-in candidates both before the primaries and after the
primaries, and the dates are customized for each of the country's official primaries.
_72__ UNITY PLATFORM
_73__ Conduct an international Direct Democracy (DD) election which will elect planks
to a "Unity Platform".
_74__ The promotion of the Unity Coalition's "Unity Platform" can used used as an
example of teamwork. The team can be promoted as being dynamic so that
every item is up for a continual "vote of confidence" by all the members, all the time.
That way, the recruitment of new members can take place in order to collect
more votes for improving the planks on the Unity Platform.
_75__ PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM: The ten elected executives shall elect the
UNITY PLATFORM with a series of "planks" from all the items they pick and
rank from the DD election.
_76__ Guideline of Priority and Procedure
_77__ GENERAL PROVISIONS: Guideline of Priority and Procedure. The
GUIDELINES contained on this web page shall be the official first
GUIDELINES of procedure for the International Parliament and will be used
for all transactions of business once ratified by a majority of the
Members of Parliament (MPs). These GUIDELINES will
take precedence over any other set of GUIDELINES.
_78__ GUIDELINE CHANGES: The Executive Committee reserves the right
to make changes in these GUIDELINES by 6/10th vote and to present
these changes to the delegates/members at any time. All changes should
accommodate the desires or complaints of the MPs or staff so as to
improve the conduct of business online and offline.
_79__ EXECUTIVES: The Executives of the International
Parliament may select or approve persons to serve as Chairpersons, Legal
Counsels, and Secretaries for each committee and any other position
to help conduct the business.
_80__ CHAIR PERSON: Absence of Chairperson. If the Chair should find
it necessary to be absent during any part of a committee meeting,
he/she shall designate an individual (preferably the Legal Counsel)
to assume his/her duties with the same authority.
_81__ Statements by the Executives. The ten elected Executives,
or any person designated by the ten elected Executives, may at
any time make oral or written statements to a committee.
_82__ MEMBERS: Number of Accredited Delegates. The number of delegates
allowed on any delegation of the Parliament shall be limited to
MIPs and Donor MIPs only.
_83__ DIPLOMATIC COURTESY: All delegates MUST accord all other
delegates diplomatic courtesy at all times. Any delegate or visitor
who, after being advised by the Chair, persists in an obvious attempt
to divert the meeting from its intended purpose, or who otherwise
attempts to disrupt the proceedings, shall be subject to disciplinary
action and expulsion by the Chairperson.
_84__ AGENDA
_85__ AGENDA Selection of Agenda Items. Agenda items shall be
selected by the Executive Committee. Once selected, these items
are fixed for the duration of the conference and no other items
will be discussed.
_86__ ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda items will
be considered in the order in which they appear in the agenda
eballot, unless that order is altered by a majority of the Committee.
_87__ PRIOR APPROVED RESOLUTIONS: Order of Consideration of
Prior-Approved Resolutions. Prior-approved resolutions are
resolutions that were received by the specified deadline and
were deemed appropriate by the staff. They will receive
priority over other resolutions. The order of appearance of
resolutions before the Committee is determined by the date
in which they were received, and is listed under the appropriate
committee topic in that order in the resolution book by the
Secretary. When the Chair opens debate on any agenda item,
any delegate may move for consideration of an approved resolution
on the agenda item that has been submitted to the chair with
signatories of 1/8 of the delegations present. If the motion
is seconded, the Chair will direct the committee to an immediate
vote without debate on the motion, a majority being required for
consideration. If no resolution receives a majority vote in favor
of consideration, the Committee will automatically have before it
for consideration the first resolution in the resolution book
under that agenda item that has been received by the chair with
the appropriate number of signatories.
_88__ CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL:
Resolutions that were not received by the specified deadline
may still be considered, but not until 1/2 of the prior approved
resolutions on the agenda item have been considered. For a
resolution without prior approval to be considered, it must
relate to the committee topic currently being debated, be
submitted to the chair with signatories of 1/8 of the delegations
present, and the delegate must supply enough copies of the
resolution for each delegation present. Once these conditions
have been met, any delegate may move for consideration of the
resolution. If the motion is seconded, the chair will direct
the committee to an immediate vote without debate on the motion,
a majority being required for consideration.
_89__ SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSALS: Delegates will receive selected
resolutions for consideration no later than at the time of the
conference registration. The delegates must submit resolutions
in the proper form by the deadline set by the Executive Committee.
_90__ Reporting Resolutions to the Parliament. The Chair
of each committee shall report resolutions passed by that committee
to the Parliament for its consideration. If a
committee fails to approve a resolution on an agenda item, it
shall submit a "Declaration of No Report" on that agenda item.
That topic area will not be considered by the Parliament.
_91__ Amendments. All amendments to resolutions must be signed
by one sponsoring delegation and at least one other seconding
delegation; they must be submitted on an official amendment
form for approval by the Legal Counsel and must be labeled
with an identifying number by the Secretary. Secondary
amendments and amendments by substitution are not acceptable.
Obvious typographical efforts will be brought to the Committee's
attention and collected by the Chair with no vote required.
To move an amendment to the floor, recognition by the Chair
and introduction of the amendment will suffice; no vote
shall be required. Once an amendment has been brought to
the floor, the Committee shall consider only the amendments
and not the Resolutions until final action on the amendment
has been taken (except to the extent that the amendment
pertains to the Resolution).
_92__ Definition of Amendment and Voting on Amendments. An
amendment is a motion that adds to, deletes from, or revises
any part of a resolution. A series of alterations proposed
by a single delegation to the same resolution shall be
considered as a single amendment unless a motion is made
to divide it.
_93__ Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all substantive
debate on the matters before the body at that time, except
when such a motion would interrupt a speaker. Two delegates
may speak against closure, and the motion will then be put to
a vote. During debate on an amendment, a delegate may move
for closure of debate on the resolution. If closure passes,
then the amendment shall be voted on first followed by the
resolution.
_94__ Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second is
required.
_95__ DEBATE AND SPEECH GUIDELINES: Speeches. No delegate
may address the committee without having previously obtained
the permission of the Chair. The Chair shall call upon
speakers in the order in which they signify their desire
to speak. Delegates may not interrupt a speaker except on
a point of order or point of personal privilege. Abusing
these rights may be considered violations of diplomatic
courtesy, and can result in disciplinary action taken by
the chair. Motions should be made at the conclusion of the
speaker's remarks; by making a motion, the speaker yields
the floor.
_96__ Time Limit on Debate. The committee or the Chair may
limit or extend the time allotted to each speaker and the
number of times each delegate may speak on a proposal.
There may be one speaker in favor and one opposed to the
limitation/extension.
_97__ Right of Reply. During debate, the Chair may accord
the right of reply to any delegate if a speech by another
delegate contains unusual or extraordinary language clearly
insulting to personal or national dignity. The decision
granting a right of reply may not be appealed. Requests
for a right of reply shall be in writing to the Chair.
The Chair will limit the time for the reply. There shall
be no reply to a reply.
_98__ POINTS - IN ORDER OF PRIORITY
Point of Order. If, during the discussion of any matter,
a delegate believes that the committee is proceeding in a
manner contrary to these GUIDELINES, he or she may rise to
a point of order. The delegate so rising will be immediately
recognized by the Chair and the point ruled upon. A delegate
rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance
of any matter under discussion.
Point of Personal Privilege. If a delegate wishes to
raise a question or make a request relating to the
organization of the meeting, personal comfort, or the
conduct of fellow delegates or staff, he/she may rise to
a point of personal privilege. When a delegate rises on
privilege, the Chair shall take such action as is necessary.
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry. A point of parliamentary
inquiry is directed to the Chair for information or guidance
on procedure. This point may not interrupt the speaker.
It is a question and does not require seconding or allow
for debate. Replies by the Chair are not appealable.
Point of Information. If a delegate wishes to obtain
a clarification of procedure or a statement of the matter
before the committee, the delegate may address a point of
information to the Chair. During debate, if a delegate
wishes to ask a question of the speaker, a request to
question the speaker may be made in the form of a point
of information directed to the Chair after the speaker
consents to be questioned, all questions and replies are
made through the Chair. Delegates shall not interrupt a
speaker on a point of information.
_99__ MOTIONS - ORDER OF PROCEDURAL MOTIONS
The motions as indicated in the Short Form of Points
and Motions have precedence, in the order given, over all
other proposals or motions before the committee.
Adjournment of Debate. During the discussion of any
matter, a delegate may move the adjournment of debate on
that matter. One delegate may speak in favor of the
motion and one opposed. The motion shall then be put to
an immediate vote. Adjournment of debate on a resolution
or amendment has the effect of tabling that item and moves
the committee on to the next order of business.
See also 8.9 on Reconsideration.
Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all
substantive debate on the matters before the body at that
time, except when such a motion would interrupt a speaker.
Two delegates may speak against closure, and the motion
will then be put to a vote. During debate on an amendment,
a delegate may move for closure of debate on the resolution.
if closure passes, then the amendment shall be voted on
first followed by the resolution.
Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second
is required.
Suspension of the Meeting. During the discussion of
any matter, a delegate may move to suspend the meeting.
Suspending a meeting recesses it until the time specified
in the motion; the Chair may request the mover to modify
the time. When the committee reconvenes it will continue
with its business from the point at which suspension was
moved.
Adjournment of the Meeting. The motion of adjournment
means that all business of the committee has been
completed, and that the committee win not reconvene
until the next Annual Session. The Chair may refuse
to recognize a motion to adjourn the meeting if the
Committee still has business before it. A motion to
adjourn is not debatable, and will be put to an immediate vote.
Decisions of Competence. Any motion calling for a
decision on the competence of the Committee to discuss
or adopt a proposal shall be put to a vote before the
vote is taken on the proposal in question. If a
Committee decides it is not competent to discuss or
vote on an amendment or resolution, the effect is the
same as adjourning debate on the matter. See also 8.9
on Reconsideration.
Withdrawal of Motions. A motion may be withdrawn
by its proposer at any time before voting on it has
begun, provided the motion has not been amended. A
withdrawn motion may be reintroduced by any other
delegation.
Reconsideration of Proposals. When a proposal has
been adopted, or rejected through a vote of adjournment
or "no competence", it may be reconsidered at the same
session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting. The motion to reconsider
must be made by a delegation which originally voted
on the prevailing side of the proposal; thus,
reconsideration may be moved only on the proposals
voted on by roll-call.
Division of the Question. A motion to divide the
question, proposing that parts of an amendment or
resolution be voted on separately, is in order at any
time prior to commencement of voting on the amendment
or resolution. Motions to divide shall apply only to
operative clauses. Permission to speak on the motion
shall be granted to one speaker in favor and one
opposed, after which there shall be an immediate vote.
The first motion for division to receive a majority
vote shall become the final manner in which the
proposal is presented. Those parts of the proposal
which are approved shall be put to a vote as a whole.
If all operative clauses of a proposal have been
rejected, the proposal as a whole has been rejected.
Dilatory Motions. The Chair may rule as dilatory,
and therefore out of order, any motion repeating or
closely approximating a substantive measure on which
the committee has already rendered an opinion. Such
rulings can not be appealed.
Appealing a Decision of the Chair. Rulings of
the chair can be appealed unless otherwise specified
in these GUIDELINES. Appeals can be debated by one
speaker in favor and one opposed.
_100__ MOTIONS are actions which trigger activity in
the California Super-state Parliament (Editing
guideline #s once approved).
_101__ : Motions : Interrupt Speaker? : Second Required? : Debatable? : Vote Required?
_102__ VOTING METHODS AND RIGHTS: Each member delegation shall
have one vote in each Committee in which it is represented. No
delegate may cast a vote on behalf of another member.
_103__ Simple Majority. Unless otherwise specified in these
GUIDELINES, decisions in the Committee shall be made by a majority
vote of those members present and voting. The phrase "MSPs present
and voting" refers to members casting ranked choice votes. Members
which cast a final abstention are not voting. If a vote is equally
divided between two sums of the same value, the motion fails.
_104__ Method of Voting. The Committee shall use ranked choice
voting (RCV). The Chair, however, may grant a request for a
roll-call vote; the decision to grant such a request is not
appealable. All final votes on resolutions shall be taken by
roll-call; the roll shall be called in English alphabetical order
beginning with a person selected at random by the Secretary.
Delegates shall reply "#1," or "abstain," or "abstain from the order
of voting." A member may abstain from the order of voting once
during the roll-call; a second abstention from the order of voting
will be recorded as an abstention. Rights of explanation are
permitted on roll-call votes and may be limited in time by the Chair.
At the end of roll-call, but before rights of explanation and the
subsequent announcement of the vote, the Secretary will ask for
changes of vote. A delegation may not change from "0" to "#1",
or "#1 with right of explanation" or from "0" to "0 with right
of explanation." Those abstaining may be accorded rights of
explanation. The result of the vote shall be inserted into the
Committee record.
_105__ ONLINE VOTING: The International Parliament will
conduct elections using online voting and all votes will be
posted where they can be easily viewed by the public with the
information as to who had cast the vote.
_106__ Conduct during Voting. Immediately prior to a vote,
the Chair shall describe to the Committee the proposal to be
voted on, and shall explain the consequence of a 1 or 0 vote.
Voting shall begin upon the chair's declaration and shall end
when the results of the vote are announced. Once voting has
begun, no delegate shall interrupt the voting except on a
point of order or information concerning the actual conduct
of the vote, or on a point of personal privilege.
_107__ Supplemental GUIDELINES
_108__ PREAMBULAR PHRASES provide background information
and establish proper context for reading and interpreting the resolution.
_109__ OPERATIVE CLAUSES are set out to achieve the committee's main policy goals on
the topic.
_110__ SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR REPUBLIC OF EARTH COUNTRIES
_111__ January 1st is the best day of the year for new countries to start an
election schedules and December 31st is the best day to end activities.
_112__ PERMANENCE. These Rules, intent, purpose and function, will not
change once approved by majority vote by the elected members, or MIPs,
of the International Parliament.
_113__ Contact the International Parliament via telephone (831) 383-1409 or the web
site at http://www.usparliament.org
for obtaining more information.
_114__ We form a global union, open to all people, and a constitution
drafted for ratification by this body which shall outline and define the
provisions of this resolution, that This union shall be governed by a
world parliament.
_115__ Voting blocks (communities, bands, tribes, federations) need no longer be
limited to geographical areas. People are now able to connect with like-minded
'others' from around the planet (and beyond).
_116__ SLANDERERS and ANTAGONISTS
_117__ NO PERSON MAY BE CENSORED, and no limits may be placed on free
speech by/of any other person or nominee,
including US Parliament's elected members and staff, at any time
except when applying guidelines to party/category labels/names
and parts of this rule which regulate antagonists.
_118__ NO HATE WORDS AS PARTY/CATEGORY NAME: Party/category's labels/names
may not be used in such a way that slanders or libels names of any
person or other party/categories or individuals. Those that refuse
to comply by continuing to libel others through their choice
of party name will be categorized as members of the Censored Party.
Elected members using a name or pseudonym rather than their actual
name, which libels, slanders or mimics (such as incorrect spellings),
shall have their name censored and instead will be known only as
Anonymous.
_119__ Members of any International Parliament entity who antagonize others more than once
use through the use of profanity, slander, insulting or offensive vulgar
language, harassing or chauvinistic speech, terrorizing threats, including
the threats of lawsuits against other members/vote counters or volunteers
within the International Parliament or those who use actual physical force or violence,
may be permanently or temporarily removed by the full Minister in that
Cabinet Ministry, by any of the ten executives of the International Parliament
or by the International Parliament's web page maintainer.
Senator Edlira Zeka [Earth] voted on 11/6/2015 as follows:
_2__ Parliamentary procedures, terms and pure proportional representation (PR)
for the International Parliament.
_3__ Require all the elected members to be in communication either
through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service or
else their name will be eliminated after one year.
_4__ The number of seats on the executive may remain at ten but not more than ten.
_5__ Paper Ballot Guidelines Recommended for State, National and International Elections
_6__ The paper ballots are placed in a clear ballot box by the voter, the box
is guarded, video taped all day and the votes are counted at the polling
location the night of the election.
_7__ The votes are counted two times by two different and diverse teams of
counters, recorded/taped/broadcast by two different devices with the public
able to observe and video/livestream the counting.
_8__ The results from the polling locations will be called to the Board
of Elections, emailed to the BoE and hand delivered. All three must
match. The Board of Elections will hand tally the results from all
the polling locations, again, two times by two different and diverse
teams of counters with this being taped, recorded and broadcast and
the public able to observe, tape and live-stream the entire proceedings.
And, the same goes for what happens at the state level.
_9__ The polling location should serve a maximum of 1,000 voters and
Election Day should be a national holiday with employers, if necessary,
having to arrange for special accommodations for employees that must
work, as with hospitals. A minimum of two hours personal time to vote
will be given to all citizens and voters.
_10__ The voters' names and marking on the ballot will remain secret
but the vote counting will be publicly observable.
_11__ PAPER BALLOTS will be made confidential to the highest level possible.
_12__ VOTER ELIGIBILITY:
The voter must register their name with at least two
methods of contact; and must comply with the voter eligibility
requirements for voter's country of residence.The voter must be a voting citizen of a country.
The voter must be 18 years old or older on Election Day.
The voter must not be in prison, on parole, serving a state sentence in county jail,
serving a sentence for a felony or on post-release community supervision.
The voter must not have been found to be mentally incompetent by a court.
Non-voting class membership will always be made available.
_13__ VOTER AUTHENTICATION:
When two or more methods of contact aren't provided by the voter, then
further explanation will be considered by the Vote Counting Ministry verifiers.
Additional Measures
_14__ General Counting, Balloting and Eballoting Guidelines for International Parliament Elections
_15__ RANKED VOTING ONLY: All voting and vote counting shall be in the form of
ranked paper ballots only (and eballots when practical and verifiable).
Consecutive numbers beginning with the #s 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. etc. must always be
used when marking on (e)ballot of all alternative decisions or names.
Deviation from this guideline will disqualify the ballot, and the ballot
will be marked spoiled.
_16__ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
_17__ THE SAINTE-LAGUE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM, Hagenbach-Bischoff method,
under ranked choice voting, for seat allocation in all multi-seat districts:
Divide the election's total number of votes by the number of seats.
This is the 1st quota.
Divide this quota into each candidate's votes, and round off to the
nearest whole number.
That's that candidate's seat allocation.
If, due to rounding, this awards a number of seats different from
the desired number
of seats, then adjust the quota slightly up or down, till, when
paragraph two is carried out,
it will award all seats.
_18__ Any resident of earth, nominee and/or proxy may observe the counting of the
ballots. Volunteer counters will conduct the vote counting.
_19__ Choices marked on "eballots" are posted for public view and are
not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of the Parliament.
_20__ EBALLOTS are ballots cast via email and must be emailed to
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org, a private email address used by the
secretary and observers for receiving such eballots. No reply email
will be sent to voters who cast eballots other than a verification
message, unless the voter indicates that he/she wishes to be self
appointed to the www.international-parliament.org site or when a
question regarding verification or validation is raised by a volunteer vote counter.
_21__ Volunteer vote counters may be added to the exploder email address
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org as a subscriber by sending the message
"subscribe" to vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org.
_22__ Telephone voting is permissible, acceptable and verification
and validations will be provided when requested.
_23__ Elections of rules shall be perpetual and the simple majority vote,
by elected MIPs who vote on rules, passes rules.
_24__ BALLOTS AND EBALLOTS: All world residents are eligible to vote in
International Parliament Elections 365 days year.
_25__ There will be five hundred members of International Parliament (MIPs) who
are elected members self appointed/self nominated for free under ranked
choice voting as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "MIPs"
and five hundred members who are donors, ranked in order of donation level and
are to be known as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "Senator" MIPs.
_26__ THE PARTY LEADER within the International Parliament is a label for the
highest ranked name categorized under each party. Party leaders are
responsible for the distribution of all ballots and rules to the
members of their party/category and lists.
_27__ Such ballots may be retype set or altered to specifically identify
their select nominees' correct name and party affiliation. All ballots
released to public used by the International Parliament's elected secretaries
shall count as a legitimate ballot and shall be presumed to represent
the correct and most current candidate name information.
_27__ BALLOT: ORDER OF NOMINEES of all names in the parliament elections
and subsidiary parliament elections will be determined by the results
caused by the voters' ranking of the nominees on the previous election's
ballots. This is known as the correct consecutive order of nominee.
Appointments and self-appointments will be listed chronologically.
_29__ NOMINEE ACCEPTANCE AND WRITE-INS:
Only names who formally ACCEPT the nomination of their name, self write-in
names and those currently already elected will qualify for the ballot/eballot
for the International Parliament. There will be a cap at 500 names for the
ballot/eballot for the free elections of MIPs.
_30__ A verifiable name and contact information must be provided in
order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
_31__ The final order of the parties/categories on the final prepared
ballot will be determined by the nominees' party name/category and
the parties/categories and will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
_32__ TIES: Ties will be broken by holding a runoff election only
when called by one of the two secretaries. In all other
cases, all the names/items in a tie will be included in the results
and will be in a new "tied" category, even if the size of the assembly
or agenda list must be expanded beyond normal size set forth by these rules.
_33__ ONLY ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENTARY BALLOT, IS PERMITTED TO BE MARKED BY
EACH WORLD RESIDENT: All living world citizens may vote one time and only
one time. In cases where a second ballot (or more) is cast, only
the latter of the ballots will be counted, the former will be marked
spoiled, deleted and regarded disqualified.
_34__ SENATORS
_35__ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donor's
funds will be deposited into a bank account which is controlled
by Treasury Minister, the President and the Vice President
of the International Parliament.
_36__ Senators: All donors who contribute money to the
international political entity known as the International
Parliament (IP) at the minimum donation amount of $20.,
will promptly and automatically become known as "Senator" once
the donation has been correctly registered with the Treasury
Minister and/or is received by the appropriate clerk.
The Senators will be grouped into five donor-level groups.
Senators are not elected during regular election cycles of
the parliament's elections but they do receive all of the same voting rights plus
special donor privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved. The total donation amount will apply as both an annual sum or
a total of multiple years. The annual sum is primarily for convention services
and the sum from multiple years has a secondary purpose which can apply to
different purposes other than the annual convention services.
_37__ THE FIVE DONATION LEVELS OF SENATORS
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $20. to $29.99 donation (level five)
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $20. to $29.99 donation (level five):
In Level Five, the Senator's name will listed as Senator on the IP's
Paper Share Certificate for Level Five Senator ($20. to $29.99 donation level).
--Level Five Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL FOUR. Services provided for a $30. to $49.99 donation (level four):
The Level Four Senators who donate $30. or more a year, paid before July 1st
Paper Share Certificate for Level Four Senator ($30. to $49.99 donation level).
--Level Four Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL THREE. Services provided for a $50.00 to $149.99 donation (level three):
Level Three Senators who donate $50.00 or more, paid before July 1st of that year, receive an
Paper Share Certificate for Level Three Senator ($50.00 to $149.99 donation level)
--Level Three Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL TWO. Services provided for a $150. to $599.99 donation (level two):
Senators who donate $150. to $599.99, paid before July 1st of that year,
Paper Share Certificate for Level Two Senator ($150.00 to $599.99 donation level)
--Level Two Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL ONE. Services provided for a $600. and more donation (level one):
Senators who donate $600., paid before July 1st of that year,
Paper Share Certificate for Level One Senator ($600. donation level and above)
--Level One Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
Plus, Level One Senators Also Get the Following Benefits:
Upon approval of this bylaw item, all Senators' current donation levels,
"Voting Stoppage"
Whenever a financial crisis occurs where the costs for paying basic
maintenance of the International Parliament are not being met, including
the costs of domain hosting, web design and obligations to all of the Senators, then the
Treasury and/or Vote Counting Ministry can place end to all introductions of free membership
sign ups of Members of International Parliament (MIPs) and other free services
provided by the Vote Counting Ministry and this ending will be known as a "voting stoppage".
This bylaw item can also affect the internal Cabinet voting by Ministers, but it will not
include/affect "votes of confidence" by the MIPs, voting by Senators current in dues and the
voting for election of Cabinet Ministers (parliamentary go-ahead) by the Ten Executives.
The voting stoppage will terminate either upon
the recommendation/consensus to end it by both the Treasury and Vote Counting Ministries,
or once the numbers of Senators reaches the same number of free MIPs within
the general International Parliament's assembly membership.
Diplomatic Passports
Some ministers and deputies will be traveling a lot abroad. At the airports
and borders a diplomatic passport would make sense. Even for the professional
legitimacy to foreign politicians.
ID Cards
For activities within the country an ID card is sufficient. However, a
professionally designed plastic card should be used here. Since the
International Parliament nevertheless plays an important role in the
world standard, you should already pay attention to a professional public image.
_38__ Once the top Senator seats are assigned based on ranking of donation
level, then lower ranked donors "spill over" into the "Senator MPs"
section of the subsidiary Republic of Earth, the country from which the donor originated.
_39__ The Senator's donation will be recorded and should the Senator ever wish to
"stand down", then the donation amount will be not be refunded.
_40__ The numbers of seats for Senators shall never be more than the number
of free elected members of International Parliament (MIPs).
_41__ The Senators may vote on Senate guidelines and decisions from time to time
but there is no requirement for such votes which are voluntary only. These
compilation of votes will be conducted only by the Senators themselves.
_42__ Should a MIP who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Senator, BoD, committee member
and/or the same particular seat title in any subsidiary Republic of Earth,
if their donation remained on the International Parliament's records.
_43__ All Senators shall have access to all financial records for the
International Parliament. More detailed information which isn't available
on the Treasury Ministry's web page will be made available within 90 days
to Senators when a request is made in writing to the Treasury Minister.
_44__ All payments are to be in US dollars only unless pre-approval is
obtained from the Treasury Ministry.
_45__ The International Parliament will not ever hold any election in a single-
winner district where a single-winner decision or name is elected.
_46__ Ballot Preparation
_47__ SPACE FOR THREE OR MORE WRITE-IN choices must be provided on each
and every ballot, in all elections.
_48__ CATEGORIZATION AND PARTY NAMES The first and most important
criterion in determining the nominee's party/category is the
nominee's most recently requested or declared party/category in
Parliament matters. The second most important criterion in
determining the nominee's party/category is determined by the
nominee's state's records, as written by the member while
registering to vote. Appointed members may be categorized with any
party/category that they wish, and the party/category of all
members is considered to be the true one. Elected members
may decide to change or switch their party/categorization at any time
by proclamation. Members automatically qualify for the ballot
in the next election cycle under the party/category of
their choice.
_49__ First and last names are preferred, however all names nominated
will be permitted on the ballot as well as the party/category of the
nominee. If party/category is not known, the label "[Info. Not Avail.]"
will be used. A nominee's name (and thus identity) may appear on the
ballot only once, so fusion voting is not allowed.
All world citizens who had signed up since "RESOLUTION NUMBER 1" was first approved on
10/27/2014 will be automatically added as MIPs retroactively within seven days
after the approval of this bylaw item #39.
_50__ RESIGNATIONS. When any elected member, executive or minister,
stands down, resigns, retires, or dies - the name is deleted. Then
the next highest ranked name is automatically elected to the
seat in their stead.
_51__ When a candidate who has chosen to stand down but then wishes to
return to the position which they had departed, then they must first
be re-affirmed by all the voters who had previously cast a vote for them.
_52__ TEN EXECUTIVES
_53__ MIPs: Once elected, all new Members of International Parliament
(MIPs) may change their vote as a "vote of confidence" for the ten
executives into perpetuity.
_54__ THE VOICE of the International Parliament will be the ten executives.
_55__ Each of the elected ten executives may pick a seat title once elected.
_56__ The ten executives elect up to sixty full Cabinet Ministers and sixty
Deputy Cabinet Ministers using the "parliamentary go-ahead.
_57__ The International Parliament's ten executives agree to rank all names
nominated by each of the other nine executives, thus guaranteeing that each
of the ten executives elects 1/10th of the 60 cabinet ministers and this
is known as the "parliamentary go-ahead".
_58__ THE TEN EXECUTIVES recruit as many
people as possible who will work in the Cabinet to run the efforts,
elects the planks on the platform and run the parliament's efforts free from
political conflict or bias. The executives do not control who
gets elected to the general assembly.
_59__ The ten executives of the International Parliament (IP) will
serve as "Founding Executives" on the unity business entity
named "All Party System Co., International Bureau", which is established
in order to report all unifying news, business, financial matters,
vote counting and results of vote counting of the IP to the public
and to serve as a store for generating sales of products and services..
_60__ SIXTY CABINET MINISTERS
_61__ MINISTRY: A simple majority vote by at least six of
the ten executives establishes the parliamentary go-ahead and
will elect new Ministers, even without the parliamentary go-ahead.
_62__ MINISTRY DIRECTORS: Ministries may elect up to fifty Directors
and any number of resolutions, agenda items, guidelines and administrators.
The fifty Directors must be elected in one at-large district and their titles
as "Directors" may be any title, for example each director may pick their own title too.
_63__ All International national Cabinet Ministers must be live,
real people and no avatars or anonymous names may be used by the
elected Cabinet Ministers. Only real names can be used and
verification of the member's true name may be requested when
such verifications are of interest from anyone of the ten executives.
_64__ HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MINISTRY:
The book "Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously" will be added as a guide to the proposed Health and Human
Services Ministry web page. For many ages, humanity has been
confused about what decisions regenerate and degenerate our living
systems. The Body itself has always held this wisdom of natural laws
for our organ/gland functioning on 253 circuits of personal powers
(but not always available until infrared could shine the light on it).
The Body's own immense wisdom can show us how our next decision
degenerates us or regenerates us (based on 40 years of scientific
research using infrared technology that can be tracked, measured and
decoded by the Language of the Body itself). This Self Evident and
undeniable truth from our energetic design makes it an unparalleled
guide to help humans make decisions (about voting, laws, or new
customs, etc.) that can regenerate us from within as well as from
without. (http://www.consciousnesssystems.com [1] to read the book).
Also, VOLUNTARY LAW: The blog site http://vlda.org/, the Voluntary
Law Development Association, owned by Jonathan Jaech will be added
to the proposed
_65__ VOLUNTARY LAW MINISTRY:
The Voluntary Law Ministry web page
and can accompany 'Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously' (that can both be used as the foundational principles
for voluntary international law). These 2 sources of wisdom can
promote peace, love and the clarity of energetic truth for successful
ways to promote each living systems' regeneration.
_66__ VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY:
The Vote Counting Ministry will make an annual award for
the "United Coalition Secure Paper Ballot Award".
_67__ TREASURY MINISTRY:
The Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the ten
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
The Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for Senators (donor MIPs)
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, Senator mailing addresses, contact information
and rankings, bank account savings and expenditures.
_68__ MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION MINISTRY:
Appeals of a name's removal action may be taken to the
Mediation and Conciliation Service Minister
where rules for such appeals will be written, voted upon and approved.
_69__ United Coalition
_70__ Declare that all of the elected and appointed members of the International Parliament,
all countries' national parliaments, all subsidiary super-state, mini-state
and county micro-state parliaments, to be members of a national and international
"Unity Coalition" or "United Coalition" effective November 5th, 2014.
_71__ The International Parliament's subsidiary Republic "Unity Coalition"
elections shall be in two phases; one before the country's primaries and one after the
country's primaries. That way, a strong emphasis can be placed on official state-recognized
ballot-qualified and write-in candidates both before the primaries and after the
primaries, and the dates are customized for each of the country's official primaries.
_72__ UNITY PLATFORM
_73__ Conduct an international Direct Democracy (DD) election which will elect planks
to a "Unity Platform".
_74__ The promotion of the Unity Coalition's "Unity Platform" can used used as an
example of teamwork. The team can be promoted as being dynamic so that
every item is up for a continual "vote of confidence" by all the members, all the time.
That way, the recruitment of new members can take place in order to collect
more votes for improving the planks on the Unity Platform.
_75__ PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM: The ten elected executives shall elect the
UNITY PLATFORM with a series of "planks" from all the items they pick and
rank from the DD election.
_76__ Guideline of Priority and Procedure
_77__ GENERAL PROVISIONS: Guideline of Priority and Procedure. The
GUIDELINES contained on this web page shall be the official first
GUIDELINES of procedure for the International Parliament and will be used
for all transactions of business once ratified by a majority of the
Members of Parliament (MPs). These GUIDELINES will
take precedence over any other set of GUIDELINES.
_78__ GUIDELINE CHANGES: The Executive Committee reserves the right
to make changes in these GUIDELINES by 6/10th vote and to present
these changes to the delegates/members at any time. All changes should
accommodate the desires or complaints of the MPs or staff so as to
improve the conduct of business online and offline.
_79__ EXECUTIVES: The Executives of the International
Parliament may select or approve persons to serve as Chairpersons, Legal
Counsels, and Secretaries for each committee and any other position
to help conduct the business.
_80__ CHAIR PERSON: Absence of Chairperson. If the Chair should find
it necessary to be absent during any part of a committee meeting,
he/she shall designate an individual (preferably the Legal Counsel)
to assume his/her duties with the same authority.
_81__ Statements by the Executives. The ten elected Executives,
or any person designated by the ten elected Executives, may at
any time make oral or written statements to a committee.
_82__ MEMBERS: Number of Accredited Delegates. The number of delegates
allowed on any delegation of the Parliament shall be limited to
MIPs and Donor MIPs only.
_83__ DIPLOMATIC COURTESY: All delegates MUST accord all other
delegates diplomatic courtesy at all times. Any delegate or visitor
who, after being advised by the Chair, persists in an obvious attempt
to divert the meeting from its intended purpose, or who otherwise
attempts to disrupt the proceedings, shall be subject to disciplinary
action and expulsion by the Chairperson.
_84__ AGENDA
_85__ AGENDA Selection of Agenda Items. Agenda items shall be
selected by the Executive Committee. Once selected, these items
are fixed for the duration of the conference and no other items
will be discussed.
_86__ ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda items will
be considered in the order in which they appear in the agenda
eballot, unless that order is altered by a majority of the Committee.
_87__ PRIOR APPROVED RESOLUTIONS: Order of Consideration of
Prior-Approved Resolutions. Prior-approved resolutions are
resolutions that were received by the specified deadline and
were deemed appropriate by the staff. They will receive
priority over other resolutions. The order of appearance of
resolutions before the Committee is determined by the date
in which they were received, and is listed under the appropriate
committee topic in that order in the resolution book by the
Secretary. When the Chair opens debate on any agenda item,
any delegate may move for consideration of an approved resolution
on the agenda item that has been submitted to the chair with
signatories of 1/8 of the delegations present. If the motion
is seconded, the Chair will direct the committee to an immediate
vote without debate on the motion, a majority being required for
consideration. If no resolution receives a majority vote in favor
of consideration, the Committee will automatically have before it
for consideration the first resolution in the resolution book
under that agenda item that has been received by the chair with
the appropriate number of signatories.
_88__ CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL:
Resolutions that were not received by the specified deadline
may still be considered, but not until 1/2 of the prior approved
resolutions on the agenda item have been considered. For a
resolution without prior approval to be considered, it must
relate to the committee topic currently being debated, be
submitted to the chair with signatories of 1/8 of the delegations
present, and the delegate must supply enough copies of the
resolution for each delegation present. Once these conditions
have been met, any delegate may move for consideration of the
resolution. If the motion is seconded, the chair will direct
the committee to an immediate vote without debate on the motion,
a majority being required for consideration.
_89__ SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSALS: Delegates will receive selected
resolutions for consideration no later than at the time of the
conference registration. The delegates must submit resolutions
in the proper form by the deadline set by the Executive Committee.
_90__ Reporting Resolutions to the Parliament. The Chair
of each committee shall report resolutions passed by that committee
to the Parliament for its consideration. If a
committee fails to approve a resolution on an agenda item, it
shall submit a "Declaration of No Report" on that agenda item.
That topic area will not be considered by the Parliament.
_91__ Amendments. All amendments to resolutions must be signed
by one sponsoring delegation and at least one other seconding
delegation; they must be submitted on an official amendment
form for approval by the Legal Counsel and must be labeled
with an identifying number by the Secretary. Secondary
amendments and amendments by substitution are not acceptable.
Obvious typographical efforts will be brought to the Committee's
attention and collected by the Chair with no vote required.
To move an amendment to the floor, recognition by the Chair
and introduction of the amendment will suffice; no vote
shall be required. Once an amendment has been brought to
the floor, the Committee shall consider only the amendments
and not the Resolutions until final action on the amendment
has been taken (except to the extent that the amendment
pertains to the Resolution).
_92__ Definition of Amendment and Voting on Amendments. An
amendment is a motion that adds to, deletes from, or revises
any part of a resolution. A series of alterations proposed
by a single delegation to the same resolution shall be
considered as a single amendment unless a motion is made
to divide it.
_93__ Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all substantive
debate on the matters before the body at that time, except
when such a motion would interrupt a speaker. Two delegates
may speak against closure, and the motion will then be put to
a vote. During debate on an amendment, a delegate may move
for closure of debate on the resolution. If closure passes,
then the amendment shall be voted on first followed by the
resolution.
_94__ Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second is
required.
_95__ DEBATE AND SPEECH GUIDELINES: Speeches. No delegate
may address the committee without having previously obtained
the permission of the Chair. The Chair shall call upon
speakers in the order in which they signify their desire
to speak. Delegates may not interrupt a speaker except on
a point of order or point of personal privilege. Abusing
these rights may be considered violations of diplomatic
courtesy, and can result in disciplinary action taken by
the chair. Motions should be made at the conclusion of the
speaker's remarks; by making a motion, the speaker yields
the floor.
_96__ Time Limit on Debate. The committee or the Chair may
limit or extend the time allotted to each speaker and the
number of times each delegate may speak on a proposal.
There may be one speaker in favor and one opposed to the
limitation/extension.
_97__ Right of Reply. During debate, the Chair may accord
the right of reply to any delegate if a speech by another
delegate contains unusual or extraordinary language clearly
insulting to personal or national dignity. The decision
granting a right of reply may not be appealed. Requests
for a right of reply shall be in writing to the Chair.
The Chair will limit the time for the reply. There shall
be no reply to a reply.
_98__ POINTS - IN ORDER OF PRIORITY
Point of Order. If, during the discussion of any matter,
a delegate believes that the committee is proceeding in a
manner contrary to these GUIDELINES, he or she may rise to
a point of order. The delegate so rising will be immediately
recognized by the Chair and the point ruled upon. A delegate
rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance
of any matter under discussion.
Point of Personal Privilege. If a delegate wishes to
raise a question or make a request relating to the
organization of the meeting, personal comfort, or the
conduct of fellow delegates or staff, he/she may rise to
a point of personal privilege. When a delegate rises on
privilege, the Chair shall take such action as is necessary.
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry. A point of parliamentary
inquiry is directed to the Chair for information or guidance
on procedure. This point may not interrupt the speaker.
It is a question and does not require seconding or allow
for debate. Replies by the Chair are not appealable.
Point of Information. If a delegate wishes to obtain
a clarification of procedure or a statement of the matter
before the committee, the delegate may address a point of
information to the Chair. During debate, if a delegate
wishes to ask a question of the speaker, a request to
question the speaker may be made in the form of a point
of information directed to the Chair after the speaker
consents to be questioned, all questions and replies are
made through the Chair. Delegates shall not interrupt a
speaker on a point of information.
_99__ MOTIONS - ORDER OF PROCEDURAL MOTIONS
The motions as indicated in the Short Form of Points
and Motions have precedence, in the order given, over all
other proposals or motions before the committee.
Adjournment of Debate. During the discussion of any
matter, a delegate may move the adjournment of debate on
that matter. One delegate may speak in favor of the
motion and one opposed. The motion shall then be put to
an immediate vote. Adjournment of debate on a resolution
or amendment has the effect of tabling that item and moves
the committee on to the next order of business.
See also 8.9 on Reconsideration.
Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all
substantive debate on the matters before the body at that
time, except when such a motion would interrupt a speaker.
Two delegates may speak against closure, and the motion
will then be put to a vote. During debate on an amendment,
a delegate may move for closure of debate on the resolution.
if closure passes, then the amendment shall be voted on
first followed by the resolution.
Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second
is required.
Suspension of the Meeting. During the discussion of
any matter, a delegate may move to suspend the meeting.
Suspending a meeting recesses it until the time specified
in the motion; the Chair may request the mover to modify
the time. When the committee reconvenes it will continue
with its business from the point at which suspension was
moved.
Adjournment of the Meeting. The motion of adjournment
means that all business of the committee has been
completed, and that the committee win not reconvene
until the next Annual Session. The Chair may refuse
to recognize a motion to adjourn the meeting if the
Committee still has business before it. A motion to
adjourn is not debatable, and will be put to an immediate vote.
Decisions of Competence. Any motion calling for a
decision on the competence of the Committee to discuss
or adopt a proposal shall be put to a vote before the
vote is taken on the proposal in question. If a
Committee decides it is not competent to discuss or
vote on an amendment or resolution, the effect is the
same as adjourning debate on the matter. See also 8.9
on Reconsideration.
Withdrawal of Motions. A motion may be withdrawn
by its proposer at any time before voting on it has
begun, provided the motion has not been amended. A
withdrawn motion may be reintroduced by any other
delegation.
Reconsideration of Proposals. When a proposal has
been adopted, or rejected through a vote of adjournment
or "no competence", it may be reconsidered at the same
session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting. The motion to reconsider
must be made by a delegation which originally voted
on the prevailing side of the proposal; thus,
reconsideration may be moved only on the proposals
voted on by roll-call.
Division of the Question. A motion to divide the
question, proposing that parts of an amendment or
resolution be voted on separately, is in order at any
time prior to commencement of voting on the amendment
or resolution. Motions to divide shall apply only to
operative clauses. Permission to speak on the motion
shall be granted to one speaker in favor and one
opposed, after which there shall be an immediate vote.
The first motion for division to receive a majority
vote shall become the final manner in which the
proposal is presented. Those parts of the proposal
which are approved shall be put to a vote as a whole.
If all operative clauses of a proposal have been
rejected, the proposal as a whole has been rejected.
Dilatory Motions. The Chair may rule as dilatory,
and therefore out of order, any motion repeating or
closely approximating a substantive measure on which
the committee has already rendered an opinion. Such
rulings can not be appealed.
Appealing a Decision of the Chair. Rulings of
the chair can be appealed unless otherwise specified
in these GUIDELINES. Appeals can be debated by one
speaker in favor and one opposed.
_100__ MOTIONS are actions which trigger activity in
the California Super-state Parliament (Editing
guideline #s once approved).
_101__ : Motions : Interrupt Speaker? : Second Required? : Debatable? : Vote Required?
_102__ VOTING METHODS AND RIGHTS: Each member delegation shall
have one vote in each Committee in which it is represented. No
delegate may cast a vote on behalf of another member.
_103__ Simple Majority. Unless otherwise specified in these
GUIDELINES, decisions in the Committee shall be made by a majority
vote of those members present and voting. The phrase "MSPs present
and voting" refers to members casting ranked choice votes. Members
which cast a final abstention are not voting. If a vote is equally
divided between two sums of the same value, the motion fails.
_104__ Method of Voting. The Committee shall use ranked choice
voting (RCV). The Chair, however, may grant a request for a
roll-call vote; the decision to grant such a request is not
appealable. All final votes on resolutions shall be taken by
roll-call; the roll shall be called in English alphabetical order
beginning with a person selected at random by the Secretary.
Delegates shall reply "#1," or "abstain," or "abstain from the order
of voting." A member may abstain from the order of voting once
during the roll-call; a second abstention from the order of voting
will be recorded as an abstention. Rights of explanation are
permitted on roll-call votes and may be limited in time by the Chair.
At the end of roll-call, but before rights of explanation and the
subsequent announcement of the vote, the Secretary will ask for
changes of vote. A delegation may not change from "0" to "#1",
or "#1 with right of explanation" or from "0" to "0 with right
of explanation." Those abstaining may be accorded rights of
explanation. The result of the vote shall be inserted into the
Committee record.
_105__ ONLINE VOTING: The International Parliament will
conduct elections using online voting and all votes will be
posted where they can be easily viewed by the public with the
information as to who had cast the vote.
_106__ Conduct during Voting. Immediately prior to a vote,
the Chair shall describe to the Committee the proposal to be
voted on, and shall explain the consequence of a 1 or 0 vote.
Voting shall begin upon the chair's declaration and shall end
when the results of the vote are announced. Once voting has
begun, no delegate shall interrupt the voting except on a
point of order or information concerning the actual conduct
of the vote, or on a point of personal privilege.
_107__ Supplemental GUIDELINES
_108__ PREAMBULAR PHRASES provide background information
and establish proper context for reading and interpreting the resolution.
_109__ OPERATIVE CLAUSES are set out to achieve the committee's main policy goals on
the topic.
_110__ SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR REPUBLIC OF EARTH COUNTRIES
_111__ January 1st is the best day of the year for new countries to start an
election schedules and December 31st is the best day to end activities.
_112__ PERMANENCE. These Rules, intent, purpose and function, will not
change once approved by majority vote by the elected members, or MIPs,
of the International Parliament.
_113__ Contact the International Parliament via telephone (831) 383-1409 or the web
site at http://www.usparliament.org
for obtaining more information.
_114__ We form a global union, open to all people, and a constitution
drafted for ratification by this body which shall outline and define the
provisions of this resolution, that This union shall be governed by a
world parliament.
_115__ Voting blocks (communities, bands, tribes, federations) need no longer be
limited to geographical areas. People are now able to connect with like-minded
'others' from around the planet (and beyond).
_116__ SLANDERERS and ANTAGONISTS
_117__ NO PERSON MAY BE CENSORED, and no limits may be placed on free
speech by/of any other person or nominee,
including US Parliament's elected members and staff, at any time
except when applying guidelines to party/category labels/names
and parts of this rule which regulate antagonists.
_118__ NO HATE WORDS AS PARTY/CATEGORY NAME: Party/category's labels/names
may not be used in such a way that slanders or libels names of any
person or other party/categories or individuals. Those that refuse
to comply by continuing to libel others through their choice
of party name will be categorized as members of the Censored Party.
Elected members using a name or pseudonym rather than their actual
name, which libels, slanders or mimics (such as incorrect spellings),
shall have their name censored and instead will be known only as
Anonymous.
_119__ Members of any International Parliament entity who antagonize others more than once
use through the use of profanity, slander, insulting or offensive vulgar
language, harassing or chauvinistic speech, terrorizing threats, including
the threats of lawsuits against other members/vote counters or volunteers
within the International Parliament or those who use actual physical force or violence,
may be permanently or temporarily removed by the full Minister in that
Cabinet Ministry, by any of the ten executives of the International Parliament
or by the International Parliament's web page maintainer.
Senator Head of State Sam Halabi voted on 11/6/2015 as follows:
_2__ Parliamentary procedures, terms and pure proportional representation (PR)
for the International Parliament.
_3__ Require all the elected members to be in communication either
through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service or
else their name will be eliminated after one year.
_4__ The number of seats on the executive may remain at ten but not more than ten.
_5__ Paper Ballot Guidelines Recommended for State, National and International Elections
_6__ The paper ballots are placed in a clear ballot box by the voter, the box
is guarded, video taped all day and the votes are counted at the polling
location the night of the election.
_7__ The votes are counted two times by two different and diverse teams of
counters, recorded/taped/broadcast by two different devices with the public
able to observe and video/livestream the counting.
_8__ The results from the polling locations will be called to the Board
of Elections, emailed to the BoE and hand delivered. All three must
match. The Board of Elections will hand tally the results from all
the polling locations, again, two times by two different and diverse
teams of counters with this being taped, recorded and broadcast and
the public able to observe, tape and live-stream the entire proceedings.
And, the same goes for what happens at the state level.
_9__ The polling location should serve a maximum of 1,000 voters and
Election Day should be a national holiday with employers, if necessary,
having to arrange for special accommodations for employees that must
work, as with hospitals. A minimum of two hours personal time to vote
will be given to all citizens and voters.
_10__ The voters' names and marking on the ballot will remain secret
but the vote counting will be publicly observable.
_11__ PAPER BALLOTS will be made confidential to the highest level possible.
_12__ VOTER ELIGIBILITY:
The voter must register their name with at least two
methods of contact; and must comply with the voter eligibility
requirements for voter's country of residence.The voter must be a voting citizen of a country.
The voter must be 18 years old or older on Election Day.
The voter must not be in prison, on parole, serving a state sentence in county jail,
serving a sentence for a felony or on post-release community supervision.
The voter must not have been found to be mentally incompetent by a court.
Non-voting class membership will always be made available.
_13__ VOTER AUTHENTICATION:
When two or more methods of contact aren't provided by the voter, then
further explanation will be considered by the Vote Counting Ministry verifiers.
Additional Measures
_14__ General Counting, Balloting and Eballoting Guidelines for International Parliament Elections
_15__ RANKED VOTING ONLY: All voting and vote counting shall be in the form of
ranked paper ballots only (and eballots when practical and verifiable).
Consecutive numbers beginning with the #s 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. etc. must always be
used when marking on (e)ballot of all alternative decisions or names.
Deviation from this guideline will disqualify the ballot, and the ballot
will be marked spoiled.
_16__ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
_17__ THE SAINTE-LAGUE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM, Hagenbach-Bischoff method,
under ranked choice voting, for seat allocation in all multi-seat districts:
Divide the election's total number of votes by the number of seats.
This is the 1st quota.
Divide this quota into each candidate's votes, and round off to the
nearest whole number.
That's that candidate's seat allocation.
If, due to rounding, this awards a number of seats different from
the desired number
of seats, then adjust the quota slightly up or down, till, when
paragraph two is carried out,
it will award all seats.
_18__ Any resident of earth, nominee and/or proxy may observe the counting of the
ballots. Volunteer counters will conduct the vote counting.
_19__ Choices marked on "eballots" are posted for public view and are
not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of the Parliament.
_20__ EBALLOTS are ballots cast via email and must be emailed to
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org, a private email address used by the
secretary and observers for receiving such eballots. No reply email
will be sent to voters who cast eballots other than a verification
message, unless the voter indicates that he/she wishes to be self
appointed to the www.international-parliament.org site or when a
question regarding verification or validation is raised by a volunteer vote counter.
_21__ Volunteer vote counters may be added to the exploder email address
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org as a subscriber by sending the message
"subscribe" to vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org.
_22__ Telephone voting is permissible, acceptable and verification
and validations will be provided when requested.
_23__ Elections of rules shall be perpetual and the simple majority vote,
by elected MIPs who vote on rules, passes rules.
_24__ BALLOTS AND EBALLOTS: All world residents are eligible to vote in
International Parliament Elections 365 days year.
_25__ There will be five hundred members of International Parliament (MIPs) who
are elected members self appointed/self nominated for free under ranked
choice voting as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "MIPs"
and five hundred members who are donors, ranked in order of donation level and
are to be known as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "Senator" MIPs.
_26__ THE PARTY LEADER within the International Parliament is a label for the
highest ranked name categorized under each party. Party leaders are
responsible for the distribution of all ballots and rules to the
members of their party/category and lists.
_27__ Such ballots may be retype set or altered to specifically identify
their select nominees' correct name and party affiliation. All ballots
released to public used by the International Parliament's elected secretaries
shall count as a legitimate ballot and shall be presumed to represent
the correct and most current candidate name information.
_27__ BALLOT: ORDER OF NOMINEES of all names in the parliament elections
and subsidiary parliament elections will be determined by the results
caused by the voters' ranking of the nominees on the previous election's
ballots. This is known as the correct consecutive order of nominee.
Appointments and self-appointments will be listed chronologically.
_29__ NOMINEE ACCEPTANCE AND WRITE-INS:
Only names who formally ACCEPT the nomination of their name, self write-in
names and those currently already elected will qualify for the ballot/eballot
for the International Parliament. There will be a cap at 500 names for the
ballot/eballot for the free elections of MIPs.
_30__ A verifiable name and contact information must be provided in
order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
_31__ The final order of the parties/categories on the final prepared
ballot will be determined by the nominees' party name/category and
the parties/categories and will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
_32__ TIES: Ties will be broken by holding a runoff election only
when called by one of the two secretaries. In all other
cases, all the names/items in a tie will be included in the results
and will be in a new "tied" category, even if the size of the assembly
or agenda list must be expanded beyond normal size set forth by these rules.
_33__ ONLY ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENTARY BALLOT, IS PERMITTED TO BE MARKED BY
EACH WORLD RESIDENT: All living world citizens may vote one time and only
one time. In cases where a second ballot (or more) is cast, only
the latter of the ballots will be counted, the former will be marked
spoiled, deleted and regarded disqualified.
_34__ SENATORS
_35__ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donor's
funds will be deposited into a bank account which is controlled
by Treasury Minister, the President and the Vice President
of the International Parliament.
_36__ Senators: All donors who contribute money to the
international political entity known as the International
Parliament (IP) at the minimum donation amount of $20.,
will promptly and automatically become known as "Senator" once
the donation has been correctly registered with the Treasury
Minister and/or is received by the appropriate clerk.
The Senators will be grouped into five donor-level groups.
Senators are not elected during regular election cycles of
the parliament's elections but they do receive all of the same voting rights plus
special donor privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved. The total donation amount will apply as both an annual sum or
a total of multiple years. The annual sum is primarily for convention services
and the sum from multiple years has a secondary purpose which can apply to
different purposes other than the annual convention services.
_37__ THE FIVE DONATION LEVELS OF SENATORS
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $20. to $29.99 donation (level five)
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $20. to $29.99 donation (level five):
In Level Five, the Senator's name will listed as Senator on the IP's
Paper Share Certificate for Level Five Senator ($20. to $29.99 donation level).
--Level Five Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL FOUR. Services provided for a $30. to $49.99 donation (level four):
The Level Four Senators who donate $30. or more a year, paid before July 1st
Paper Share Certificate for Level Four Senator ($30. to $49.99 donation level).
--Level Four Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL THREE. Services provided for a $50.00 to $149.99 donation (level three):
Level Three Senators who donate $50.00 or more, paid before July 1st of that year, receive an
Paper Share Certificate for Level Three Senator ($50.00 to $149.99 donation level)
--Level Three Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL TWO. Services provided for a $150. to $599.99 donation (level two):
Senators who donate $150. to $599.99, paid before July 1st of that year,
Paper Share Certificate for Level Two Senator ($150.00 to $599.99 donation level)
--Level Two Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL ONE. Services provided for a $600. and more donation (level one):
Senators who donate $600., paid before July 1st of that year,
Paper Share Certificate for Level One Senator ($600. donation level and above)
--Level One Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
Plus, Level One Senators Also Get the Following Benefits:
Upon approval of this bylaw item, all Senators' current donation levels,
"Voting Stoppage"
Whenever a financial crisis occurs where the costs for paying basic
maintenance of the International Parliament are not being met, including
the costs of domain hosting, web design and obligations to all of the Senators, then the
Treasury and/or Vote Counting Ministry can place end to all introductions of free membership
sign ups of Members of International Parliament (MIPs) and other free services
provided by the Vote Counting Ministry and this ending will be known as a "voting stoppage".
This bylaw item can also affect the internal Cabinet voting by Ministers, but it will not
include/affect "votes of confidence" by the MIPs, voting by Senators current in dues and the
voting for election of Cabinet Ministers (parliamentary go-ahead) by the Ten Executives.
The voting stoppage will terminate either upon
the recommendation/consensus to end it by both the Treasury and Vote Counting Ministries,
or once the numbers of Senators reaches the same number of free MIPs within
the general International Parliament's assembly membership.
Diplomatic Passports
Some ministers and deputies will be traveling a lot abroad. At the airports
and borders a diplomatic passport would make sense. Even for the professional
legitimacy to foreign politicians.
ID Cards
For activities within the country an ID card is sufficient. However, a
professionally designed plastic card should be used here. Since the
International Parliament nevertheless plays an important role in the
world standard, you should already pay attention to a professional public image.
_38__ Once the top Senator seats are assigned based on ranking of donation
level, then lower ranked donors "spill over" into the "Senator MPs"
section of the subsidiary Republic of Earth, the country from which the donor originated.
_39__ The Senator's donation will be recorded and should the Senator ever wish to
"stand down", then the donation amount will be not be refunded.
_40__ The numbers of seats for Senators shall never be more than the number
of free elected members of International Parliament (MIPs).
_41__ The Senators may vote on Senate guidelines and decisions from time to time
but there is no requirement for such votes which are voluntary only. These
compilation of votes will be conducted only by the Senators themselves.
_42__ Should a MIP who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Senator, BoD, committee member
and/or the same particular seat title in any subsidiary Republic of Earth,
if their donation remained on the International Parliament's records.
_43__ All Senators shall have access to all financial records for the
International Parliament. More detailed information which isn't available
on the Treasury Ministry's web page will be made available within 90 days
to Senators when a request is made in writing to the Treasury Minister.
_44__ All payments are to be in US dollars only unless pre-approval is
obtained from the Treasury Ministry.
_45__ The International Parliament will not ever hold any election in a single-
winner district where a single-winner decision or name is elected.
_46__ Ballot Preparation
_47__ SPACE FOR THREE OR MORE WRITE-IN choices must be provided on each
and every ballot, in all elections.
_48__ CATEGORIZATION AND PARTY NAMES The first and most important
criterion in determining the nominee's party/category is the
nominee's most recently requested or declared party/category in
Parliament matters. The second most important criterion in
determining the nominee's party/category is determined by the
nominee's state's records, as written by the member while
registering to vote. Appointed members may be categorized with any
party/category that they wish, and the party/category of all
members is considered to be the true one. Elected members
may decide to change or switch their party/categorization at any time
by proclamation. Members automatically qualify for the ballot
in the next election cycle under the party/category of
their choice.
_49__ First and last names are preferred, however all names nominated
will be permitted on the ballot as well as the party/category of the
nominee. If party/category is not known, the label "[Info. Not Avail.]"
will be used. A nominee's name (and thus identity) may appear on the
ballot only once, so fusion voting is not allowed.
All world citizens who had signed up since "RESOLUTION NUMBER 1" was first approved on
10/27/2014 will be automatically added as MIPs retroactively within seven days
after the approval of this bylaw item #39.
_50__ RESIGNATIONS. When any elected member, executive or minister,
stands down, resigns, retires, or dies - the name is deleted. Then
the next highest ranked name is automatically elected to the
seat in their stead.
_51__ When a candidate who has chosen to stand down but then wishes to
return to the position which they had departed, then they must first
be re-affirmed by all the voters who had previously cast a vote for them.
_52__ TEN EXECUTIVES
_53__ MIPs: Once elected, all new Members of International Parliament
(MIPs) may change their vote as a "vote of confidence" for the ten
executives into perpetuity.
_54__ THE VOICE of the International Parliament will be the ten executives.
_55__ Each of the elected ten executives may pick a seat title once elected.
_56__ The ten executives elect up to sixty full Cabinet Ministers and sixty
Deputy Cabinet Ministers using the "parliamentary go-ahead.
_57__ The International Parliament's ten executives agree to rank all names
nominated by each of the other nine executives, thus guaranteeing that each
of the ten executives elects 1/10th of the 60 cabinet ministers and this
is known as the "parliamentary go-ahead".
_58__ THE TEN EXECUTIVES recruit as many
people as possible who will work in the Cabinet to run the efforts,
elects the planks on the platform and run the parliament's efforts free from
political conflict or bias. The executives do not control who
gets elected to the general assembly.
_59__ The ten executives of the International Parliament (IP) will
serve as "Founding Executives" on the unity business entity
named "All Party System Co., International Bureau", which is established
in order to report all unifying news, business, financial matters,
vote counting and results of vote counting of the IP to the public
and to serve as a store for generating sales of products and services..
_60__ SIXTY CABINET MINISTERS
_61__ MINISTRY: A simple majority vote by at least six of
the ten executives establishes the parliamentary go-ahead and
will elect new Ministers, even without the parliamentary go-ahead.
_62__ MINISTRY DIRECTORS: Ministries may elect up to fifty Directors
and any number of resolutions, agenda items, guidelines and administrators.
The fifty Directors must be elected in one at-large district and their titles
as "Directors" may be any title, for example each director may pick their own title too.
_63__ All International national Cabinet Ministers must be live,
real people and no avatars or anonymous names may be used by the
elected Cabinet Ministers. Only real names can be used and
verification of the member's true name may be requested when
such verifications are of interest from anyone of the ten executives.
_64__ HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MINISTRY:
The book "Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously" will be added as a guide to the proposed Health and Human
Services Ministry web page. For many ages, humanity has been
confused about what decisions regenerate and degenerate our living
systems. The Body itself has always held this wisdom of natural laws
for our organ/gland functioning on 253 circuits of personal powers
(but not always available until infrared could shine the light on it).
The Body's own immense wisdom can show us how our next decision
degenerates us or regenerates us (based on 40 years of scientific
research using infrared technology that can be tracked, measured and
decoded by the Language of the Body itself). This Self Evident and
undeniable truth from our energetic design makes it an unparalleled
guide to help humans make decisions (about voting, laws, or new
customs, etc.) that can regenerate us from within as well as from
without. (http://www.consciousnesssystems.com [1] to read the book).
Also, VOLUNTARY LAW: The blog site http://vlda.org/, the Voluntary
Law Development Association, owned by Jonathan Jaech will be added
to the proposed
_65__ VOLUNTARY LAW MINISTRY:
The Voluntary Law Ministry web page
and can accompany 'Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously' (that can both be used as the foundational principles
for voluntary international law). These 2 sources of wisdom can
promote peace, love and the clarity of energetic truth for successful
ways to promote each living systems' regeneration.
_66__ VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY:
The Vote Counting Ministry will make an annual award for
the "United Coalition Secure Paper Ballot Award".
_67__ TREASURY MINISTRY:
The Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the ten
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
The Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for Senators (donor MIPs)
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, Senator mailing addresses, contact information
and rankings, bank account savings and expenditures.
_68__ MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION MINISTRY:
Appeals of a name's removal action may be taken to the
Mediation and Conciliation Service Minister
where rules for such appeals will be written, voted upon and approved.
_69__ United Coalition
_70__ Declare that all of the elected and appointed members of the International Parliament,
all countries' national parliaments, all subsidiary super-state, mini-state
and county micro-state parliaments, to be members of a national and international
"Unity Coalition" or "United Coalition" effective November 5th, 2014.
_71__ The International Parliament's subsidiary Republic "Unity Coalition"
elections shall be in two phases; one before the country's primaries and one after the
country's primaries. That way, a strong emphasis can be placed on official state-recognized
ballot-qualified and write-in candidates both before the primaries and after the
primaries, and the dates are customized for each of the country's official primaries.
_72__ UNITY PLATFORM
_73__ Conduct an international Direct Democracy (DD) election which will elect planks
to a "Unity Platform".
_74__ The promotion of the Unity Coalition's "Unity Platform" can used used as an
example of teamwork. The team can be promoted as being dynamic so that
every item is up for a continual "vote of confidence" by all the members, all the time.
That way, the recruitment of new members can take place in order to collect
more votes for improving the planks on the Unity Platform.
_75__ PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM: The ten elected executives shall elect the
UNITY PLATFORM with a series of "planks" from all the items they pick and
rank from the DD election.
_76__ Guideline of Priority and Procedure
_77__ GENERAL PROVISIONS: Guideline of Priority and Procedure. The
GUIDELINES contained on this web page shall be the official first
GUIDELINES of procedure for the International Parliament and will be used
for all transactions of business once ratified by a majority of the
Members of Parliament (MPs). These GUIDELINES will
take precedence over any other set of GUIDELINES.
_78__ GUIDELINE CHANGES: The Executive Committee reserves the right
to make changes in these GUIDELINES by 6/10th vote and to present
these changes to the delegates/members at any time. All changes should
accommodate the desires or complaints of the MPs or staff so as to
improve the conduct of business online and offline.
_79__ EXECUTIVES: The Executives of the International
Parliament may select or approve persons to serve as Chairpersons, Legal
Counsels, and Secretaries for each committee and any other position
to help conduct the business.
_80__ CHAIR PERSON: Absence of Chairperson. If the Chair should find
it necessary to be absent during any part of a committee meeting,
he/she shall designate an individual (preferably the Legal Counsel)
to assume his/her duties with the same authority.
_81__ Statements by the Executives. The ten elected Executives,
or any person designated by the ten elected Executives, may at
any time make oral or written statements to a committee.
_82__ MEMBERS: Number of Accredited Delegates. The number of delegates
allowed on any delegation of the Parliament shall be limited to
MIPs and Donor MIPs only.
_83__ DIPLOMATIC COURTESY: All delegates MUST accord all other
delegates diplomatic courtesy at all times. Any delegate or visitor
who, after being advised by the Chair, persists in an obvious attempt
to divert the meeting from its intended purpose, or who otherwise
attempts to disrupt the proceedings, shall be subject to disciplinary
action and expulsion by the Chairperson.
_84__ AGENDA
_85__ AGENDA Selection of Agenda Items. Agenda items shall be
selected by the Executive Committee. Once selected, these items
are fixed for the duration of the conference and no other items
will be discussed.
_86__ ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda items will
be considered in the order in which they appear in the agenda
eballot, unless that order is altered by a majority of the Committee.
_87__ PRIOR APPROVED RESOLUTIONS: Order of Consideration of
Prior-Approved Resolutions. Prior-approved resolutions are
resolutions that were received by the specified deadline and
were deemed appropriate by the staff. They will receive
priority over other resolutions. The order of appearance of
resolutions before the Committee is determined by the date
in which they were received, and is listed under the appropriate
committee topic in that order in the resolution book by the
Secretary. When the Chair opens debate on any agenda item,
any delegate may move for consideration of an approved resolution
on the agenda item that has been submitted to the chair with
signatories of 1/8 of the delegations present. If the motion
is seconded, the Chair will direct the committee to an immediate
vote without debate on the motion, a majority being required for
consideration. If no resolution receives a majority vote in favor
of consideration, the Committee will automatically have before it
for consideration the first resolution in the resolution book
under that agenda item that has been received by the chair with
the appropriate number of signatories.
_88__ CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL:
Resolutions that were not received by the specified deadline
may still be considered, but not until 1/2 of the prior approved
resolutions on the agenda item have been considered. For a
resolution without prior approval to be considered, it must
relate to the committee topic currently being debated, be
submitted to the chair with signatories of 1/8 of the delegations
present, and the delegate must supply enough copies of the
resolution for each delegation present. Once these conditions
have been met, any delegate may move for consideration of the
resolution. If the motion is seconded, the chair will direct
the committee to an immediate vote without debate on the motion,
a majority being required for consideration.
_89__ SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSALS: Delegates will receive selected
resolutions for consideration no later than at the time of the
conference registration. The delegates must submit resolutions
in the proper form by the deadline set by the Executive Committee.
_90__ Reporting Resolutions to the Parliament. The Chair
of each committee shall report resolutions passed by that committee
to the Parliament for its consideration. If a
committee fails to approve a resolution on an agenda item, it
shall submit a "Declaration of No Report" on that agenda item.
That topic area will not be considered by the Parliament.
_91__ Amendments. All amendments to resolutions must be signed
by one sponsoring delegation and at least one other seconding
delegation; they must be submitted on an official amendment
form for approval by the Legal Counsel and must be labeled
with an identifying number by the Secretary. Secondary
amendments and amendments by substitution are not acceptable.
Obvious typographical efforts will be brought to the Committee's
attention and collected by the Chair with no vote required.
To move an amendment to the floor, recognition by the Chair
and introduction of the amendment will suffice; no vote
shall be required. Once an amendment has been brought to
the floor, the Committee shall consider only the amendments
and not the Resolutions until final action on the amendment
has been taken (except to the extent that the amendment
pertains to the Resolution).
_92__ Definition of Amendment and Voting on Amendments. An
amendment is a motion that adds to, deletes from, or revises
any part of a resolution. A series of alterations proposed
by a single delegation to the same resolution shall be
considered as a single amendment unless a motion is made
to divide it.
_93__ Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all substantive
debate on the matters before the body at that time, except
when such a motion would interrupt a speaker. Two delegates
may speak against closure, and the motion will then be put to
a vote. During debate on an amendment, a delegate may move
for closure of debate on the resolution. If closure passes,
then the amendment shall be voted on first followed by the
resolution.
_94__ Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second is
required.
_95__ DEBATE AND SPEECH GUIDELINES: Speeches. No delegate
may address the committee without having previously obtained
the permission of the Chair. The Chair shall call upon
speakers in the order in which they signify their desire
to speak. Delegates may not interrupt a speaker except on
a point of order or point of personal privilege. Abusing
these rights may be considered violations of diplomatic
courtesy, and can result in disciplinary action taken by
the chair. Motions should be made at the conclusion of the
speaker's remarks; by making a motion, the speaker yields
the floor.
_96__ Time Limit on Debate. The committee or the Chair may
limit or extend the time allotted to each speaker and the
number of times each delegate may speak on a proposal.
There may be one speaker in favor and one opposed to the
limitation/extension.
_97__ Right of Reply. During debate, the Chair may accord
the right of reply to any delegate if a speech by another
delegate contains unusual or extraordinary language clearly
insulting to personal or national dignity. The decision
granting a right of reply may not be appealed. Requests
for a right of reply shall be in writing to the Chair.
The Chair will limit the time for the reply. There shall
be no reply to a reply.
_98__ POINTS - IN ORDER OF PRIORITY
Point of Order. If, during the discussion of any matter,
a delegate believes that the committee is proceeding in a
manner contrary to these GUIDELINES, he or she may rise to
a point of order. The delegate so rising will be immediately
recognized by the Chair and the point ruled upon. A delegate
rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance
of any matter under discussion.
Point of Personal Privilege. If a delegate wishes to
raise a question or make a request relating to the
organization of the meeting, personal comfort, or the
conduct of fellow delegates or staff, he/she may rise to
a point of personal privilege. When a delegate rises on
privilege, the Chair shall take such action as is necessary.
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry. A point of parliamentary
inquiry is directed to the Chair for information or guidance
on procedure. This point may not interrupt the speaker.
It is a question and does not require seconding or allow
for debate. Replies by the Chair are not appealable.
Point of Information. If a delegate wishes to obtain
a clarification of procedure or a statement of the matter
before the committee, the delegate may address a point of
information to the Chair. During debate, if a delegate
wishes to ask a question of the speaker, a request to
question the speaker may be made in the form of a point
of information directed to the Chair after the speaker
consents to be questioned, all questions and replies are
made through the Chair. Delegates shall not interrupt a
speaker on a point of information.
_99__ MOTIONS - ORDER OF PROCEDURAL MOTIONS
The motions as indicated in the Short Form of Points
and Motions have precedence, in the order given, over all
other proposals or motions before the committee.
Adjournment of Debate. During the discussion of any
matter, a delegate may move the adjournment of debate on
that matter. One delegate may speak in favor of the
motion and one opposed. The motion shall then be put to
an immediate vote. Adjournment of debate on a resolution
or amendment has the effect of tabling that item and moves
the committee on to the next order of business.
See also 8.9 on Reconsideration.
Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all
substantive debate on the matters before the body at that
time, except when such a motion would interrupt a speaker.
Two delegates may speak against closure, and the motion
will then be put to a vote. During debate on an amendment,
a delegate may move for closure of debate on the resolution.
if closure passes, then the amendment shall be voted on
first followed by the resolution.
Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second
is required.
Suspension of the Meeting. During the discussion of
any matter, a delegate may move to suspend the meeting.
Suspending a meeting recesses it until the time specified
in the motion; the Chair may request the mover to modify
the time. When the committee reconvenes it will continue
with its business from the point at which suspension was
moved.
Adjournment of the Meeting. The motion of adjournment
means that all business of the committee has been
completed, and that the committee win not reconvene
until the next Annual Session. The Chair may refuse
to recognize a motion to adjourn the meeting if the
Committee still has business before it. A motion to
adjourn is not debatable, and will be put to an immediate vote.
Decisions of Competence. Any motion calling for a
decision on the competence of the Committee to discuss
or adopt a proposal shall be put to a vote before the
vote is taken on the proposal in question. If a
Committee decides it is not competent to discuss or
vote on an amendment or resolution, the effect is the
same as adjourning debate on the matter. See also 8.9
on Reconsideration.
Withdrawal of Motions. A motion may be withdrawn
by its proposer at any time before voting on it has
begun, provided the motion has not been amended. A
withdrawn motion may be reintroduced by any other
delegation.
Reconsideration of Proposals. When a proposal has
been adopted, or rejected through a vote of adjournment
or "no competence", it may be reconsidered at the same
session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting. The motion to reconsider
must be made by a delegation which originally voted
on the prevailing side of the proposal; thus,
reconsideration may be moved only on the proposals
voted on by roll-call.
Division of the Question. A motion to divide the
question, proposing that parts of an amendment or
resolution be voted on separately, is in order at any
time prior to commencement of voting on the amendment
or resolution. Motions to divide shall apply only to
operative clauses. Permission to speak on the motion
shall be granted to one speaker in favor and one
opposed, after which there shall be an immediate vote.
The first motion for division to receive a majority
vote shall become the final manner in which the
proposal is presented. Those parts of the proposal
which are approved shall be put to a vote as a whole.
If all operative clauses of a proposal have been
rejected, the proposal as a whole has been rejected.
Dilatory Motions. The Chair may rule as dilatory,
and therefore out of order, any motion repeating or
closely approximating a substantive measure on which
the committee has already rendered an opinion. Such
rulings can not be appealed.
Appealing a Decision of the Chair. Rulings of
the chair can be appealed unless otherwise specified
in these GUIDELINES. Appeals can be debated by one
speaker in favor and one opposed.
_100__ MOTIONS are actions which trigger activity in
the California Super-state Parliament (Editing
guideline #s once approved).
_101__ : Motions : Interrupt Speaker? : Second Required? : Debatable? : Vote Required?
_102__ VOTING METHODS AND RIGHTS: Each member delegation shall
have one vote in each Committee in which it is represented. No
delegate may cast a vote on behalf of another member.
_103__ Simple Majority. Unless otherwise specified in these
GUIDELINES, decisions in the Committee shall be made by a majority
vote of those members present and voting. The phrase "MSPs present
and voting" refers to members casting ranked choice votes. Members
which cast a final abstention are not voting. If a vote is equally
divided between two sums of the same value, the motion fails.
_104__ Method of Voting. The Committee shall use ranked choice
voting (RCV). The Chair, however, may grant a request for a
roll-call vote; the decision to grant such a request is not
appealable. All final votes on resolutions shall be taken by
roll-call; the roll shall be called in English alphabetical order
beginning with a person selected at random by the Secretary.
Delegates shall reply "#1," or "abstain," or "abstain from the order
of voting." A member may abstain from the order of voting once
during the roll-call; a second abstention from the order of voting
will be recorded as an abstention. Rights of explanation are
permitted on roll-call votes and may be limited in time by the Chair.
At the end of roll-call, but before rights of explanation and the
subsequent announcement of the vote, the Secretary will ask for
changes of vote. A delegation may not change from "0" to "#1",
or "#1 with right of explanation" or from "0" to "0 with right
of explanation." Those abstaining may be accorded rights of
explanation. The result of the vote shall be inserted into the
Committee record.
_105__ ONLINE VOTING: The International Parliament will
conduct elections using online voting and all votes will be
posted where they can be easily viewed by the public with the
information as to who had cast the vote.
_106__ Conduct during Voting. Immediately prior to a vote,
the Chair shall describe to the Committee the proposal to be
voted on, and shall explain the consequence of a 1 or 0 vote.
Voting shall begin upon the chair's declaration and shall end
when the results of the vote are announced. Once voting has
begun, no delegate shall interrupt the voting except on a
point of order or information concerning the actual conduct
of the vote, or on a point of personal privilege.
_107__ Supplemental GUIDELINES
_108__ PREAMBULAR PHRASES provide background information
and establish proper context for reading and interpreting the resolution.
_109__ OPERATIVE CLAUSES are set out to achieve the committee's main policy goals on
the topic.
_110__ SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR REPUBLIC OF EARTH COUNTRIES
_111__ January 1st is the best day of the year for new countries to start an
election schedules and December 31st is the best day to end activities.
_112__ PERMANENCE. These Rules, intent, purpose and function, will not
change once approved by majority vote by the elected members, or MIPs,
of the International Parliament.
_113__ Contact the International Parliament via telephone (831) 383-1409 or the web
site at http://www.usparliament.org
for obtaining more information.
_114__ We form a global union, open to all people, and a constitution
drafted for ratification by this body which shall outline and define the
provisions of this resolution, that This union shall be governed by a
world parliament.
_115__ Voting blocks (communities, bands, tribes, federations) need no longer be
limited to geographical areas. People are now able to connect with like-minded
'others' from around the planet (and beyond).
_116__ SLANDERERS and ANTAGONISTS
_117__ NO PERSON MAY BE CENSORED, and no limits may be placed on free
speech by/of any other person or nominee,
including US Parliament's elected members and staff, at any time
except when applying guidelines to party/category labels/names
and parts of this rule which regulate antagonists.
_118__ NO HATE WORDS AS PARTY/CATEGORY NAME: Party/category's labels/names
may not be used in such a way that slanders or libels names of any
person or other party/categories or individuals. Those that refuse
to comply by continuing to libel others through their choice
of party name will be categorized as members of the Censored Party.
Elected members using a name or pseudonym rather than their actual
name, which libels, slanders or mimics (such as incorrect spellings),
shall have their name censored and instead will be known only as
Anonymous.
_119__ Members of any International Parliament entity who antagonize others more than once
use through the use of profanity, slander, insulting or offensive vulgar
language, harassing or chauvinistic speech, terrorizing threats, including
the threats of lawsuits against other members/vote counters or volunteers
within the International Parliament or those who use actual physical force or violence,
may be permanently or temporarily removed by the full Minister in that
Cabinet Ministry, by any of the ten executives of the International Parliament
or by the International Parliament's web page maintainer.
Senator Rozana Kollcaku voted on 11/6/2015 as follows:
_2__ Parliamentary procedures, terms and pure proportional representation (PR)
for the International Parliament.
_3__ Require all the elected members to be in communication either
through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service or
else their name will be eliminated after one year.
_4__ The number of seats on the executive may remain at ten but not more than ten.
_5__ Paper Ballot Guidelines Recommended for State, National and International Elections
_6__ The paper ballots are placed in a clear ballot box by the voter, the box
is guarded, video taped all day and the votes are counted at the polling
location the night of the election.
_7__ The votes are counted two times by two different and diverse teams of
counters, recorded/taped/broadcast by two different devices with the public
able to observe and video/livestream the counting.
_8__ The results from the polling locations will be called to the Board
of Elections, emailed to the BoE and hand delivered. All three must
match. The Board of Elections will hand tally the results from all
the polling locations, again, two times by two different and diverse
teams of counters with this being taped, recorded and broadcast and
the public able to observe, tape and live-stream the entire proceedings.
And, the same goes for what happens at the state level.
_9__ The polling location should serve a maximum of 1,000 voters and
Election Day should be a national holiday with employers, if necessary,
having to arrange for special accommodations for employees that must
work, as with hospitals. A minimum of two hours personal time to vote
will be given to all citizens and voters.
_10__ The voters' names and marking on the ballot will remain secret
but the vote counting will be publicly observable.
_11__ PAPER BALLOTS will be made confidential to the highest level possible.
_12__ VOTER ELIGIBILITY:
The voter must register their name with at least two
methods of contact; and must comply with the voter eligibility
requirements for voter's country of residence.The voter must be a voting citizen of a country.
The voter must be 18 years old or older on Election Day.
The voter must not be in prison, on parole, serving a state sentence in county jail,
serving a sentence for a felony or on post-release community supervision.
The voter must not have been found to be mentally incompetent by a court.
Non-voting class membership will always be made available.
_13__ VOTER AUTHENTICATION:
When two or more methods of contact aren't provided by the voter, then
further explanation will be considered by the Vote Counting Ministry verifiers.
Additional Measures
_14__ General Counting, Balloting and Eballoting Guidelines for International Parliament Elections
_15__ RANKED VOTING ONLY: All voting and vote counting shall be in the form of
ranked paper ballots only (and eballots when practical and verifiable).
Consecutive numbers beginning with the #s 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. etc. must always be
used when marking on (e)ballot of all alternative decisions or names.
Deviation from this guideline will disqualify the ballot, and the ballot
will be marked spoiled.
_16__ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
_17__ THE SAINTE-LAGUE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM, Hagenbach-Bischoff method,
under ranked choice voting, for seat allocation in all multi-seat districts:
Divide the election's total number of votes by the number of seats.
This is the 1st quota.
Divide this quota into each candidate's votes, and round off to the
nearest whole number.
That's that candidate's seat allocation.
If, due to rounding, this awards a number of seats different from
the desired number
of seats, then adjust the quota slightly up or down, till, when
paragraph two is carried out,
it will award all seats.
_18__ Any resident of earth, nominee and/or proxy may observe the counting of the
ballots. Volunteer counters will conduct the vote counting.
_19__ Choices marked on "eballots" are posted for public view and are
not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of the Parliament.
_20__ EBALLOTS are ballots cast via email and must be emailed to
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org, a private email address used by the
secretary and observers for receiving such eballots. No reply email
will be sent to voters who cast eballots other than a verification
message, unless the voter indicates that he/she wishes to be self
appointed to the www.international-parliament.org site or when a
question regarding verification or validation is raised by a volunteer vote counter.
_21__ Volunteer vote counters may be added to the exploder email address
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org as a subscriber by sending the message
"subscribe" to vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org.
_22__ Telephone voting is permissible, acceptable and verification
and validations will be provided when requested.
_23__ Elections of rules shall be perpetual and the simple majority vote,
by elected MIPs who vote on rules, passes rules.
_24__ BALLOTS AND EBALLOTS: All world residents are eligible to vote in
International Parliament Elections 365 days year.
_25__ There will be five hundred members of International Parliament (MIPs) who
are elected members self appointed/self nominated for free under ranked
choice voting as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "MIPs"
and five hundred members who are donors, ranked in order of donation level and
are to be known as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "Senator" MIPs.
_26__ THE PARTY LEADER within the International Parliament is a label for the
highest ranked name categorized under each party. Party leaders are
responsible for the distribution of all ballots and rules to the
members of their party/category and lists.
_27__ Such ballots may be retype set or altered to specifically identify
their select nominees' correct name and party affiliation. All ballots
released to public used by the International Parliament's elected secretaries
shall count as a legitimate ballot and shall be presumed to represent
the correct and most current candidate name information.
_27__ BALLOT: ORDER OF NOMINEES of all names in the parliament elections
and subsidiary parliament elections will be determined by the results
caused by the voters' ranking of the nominees on the previous election's
ballots. This is known as the correct consecutive order of nominee.
Appointments and self-appointments will be listed chronologically.
_29__ NOMINEE ACCEPTANCE AND WRITE-INS:
Only names who formally ACCEPT the nomination of their name, self write-in
names and those currently already elected will qualify for the ballot/eballot
for the International Parliament. There will be a cap at 500 names for the
ballot/eballot for the free elections of MIPs.
_30__ A verifiable name and contact information must be provided in
order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
_31__ The final order of the parties/categories on the final prepared
ballot will be determined by the nominees' party name/category and
the parties/categories and will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
_32__ TIES: Ties will be broken by holding a runoff election only
when called by one of the two secretaries. In all other
cases, all the names/items in a tie will be included in the results
and will be in a new "tied" category, even if the size of the assembly
or agenda list must be expanded beyond normal size set forth by these rules.
_33__ ONLY ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENTARY BALLOT, IS PERMITTED TO BE MARKED BY
EACH WORLD RESIDENT: All living world citizens may vote one time and only
one time. In cases where a second ballot (or more) is cast, only
the latter of the ballots will be counted, the former will be marked
spoiled, deleted and regarded disqualified.
_34__ SENATORS
_35__ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donor's
funds will be deposited into a bank account which is controlled
by Treasury Minister, the President and the Vice President
of the International Parliament.
_36__ Senators: All donors who contribute money to the
international political entity known as the International
Parliament (IP) at the minimum donation amount of $20.,
will promptly and automatically become known as "Senator" once
the donation has been correctly registered with the Treasury
Minister and/or is received by the appropriate clerk.
The Senators will be grouped into five donor-level groups.
Senators are not elected during regular election cycles of
the parliament's elections but they do receive all of the same voting rights plus
special donor privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved. The total donation amount will apply as both an annual sum or
a total of multiple years. The annual sum is primarily for convention services
and the sum from multiple years has a secondary purpose which can apply to
different purposes other than the annual convention services.
_37__ THE FIVE DONATION LEVELS OF SENATORS
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $20. to $29.99 donation (level five)
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $20. to $29.99 donation (level five):
In Level Five, the Senator's name will listed as Senator on the IP's
Paper Share Certificate for Level Five Senator ($20. to $29.99 donation level).
--Level Five Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL FOUR. Services provided for a $30. to $49.99 donation (level four):
The Level Four Senators who donate $30. or more a year, paid before July 1st
Paper Share Certificate for Level Four Senator ($30. to $49.99 donation level).
--Level Four Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL THREE. Services provided for a $50.00 to $149.99 donation (level three):
Level Three Senators who donate $50.00 or more, paid before July 1st of that year, receive an
Paper Share Certificate for Level Three Senator ($50.00 to $149.99 donation level)
--Level Three Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL TWO. Services provided for a $150. to $599.99 donation (level two):
Senators who donate $150. to $599.99, paid before July 1st of that year,
Paper Share Certificate for Level Two Senator ($150.00 to $599.99 donation level)
--Level Two Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
LEVEL ONE. Services provided for a $600. and more donation (level one):
Senators who donate $600., paid before July 1st of that year,
Paper Share Certificate for Level One Senator ($600. donation level and above)
--Level One Senators receive a voting share certificate from the
The certificate is to be mailed within 30 days of receipt of the donation,
The three agreement forms are linked here:
Buyers/holders/voters of common voting stocks must specify whether they wish
Plus, Level One Senators Also Get the Following Benefits:
Upon approval of this bylaw item, all Senators' current donation levels,
"Voting Stoppage"
Whenever a financial crisis occurs where the costs for paying basic
maintenance of the International Parliament are not being met, including
the costs of domain hosting, web design and obligations to all of the Senators, then the
Treasury and/or Vote Counting Ministry can place end to all introductions of free membership
sign ups of Members of International Parliament (MIPs) and other free services
provided by the Vote Counting Ministry and this ending will be known as a "voting stoppage".
This bylaw item can also affect the internal Cabinet voting by Ministers, but it will not
include/affect "votes of confidence" by the MIPs, voting by Senators current in dues and the
voting for election of Cabinet Ministers (parliamentary go-ahead) by the Ten Executives.
The voting stoppage will terminate either upon
the recommendation/consensus to end it by both the Treasury and Vote Counting Ministries,
or once the numbers of Senators reaches the same number of free MIPs within
the general International Parliament's assembly membership.
Diplomatic Passports
Some ministers and deputies will be traveling a lot abroad. At the airports
and borders a diplomatic passport would make sense. Even for the professional
legitimacy to foreign politicians.
ID Cards
For activities within the country an ID card is sufficient. However, a
professionally designed plastic card should be used here. Since the
International Parliament nevertheless plays an important role in the
world standard, you should already pay attention to a professional public image.
_38__ Once the top Senator seats are assigned based on ranking of donation
level, then lower ranked donors "spill over" into the "Senator MPs"
section of the subsidiary Republic of Earth, the country from which the donor originated.
_39__ The Senator's donation will be recorded and should the Senator ever wish to
"stand down", then the donation amount will be not be refunded.
_40__ The numbers of seats for Senators shall never be more than the number
of free elected members of International Parliament (MIPs).
_41__ The Senators may vote on Senate guidelines and decisions from time to time
but there is no requirement for such votes which are voluntary only. These
compilation of votes will be conducted only by the Senators themselves.
_42__ Should a MIP who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Senator, BoD, committee member
and/or the same particular seat title in any subsidiary Republic of Earth,
if their donation remained on the International Parliament's records.
_43__ All Senators shall have access to all financial records for the
International Parliament. More detailed information which isn't available
on the Treasury Ministry's web page will be made available within 90 days
to Senators when a request is made in writing to the Treasury Minister.
_44__ All payments are to be in US dollars only unless pre-approval is
obtained from the Treasury Ministry.
_45__ The International Parliament will not ever hold any election in a single-
winner district where a single-winner decision or name is elected.
_46__ Ballot Preparation
_47__ SPACE FOR THREE OR MORE WRITE-IN choices must be provided on each
and every ballot, in all elections.
_48__ CATEGORIZATION AND PARTY NAMES The first and most important
criterion in determining the nominee's party/category is the
nominee's most recently requested or declared party/category in
Parliament matters. The second most important criterion in
determining the nominee's party/category is determined by the
nominee's state's records, as written by the member while
registering to vote. Appointed members may be categorized with any
party/category that they wish, and the party/category of all
members is considered to be the true one. Elected members
may decide to change or switch their party/categorization at any time
by proclamation. Members automatically qualify for the ballot
in the next election cycle under the party/category of
their choice.
_49__ First and last names are preferred, however all names nominated
will be permitted on the ballot as well as the party/category of the
nominee. If party/category is not known, the label "[Info. Not Avail.]"
will be used. A nominee's name (and thus identity) may appear on the
ballot only once, so fusion voting is not allowed.
All world citizens who had signed up since "RESOLUTION NUMBER 1" was first approved on
10/27/2014 will be automatically added as MIPs retroactively within seven days
after the approval of this bylaw item #39.
_50__ RESIGNATIONS. When any elected member, executive or minister,
stands down, resigns, retires, or dies - the name is deleted. Then
the next highest ranked name is automatically elected to the
seat in their stead.
_51__ When a candidate who has chosen to stand down but then wishes to
return to the position which they had departed, then they must first
be re-affirmed by all the voters who had previously cast a vote for them.
_52__ TEN EXECUTIVES
_53__ MIPs: Once elected, all new Members of International Parliament
(MIPs) may change their vote as a "vote of confidence" for the ten
executives into perpetuity.
_54__ THE VOICE of the International Parliament will be the ten executives.
_55__ Each of the elected ten executives may pick a seat title once elected.
_56__ The ten executives elect up to sixty full Cabinet Ministers and sixty
Deputy Cabinet Ministers using the "parliamentary go-ahead.
_57__ The International Parliament's ten executives agree to rank all names
nominated by each of the other nine executives, thus guaranteeing that each
of the ten executives elects 1/10th of the 60 cabinet ministers and this
is known as the "parliamentary go-ahead".
_58__ THE TEN EXECUTIVES recruit as many
people as possible who will work in the Cabinet to run the efforts,
elects the planks on the platform and run the parliament's efforts free from
political conflict or bias. The executives do not control who
gets elected to the general assembly.
_59__ The ten executives of the International Parliament (IP) will
serve as "Founding Executives" on the unity business entity
named "All Party System Co., International Bureau", which is established
in order to report all unifying news, business, financial matters,
vote counting and results of vote counting of the IP to the public
and to serve as a store for generating sales of products and services..
_60__ SIXTY CABINET MINISTERS
_61__ MINISTRY: A simple majority vote by at least six of
the ten executives establishes the parliamentary go-ahead and
will elect new Ministers, even without the parliamentary go-ahead.
_62__ MINISTRY DIRECTORS: Ministries may elect up to fifty Directors
and any number of resolutions, agenda items, guidelines and administrators.
The fifty Directors must be elected in one at-large district and their titles
as "Directors" may be any title, for example each director may pick their own title too.
_63__ All International national Cabinet Ministers must be live,
real people and no avatars or anonymous names may be used by the
elected Cabinet Ministers. Only real names can be used and
verification of the member's true name may be requested when
such verifications are of interest from anyone of the ten executives.
_64__ HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MINISTRY:
The book "Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously" will be added as a guide to the proposed Health and Human
Services Ministry web page. For many ages, humanity has been
confused about what decisions regenerate and degenerate our living
systems. The Body itself has always held this wisdom of natural laws
for our organ/gland functioning on 253 circuits of personal powers
(but not always available until infrared could shine the light on it).
The Body's own immense wisdom can show us how our next decision
degenerates us or regenerates us (based on 40 years of scientific
research using infrared technology that can be tracked, measured and
decoded by the Language of the Body itself). This Self Evident and
undeniable truth from our energetic design makes it an unparalleled
guide to help humans make decisions (about voting, laws, or new
customs, etc.) that can regenerate us from within as well as from
without. (http://www.consciousnesssystems.com [1] to read the book).
Also, VOLUNTARY LAW: The blog site http://vlda.org/, the Voluntary
Law Development Association, owned by Jonathan Jaech will be added
to the proposed
_65__ VOLUNTARY LAW MINISTRY:
The Voluntary Law Ministry web page
and can accompany 'Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously' (that can both be used as the foundational principles
for voluntary international law). These 2 sources of wisdom can
promote peace, love and the clarity of energetic truth for successful
ways to promote each living systems' regeneration.
_66__ VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY:
The Vote Counting Ministry will make an annual award for
the "United Coalition Secure Paper Ballot Award".
_67__ TREASURY MINISTRY:
The Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the ten
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
The Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for Senators (donor MIPs)
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, Senator mailing addresses, contact information
and rankings, bank account savings and expenditures.
_68__ MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION MINISTRY:
Appeals of a name's removal action may be taken to the
Mediation and Conciliation Service Minister
where rules for such appeals will be written, voted upon and approved.
_69__ United Coalition
_70__ Declare that all of the elected and appointed members of the International Parliament,
all countries' national parliaments, all subsidiary super-state, mini-state
and county micro-state parliaments, to be members of a national and international
"Unity Coalition" or "United Coalition" effective November 5th, 2014.
_71__ The International Parliament's subsidiary Republic "Unity Coalition"
elections shall be in two phases; one before the country's primaries and one after the
country's primaries. That way, a strong emphasis can be placed on official state-recognized
ballot-qualified and write-in candidates both before the primaries and after the
primaries, and the dates are customized for each of the country's official primaries.
_72__ UNITY PLATFORM
_73__ Conduct an international Direct Democracy (DD) election which will elect planks
to a "Unity Platform".
_74__ The promotion of the Unity Coalition's "Unity Platform" can used used as an
example of teamwork. The team can be promoted as being dynamic so that
every item is up for a continual "vote of confidence" by all the members, all the time.
That way, the recruitment of new members can take place in order to collect
more votes for improving the planks on the Unity Platform.
_75__ PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM: The ten elected executives shall elect the
UNITY PLATFORM with a series of "planks" from all the items they pick and
rank from the DD election.
_76__ Guideline of Priority and Procedure
_77__ GENERAL PROVISIONS: Guideline of Priority and Procedure. The
GUIDELINES contained on this web page shall be the official first
GUIDELINES of procedure for the International Parliament and will be used
for all transactions of business once ratified by a majority of the
Members of Parliament (MPs). These GUIDELINES will
take precedence over any other set of GUIDELINES.
_78__ GUIDELINE CHANGES: The Executive Committee reserves the right
to make changes in these GUIDELINES by 6/10th vote and to present
these changes to the delegates/members at any time. All changes should
accommodate the desires or complaints of the MPs or staff so as to
improve the conduct of business online and offline.
_79__ EXECUTIVES: The Executives of the International
Parliament may select or approve persons to serve as Chairpersons, Legal
Counsels, and Secretaries for each committee and any other position
to help conduct the business.
_80__ CHAIR PERSON: Absence of Chairperson. If the Chair should find
it necessary to be absent during any part of a committee meeting,
he/she shall designate an individual (preferably the Legal Counsel)
to assume his/her duties with the same authority.
_81__ Statements by the Executives. The ten elected Executives,
or any person designated by the ten elected Executives, may at
any time make oral or written statements to a committee.
_82__ MEMBERS: Number of Accredited Delegates. The number of delegates
allowed on any delegation of the Parliament shall be limited to
MIPs and Donor MIPs only.
_83__ DIPLOMATIC COURTESY: All delegates MUST accord all other
delegates diplomatic courtesy at all times. Any delegate or visitor
who, after being advised by the Chair, persists in an obvious attempt
to divert the meeting from its intended purpose, or who otherwise
attempts to disrupt the proceedings, shall be subject to disciplinary
action and expulsion by the Chairperson.
_84__ AGENDA
_85__ AGENDA Selection of Agenda Items. Agenda items shall be
selected by the Executive Committee. Once selected, these items
are fixed for the duration of the conference and no other items
will be discussed.
_86__ ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda items will
be considered in the order in which they appear in the agenda
eballot, unless that order is altered by a majority of the Committee.
_87__ PRIOR APPROVED RESOLUTIONS: Order of Consideration of
Prior-Approved Resolutions. Prior-approved resolutions are
resolutions that were received by the specified deadline and
were deemed appropriate by the staff. They will receive
priority over other resolutions. The order of appearance of
resolutions before the Committee is determined by the date
in which they were received, and is listed under the appropriate
committee topic in that order in the resolution book by the
Secretary. When the Chair opens debate on any agenda item,
any delegate may move for consideration of an approved resolution
on the agenda item that has been submitted to the chair with
signatories of 1/8 of the delegations present. If the motion
is seconded, the Chair will direct the committee to an immediate
vote without debate on the motion, a majority being required for
consideration. If no resolution receives a majority vote in favor
of consideration, the Committee will automatically have before it
for consideration the first resolution in the resolution book
under that agenda item that has been received by the chair with
the appropriate number of signatories.
_88__ CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL:
Resolutions that were not received by the specified deadline
may still be considered, but not until 1/2 of the prior approved
resolutions on the agenda item have been considered. For a
resolution without prior approval to be considered, it must
relate to the committee topic currently being debated, be
submitted to the chair with signatories of 1/8 of the delegations
present, and the delegate must supply enough copies of the
resolution for each delegation present. Once these conditions
have been met, any delegate may move for consideration of the
resolution. If the motion is seconded, the chair will direct
the committee to an immediate vote without debate on the motion,
a majority being required for consideration.
_89__ SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSALS: Delegates will receive selected
resolutions for consideration no later than at the time of the
conference registration. The delegates must submit resolutions
in the proper form by the deadline set by the Executive Committee.
_90__ Reporting Resolutions to the Parliament. The Chair
of each committee shall report resolutions passed by that committee
to the Parliament for its consideration. If a
committee fails to approve a resolution on an agenda item, it
shall submit a "Declaration of No Report" on that agenda item.
That topic area will not be considered by the Parliament.
_91__ Amendments. All amendments to resolutions must be signed
by one sponsoring delegation and at least one other seconding
delegation; they must be submitted on an official amendment
form for approval by the Legal Counsel and must be labeled
with an identifying number by the Secretary. Secondary
amendments and amendments by substitution are not acceptable.
Obvious typographical efforts will be brought to the Committee's
attention and collected by the Chair with no vote required.
To move an amendment to the floor, recognition by the Chair
and introduction of the amendment will suffice; no vote
shall be required. Once an amendment has been brought to
the floor, the Committee shall consider only the amendments
and not the Resolutions until final action on the amendment
has been taken (except to the extent that the amendment
pertains to the Resolution).
_92__ Definition of Amendment and Voting on Amendments. An
amendment is a motion that adds to, deletes from, or revises
any part of a resolution. A series of alterations proposed
by a single delegation to the same resolution shall be
considered as a single amendment unless a motion is made
to divide it.
_93__ Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all substantive
debate on the matters before the body at that time, except
when such a motion would interrupt a speaker. Two delegates
may speak against closure, and the motion will then be put to
a vote. During debate on an amendment, a delegate may move
for closure of debate on the resolution. If closure passes,
then the amendment shall be voted on first followed by the
resolution.
_94__ Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second is
required.
_95__ DEBATE AND SPEECH GUIDELINES: Speeches. No delegate
may address the committee without having previously obtained
the permission of the Chair. The Chair shall call upon
speakers in the order in which they signify their desire
to speak. Delegates may not interrupt a speaker except on
a point of order or point of personal privilege. Abusing
these rights may be considered violations of diplomatic
courtesy, and can result in disciplinary action taken by
the chair. Motions should be made at the conclusion of the
speaker's remarks; by making a motion, the speaker yields
the floor.
_96__ Time Limit on Debate. The committee or the Chair may
limit or extend the time allotted to each speaker and the
number of times each delegate may speak on a proposal.
There may be one speaker in favor and one opposed to the
limitation/extension.
_97__ Right of Reply. During debate, the Chair may accord
the right of reply to any delegate if a speech by another
delegate contains unusual or extraordinary language clearly
insulting to personal or national dignity. The decision
granting a right of reply may not be appealed. Requests
for a right of reply shall be in writing to the Chair.
The Chair will limit the time for the reply. There shall
be no reply to a reply.
_98__ POINTS - IN ORDER OF PRIORITY
Point of Order. If, during the discussion of any matter,
a delegate believes that the committee is proceeding in a
manner contrary to these GUIDELINES, he or she may rise to
a point of order. The delegate so rising will be immediately
recognized by the Chair and the point ruled upon. A delegate
rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance
of any matter under discussion.
Point of Personal Privilege. If a delegate wishes to
raise a question or make a request relating to the
organization of the meeting, personal comfort, or the
conduct of fellow delegates or staff, he/she may rise to
a point of personal privilege. When a delegate rises on
privilege, the Chair shall take such action as is necessary.
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry. A point of parliamentary
inquiry is directed to the Chair for information or guidance
on procedure. This point may not interrupt the speaker.
It is a question and does not require seconding or allow
for debate. Replies by the Chair are not appealable.
Point of Information. If a delegate wishes to obtain
a clarification of procedure or a statement of the matter
before the committee, the delegate may address a point of
information to the Chair. During debate, if a delegate
wishes to ask a question of the speaker, a request to
question the speaker may be made in the form of a point
of information directed to the Chair after the speaker
consents to be questioned, all questions and replies are
made through the Chair. Delegates shall not interrupt a
speaker on a point of information.
_99__ MOTIONS - ORDER OF PROCEDURAL MOTIONS
The motions as indicated in the Short Form of Points
and Motions have precedence, in the order given, over all
other proposals or motions before the committee.
Adjournment of Debate. During the discussion of any
matter, a delegate may move the adjournment of debate on
that matter. One delegate may speak in favor of the
motion and one opposed. The motion shall then be put to
an immediate vote. Adjournment of debate on a resolution
or amendment has the effect of tabling that item and moves
the committee on to the next order of business.
See also 8.9 on Reconsideration.
Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all
substantive debate on the matters before the body at that
time, except when such a motion would interrupt a speaker.
Two delegates may speak against closure, and the motion
will then be put to a vote. During debate on an amendment,
a delegate may move for closure of debate on the resolution.
if closure passes, then the amendment shall be voted on
first followed by the resolution.
Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second
is required.
Suspension of the Meeting. During the discussion of
any matter, a delegate may move to suspend the meeting.
Suspending a meeting recesses it until the time specified
in the motion; the Chair may request the mover to modify
the time. When the committee reconvenes it will continue
with its business from the point at which suspension was
moved.
Adjournment of the Meeting. The motion of adjournment
means that all business of the committee has been
completed, and that the committee win not reconvene
until the next Annual Session. The Chair may refuse
to recognize a motion to adjourn the meeting if the
Committee still has business before it. A motion to
adjourn is not debatable, and will be put to an immediate vote.
Decisions of Competence. Any motion calling for a
decision on the competence of the Committee to discuss
or adopt a proposal shall be put to a vote before the
vote is taken on the proposal in question. If a
Committee decides it is not competent to discuss or
vote on an amendment or resolution, the effect is the
same as adjourning debate on the matter. See also 8.9
on Reconsideration.
Withdrawal of Motions. A motion may be withdrawn
by its proposer at any time before voting on it has
begun, provided the motion has not been amended. A
withdrawn motion may be reintroduced by any other
delegation.
Reconsideration of Proposals. When a proposal has
been adopted, or rejected through a vote of adjournment
or "no competence", it may be reconsidered at the same
session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting. The motion to reconsider
must be made by a delegation which originally voted
on the prevailing side of the proposal; thus,
reconsideration may be moved only on the proposals
voted on by roll-call.
Division of the Question. A motion to divide the
question, proposing that parts of an amendment or
resolution be voted on separately, is in order at any
time prior to commencement of voting on the amendment
or resolution. Motions to divide shall apply only to
operative clauses. Permission to speak on the motion
shall be granted to one speaker in favor and one
opposed, after which there shall be an immediate vote.
The first motion for division to receive a majority
vote shall become the final manner in which the
proposal is presented. Those parts of the proposal
which are approved shall be put to a vote as a whole.
If all operative clauses of a proposal have been
rejected, the proposal as a whole has been rejected.
Dilatory Motions. The Chair may rule as dilatory,
and therefore out of order, any motion repeating or
closely approximating a substantive measure on which
the committee has already rendered an opinion. Such
rulings can not be appealed.
Appealing a Decision of the Chair. Rulings of
the chair can be appealed unless otherwise specified
in these GUIDELINES. Appeals can be debated by one
speaker in favor and one opposed.
_100__ MOTIONS are actions which trigger activity in
the California Super-state Parliament (Editing
guideline #s once approved).
_101__ : Motions : Interrupt Speaker? : Second Required? : Debatable? : Vote Required?
_102__ VOTING METHODS AND RIGHTS: Each member delegation shall
have one vote in each Committee in which it is represented. No
delegate may cast a vote on behalf of another member.
_103__ Simple Majority. Unless otherwise specified in these
GUIDELINES, decisions in the Committee shall be made by a majority
vote of those members present and voting. The phrase "MSPs present
and voting" refers to members casting ranked choice votes. Members
which cast a final abstention are not voting. If a vote is equally
divided between two sums of the same value, the motion fails.
_104__ Method of Voting. The Committee shall use ranked choice
voting (RCV). The Chair, however, may grant a request for a
roll-call vote; the decision to grant such a request is not
appealable. All final votes on resolutions shall be taken by
roll-call; the roll shall be called in English alphabetical order
beginning with a person selected at random by the Secretary.
Delegates shall reply "#1," or "abstain," or "abstain from the order
of voting." A member may abstain from the order of voting once
during the roll-call; a second abstention from the order of voting
will be recorded as an abstention. Rights of explanation are
permitted on roll-call votes and may be limited in time by the Chair.
At the end of roll-call, but before rights of explanation and the
subsequent announcement of the vote, the Secretary will ask for
changes of vote. A delegation may not change from "0" to "#1",
or "#1 with right of explanation" or from "0" to "0 with right
of explanation." Those abstaining may be accorded rights of
explanation. The result of the vote shall be inserted into the
Committee record.
_105__ ONLINE VOTING: The International Parliament will
conduct elections using online voting and all votes will be
posted where they can be easily viewed by the public with the
information as to who had cast the vote.
_106__ Conduct during Voting. Immediately prior to a vote,
the Chair shall describe to the Committee the proposal to be
voted on, and shall explain the consequence of a 1 or 0 vote.
Voting shall begin upon the chair's declaration and shall end
when the results of the vote are announced. Once voting has
begun, no delegate shall interrupt the voting except on a
point of order or information concerning the actual conduct
of the vote, or on a point of personal privilege.
_107__ Supplemental GUIDELINES
_108__ PREAMBULAR PHRASES provide background information
and establish proper context for reading and interpreting the resolution.
_109__ OPERATIVE CLAUSES are set out to achieve the committee's main policy goals on
the topic.
_110__ SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR REPUBLIC OF EARTH COUNTRIES
_111__ January 1st is the best day of the year for new countries to start an
election schedules and December 31st is the best day to end activities.
_112__ PERMANENCE. These Rules, intent, purpose and function, will not
change once approved by majority vote by the elected members, or MIPs,
of the International Parliament.
_113__ Contact the International Parliament via telephone (831) 383-1409 or the web
site at http://www.usparliament.org
for obtaining more information.
_114__ We form a global union, open to all people, and a constitution
drafted for ratification by this body which shall outline and define the
provisions of this resolution, that This union shall be governed by a
world parliament.
_115__ Voting blocks (communities, bands, tribes, federations) need no longer be
limited to geographical areas. People are now able to connect with like-minded
'others' from around the planet (and beyond).
_116__ SLANDERERS and ANTAGONISTS
_117__ NO PERSON MAY BE CENSORED, and no limits may be placed on free
speech by/of any other person or nominee,
including US Parliament's elected members and staff, at any time
except when applying guidelines to party/category labels/names
and parts of this rule which regulate antagonists.
_118__ NO HATE WORDS AS PARTY/CATEGORY NAME: Party/category's labels/names
may not be used in such a way that slanders or libels names of any
person or other party/categories or individuals. Those that refuse
to comply by continuing to libel others through their choice
of party name will be categorized as members of the Censored Party.
Elected members using a name or pseudonym rather than their actual
name, which libels, slanders or mimics (such as incorrect spellings),
shall have their name censored and instead will be known only as
Anonymous.
_119__ Members of any International Parliament entity who antagonize others more than once
use through the use of profanity, slander, insulting or offensive vulgar
language, harassing or chauvinistic speech, terrorizing threats, including
the threats of lawsuits against other members/vote counters or volunteers
within the International Parliament or those who use actual physical force or violence,
may be permanently or temporarily removed by the full Minister in that
Cabinet Ministry, by any of the ten executives of the International Parliament
or by the International Parliament's web page maintainer.
Senator Frank-Michael Hensel [Humanitarian Organization] voted on 7/21/2015 as follows:
__1_ RESOLUTION NUMBER 1 : 4/25/2015 : 6/14/2015 Ogle and Alba
_2__ Parliamentary procedures, terms and proportional representation
for the International Parliament.
_3__ Require all the elected members to be in communication either
through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service or
else their name will be eliminated after one year.
_4__ The number of seats on the executive may remain at ten but not more than ten.
_5__ Paper Ballot Guidelines Recommended for State, National and International Elections
_6__ The paper ballots are placed in a clear ballot box by the voter, the box
is guarded, video taped all day and the votes are counted at the polling
location the night of the election.
_7__ The votes are counted two times by two different and diverse teams of
counters, recorded/taped/broadcast by two different devices with the public
able to observe and video/livestream the counting.
_8__ The results from the polling locations will be called to the Board
of Elections, emailed to the BoE and hand delivered. All three must
match. The Board of Elections will hand tally the results from all
the polling locations, again, two times by two different and diverse
teams of counters with this being taped, recorded and broadcast and
the public able to observe, tape and live-stream the entire proceedings.
And, the same goes for what happens at the state level.
_9__ The polling location should serve a maximum of 1,000 voters and
Election Day should be a national holiday with employers, if necessary,
having to arrange for special accommodations for employees that must
work, as with hospitals. A minimum of two hours personal time to vote
will be given to all citizens and voters.
_10__ The voters' names and marking on the ballot will remain secret
but the vote counting will be publicly observable.
_11__ PAPER BALLOTS will be made confidential to the highest level possible.
_12__ VOTER ELIGIBILITY:
The voter must register their name with at least two
methods of contact; and must comply with the voter eligibility
requirements for voter's country of residence.The voter must be a voting citizen of a country.
The voter must be 18 years old or older on Election Day.
The voter must not be in prison, on parole, serving a state sentence in county jail,
serving a sentence for a felony or on post-release community supervision.
The voter must not have been found to be mentally incompetent by a court.
Non-voting class membership will always be made available.
_13__ VOTER AUTHENTICATION:
When two or more methods of contact aren't provided by the voter, then
further explanation will be considered by the Vote Counting Ministry verifiers.
_14__ General Counting, Balloting and Eballoting Guidelines for International Parliament Elections
_15__ RANKED VOTING ONLY: All voting and vote counting shall be in the form of
ranked paper ballots only (and eballots when practical and verifiable).
Consecutive numbers beginning with the #s 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. etc. must always be
used when marking on (e)ballot of all alternative decisions or names.
Deviation from this guideline will disqualify the ballot, and the ballot
will be marked spoiled.
_16__ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
_17__ THE SAINTE-LAGUE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM, Hagenbach-Bischoff method,
under ranked choice voting, for seat allocation in all multi-seat districts:
Divide the election's total number of votes by the number of seats.
This is the 1st quota.
Divide this quota into each candidate's votes, and round off to the
nearest whole number.
That's that candidate's seat allocation.
If, due to rounding, this awards a number of seats different from
the desired number
of seats, then adjust the quota slightly up or down, till, when
paragraph two is carried out,
it will award all seats.
_18__ Any resident of earth, nominee and/or proxy may observe the counting of the
ballots. Volunteer counters will conduct the vote counting.
_19__ Choices marked on "eballots" are posted for public view and are
not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of the Parliament.
_20__ EBALLOTS are ballots cast via email and must be emailed to
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org, a private email address used by the
secretary and observers for receiving such eballots. No reply email
will be sent to voters who cast eballots other than a verification
message, unless the voter indicates that he/she wishes to be self
appointed to the www.international-parliament.org site or when a
question regarding verification or validation is raised by a volunteer vote counter.
_21__ Volunteer vote counters may be added to the exploder email address
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org as a subscriber by sending the message
"subscribe" to vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org.
_22__ Telephone voting is permissible, acceptable and verification
and validations will be provided when requested.
_23__ Elections of rules shall be perpetual and the simple majority vote,
by elected MIPs who vote on rules, passes rules.
_24__ BALLOTS AND EBALLOTS: All world residents are eligible to vote in
International Parliament Elections 365 days year.
_25__ There will be five hundred members of International Parliament (MIPs) who
are elected members self appointed/self nominated for free under ranked
choice voting as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "MIPs"
and five hundred members who are donors, ranked in order of donation level and
are to be known as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "Senator" MIPs.
_26__ THE PARTY LEADER within the International Parliament is a label for the
highest ranked name categorized under each party. Party leaders are
responsible for the distribution of all ballots and rules to the
members of their party/category and lists.
_27__ Such ballots may be retype set or altered to specifically identify
their select nominees' correct name and party affiliation. All ballots
released to public used by the International Parliament's elected secretaries
shall count as a legitimate ballot and shall be presumed to represent
the correct and most current candidate name information.
_27__ BALLOT: ORDER OF NOMINEES of all names in the parliament elections
and subsidiary parliament elections will be determined by the results
caused by the voters' ranking of the nominees on the previous election's
ballots. This is known as the correct consecutive order of nominee.
Appointments and self-appointments will be listed chronologically.
_29__ NOMINEE ACCEPTANCE AND WRITE-INS:
Only names who formally ACCEPT the nomination of their name, self write-in
names and those currently already elected will qualify for the ballot/eballot
for the International Parliament. There will be a cap at 500 names for the
ballot/eballot for the free elections of MIPs.
_30__ A verifiable name and contact information must be provided in
order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
_31__ The final order of the parties/categories on the final prepared
ballot will be determined by the nominees' party name/category and
the parties/categories and will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
_32__ TIES: Ties will be broken by holding a runoff election only
when called by one of the two secretaries. In all other
cases, all the names/items in a tie will be included in the results
and will be in a new "tied" category, even if the size of the assembly
or agenda list must be expanded beyond normal size set forth by these rules.
_33__ ONLY ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENTARY BALLOT, IS PERMITTED TO BE MARKED BY
EACH WORLD RESIDENT: All living world citizens may vote one time and only
one time. In cases where a second ballot (or more) is cast, only
the latter of the ballots will be counted, the former will be marked
spoiled, deleted and regarded disqualified.
_34__ Senators (Donors)
_35__ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donors'
funds will be deposited into a bank account which is controlled
by the ten executives of the International Parliament.
_36__ Senators: New Senate seats will be made available in a donor section of the
International Parliament's members of the International Parliament. All donors, who contribute
money to the political entity International Parliament at the minimum donation price,
will promptly and automatically become a "Senator".
_37__ Senators are not elected during regular election cycles of
the parliament's elections but they do receive all of the same voting rights plus
special donor privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved.
SENATORS. Donor MIPs, i.e. all world citizens who make a donation
shall be known as "Senator" once the donation has been correctly registered
with the Treasury Minister and/or is received by the appropriate clerk
and Senators will be grouped into five donor level groups.
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $0. to $29.99 donation (level five):
LEVEL FOUR. Services provided for a $30. to $49.99 donation (level four):
LEVEL THREE. Services provided for a $50.00 to $149.99. donation (level three):
LEVEL TWO. Services provided for a $150. to $599. donation (level two):
LEVEL ONE. Services provided for a $600. and more donation (level one):
Upon approval of this bylaw item, all Senators' current donation levels,
shall have their previous fee levels apply retroactively to new benefits
under the same new fee levels with corresponding cost payments.
Voting Stppage
Whenever a financial crisis occurs where the costs for paying basic
maintenance of the International Parliament are not being met, including
the costs of domain hosting, web design and obligations to all of the Senators, then the
Treasury and/or Vote Counting Ministry can place end to all introductions of free membership
sign ups of Members of International Parliament (MIPs) and other free services
provided by the Vote Counting Ministry and this ending will be known as a "voting stoppage".
This bylaw item can also affect the internal Cabinet voting by Ministers, but it will not
include/affect "votes of confidence" by the MIPs, voting by Senators current in dues and the
voting for election of Cabinet Ministers (parliamentary go-ahead) by the Ten Executives.
The voting stoppage will terminate either upon
the recommendation/consensus to end it by both the Treasury and Vote Counting Ministries,
or once the numbers of Senators reaches the same number of free MIPs within
the general International Parliament's assembly membership.
Diplomatic Passports
Some ministers and deputies will be traveling a lot abroad. At the airports
and borders a diplomatic passport would make sense. Even for the professional
legitimacy to foreign politicians.
ID Cards
For activities within the country an ID card is sufficient. However, a
professionally designed plastic card should be used here. Since the
International Parliament nevertheless plays an important role in the
world standard, you should already pay attention to a professional public image.
_38__ Once the top Senator seats are assigned based on ranking of donation
level, then lower ranked donors "spill over" into the "Senator MPs"
section of the subsidiary Republic of Earth, the country from which the donor originated.
_39__ The Senator's donation will be recorded and should the Senator ever wish to
"stand down", then the donation amount will be not be refunded.
_40__ The numbers of seats for Senators shall never be more than the number
of free elected members of International Parliament (MIPs).
_41__ The Senators may vote on Senate guidelines and decisions from time to time
but there is no requirement for such votes which are voluntary only. These
compilation of votes will be conducted only by the Senators themselves.
_42__ Should a MIP who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Senator, BoD, committee member
and/or the same particular seat title in any subsidiary Republic of Earth,
if their donation remained on the International Parliament's records.
_43__ All Senators shall have access to all financial records for the
International Parliament. More detailed information which isn't available
on the Treasury Ministry's web page will be made available within 90 days
to Senators when a request is made in writing to the Treasury Minister.
_44__ All payments are to be in US dollars only unless pre-approval is
obtained from the Treasury Ministry.
_45__ The International Parliament will not ever hold any election in a single-
winner district where a single-winner decision or name is elected.
_46__ Ballot Preparation
_47__ SPACE FOR THREE OR MORE WRITE-IN choices must be provided on each
and every ballot, in all elections.
_48__ CATEGORIZATION AND PARTY NAMES The first and most important
criterion in determining the nominee's party/category is the
nominee's most recently requested or declared party/category in
Parliament matters. The second most important criterion in
determining the nominee's party/category is determined by the
nominee's state's records, as written by the member while
registering to vote. Appointed members may be categorized with any
party/category that they wish, and the party/category of all
members is considered to be the true one. Elected members
may decide to change or switch their party/categorization at any time
by proclamation. Members automatically qualify for the ballot
in the next election cycle under the party/category of
their choice.
_49__ First and last names are preferred, however all names nominated
will be permitted on the ballot as well as the party/category of the
nominee. If party/category is not known, the label "[Info. Not Avail.]"
will be used. A nominee's name (and thus identity) may appear on the
ballot only once, so fusion voting is not allowed.
All new sign-ups, nominees and elected names within each party/category
will qualify for the ballot and will be ranked below all other names on the
prepared ballot. The order of these names will be determined first
based on the rankings of "nomination ballots", and secondly by
chronological order of the dates that the nominee's name was received.
All world citizens who had signed up since "RESOLUTION NUMBER 1" was first approved on
10/27/2014 will be automatically added as MIPs retroactively within seven days
after the approval of this bylaw item #39.
_50__ RESIGNATIONS. When any elected member, executive or minister,
stands down, resigns, retires, or dies - the name is deleted. Then
the next highest ranked name is automatically elected to the
seat in their stead.
_51__ When a candidate who has chosen to stand down but then wishes to
return to the position which they had departed, then they must first
be re-affirmed by all the voters who had previously cast a vote for them.
_52__ TEN EXECUTIVES
_53__ MIPs: Once elected, all new Members of International Parliament
(MIPs) may change their vote as a "vote of confidence" for the ten
executives into perpetuity.
_54__ THE VOICE of the International Parliament will be the ten executives.
_55__ Each of the elected ten executives may pick a seat title once elected.
_56__ The ten executives elect up to sixty full Cabinet Ministers and sixty
Deputy Cabinet Ministers using the "parliamentary go-ahead.
_57__ The International Parliament's ten executives agree to rank all names
nominated by each of the other nine executives, thus guaranteeing that each
of the ten executives elects 1/10th of the 60 cabinet ministers and this
is known as the "parliamentary go-ahead".
_58__ THE TEN EXECUTIVES recruit as many
people as possible who will work in the Cabinet to run the efforts,
elects the planks on the platform and run the parliament's efforts free from
political conflict or bias. The executives do not control who
gets elected to the general assembly.
_59__ The ten executives of the International Parliament (IP) will
serve as "Founding Executives" on the unity business entity
named "All Party System Co., International Bureau", which is established
in order to report all unifying news, business, financial matters,
vote counting and results of vote counting of the IP to the public
and to serve as a store for generating sales of products and services..
_60__ SIXTY CABINET MINISTERS
_61__ MINISTRY: A simple majority vote by at least six of
the ten executives establishes the parliamentary go-ahead and
will elect new Ministers, even without the parliamentary go-ahead.
_62__ MINISTRY DIRECTORS: Ministries may elect up to fifty Directors
and any number of resolutions, agenda items, guidelines and administrators.
The fifty Directors must be elected in one at-large district and their titles
as "Directors" may be any title, for example each director may pick their own title too.
_63__ All International national Cabinet Ministers must be live,
real people and no avatars or anonymous names may be used by the
elected Cabinet Ministers. Only real names can be used and
verification of the member's true name may be requested when
such verifications are of interest from anyone of the ten executives.
_64__ HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MINISTRY:
The book "Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously" will be added as a guide to the proposed Health and Human
Services Ministry web page. For many ages, humanity has been
confused about what decisions regenerate and degenerate our living
systems. The Body itself has always held this wisdom of natural laws
for our organ/gland functioning on 253 circuits of personal powers
(but not always available until infrared could shine the light on it).
The Body's own immense wisdom can show us how our next decision
degenerates us or regenerates us (based on 40 years of scientific
research using infrared technology that can be tracked, measured and
decoded by the Language of the Body itself). This Self Evident and
undeniable truth from our energetic design makes it an unparalleled
guide to help humans make decisions (about voting, laws, or new
customs, etc.) that can regenerate us from within as well as from
without. (http://www.consciousnesssystems.com [1] to read the book).
Also, VOLUNTARY LAW: The blog site http://vlda.org/, the Voluntary
Law Development Association, owned by Jonathan Jaech will be added
to the proposed
_65__ VOLUNTARY LAW MINISTRY:
The Voluntary Law Ministry web page
and can accompany 'Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously' (that can both be used as the foundational principles
for voluntary international law). These 2 sources of wisdom can
promote peace, love and the clarity of energetic truth for successful
ways to promote each living systems' regeneration.
_66__ VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY:
The Vote Counting Ministry will make an annual award for
the "United Coalition Secure Paper Ballot Award".
_67__ TREASURY MINISTRY:
The Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the ten
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
The Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for Senators (donor MIPs)
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, Senator mailing addresses, contact information
and rankings, bank account savings and expenditures.
_68__ MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION MINISTRY:
Appeals of a name's removal action may be taken to the
Mediation and Conciliation Service Minister
where rules for such appeals will be written, voted upon and approved.
_69__ United Coalition
_70__ Declare that all of the elected and appointed members of the International Parliament,
all countries' national parliaments, all subsidiary super-state, mini-state
and county micro-state parliaments, to be members of a national and international
"Unity Coalition" or "United Coalition" effective November 5th, 2014.
_71__ The International Parliament's subsidiary Republic "Unity Coalition"
elections shall be in two phases; one before the country's primaries and one after the
country's primaries. That way, a strong emphasis can be placed on official state-recognized
ballot-qualified and write-in candidates both before the primaries and after the
primaries, and the dates are customized for each of the country's official primaries.
_72__ UNITY PLATFORM
_73__ Conduct an international Direct Democracy (DD) election which will elect planks
to a "Unity Platform".
_74__ The promotion of the Unity Coalition's "Unity Platform" can used used as an
example of teamwork. The team can be promoted as being dynamic so that
every item is up for a continual "vote of confidence" by all the members, all the time.
That way, the recruitment of new members can take place in order to collect
more votes for improving the planks on the Unity Platform.
_75__ PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM: The ten elected executives shall elect the
UNITY PLATFORM with a series of "planks" from all the items they pick and
rank from the DD election.
_76__ Guideline of Priority and Procedure
_77__ GENERAL PROVISIONS: Guideline of Priority and Procedure. The
GUIDELINES contained on this web page shall be the official first
GUIDELINES of procedure for the International Parliament and will be used
for all transactions of business once ratified by a majority of the
Members of Parliament (MPs). These GUIDELINES will
take precedence over any other set of GUIDELINES.
_78__ GUIDELINE CHANGES: The Executive Committee reserves the right
to make changes in these GUIDELINES by 6/10th vote and to present
these changes to the delegates/members at any time. All changes should
accommodate the desires or complaints of the MPs or staff so as to
improve the conduct of business online and offline.
_79__ EXECUTIVES: The Executives of the International
Parliament may select or approve persons to serve as Chairpersons, Legal
Counsels, and Secretaries for each committee and any other position
to help conduct the business.
_80__ CHAIR PERSON: Absence of Chairperson. If the Chair should find
it necessary to be absent during any part of a committee meeting,
he/she shall designate an individual (preferably the Legal Counsel)
to assume his/her duties with the same authority.
_81__ Statements by the Executives. The ten elected Executives,
or any person designated by the ten elected Executives, may at
any time make oral or written statements to a committee.
_82__ MEMBERS: Number of Accredited Delegates. The number of delegates
allowed on any delegation of the Parliament shall be limited to
MIPs and Donor MIPs only.
_83__ DIPLOMATIC COURTESY: All delegates MUST accord all other
delegates diplomatic courtesy at all times. Any delegate or visitor
who, after being advised by the Chair, persists in an obvious attempt
to divert the meeting from its intended purpose, or who otherwise
attempts to disrupt the proceedings, shall be subject to disciplinary
action and expulsion by the Chairperson.
_84__ AGENDA
_85__ AGENDA Selection of Agenda Items. Agenda items shall be
selected by the Executive Committee. Once selected, these items
are fixed for the duration of the conference and no other items
will be discussed.
_86__ ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda items will
be considered in the order in which they appear in the agenda
eballot, unless that order is altered by a majority of the Committee.
_87__ PRIOR APPROVED RESOLUTIONS: Order of Consideration of
Prior-Approved Resolutions. Prior-approved resolutions are
resolutions that were received by the specified deadline and
were deemed appropriate by the staff. They will receive
priority over other resolutions. The order of appearance of
resolutions before the Committee is determined by the date
in which they were received, and is listed under the appropriate
committee topic in that order in the resolution book by the
Secretary. When the Chair opens debate on any agenda item,
any delegate may move for consideration of an approved resolution
on the agenda item that has been submitted to the chair with
signatories of 1/8 of the delegations present. If the motion
is seconded, the Chair will direct the committee to an immediate
vote without debate on the motion, a majority being required for
consideration. If no resolution receives a majority vote in favor
of consideration, the Committee will automatically have before it
for consideration the first resolution in the resolution book
under that agenda item that has been received by the chair with
the appropriate number of signatories.
_88__ CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL:
Resolutions that were not received by the specified deadline
may still be considered, but not until 1/2 of the prior approved
resolutions on the agenda item have been considered. For a
resolution without prior approval to be considered, it must
relate to the committee topic currently being debated, be
submitted to the chair with signatories of 1/8 of the delegations
present, and the delegate must supply enough copies of the
resolution for each delegation present. Once these conditions
have been met, any delegate may move for consideration of the
resolution. If the motion is seconded, the chair will direct
the committee to an immediate vote without debate on the motion,
a majority being required for consideration.
_89__ SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSALS: Delegates will receive selected
resolutions for consideration no later than at the time of the
conference registration. The delegates must submit resolutions
in the proper form by the deadline set by the Executive Committee.
_90__ Reporting Resolutions to the Parliament. The Chair
of each committee shall report resolutions passed by that committee
to the Parliament for its consideration. If a
committee fails to approve a resolution on an agenda item, it
shall submit a "Declaration of No Report" on that agenda item.
That topic area will not be considered by the Parliament.
_91__ Amendments. All amendments to resolutions must be signed
by one sponsoring delegation and at least one other seconding
delegation; they must be submitted on an official amendment
form for approval by the Legal Counsel and must be labeled
with an identifying number by the Secretary. Secondary
amendments and amendments by substitution are not acceptable.
Obvious typographical efforts will be brought to the Committee's
attention and collected by the Chair with no vote required.
To move an amendment to the floor, recognition by the Chair
and introduction of the amendment will suffice; no vote
shall be required. Once an amendment has been brought to
the floor, the Committee shall consider only the amendments
and not the Resolutions until final action on the amendment
has been taken (except to the extent that the amendment
pertains to the Resolution).
_92__ Definition of Amendment and Voting on Amendments. An
amendment is a motion that adds to, deletes from, or revises
any part of a resolution. A series of alterations proposed
by a single delegation to the same resolution shall be
considered as a single amendment unless a motion is made
to divide it.
_93__ Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all substantive
debate on the matters before the body at that time, except
when such a motion would interrupt a speaker. Two delegates
may speak against closure, and the motion will then be put to
a vote. During debate on an amendment, a delegate may move
for closure of debate on the resolution. If closure passes,
then the amendment shall be voted on first followed by the
resolution.
_94__ Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second is
required.
_95__ DEBATE AND SPEECH GUIDELINES: Speeches. No delegate
may address the committee without having previously obtained
the permission of the Chair. The Chair shall call upon
speakers in the order in which they signify their desire
to speak. Delegates may not interrupt a speaker except on
a point of order or point of personal privilege. Abusing
these rights may be considered violations of diplomatic
courtesy, and can result in disciplinary action taken by
the chair. Motions should be made at the conclusion of the
speaker's remarks; by making a motion, the speaker yields
the floor.
_96__ Time Limit on Debate. The committee or the Chair may
limit or extend the time allotted to each speaker and the
number of times each delegate may speak on a proposal.
There may be one speaker in favor and one opposed to the
limitation/extension.
_97__ Right of Reply. During debate, the Chair may accord
the right of reply to any delegate if a speech by another
delegate contains unusual or extraordinary language clearly
insulting to personal or national dignity. The decision
granting a right of reply may not be appealed. Requests
for a right of reply shall be in writing to the Chair.
The Chair will limit the time for the reply. There shall
be no reply to a reply.
_98__ POINTS - IN ORDER OF PRIORITY
Point of Order. If, during the discussion of any matter,
a delegate believes that the committee is proceeding in a
manner contrary to these GUIDELINES, he or she may rise to
a point of order. The delegate so rising will be immediately
recognized by the Chair and the point ruled upon. A delegate
rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance
of any matter under discussion.
Point of Personal Privilege. If a delegate wishes to
raise a question or make a request relating to the
organization of the meeting, personal comfort, or the
conduct of fellow delegates or staff, he/she may rise to
a point of personal privilege. When a delegate rises on
privilege, the Chair shall take such action as is necessary.
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry. A point of parliamentary
inquiry is directed to the Chair for information or guidance
on procedure. This point may not interrupt the speaker.
It is a question and does not require seconding or allow
for debate. Replies by the Chair are not appealable.
Point of Information. If a delegate wishes to obtain
a clarification of procedure or a statement of the matter
before the committee, the delegate may address a point of
information to the Chair. During debate, if a delegate
wishes to ask a question of the speaker, a request to
question the speaker may be made in the form of a point
of information directed to the Chair after the speaker
consents to be questioned, all questions and replies are
made through the Chair. Delegates shall not interrupt a
speaker on a point of information.
_99__ MOTIONS - ORDER OF PROCEDURAL MOTIONS
The motions as indicated in the Short Form of Points
and Motions have precedence, in the order given, over all
other proposals or motions before the committee.
Adjournment of Debate. During the discussion of any
matter, a delegate may move the adjournment of debate on
that matter. One delegate may speak in favor of the
motion and one opposed. The motion shall then be put to
an immediate vote. Adjournment of debate on a resolution
or amendment has the effect of tabling that item and moves
the committee on to the next order of business.
See also 8.9 on Reconsideration.
Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all
substantive debate on the matters before the body at that
time, except when such a motion would interrupt a speaker.
Two delegates may speak against closure, and the motion
will then be put to a vote. During debate on an amendment,
a delegate may move for closure of debate on the resolution.
if closure passes, then the amendment shall be voted on
first followed by the resolution.
Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second
is required.
Suspension of the Meeting. During the discussion of
any matter, a delegate may move to suspend the meeting.
Suspending a meeting recesses it until the time specified
in the motion; the Chair may request the mover to modify
the time. When the committee reconvenes it will continue
with its business from the point at which suspension was
moved.
Adjournment of the Meeting. The motion of adjournment
means that all business of the committee has been
completed, and that the committee win not reconvene
until the next Annual Session. The Chair may refuse
to recognize a motion to adjourn the meeting if the
Committee still has business before it. A motion to
adjourn is not debatable, and will be put to an immediate vote.
Decisions of Competence. Any motion calling for a
decision on the competence of the Committee to discuss
or adopt a proposal shall be put to a vote before the
vote is taken on the proposal in question. If a
Committee decides it is not competent to discuss or
vote on an amendment or resolution, the effect is the
same as adjourning debate on the matter. See also 8.9
on Reconsideration.
Withdrawal of Motions. A motion may be withdrawn
by its proposer at any time before voting on it has
begun, provided the motion has not been amended. A
withdrawn motion may be reintroduced by any other
delegation.
Reconsideration of Proposals. When a proposal has
been adopted, or rejected through a vote of adjournment
or "no competence", it may be reconsidered at the same
session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting. The motion to reconsider
must be made by a delegation which originally voted
on the prevailing side of the proposal; thus,
reconsideration may be moved only on the proposals
voted on by roll-call.
Division of the Question. A motion to divide the
question, proposing that parts of an amendment or
resolution be voted on separately, is in order at any
time prior to commencement of voting on the amendment
or resolution. Motions to divide shall apply only to
operative clauses. Permission to speak on the motion
shall be granted to one speaker in favor and one
opposed, after which there shall be an immediate vote.
The first motion for division to receive a majority
vote shall become the final manner in which the
proposal is presented. Those parts of the proposal
which are approved shall be put to a vote as a whole.
If all operative clauses of a proposal have been
rejected, the proposal as a whole has been rejected.
Dilatory Motions. The Chair may rule as dilatory,
and therefore out of order, any motion repeating or
closely approximating a substantive measure on which
the committee has already rendered an opinion. Such
rulings can not be appealed.
Appealing a Decision of the Chair. Rulings of
the chair can be appealed unless otherwise specified
in these GUIDELINES. Appeals can be debated by one
speaker in favor and one opposed.
_100__ MOTIONS are actions which trigger activity in
the California Super-state Parliament (Editing
guideline #s once approved).
_101__ : Motions : Interrupt Speaker? : Second Required? : Debatable? : Vote Required?
_102__ VOTING METHODS AND RIGHTS: Each member delegation shall
have one vote in each Committee in which it is represented. No
delegate may cast a vote on behalf of another member.
_103__ Simple Majority. Unless otherwise specified in these
GUIDELINES, decisions in the Committee shall be made by a majority
vote of those members present and voting. The phrase "MSPs present
and voting" refers to members casting ranked choice votes. Members
which cast a final abstention are not voting. If a vote is equally
divided between two sums of the same value, the motion fails.
_104__ Method of Voting. The Committee shall use ranked choice
voting (RCV). The Chair, however, may grant a request for a
roll-call vote; the decision to grant such a request is not
appealable. All final votes on resolutions shall be taken by
roll-call; the roll shall be called in English alphabetical order
beginning with a person selected at random by the Secretary.
Delegates shall reply "#1," or "abstain," or "abstain from the order
of voting." A member may abstain from the order of voting once
during the roll-call; a second abstention from the order of voting
will be recorded as an abstention. Rights of explanation are
permitted on roll-call votes and may be limited in time by the Chair.
At the end of roll-call, but before rights of explanation and the
subsequent announcement of the vote, the Secretary will ask for
changes of vote. A delegation may not change from "0" to "#1",
or "#1 with right of explanation" or from "0" to "0 with right
of explanation." Those abstaining may be accorded rights of
explanation. The result of the vote shall be inserted into the
Committee record.
_105__ ONLINE VOTING: The International Parliament will
conduct elections using online voting and all votes will be
posted where they can be easily viewed by the public with the
information as to who had cast the vote.
_106__ Conduct during Voting. Immediately prior to a vote,
the Chair shall describe to the Committee the proposal to be
voted on, and shall explain the consequence of a 1 or 0 vote.
Voting shall begin upon the chair's declaration and shall end
when the results of the vote are announced. Once voting has
begun, no delegate shall interrupt the voting except on a
point of order or information concerning the actual conduct
of the vote, or on a point of personal privilege.
_107__ Supplemental GUIDELINES
_108__ PREAMBULAR PHRASES provide background information
and establish proper context for reading and interpreting the resolution.
_109__ OPERATIVE CLAUSES are set out to achieve the committee's main policy goals on
the topic.
_110__ SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR REPUBLIC OF EARTH COUNTRIES
_111__ January 1st is the best day of the year for new countries to start an
election schedules and December 31st is the best day to end activities.
_112__ PERMANENCE. These Rules, intent, purpose and function, will not
change once approved by majority vote by the elected members, or MIPs,
of the International Parliament.
_113__ Contact the International Parliament via telephone (831) 383-1409 or the web
site at http://www.usparliament.org
for obtaining more information.
_114__ We form a global union, open to all people, and a constitution
drafted for ratification by this body which shall outline and define the
provisions of this resolution, that This union shall be governed by a
world parliament.
_115__ Voting blocks (communities, bands, tribes, federations) need no longer be
limited to geographical areas. People are now able to connect with like-minded
'others' from around the planet (and beyond).
_116__ SLANDERERS and ANTAGONISTS
_117__ NO PERSON MAY BE CENSORED, and no limits may be placed on free
speech by/of any other person or nominee,
including US Parliament's elected members and staff, at any time
except when applying guidelines to party/category labels/names
and parts of this rule which regulate antagonists.
_118__ NO HATE WORDS AS PARTY/CATEGORY NAME: Party/category's labels/names
may not be used in such a way that slanders or libels names of any
person or other party/categories or individuals. Those that refuse
to comply by continuing to libel others through their choice
of party name will be categorized as members of the Censored Party.
Elected members using a name or pseudonym rather than their actual
name, which libels, slanders or mimics (such as incorrect spellings),
shall have their name censored and instead will be known only as
Anonymous.
_119__ Members of any International Parliament entity who antagonize others more than once
use through the use of profanity, slander, insulting or offensive vulgar
language, harassing or chauvinistic speech, terrorizing threats, including
the threats of lawsuits against other members/vote counters or volunteers
within the International Parliament or those who use actual physical force or violence,
may be permanently or temporarily removed by the full Minister in that
Cabinet Ministry, by any of the ten executives of the International Parliament
or by the International Parliament's web page maintainer.
MIP Taras Shevchenko [International Mission for the Peace] Ukraine voted on 5/4/2015:
_1__ RESOLUTION NUMBER 1 : 4/25/2015 : Zeka, Ogle and Assaf
_2__ Parliamentary procedures, terms and proportional representation
for the International Parliament.
_3__ Require all the elected members to be in communication either
through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service or
else their name will be eliminated after one year.
__4_ The number of seats on the executive may remain at ten but not more than ten.
_5__ Paper Ballot Guidelines Recommended for State, National and International Elections
_6__ The paper ballots are placed in a clear ballot box by the voter, the box
is guarded, video taped all day and the votes are counted at the polling
location the night of the election.
_7__ The votes are counted two times by two different and diverse teams of
counters, recorded/taped/broadcast by two different devices with the public
able to observe and video/livestream the counting.
_8__ The results from the polling locations will be called to the Board
of Elections, emailed to the BoE and hand delivered. All three must
match. The Board of Elections will hand tally the results from all
the polling locations, again, two times by two different and diverse
teams of counters with this being taped, recorded and broadcast and
the public able to observe, tape and live-stream the entire proceedings.
And, the same goes for what happens at the state level.
_9__ The polling location should serve a maximum of 1,000 voters and
Election Day should be a national holiday with employers, if necessary,
having to arrange for special accommodations for employees that must
work, as with hospitals. A minimum of two hours personal time to vote
will be given to all citizens and voters.
_10__ The voters' names and marking on the ballot will remain secret
but the vote counting will be publicly observable.
_11__ PAPER BALLOTS will be made confidential to the highest level possible.
_12__ VOTER ELIGIBILITY:
The voter must register their name with at least two
methods of contact; and must comply with the voter eligibility
requirements for voter's country of residence.The voter must be a voting citizen of a country.
The voter must be 18 years old or older on Election Day.
The voter must not be in prison, on parole, serving a state sentence in county jail,
serving a sentence for a felony or on post-release community supervision.
The voter must not have been found to be mentally incompetent by a court.
Non-voting class membership will always be made available.
_13__ VOTER AUTHENTICATION:
When two or more methods of contact aren't provided by the voter, then
further explanation will be considered by the Vote Counting Ministry verifiers.
_14__ General Counting, Balloting and Eballoting Guidelines for International Parliament Elections
_15__ RANKED VOTING ONLY: All voting and vote counting shall be in the form of
ranked paper ballots only (and eballots when practical and verifiable).
Consecutive numbers beginning with the #s 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. etc. must always be
used when marking on (e)ballot of all alternative decisions or names.
Deviation from this guideline will disqualify the ballot, and the ballot
will be marked spoiled.
_16__ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
_17__ THE SAINTE-LAGUE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM, Hagenbach-Bischoff method,
under ranked choice voting, for seat allocation in all multi-seat districts:
Divide the election's total number of votes by the number of seats.
This is the 1st quota.
Divide this quota into each candidate's votes, and round off to the
nearest whole number.
That's that candidate's seat allocation.
If, due to rounding, this awards a number of seats different from
the desired number
of seats, then adjust the quota slightly up or down, till, when
paragraph two is carried out,
it will award all seats.
_18__ Any resident of earth, nominee and/or proxy may observe the counting of the
ballots. Volunteer counters will conduct the vote counting.
_19__ Choices marked on "eballots" are posted for public view and are
not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of the Parliament.
_20__ EBALLOTS are ballots cast via email and must be emailed to
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org, a private email address used by the
secretary and observers for receiving such eballots. No reply email
will be sent to voters who cast eballots other than a verification
message, unless the voter indicates that he/she wishes to be self
appointed to the www.international-parliament.org site or when a
question regarding verification or validation is raised by a volunteer vote counter.
_21__ Volunteer vote counters may be added to the exploder email address
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org as a subscriber by sending the message
"subscribe" to vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org.
_22__ Telephone voting is permissible, acceptable and verification
and validations will be provided when requested.
_23__ Elections of rules shall be perpetual and the simple majority vote,
by elected MIPs who vote on rules, passes rules.
_24__ BALLOTS AND EBALLOTS: All world residents are eligible to vote in
International Parliament Elections 365 days year.
_25__ There will be five hundred members of International Parliament (MIPs) who
are elected members self appointed/self nominated for free under ranked
choice voting as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "MIPs"
and five hundred members who are donors, ranked in order of donation level and
are to be known as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "Senator" MIPs.
_26__ THE PARTY LEADER within the International Parliament is a label for the
highest ranked name categorized under each party. Party leaders are
responsible for the distribution of all ballots and rules to the
members of their party/category and lists.
_27__ Such ballots may be retype set or altered to specifically identify
their select nominees' correct name and party affiliation. All ballots
released to public used by the International Parliament's elected secretaries
shall count as a legitimate ballot and shall be presumed to represent
the correct and most current candidate name information.
_28__ BALLOT: ORDER OF NOMINEES of all names in the parliament elections
and subsidiary parliament elections will be determined by the results
caused by the voters' ranking of the nominees on the previous election's
ballots. This is known as the correct consecutive order of nominee.
Appointments and self-appointments will be listed chronologically.
_29__ NOMINEE ACCEPTANCE AND WRITE-INS:
Only names who formally ACCEPT the nomination of their name, self write-in
names and those currently already elected will qualify for the ballot/eballot
for the International Parliament. There will be a cap at 500 names for the
ballot/eballot for the free elections of MIPs.
_30__ A verifiable name and contact information must be provided in
order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
_31__ The final order of the parties/categories on the final prepared
ballot will be determined by the nominees' party name/category and
the parties/categories and will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
_32__ TIES: Ties will be broken by holding a runoff election only
when called by one of the two secretaries. In all other
cases, all the names/items in a tie will be included in the results
and will be in a new "tied" category, even if the size of the assembly
or agenda list must be expanded beyond normal size set forth by these rules.
_33__ ONLY ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENTARY BALLOT, IS PERMITTED TO BE MARKED BY
EACH WORLD RESIDENT: All living world citizens may vote one time and only
one time. In cases where a second ballot (or more) is cast, only
the latter of the ballots will be counted, the former will be marked
spoiled, deleted and regarded disqualified.
_34__ SENATORS. Donor MIPs, i.e. all world citizens who make a donation and who then
become a "Donor Member of International Parliament" (or Donor MIP), shall be known as "Senators"
once the donation has been correctly registered with the Treasury Minister and/or
is received by the appropriate clerk.
_35__ The International Parliament will not ever hold any election in a single-
winner district where a single-winner decision or name is elected.
_36__ Ballot Preparation
_37__ SPACE FOR THREE OR MORE WRITE-IN choices must be provided on each
and every ballot, in all elections.
_38__ CATEGORIZATION AND PARTY NAMES The first and most important
criterion in determining the nominee's party/category is the
nominee's most recently requested or declared party/category in
Parliament matters. The second most important criterion in
determining the nominee's party/category is determined by the
nominee's state's records, as written by the member while
registering to vote. Appointed members may be categorized with any
party/category that they wish, and the party/category of all
members is considered to be the true one. Elected members
may decide to change or switch their party/categorization at any time
by proclamation. Members automatically qualify for the ballot
in the next election cycle under the party/category of
their choice.
_39__ First and last names are preferred, however all names nominated
will be permitted on the ballot as well as the party/category of the
nominee. If party/category is not known, the label "[Info. Not Avail.]"
will be used. A nominee's name (and thus identity) may appear on the
ballot only once, so fusion voting is not allowed.
All new sign-ups, nominees and elected names within each party/category
will qualify for the ballot and will be ranked below all other names on the
prepared ballot. The order of these names will be determined first
based on the rankings of "nomination ballots", and secondly by
chronological order of the dates that the nominee's name was received.
All world citizens who had signed up since "RESOLUTION NUMBER 1" was first approved on
10/27/2014 will be automatically added as MIPs retroactively within seven days
after the approval of this bylaw item #39.
_40__ Senators are not elected during regular election cycles of
the parliament's elections but they do receive all of the same voting rights plus
special donor privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved.
_41__ RESIGNATIONS. When any elected member, executive or minister,
stands down, resigns, retires, or dies - the name is deleted. Then
the next highest ranked name is automatically elected to the
seat in their stead.
_42__ When a candidate who has chosen to stand down but then wishes to
return to the position which they had departed, then they must first
be re-affirmed by all the voters who had previously cast a vote for them.
_43__ TEN EXECUTIVES
_44__ MIPs: Once elected, all new Members of International Parliament
(MIPs) may change their vote as a "vote of confidence" for the ten
executives into perpetuity.
_45__ THE VOICE of the International Parliament will be the ten executives.
_46__ Each of the elected ten executives may pick a seat title once elected.
__47_ The ten executives elect up to sixty full Cabinet Ministers and sixty
Deputy Cabinet Ministers using the "parliamentary go-ahead.
_48__ The International Parliament's ten executives agree to rank all names
nominated by each of the other nine executives, thus guaranteeing that each
of the ten executives elects 1/10th of the 60 cabinet ministers and this
is known as the "parliamentary go-ahead".
_49__ THE TEN EXECUTIVES recruit as many
people as possible who will work in the Cabinet to run the efforts,
elects the planks on the platform and run the parliament's efforts free from
political conflict or bias. The executives do not control who
gets elected to the general assembly.
_50__ The ten executives of the International Parliament (IP) will
serve as "Founding Executives" on the unity business entity
named "All Party System Co., International Bureau", which is established
in order to report all unifying news, business, financial matters,
vote counting and results of vote counting of the IP to the public
and to serve as a store for generating sales of products and services..
_51__ SIXTY CABINET MINISTERS
_52__ MINISTRY: A simple majority vote by at least six of
the ten executives establishes the parliamentary go-ahead and
will elect new Ministers, even without the parliamentary go-ahead.
_53__ MINISTRY DIRECTORS: Ministries may elect up to fifty Directors
and any number of resolutions, agenda items, guidelines and administrators.
The fifty Directors must be elected in one at-large district and their titles
as "Directors" may be any title, for example each director may pick their own title too.
_54__ All International national Cabinet Ministers must be live,
real people and no avatars or anonymous names may be used by the
elected Cabinet Ministers. Only real names can be used and
verification of the member's true name may be requested when
such verifications are of interest from anyone of the ten executives.
_55__ HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MINISTRY:
The book "Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously" will be added as a guide to the proposed Health and Human
Services Ministry web page. For many ages, humanity has been
confused about what decisions regenerate and degenerate our living
systems. The Body itself has always held this wisdom of natural laws
for our organ/gland functioning on 253 circuits of personal powers
(but not always available until infrared could shine the light on it).
The Body's own immense wisdom can show us how our next decision
degenerates us or regenerates us (based on 40 years of scientific
research using infrared technology that can be tracked, measured and
decoded by the Language of the Body itself). This Self Evident and
undeniable truth from our energetic design makes it an unparalleled
guide to help humans make decisions (about voting, laws, or new
customs, etc.) that can regenerate us from within as well as from
without. (http://www.consciousnesssystems.com [1] to read the book).
Also, VOLUNTARY LAW: The blog site http://vlda.org/, the Voluntary
Law Development Association, owned by Jonathan Jaech will be added
to the proposed
_56__ VOLUNTARY LAW MINISTRY:
The Voluntary Law Ministry web page
and can accompany 'Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously' (that can both be used as the foundational principles
for voluntary international law). These 2 sources of wisdom can
promote peace, love and the clarity of energetic truth for successful
ways to promote each living systems' regeneration.
_57__ VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY:
The Vote Counting Ministry will make an annual award for
the "United Coalition Secure Paper Ballot Award".
_58__ TREASURY MINISTRY:
The Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the ten
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
The Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for Donor MIPs
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, Senator rankings, savings
and expenditures.
_59__ MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION MINISTRY:
Appeals of a name's removal action may be taken to the
Mediation and Conciliation Service Minister
where rules for such appeals will be written, voted upon and approved.
_60__ Donors
_61__ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donors'
funds will be deposited into a bank account which is controlled
by the ten executives of the International Parliament.
_62__ Senators: New Senate seats will be made available in a donor section of the
International Parliament's members of the International Parliament. All donors, who contribute
money to the political entity International Parliament at the minimum donation price,
will promptly and automatically become a "Senator".
_63__ Once the top Senator seats are assigned based on ranking of donation
level, then lower ranked donors "spill over" into the "Senator MPs"
section of the country from which the donor originated, the subsidiary Republic of Earth.
_64__ The Senator's donation will be recorded and should the Senator ever wish to
"stand down", then the donation amount will be not be refunded.
_65__ The numbers of seats for Senators shall never be more than the number
of free elected members of International Parliament (MIPs).
_66__ The Senators may vote on Senate guidelines and decisions from time to time
but there is no requirement for such votes which are voluntary only. These
compilation of votes will be conducted only by the Senators themselves.
_67__ Should a MIP who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Senator, BoD, committee member
and/or the same particular seat title in any subsidiary Republic of Earth,
if their donation remained on the International Parliament's records.
_68__ All Senators shall have access to all financial records for the
International Parliament. More detailed information which isn't available
on the Treasury Ministry's web page will be made available within 90 days
to Senators when a request is made in writing to the Treasury Minister.
_69__ All payments are to be in US dollars only unless pre-approval is
obtained from the Treasury Ministry.
_70__ United Coalition
_71__ Declare that all of the elected and appointed members of the International Parliament,
all countries' national parliaments, all subsidiary super-state, mini-state
and county micro-state parliaments, to be members of a national and international
"Unity Coalition" or "United Coalition" effective November 5th, 2014.
_72__ The International Parliament's subsidiary Republic "Unity Coalition"
elections shall be in two phases; one before the country's primaries and one after the
country's primaries. That way, a strong emphasis can be placed on official state-recognized
ballot-qualified and write-in candidates both before the primaries and after the
primaries, and the dates are customized for each of the country's official primaries.
_73__ UNITY PLATFORM
_74__ Conduct an international Direct Democracy (DD) election which will elect planks
to a "Unity Platform".
_75__ The promotion of the Unity Coalition's "Unity Platform" can used used as an
example of teamwork. The team can be promoted as being dynamic so that
every item is up for a continual "vote of confidence" by all the members, all the time.
That way, the recruitment of new members can take place in order to collect
more votes for improving the planks on the Unity Platform.
_76__ PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM: The ten elected executives shall elect the
UNITY PLATFORM with a series of "planks" from all the items they pick and
rank from the DD election.
_77__ Guideline of Priority and Procedure
_78__ GENERAL PROVISIONS: Guideline of Priority and Procedure. The
GUIDELINES contained on this web page shall be the official first
GUIDELINES of procedure for the International Parliament and will be used
for all transactions of business once ratified by a majority of the
Members of Parliament (MPs). These GUIDELINES will
take precedence over any other set of GUIDELINES.
_79__ GUIDELINE CHANGES: The Executive Committee reserves the right
to make changes in these GUIDELINES by 6/10th vote and to present
these changes to the delegates/members at any time. All changes should
accommodate the desires or complaints of the MPs or staff so as to
improve the conduct of business online and offline.
_80__ EXECUTIVES: The Executives of the International
Parliament may select or approve persons to serve as Chairpersons, Legal
Counsels, and Secretaries for each committee and any other position
to help conduct the business.
_81__ CHAIR PERSON: Absence of Chairperson. If the Chair should find
it necessary to be absent during any part of a committee meeting,
he/she shall designate an individual (preferably the Legal Counsel)
to assume his/her duties with the same authority.
_82__ Statements by the Executives. The ten elected Executives,
or any person designated by the ten elected Executives, may at
any time make oral or written statements to a committee.
_83__ MEMBERS: Number of Accredited Delegates. The number of delegates
allowed on any delegation of the Parliament shall be limited to
MIPs and Donor MIPs only.
_84__ DIPLOMATIC COURTESY: All delegates MUST accord all other
delegates diplomatic courtesy at all times. Any delegate or visitor
who, after being advised by the Chair, persists in an obvious attempt
to divert the meeting from its intended purpose, or who otherwise
attempts to disrupt the proceedings, shall be subject to disciplinary
action and expulsion by the Chairperson.
_85__ AGENDA
_86__ AGENDA Selection of Agenda Items. Agenda items shall be
selected by the Executive Committee. Once selected, these items
are fixed for the duration of the conference and no other items
will be discussed.
_87__ ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda items will
be considered in the order in which they appear in the agenda
eballot, unless that order is altered by a majority of the Committee.
_88__ PRIOR APPROVED RESOLUTIONS: Order of Consideration of
Prior-Approved Resolutions. Prior-approved resolutions are
resolutions that were received by the specified deadline and
were deemed appropriate by the staff. They will receive
priority over other resolutions. The order of appearance of
resolutions before the Committee is determined by the date
in which they were received, and is listed under the appropriate
committee topic in that order in the resolution book by the
Secretary. When the Chair opens debate on any agenda item,
any delegate may move for consideration of an approved resolution
on the agenda item that has been submitted to the chair with
signatories of 1/8 of the delegations present. If the motion
is seconded, the Chair will direct the committee to an immediate
vote without debate on the motion, a majority being required for
consideration. If no resolution receives a majority vote in favor
of consideration, the Committee will automatically have before it
for consideration the first resolution in the resolution book
under that agenda item that has been received by the chair with
the appropriate number of signatories.
_89__ CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL:
Resolutions that were not received by the specified deadline
may still be considered, but not until 1/2 of the prior approved
resolutions on the agenda item have been considered. For a
resolution without prior approval to be considered, it must
relate to the committee topic currently being debated, be
submitted to the chair with signatories of 1/8 of the delegations
present, and the delegate must supply enough copies of the
resolution for each delegation present. Once these conditions
have been met, any delegate may move for consideration of the
resolution. If the motion is seconded, the chair will direct
the committee to an immediate vote without debate on the motion,
a majority being required for consideration.
_90__ SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSALS: Delegates will receive selected
resolutions for consideration no later than at the time of the
conference registration. The delegates must submit resolutions
in the proper form by the deadline set by the Executive Committee.
_91__ Reporting Resolutions to the Parliament. The Chair
of each committee shall report resolutions passed by that committee
to the Parliament for its consideration. If a
committee fails to approve a resolution on an agenda item, it
shall submit a "Declaration of No Report" on that agenda item.
That topic area will not be considered by the Parliament.
_92__ Amendments. All amendments to resolutions must be signed
by one sponsoring delegation and at least one other seconding
delegation; they must be submitted on an official amendment
form for approval by the Legal Counsel and must be labeled
with an identifying number by the Secretary. Secondary
amendments and amendments by substitution are not acceptable.
Obvious typographical efforts will be brought to the Committee's
attention and collected by the Chair with no vote required.
To move an amendment to the floor, recognition by the Chair
and introduction of the amendment will suffice; no vote
shall be required. Once an amendment has been brought to
the floor, the Committee shall consider only the amendments
and not the Resolutions until final action on the amendment
has been taken (except to the extent that the amendment
pertains to the Resolution).
_93__ Definition of Amendment and Voting on Amendments. An
amendment is a motion that adds to, deletes from, or revises
any part of a resolution. A series of alterations proposed
by a single delegation to the same resolution shall be
considered as a single amendment unless a motion is made
to divide it.
__94_ Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all substantive
debate on the matters before the body at that time, except
when such a motion would interrupt a speaker. Two delegates
may speak against closure, and the motion will then be put to
a vote. During debate on an amendment, a delegate may move
for closure of debate on the resolution. If closure passes,
then the amendment shall be voted on first followed by the
resolution.
_95__ Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second is
required.
_96__ DEBATE AND SPEECH GUIDELINES: Speeches. No delegate
may address the committee without having previously obtained
the permission of the Chair. The Chair shall call upon
speakers in the order in which they signify their desire
to speak. Delegates may not interrupt a speaker except on
a point of order or point of personal privilege. Abusing
these rights may be considered violations of diplomatic
courtesy, and can result in disciplinary action taken by
the chair. Motions should be made at the conclusion of the
speaker's remarks; by making a motion, the speaker yields
the floor.
_97__ Time Limit on Debate. The committee or the Chair may
limit or extend the time allotted to each speaker and the
number of times each delegate may speak on a proposal.
There may be one speaker in favor and one opposed to the
limitation/extension.
_98__ Right of Reply. During debate, the Chair may accord
the right of reply to any delegate if a speech by another
delegate contains unusual or extraordinary language clearly
insulting to personal or national dignity. The decision
granting a right of reply may not be appealed. Requests
for a right of reply shall be in writing to the Chair.
The Chair will limit the time for the reply. There shall
be no reply to a reply.
_99__ POINTS - IN ORDER OF PRIORITY
Point of Order. If, during the discussion of any matter,
a delegate believes that the committee is proceeding in a
manner contrary to these GUIDELINES, he or she may rise to
a point of order. The delegate so rising will be immediately
recognized by the Chair and the point ruled upon. A delegate
rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance
of any matter under discussion.
Point of Personal Privilege. If a delegate wishes to
raise a question or make a request relating to the
organization of the meeting, personal comfort, or the
conduct of fellow delegates or staff, he/she may rise to
a point of personal privilege. When a delegate rises on
privilege, the Chair shall take such action as is necessary.
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry. A point of parliamentary
inquiry is directed to the Chair for information or guidance
on procedure. This point may not interrupt the speaker.
It is a question and does not require seconding or allow
for debate. Replies by the Chair are not appealable.
Point of Information. If a delegate wishes to obtain
a clarification of procedure or a statement of the matter
before the committee, the delegate may address a point of
information to the Chair. During debate, if a delegate
wishes to ask a question of the speaker, a request to
question the speaker may be made in the form of a point
of information directed to the Chair after the speaker
consents to be questioned, all questions and replies are
made through the Chair. Delegates shall not interrupt a
speaker on a point of information.
_100__ MOTIONS - ORDER OF PROCEDURAL MOTIONS
The motions as indicated in the Short Form of Points
and Motions have precedence, in the order given, over all
other proposals or motions before the committee.
Adjournment of Debate. During the discussion of any
matter, a delegate may move the adjournment of debate on
that matter. One delegate may speak in favor of the
motion and one opposed. The motion shall then be put to
an immediate vote. Adjournment of debate on a resolution
or amendment has the effect of tabling that item and moves
the committee on to the next order of business.
See also 8.9 on Reconsideration.
Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all
substantive debate on the matters before the body at that
time, except when such a motion would interrupt a speaker.
Two delegates may speak against closure, and the motion
will then be put to a vote. During debate on an amendment,
a delegate may move for closure of debate on the resolution.
if closure passes, then the amendment shall be voted on
first followed by the resolution.
Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second
is required.
Suspension of the Meeting. During the discussion of
any matter, a delegate may move to suspend the meeting.
Suspending a meeting recesses it until the time specified
in the motion; the Chair may request the mover to modify
the time. When the committee reconvenes it will continue
with its business from the point at which suspension was
moved.
Adjournment of the Meeting. The motion of adjournment
means that all business of the committee has been
completed, and that the committee win not reconvene
until the next Annual Session. The Chair may refuse
to recognize a motion to adjourn the meeting if the
Committee still has business before it. A motion to
adjourn is not debatable, and will be put to an immediate vote.
Decisions of Competence. Any motion calling for a
decision on the competence of the Committee to discuss
or adopt a proposal shall be put to a vote before the
vote is taken on the proposal in question. If a
Committee decides it is not competent to discuss or
vote on an amendment or resolution, the effect is the
same as adjourning debate on the matter. See also 8.9
on Reconsideration.
Withdrawal of Motions. A motion may be withdrawn
by its proposer at any time before voting on it has
begun, provided the motion has not been amended. A
withdrawn motion may be reintroduced by any other
delegation.
Reconsideration of Proposals. When a proposal has
been adopted, or rejected through a vote of adjournment
or "no competence", it may be reconsidered at the same
session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting. The motion to reconsider
must be made by a delegation which originally voted
on the prevailing side of the proposal; thus,
reconsideration may be moved only on the proposals
voted on by roll-call.
Division of the Question. A motion to divide the
question, proposing that parts of an amendment or
resolution be voted on separately, is in order at any
time prior to commencement of voting on the amendment
or resolution. Motions to divide shall apply only to
operative clauses. Permission to speak on the motion
shall be granted to one speaker in favor and one
opposed, after which there shall be an immediate vote.
The first motion for division to receive a majority
vote shall become the final manner in which the
proposal is presented. Those parts of the proposal
which are approved shall be put to a vote as a whole.
If all operative clauses of a proposal have been
rejected, the proposal as a whole has been rejected.
Dilatory Motions. The Chair may rule as dilatory,
and therefore out of order, any motion repeating or
closely approximating a substantive measure on which
the committee has already rendered an opinion. Such
rulings can not be appealed.
Appealing a Decision of the Chair. Rulings of
the chair can be appealed unless otherwise specified
in these GUIDELINES. Appeals can be debated by one
speaker in favor and one opposed.
_101__ MOTIONS are actions which trigger activity in
the California Super-state Parliament (Editing
guideline #s once approved).
_102__ : Motions : Interrupt Speaker? : Second Required? : Debatable? : Vote Required?
_103__ VOTING METHODS AND RIGHTS: Each member delegation shall
have one vote in each Committee in which it is represented. No
delegate may cast a vote on behalf of another member.
_104__ Simple Majority. Unless otherwise specified in these
GUIDELINES, decisions in the Committee shall be made by a majority
vote of those members present and voting. The phrase "MSPs present
and voting" refers to members casting ranked choice votes. Members
which cast a final abstention are not voting. If a vote is equally
divided between two sums of the same value, the motion fails.
_105__ Method of Voting. The Committee shall use ranked choice
voting (RCV). The Chair, however, may grant a request for a
roll-call vote; the decision to grant such a request is not
appealable. All final votes on resolutions shall be taken by
roll-call; the roll shall be called in English alphabetical order
beginning with a person selected at random by the Secretary.
Delegates shall reply "#1," or "abstain," or "abstain from the order
of voting." A member may abstain from the order of voting once
during the roll-call; a second abstention from the order of voting
will be recorded as an abstention. Rights of explanation are
permitted on roll-call votes and may be limited in time by the Chair.
At the end of roll-call, but before rights of explanation and the
subsequent announcement of the vote, the Secretary will ask for
changes of vote. A delegation may not change from "0" to "#1",
or "#1 with right of explanation" or from "0" to "0 with right
of explanation." Those abstaining may be accorded rights of
explanation. The result of the vote shall be inserted into the
Committee record.
_106__ ONLINE VOTING: The International Parliament will
conduct elections using online voting and all votes will be
posted where they can be easily viewed by the public with the
information as to who had cast the vote.
_107__ Conduct during Voting. Immediately prior to a vote,
the Chair shall describe to the Committee the proposal to be
voted on, and shall explain the consequence of a 1 or 0 vote.
Voting shall begin upon the chair's declaration and shall end
when the results of the vote are announced. Once voting has
begun, no delegate shall interrupt the voting except on a
point of order or information concerning the actual conduct
of the vote, or on a point of personal privilege.
_108__ Supplemental GUIDELINES
_109__ PREAMBULAR PHRASES provide background information
and establish proper context for reading and interpreting the resolution.
_110__ OPERATIVE CLAUSES are set out to achieve the committee's main policy goals on
the topic.
_111__ SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR REPUBLIC OF EARTH COUNTRIES
_112__ January 1st is the best day of the year for new countries to start an
election schedules and December 31st is the best day to end activities.
_113__ PERMANENCE. These Rules, intent, purpose and function, will not
change once approved by majority vote by the elected members, or MIPs,
of the International Parliament.
_114__ Contact the International Parliament via telephone (831) 383-1409 or the web
site at http://www.usparliament.org
for obtaining more information.
_115__ We form a global union, open to all people, and a constitution
drafted for ratification by this body which shall outline and define the
provisions of this resolution, that This union shall be governed by a
world parliament; that This parliament shall be comprised of two-hundred
and fifty members; that Fifty of the members shall constitute a senate
to manage world affairs; that An executive council be organized from the
senate; that A world court be organized from the senate, along with any
lesser courts; that Continental unions shall be organized under the
world union once sufficient membership is attained in a given region;
that The remaining two hundred members of the world parliament shall
devolve to be members of the governing bodies of their respective
continental unions; that Provision be made for the creation of a world
assembly consisting of all citizens once sufficient membership is
attained globally; that All elections and choosing of world leaders
shall be tied to the world assembly of citizens, in their respective
continental unions, and that sovereignty shall ultimately reside in this
body; that Someone be appointed by the current executive committee of
the international Parliament to draft this constitution and submit it
for ratification; that This constitution be binding according to its
terms and provisions on this body and organization upon its
ratification; that The constitution drafted shall be submitted to this
body for vote no later than 17 September 2014; that Any rules standing
at the time of ratification not in opposition to the provisions of the
constitution shall be transferred as rules and laws within the ratified
system; that Once ratified this resolution and it's provisions shall
stand immune from repeal or vote until 17 September 2014, but nothing
shall be construed to prevent the functioning of this body, or the
proposal of other new rules and resolutions.
_116__ Voting blocks (communities, bands, tribes, federations) need no longer be
limited to geographical areas. People are now able to connect with like-minded
'others' from around the planet (and beyond).
_117__ SLANDERERS and ANTAGONISTS
_118__ NO PERSON MAY BE CENSORED, and no limits may be placed on free
speech by/of any other person or nominee,
including US Parliament's elected members and staff, at any time
except when applying guidelines to party/category labels/names
and parts of this rule which regulate antagonists.
_119__ NO HATE WORDS AS PARTY/CATEGORY NAME: Party/category's labels/names
may not be used in such a way that slanders or libels names of any
person or other party/categories or individuals. Those that refuse
to comply by continuing to libel others through their choice
of party name will be categorized as members of the Censored Party.
Elected members using a name or pseudonym rather than their actual
name, which libels, slanders or mimics (such as incorrect spellings),
shall have their name censored and instead will be known only as
Anonymous.
_120__ Members of any International Parliament entity who antagonize others more than once
use through the use of profanity, slander, insulting or offensive vulgar
language, harassing or chauvinistic speech, terrorizing threats, including
the threats of lawsuits against other members/vote counters or volunteers
within the International Parliament or those who use actual physical force or violence,
may be permanently or temporarily removed by the full Minister in that
Cabinet Ministry, by any of the ten executives of the International Parliament
or by the International Parliament's web page maintainer.
Donor MIP Prof Doctor Javier Otto Jorge Gold Ferrari PhD [Independent] voted on 5/1/2015:
_1__ RESOLUTION NUMBER 1 : 4/25/2015 : Zeka, Ogle and Assaf
_2__ Parliamentary procedures, terms and proportional representation
for the International Parliament.
_3__ Require all the elected members to be in communication either
through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service or
else their name will be eliminated after one year.
__4_ The number of seats on the executive may remain at ten but not more than ten.
_5__ Paper Ballot Guidelines Recommended for State, National and International Elections
_6__ The paper ballots are placed in a clear ballot box by the voter, the box
is guarded, video taped all day and the votes are counted at the polling
location the night of the election.
_7__ The votes are counted two times by two different and diverse teams of
counters, recorded/taped/broadcast by two different devices with the public
able to observe and video/livestream the counting.
_8__ The results from the polling locations will be called to the Board
of Elections, emailed to the BoE and hand delivered. All three must
match. The Board of Elections will hand tally the results from all
the polling locations, again, two times by two different and diverse
teams of counters with this being taped, recorded and broadcast and
the public able to observe, tape and live-stream the entire proceedings.
And, the same goes for what happens at the state level.
_9__ The polling location should serve a maximum of 1,000 voters and
Election Day should be a national holiday with employers, if necessary,
having to arrange for special accommodations for employees that must
work, as with hospitals. A minimum of two hours personal time to vote
will be given to all citizens and voters.
_10__ The voters' names and marking on the ballot will remain secret
but the vote counting will be publicly observable.
_11__ PAPER BALLOTS will be made confidential to the highest level possible.
_12__ VOTER ELIGIBILITY:
The voter must register their name with at least two
methods of contact; and must comply with the voter eligibility
requirements for voter's country of residence.The voter must be a voting citizen of a country.
The voter must be 18 years old or older on Election Day.
The voter must not be in prison, on parole, serving a state sentence in county jail,
serving a sentence for a felony or on post-release community supervision.
The voter must not have been found to be mentally incompetent by a court.
Non-voting class membership will always be made available.
_13__ VOTER AUTHENTICATION:
When two or more methods of contact aren't provided by the voter, then
further explanation will be considered by the Vote Counting Ministry verifiers.
_14__ General Counting, Balloting and Eballoting Guidelines for International Parliament Elections
_15__ RANKED VOTING ONLY: All voting and vote counting shall be in the form of
ranked paper ballots only (and eballots when practical and verifiable).
Consecutive numbers beginning with the #s 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. etc. must always be
used when marking on (e)ballot of all alternative decisions or names.
Deviation from this guideline will disqualify the ballot, and the ballot
will be marked spoiled.
_16__ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
_17__ THE SAINTE-LAGUE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM, Hagenbach-Bischoff method,
under ranked choice voting, for seat allocation in all multi-seat districts:
Divide the election's total number of votes by the number of seats.
This is the 1st quota.
Divide this quota into each candidate's votes, and round off to the
nearest whole number.
That's that candidate's seat allocation.
If, due to rounding, this awards a number of seats different from
the desired number
of seats, then adjust the quota slightly up or down, till, when
paragraph two is carried out,
it will award all seats.
_18__ Any resident of earth, nominee and/or proxy may observe the counting of the
ballots. Volunteer counters will conduct the vote counting.
_19__ Choices marked on "eballots" are posted for public view and are
not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of the Parliament.
_20__ EBALLOTS are ballots cast via email and must be emailed to
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org, a private email address used by the
secretary and observers for receiving such eballots. No reply email
will be sent to voters who cast eballots other than a verification
message, unless the voter indicates that he/she wishes to be self
appointed to the www.international-parliament.org site or when a
question regarding verification or validation is raised by a volunteer vote counter.
_21__ Volunteer vote counters may be added to the exploder email address
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org as a subscriber by sending the message
"subscribe" to vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org.
_22__ Telephone voting is permissible, acceptable and verification
and validations will be provided when requested.
_23__ Elections of rules shall be perpetual and the simple majority vote,
by elected MIPs who vote on rules, passes rules.
_24__ BALLOTS AND EBALLOTS: All world residents are eligible to vote in
International Parliament Elections 365 days year.
_25__ There will be five hundred members of International Parliament (MIPs) who
are elected members self appointed/self nominated for free under ranked
choice voting as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "MIPs"
and five hundred members who are donors, ranked in order of donation level and
are to be known as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "Senator" MIPs.
_26__ THE PARTY LEADER within the International Parliament is a label for the
highest ranked name categorized under each party. Party leaders are
responsible for the distribution of all ballots and rules to the
members of their party/category and lists.
_27__ Such ballots may be retype set or altered to specifically identify
their select nominees' correct name and party affiliation. All ballots
released to public used by the International Parliament's elected secretaries
shall count as a legitimate ballot and shall be presumed to represent
the correct and most current candidate name information.
_28__ BALLOT: ORDER OF NOMINEES of all names in the parliament elections
and subsidiary parliament elections will be determined by the results
caused by the voters' ranking of the nominees on the previous election's
ballots. This is known as the correct consecutive order of nominee.
Appointments and self-appointments will be listed chronologically.
_29__ NOMINEE ACCEPTANCE AND WRITE-INS:
Only names who formally ACCEPT the nomination of their name, self write-in
names and those currently already elected will qualify for the ballot/eballot
for the International Parliament. There will be a cap at 500 names for the
ballot/eballot for the free elections of MIPs.
_30__ A verifiable name and contact information must be provided in
order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
_31__ The final order of the parties/categories on the final prepared
ballot will be determined by the nominees' party name/category and
the parties/categories and will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
_32__ TIES: Ties will be broken by holding a runoff election only
when called by one of the two secretaries. In all other
cases, all the names/items in a tie will be included in the results
and will be in a new "tied" category, even if the size of the assembly
or agenda list must be expanded beyond normal size set forth by these rules.
_33__ ONLY ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENTARY BALLOT, IS PERMITTED TO BE MARKED BY
EACH WORLD RESIDENT: All living world citizens may vote one time and only
one time. In cases where a second ballot (or more) is cast, only
the latter of the ballots will be counted, the former will be marked
spoiled, deleted and regarded disqualified.
_34__ SENATORS. Donor MIPs, i.e. all world citizens who make a donation and who then
become a "Donor Member of International Parliament" (or Donor MIP), shall be known as "Senators"
once the donation has been correctly registered with the Treasury Minister and/or
is received by the appropriate clerk.
_35__ The International Parliament will not ever hold any election in a single-
winner district where a single-winner decision or name is elected.
_36__ Ballot Preparation
_37__ SPACE FOR THREE OR MORE WRITE-IN choices must be provided on each
and every ballot, in all elections.
_38__ CATEGORIZATION AND PARTY NAMES The first and most important
criterion in determining the nominee's party/category is the
nominee's most recently requested or declared party/category in
Parliament matters. The second most important criterion in
determining the nominee's party/category is determined by the
nominee's state's records, as written by the member while
registering to vote. Appointed members may be categorized with any
party/category that they wish, and the party/category of all
members is considered to be the true one. Elected members
may decide to change or switch their party/categorization at any time
by proclamation. Members automatically qualify for the ballot
in the next election cycle under the party/category of
their choice.
_39__ First and last names are preferred, however all names nominated
will be permitted on the ballot as well as the party/category of the
nominee. If party/category is not known, the label "[Info. Not Avail.]"
will be used. A nominee's name (and thus identity) may appear on the
ballot only once, so fusion voting is not allowed.
All new sign-ups, nominees and elected names within each party/category
will qualify for the ballot and will be ranked below all other names on the
prepared ballot. The order of these names will be determined first
based on the rankings of "nomination ballots", and secondly by
chronological order of the dates that the nominee's name was received.
All world citizens who had signed up since "RESOLUTION NUMBER 1" was first approved on
10/27/2014 will be automatically added as MIPs retroactively within seven days
after the approval of this bylaw item #39.
_40__ Senators are not elected during regular election cycles of
the parliament's elections but they do receive all of the same voting rights plus
special donor privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved.
_41__ RESIGNATIONS. When any elected member, executive or minister,
stands down, resigns, retires, or dies - the name is deleted. Then
the next highest ranked name is automatically elected to the
seat in their stead.
_42__ When a candidate who has chosen to stand down but then wishes to
return to the position which they had departed, then they must first
be re-affirmed by all the voters who had previously cast a vote for them.
_43__ TEN EXECUTIVES
_44__ MIPs: Once elected, all new Members of International Parliament
(MIPs) may change their vote as a "vote of confidence" for the ten
executives into perpetuity.
_45__ THE VOICE of the International Parliament will be the ten executives.
_46__ Each of the elected ten executives may pick a seat title once elected.
__47_ The ten executives elect up to sixty full Cabinet Ministers and sixty
Deputy Cabinet Ministers using the "parliamentary go-ahead.
_48__ The International Parliament's ten executives agree to rank all names
nominated by each of the other nine executives, thus guaranteeing that each
of the ten executives elects 1/10th of the 60 cabinet ministers and this
is known as the "parliamentary go-ahead".
_49__ THE TEN EXECUTIVES recruit as many
people as possible who will work in the Cabinet to run the efforts,
elects the planks on the platform and run the parliament's efforts free from
political conflict or bias. The executives do not control who
gets elected to the general assembly.
_50__ The ten executives of the International Parliament (IP) will
serve as "Founding Executives" on the unity business entity
named "All Party System Co., International Bureau", which is established
in order to report all unifying news, business, financial matters,
vote counting and results of vote counting of the IP to the public
and to serve as a store for generating sales of products and services..
_51__ SIXTY CABINET MINISTERS
_52__ MINISTRY: A simple majority vote by at least six of
the ten executives establishes the parliamentary go-ahead and
will elect new Ministers, even without the parliamentary go-ahead.
_53__ MINISTRY DIRECTORS: Ministries may elect up to fifty Directors
and any number of resolutions, agenda items, guidelines and administrators.
The fifty Directors must be elected in one at-large district and their titles
as "Directors" may be any title, for example each director may pick their own title too.
_54__ All International national Cabinet Ministers must be live,
real people and no avatars or anonymous names may be used by the
elected Cabinet Ministers. Only real names can be used and
verification of the member's true name may be requested when
such verifications are of interest from anyone of the ten executives.
_55__ HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MINISTRY:
The book "Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously" will be added as a guide to the proposed Health and Human
Services Ministry web page. For many ages, humanity has been
confused about what decisions regenerate and degenerate our living
systems. The Body itself has always held this wisdom of natural laws
for our organ/gland functioning on 253 circuits of personal powers
(but not always available until infrared could shine the light on it).
The Body's own immense wisdom can show us how our next decision
degenerates us or regenerates us (based on 40 years of scientific
research using infrared technology that can be tracked, measured and
decoded by the Language of the Body itself). This Self Evident and
undeniable truth from our energetic design makes it an unparalleled
guide to help humans make decisions (about voting, laws, or new
customs, etc.) that can regenerate us from within as well as from
without. (http://www.consciousnesssystems.com [1] to read the book).
Also, VOLUNTARY LAW: The blog site http://vlda.org/, the Voluntary
Law Development Association, owned by Jonathan Jaech will be added
to the proposed
_56__ VOLUNTARY LAW MINISTRY:
The Voluntary Law Ministry web page
and can accompany 'Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously' (that can both be used as the foundational principles
for voluntary international law). These 2 sources of wisdom can
promote peace, love and the clarity of energetic truth for successful
ways to promote each living systems' regeneration.
_57__ VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY:
The Vote Counting Ministry will make an annual award for
the "United Coalition Secure Paper Ballot Award".
_58__ TREASURY MINISTRY:
The Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the ten
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
The Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for Donor MIPs
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, Senator rankings, savings
and expenditures.
_59__ MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION MINISTRY:
Appeals of a name's removal action may be taken to the
Mediation and Conciliation Service Minister
where rules for such appeals will be written, voted upon and approved.
_60__ Donors
_61__ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donors'
funds will be deposited into a bank account which is controlled
by the ten executives of the International Parliament.
_62__ Senators: New Senate seats will be made available in a donor section of the
International Parliament's members of the International Parliament. All donors, who contribute
money to the political entity International Parliament at the minimum donation price,
will promptly and automatically become a "Senator".
_63__ Once the top Senator seats are assigned based on ranking of donation
level, then lower ranked donors "spill over" into the "Senator MPs"
section of the country from which the donor originated, the subsidiary Republic of Earth.
_64__ The Senator's donation will be recorded and should the Senator ever wish to
"stand down", then the donation amount will be not be refunded.
_65__ The numbers of seats for Senators shall never be more than the number
of free elected members of International Parliament (MIPs).
_66__ The Senators may vote on Senate guidelines and decisions from time to time
but there is no requirement for such votes which are voluntary only. These
compilation of votes will be conducted only by the Senators themselves.
_67__ Should a MIP who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Senator, BoD, committee member
and/or the same particular seat title in any subsidiary Republic of Earth,
if their donation remained on the International Parliament's records.
_68__ All Senators shall have access to all financial records for the
International Parliament. More detailed information which isn't available
on the Treasury Ministry's web page will be made available within 90 days
to Senators when a request is made in writing to the Treasury Minister.
_69__ All payments are to be in US dollars only unless pre-approval is
obtained from the Treasury Ministry.
_70__ United Coalition
_71__ Declare that all of the elected and appointed members of the International Parliament,
all countries' national parliaments, all subsidiary super-state, mini-state
and county micro-state parliaments, to be members of a national and international
"Unity Coalition" or "United Coalition" effective November 5th, 2014.
_72__ The International Parliament's subsidiary Republic "Unity Coalition"
elections shall be in two phases; one before the country's primaries and one after the
country's primaries. That way, a strong emphasis can be placed on official state-recognized
ballot-qualified and write-in candidates both before the primaries and after the
primaries, and the dates are customized for each of the country's official primaries.
_73__ UNITY PLATFORM
_74__ Conduct an international Direct Democracy (DD) election which will elect planks
to a "Unity Platform".
_75__ The promotion of the Unity Coalition's "Unity Platform" can used used as an
example of teamwork. The team can be promoted as being dynamic so that
every item is up for a continual "vote of confidence" by all the members, all the time.
That way, the recruitment of new members can take place in order to collect
more votes for improving the planks on the Unity Platform.
_76__ PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM: The ten elected executives shall elect the
UNITY PLATFORM with a series of "planks" from all the items they pick and
rank from the DD election.
_77__ Guideline of Priority and Procedure
_78__ GENERAL PROVISIONS: Guideline of Priority and Procedure. The
GUIDELINES contained on this web page shall be the official first
GUIDELINES of procedure for the International Parliament and will be used
for all transactions of business once ratified by a majority of the
Members of Parliament (MPs). These GUIDELINES will
take precedence over any other set of GUIDELINES.
_79__ GUIDELINE CHANGES: The Executive Committee reserves the right
to make changes in these GUIDELINES by 6/10th vote and to present
these changes to the delegates/members at any time. All changes should
accommodate the desires or complaints of the MPs or staff so as to
improve the conduct of business online and offline.
_80__ EXECUTIVES: The Executives of the International
Parliament may select or approve persons to serve as Chairpersons, Legal
Counsels, and Secretaries for each committee and any other position
to help conduct the business.
_81__ CHAIR PERSON: Absence of Chairperson. If the Chair should find
it necessary to be absent during any part of a committee meeting,
he/she shall designate an individual (preferably the Legal Counsel)
to assume his/her duties with the same authority.
_82__ Statements by the Executives. The ten elected Executives,
or any person designated by the ten elected Executives, may at
any time make oral or written statements to a committee.
_83__ MEMBERS: Number of Accredited Delegates. The number of delegates
allowed on any delegation of the Parliament shall be limited to
MIPs and Donor MIPs only.
_84__ DIPLOMATIC COURTESY: All delegates MUST accord all other
delegates diplomatic courtesy at all times. Any delegate or visitor
who, after being advised by the Chair, persists in an obvious attempt
to divert the meeting from its intended purpose, or who otherwise
attempts to disrupt the proceedings, shall be subject to disciplinary
action and expulsion by the Chairperson.
_85__ AGENDA
_86__ AGENDA Selection of Agenda Items. Agenda items shall be
selected by the Executive Committee. Once selected, these items
are fixed for the duration of the conference and no other items
will be discussed.
_87__ ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda items will
be considered in the order in which they appear in the agenda
eballot, unless that order is altered by a majority of the Committee.
_88__ PRIOR APPROVED RESOLUTIONS: Order of Consideration of
Prior-Approved Resolutions. Prior-approved resolutions are
resolutions that were received by the specified deadline and
were deemed appropriate by the staff. They will receive
priority over other resolutions. The order of appearance of
resolutions before the Committee is determined by the date
in which they were received, and is listed under the appropriate
committee topic in that order in the resolution book by the
Secretary. When the Chair opens debate on any agenda item,
any delegate may move for consideration of an approved resolution
on the agenda item that has been submitted to the chair with
signatories of 1/8 of the delegations present. If the motion
is seconded, the Chair will direct the committee to an immediate
vote without debate on the motion, a majority being required for
consideration. If no resolution receives a majority vote in favor
of consideration, the Committee will automatically have before it
for consideration the first resolution in the resolution book
under that agenda item that has been received by the chair with
the appropriate number of signatories.
_89__ CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL:
Resolutions that were not received by the specified deadline
may still be considered, but not until 1/2 of the prior approved
resolutions on the agenda item have been considered. For a
resolution without prior approval to be considered, it must
relate to the committee topic currently being debated, be
submitted to the chair with signatories of 1/8 of the delegations
present, and the delegate must supply enough copies of the
resolution for each delegation present. Once these conditions
have been met, any delegate may move for consideration of the
resolution. If the motion is seconded, the chair will direct
the committee to an immediate vote without debate on the motion,
a majority being required for consideration.
_90__ SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSALS: Delegates will receive selected
resolutions for consideration no later than at the time of the
conference registration. The delegates must submit resolutions
in the proper form by the deadline set by the Executive Committee.
_91__ Reporting Resolutions to the Parliament. The Chair
of each committee shall report resolutions passed by that committee
to the Parliament for its consideration. If a
committee fails to approve a resolution on an agenda item, it
shall submit a "Declaration of No Report" on that agenda item.
That topic area will not be considered by the Parliament.
_92__ Amendments. All amendments to resolutions must be signed
by one sponsoring delegation and at least one other seconding
delegation; they must be submitted on an official amendment
form for approval by the Legal Counsel and must be labeled
with an identifying number by the Secretary. Secondary
amendments and amendments by substitution are not acceptable.
Obvious typographical efforts will be brought to the Committee's
attention and collected by the Chair with no vote required.
To move an amendment to the floor, recognition by the Chair
and introduction of the amendment will suffice; no vote
shall be required. Once an amendment has been brought to
the floor, the Committee shall consider only the amendments
and not the Resolutions until final action on the amendment
has been taken (except to the extent that the amendment
pertains to the Resolution).
_93__ Definition of Amendment and Voting on Amendments. An
amendment is a motion that adds to, deletes from, or revises
any part of a resolution. A series of alterations proposed
by a single delegation to the same resolution shall be
considered as a single amendment unless a motion is made
to divide it.
__94_ Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all substantive
debate on the matters before the body at that time, except
when such a motion would interrupt a speaker. Two delegates
may speak against closure, and the motion will then be put to
a vote. During debate on an amendment, a delegate may move
for closure of debate on the resolution. If closure passes,
then the amendment shall be voted on first followed by the
resolution.
_95__ Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second is
required.
_96__ DEBATE AND SPEECH GUIDELINES: Speeches. No delegate
may address the committee without having previously obtained
the permission of the Chair. The Chair shall call upon
speakers in the order in which they signify their desire
to speak. Delegates may not interrupt a speaker except on
a point of order or point of personal privilege. Abusing
these rights may be considered violations of diplomatic
courtesy, and can result in disciplinary action taken by
the chair. Motions should be made at the conclusion of the
speaker's remarks; by making a motion, the speaker yields
the floor.
_97__ Time Limit on Debate. The committee or the Chair may
limit or extend the time allotted to each speaker and the
number of times each delegate may speak on a proposal.
There may be one speaker in favor and one opposed to the
limitation/extension.
_98__ Right of Reply. During debate, the Chair may accord
the right of reply to any delegate if a speech by another
delegate contains unusual or extraordinary language clearly
insulting to personal or national dignity. The decision
granting a right of reply may not be appealed. Requests
for a right of reply shall be in writing to the Chair.
The Chair will limit the time for the reply. There shall
be no reply to a reply.
_99__ POINTS - IN ORDER OF PRIORITY
Point of Order. If, during the discussion of any matter,
a delegate believes that the committee is proceeding in a
manner contrary to these GUIDELINES, he or she may rise to
a point of order. The delegate so rising will be immediately
recognized by the Chair and the point ruled upon. A delegate
rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance
of any matter under discussion.
Point of Personal Privilege. If a delegate wishes to
raise a question or make a request relating to the
organization of the meeting, personal comfort, or the
conduct of fellow delegates or staff, he/she may rise to
a point of personal privilege. When a delegate rises on
privilege, the Chair shall take such action as is necessary.
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry. A point of parliamentary
inquiry is directed to the Chair for information or guidance
on procedure. This point may not interrupt the speaker.
It is a question and does not require seconding or allow
for debate. Replies by the Chair are not appealable.
Point of Information. If a delegate wishes to obtain
a clarification of procedure or a statement of the matter
before the committee, the delegate may address a point of
information to the Chair. During debate, if a delegate
wishes to ask a question of the speaker, a request to
question the speaker may be made in the form of a point
of information directed to the Chair after the speaker
consents to be questioned, all questions and replies are
made through the Chair. Delegates shall not interrupt a
speaker on a point of information.
_100__ MOTIONS - ORDER OF PROCEDURAL MOTIONS
The motions as indicated in the Short Form of Points
and Motions have precedence, in the order given, over all
other proposals or motions before the committee.
Adjournment of Debate. During the discussion of any
matter, a delegate may move the adjournment of debate on
that matter. One delegate may speak in favor of the
motion and one opposed. The motion shall then be put to
an immediate vote. Adjournment of debate on a resolution
or amendment has the effect of tabling that item and moves
the committee on to the next order of business.
See also 8.9 on Reconsideration.
Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all
substantive debate on the matters before the body at that
time, except when such a motion would interrupt a speaker.
Two delegates may speak against closure, and the motion
will then be put to a vote. During debate on an amendment,
a delegate may move for closure of debate on the resolution.
if closure passes, then the amendment shall be voted on
first followed by the resolution.
Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second
is required.
Suspension of the Meeting. During the discussion of
any matter, a delegate may move to suspend the meeting.
Suspending a meeting recesses it until the time specified
in the motion; the Chair may request the mover to modify
the time. When the committee reconvenes it will continue
with its business from the point at which suspension was
moved.
Adjournment of the Meeting. The motion of adjournment
means that all business of the committee has been
completed, and that the committee win not reconvene
until the next Annual Session. The Chair may refuse
to recognize a motion to adjourn the meeting if the
Committee still has business before it. A motion to
adjourn is not debatable, and will be put to an immediate vote.
Decisions of Competence. Any motion calling for a
decision on the competence of the Committee to discuss
or adopt a proposal shall be put to a vote before the
vote is taken on the proposal in question. If a
Committee decides it is not competent to discuss or
vote on an amendment or resolution, the effect is the
same as adjourning debate on the matter. See also 8.9
on Reconsideration.
Withdrawal of Motions. A motion may be withdrawn
by its proposer at any time before voting on it has
begun, provided the motion has not been amended. A
withdrawn motion may be reintroduced by any other
delegation.
Reconsideration of Proposals. When a proposal has
been adopted, or rejected through a vote of adjournment
or "no competence", it may be reconsidered at the same
session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting. The motion to reconsider
must be made by a delegation which originally voted
on the prevailing side of the proposal; thus,
reconsideration may be moved only on the proposals
voted on by roll-call.
Division of the Question. A motion to divide the
question, proposing that parts of an amendment or
resolution be voted on separately, is in order at any
time prior to commencement of voting on the amendment
or resolution. Motions to divide shall apply only to
operative clauses. Permission to speak on the motion
shall be granted to one speaker in favor and one
opposed, after which there shall be an immediate vote.
The first motion for division to receive a majority
vote shall become the final manner in which the
proposal is presented. Those parts of the proposal
which are approved shall be put to a vote as a whole.
If all operative clauses of a proposal have been
rejected, the proposal as a whole has been rejected.
Dilatory Motions. The Chair may rule as dilatory,
and therefore out of order, any motion repeating or
closely approximating a substantive measure on which
the committee has already rendered an opinion. Such
rulings can not be appealed.
Appealing a Decision of the Chair. Rulings of
the chair can be appealed unless otherwise specified
in these GUIDELINES. Appeals can be debated by one
speaker in favor and one opposed.
_101__ MOTIONS are actions which trigger activity in
the California Super-state Parliament (Editing
guideline #s once approved).
_102__ : Motions : Interrupt Speaker? : Second Required? : Debatable? : Vote Required?
_103__ VOTING METHODS AND RIGHTS: Each member delegation shall
have one vote in each Committee in which it is represented. No
delegate may cast a vote on behalf of another member.
_104__ Simple Majority. Unless otherwise specified in these
GUIDELINES, decisions in the Committee shall be made by a majority
vote of those members present and voting. The phrase "MSPs present
and voting" refers to members casting ranked choice votes. Members
which cast a final abstention are not voting. If a vote is equally
divided between two sums of the same value, the motion fails.
_105__ Method of Voting. The Committee shall use ranked choice
voting (RCV). The Chair, however, may grant a request for a
roll-call vote; the decision to grant such a request is not
appealable. All final votes on resolutions shall be taken by
roll-call; the roll shall be called in English alphabetical order
beginning with a person selected at random by the Secretary.
Delegates shall reply "#1," or "abstain," or "abstain from the order
of voting." A member may abstain from the order of voting once
during the roll-call; a second abstention from the order of voting
will be recorded as an abstention. Rights of explanation are
permitted on roll-call votes and may be limited in time by the Chair.
At the end of roll-call, but before rights of explanation and the
subsequent announcement of the vote, the Secretary will ask for
changes of vote. A delegation may not change from "0" to "#1",
or "#1 with right of explanation" or from "0" to "0 with right
of explanation." Those abstaining may be accorded rights of
explanation. The result of the vote shall be inserted into the
Committee record.
_106__ ONLINE VOTING: The International Parliament will
conduct elections using online voting and all votes will be
posted where they can be easily viewed by the public with the
information as to who had cast the vote.
_107__ Conduct during Voting. Immediately prior to a vote,
the Chair shall describe to the Committee the proposal to be
voted on, and shall explain the consequence of a 1 or 0 vote.
Voting shall begin upon the chair's declaration and shall end
when the results of the vote are announced. Once voting has
begun, no delegate shall interrupt the voting except on a
point of order or information concerning the actual conduct
of the vote, or on a point of personal privilege.
_108__ Supplemental GUIDELINES
_109__ PREAMBULAR PHRASES provide background information
and establish proper context for reading and interpreting the resolution.
_110__ OPERATIVE CLAUSES are set out to achieve the committee's main policy goals on
the topic.
_111__ SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR REPUBLIC OF EARTH COUNTRIES
_112__ January 1st is the best day of the year for new countries to start an
election schedules and December 31st is the best day to end activities.
_113__ PERMANENCE. These Rules, intent, purpose and function, will not
change once approved by majority vote by the elected members, or MIPs,
of the International Parliament.
_114__ Contact the International Parliament via telephone (831) 383-1409 or the web
site at http://www.usparliament.org
for obtaining more information.
_115__ We form a global union, open to all people, and a constitution
drafted for ratification by this body which shall outline and define the
provisions of this resolution, that This union shall be governed by a
world parliament; that This parliament shall be comprised of two-hundred
and fifty members; that Fifty of the members shall constitute a senate
to manage world affairs; that An executive council be organized from the
senate; that A world court be organized from the senate, along with any
lesser courts; that Continental unions shall be organized under the
world union once sufficient membership is attained in a given region;
that The remaining two hundred members of the world parliament shall
devolve to be members of the governing bodies of their respective
continental unions; that Provision be made for the creation of a world
assembly consisting of all citizens once sufficient membership is
attained globally; that All elections and choosing of world leaders
shall be tied to the world assembly of citizens, in their respective
continental unions, and that sovereignty shall ultimately reside in this
body; that Someone be appointed by the current executive committee of
the international Parliament to draft this constitution and submit it
for ratification; that This constitution be binding according to its
terms and provisions on this body and organization upon its
ratification; that The constitution drafted shall be submitted to this
body for vote no later than 17 September 2014; that Any rules standing
at the time of ratification not in opposition to the provisions of the
constitution shall be transferred as rules and laws within the ratified
system; that Once ratified this resolution and it's provisions shall
stand immune from repeal or vote until 17 September 2014, but nothing
shall be construed to prevent the functioning of this body, or the
proposal of other new rules and resolutions.
_116__ Voting blocks (communities, bands, tribes, federations) need no longer be
limited to geographical areas. People are now able to connect with like-minded
'others' from around the planet (and beyond).
_117__ SLANDERERS and ANTAGONISTS
_118__ NO PERSON MAY BE CENSORED, and no limits may be placed on free
speech by/of any other person or nominee,
including US Parliament's elected members and staff, at any time
except when applying guidelines to party/category labels/names
and parts of this rule which regulate antagonists.
_119__ NO HATE WORDS AS PARTY/CATEGORY NAME: Party/category's labels/names
may not be used in such a way that slanders or libels names of any
person or other party/categories or individuals. Those that refuse
to comply by continuing to libel others through their choice
of party name will be categorized as members of the Censored Party.
Elected members using a name or pseudonym rather than their actual
name, which libels, slanders or mimics (such as incorrect spellings),
shall have their name censored and instead will be known only as
Anonymous.
_120__ Members of any International Parliament entity who antagonize others more than once
use through the use of profanity, slander, insulting or offensive vulgar
language, harassing or chauvinistic speech, terrorizing threats, including
the threats of lawsuits against other members/vote counters or volunteers
within the International Parliament or those who use actual physical force or violence,
may be permanently or temporarily removed by the full Minister in that
Cabinet Ministry, by any of the ten executives of the International Parliament
or by the International Parliament's web page maintainer.
Below are Eballots cast by from Knight, Wells, Tidwell and Luckett Cast on 10/27/2014
Marked by Jim Doyle on 10/11/2015
__1_ RESOLUTION NUMBER 1 : 6/14/2015 Ogle and Doyle
_2__ Parliamentary procedures, terms and pure proportional representation (PR)
for the International Parliament.
_3__ Require all the elected members to be in communication either
through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service or
else their name will be eliminated after one year.
_4__ The number of seats on the executive may remain at ten but not more than ten.
_5__ Paper Ballot Guidelines Recommended for State, National and International Elections
_6__ The paper ballots are placed in a clear ballot box by the voter, the box
is guarded, video taped all day and the votes are counted at the polling
location the night of the election.
_7__ The votes are counted two times by two different and diverse teams of
counters, recorded/taped/broadcast by two different devices with the public
able to observe and video/livestream the counting.
_8__ The results from the polling locations will be called to the Board
of Elections, emailed to the BoE and hand delivered. All three must
match. The Board of Elections will hand tally the results from all
the polling locations, again, two times by two different and diverse
teams of counters with this being taped, recorded and broadcast and
the public able to observe, tape and live-stream the entire proceedings.
And, the same goes for what happens at the state level.
_9__ The polling location should serve a maximum of 1,000 voters and
Election Day should be a national holiday with employers, if necessary,
having to arrange for special accommodations for employees that must
work, as with hospitals. A minimum of two hours personal time to vote
will be given to all citizens and voters.
_10__ The voters' names and marking on the ballot will remain secret
but the vote counting will be publicly observable.
_11__ PAPER BALLOTS will be made confidential to the highest level possible.
_12__ VOTER ELIGIBILITY:
The voter must register their name with at least two
methods of contact; and must comply with the voter eligibility
requirements for voter's country of residence.The voter must be a voting citizen of a country.
The voter must be 18 years old or older on Election Day.
The voter must not be in prison, on parole, serving a state sentence in county jail,
serving a sentence for a felony or on post-release community supervision.
The voter must not have been found to be mentally incompetent by a court.
Non-voting class membership will always be made available.
_13__ VOTER AUTHENTICATION:
When two or more methods of contact aren't provided by the voter, then
further explanation will be considered by the Vote Counting Ministry verifiers.
Additional Measures
_14__ General Counting, Balloting and Eballoting Guidelines for International Parliament Elections
_15__ RANKED VOTING ONLY: All voting and vote counting shall be in the form of
ranked paper ballots only (and eballots when practical and verifiable).
Consecutive numbers beginning with the #s 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. etc. must always be
used when marking on (e)ballot of all alternative decisions or names.
Deviation from this guideline will disqualify the ballot, and the ballot
will be marked spoiled.
_16__ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
_17__ THE SAINTE-LAGUE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM, Hagenbach-Bischoff method,
under ranked choice voting, for seat allocation in all multi-seat districts:
Divide the election's total number of votes by the number of seats.
This is the 1st quota.
Divide this quota into each candidate's votes, and round off to the
nearest whole number.
That's that candidate's seat allocation.
If, due to rounding, this awards a number of seats different from
the desired number
of seats, then adjust the quota slightly up or down, till, when
paragraph two is carried out,
it will award all seats.
_18__ Any resident of earth, nominee and/or proxy may observe the counting of the
ballots. Volunteer counters will conduct the vote counting.
_19__ Choices marked on "eballots" are posted for public view and are
not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of the Parliament.
_20__ EBALLOTS are ballots cast via email and must be emailed to
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org, a private email address used by the
secretary and observers for receiving such eballots. No reply email
will be sent to voters who cast eballots other than a verification
message, unless the voter indicates that he/she wishes to be self
appointed to the www.international-parliament.org site or when a
question regarding verification or validation is raised by a volunteer vote counter.
_21__ Volunteer vote counters may be added to the exploder email address
vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org as a subscriber by sending the message
"subscribe" to vvc "at" allpartysystem "dot" org.
_22__ Telephone voting is permissible, acceptable and verification
and validations will be provided when requested.
_23__ Elections of rules shall be perpetual and the simple majority vote,
by elected MIPs who vote on rules, passes rules.
_24__ BALLOTS AND EBALLOTS: All world residents are eligible to vote in
International Parliament Elections 365 days year.
_25__ There will be five hundred members of International Parliament (MIPs) who
are elected members self appointed/self nominated for free under ranked
choice voting as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "MIPs"
and five hundred members who are donors, ranked in order of donation level and
are to be known as one 500-member at-large district to be known as "Senator" MIPs.
_26__ THE PARTY LEADER within the International Parliament is a label for the
highest ranked name categorized under each party. Party leaders are
responsible for the distribution of all ballots and rules to the
members of their party/category and lists.
_27__ Such ballots may be retype set or altered to specifically identify
their select nominees' correct name and party affiliation. All ballots
released to public used by the International Parliament's elected secretaries
shall count as a legitimate ballot and shall be presumed to represent
the correct and most current candidate name information.
_27__ BALLOT: ORDER OF NOMINEES of all names in the parliament elections
and subsidiary parliament elections will be determined by the results
caused by the voters' ranking of the nominees on the previous election's
ballots. This is known as the correct consecutive order of nominee.
Appointments and self-appointments will be listed chronologically.
_29__ NOMINEE ACCEPTANCE AND WRITE-INS:
Only names who formally ACCEPT the nomination of their name, self write-in
names and those currently already elected will qualify for the ballot/eballot
for the International Parliament. There will be a cap at 500 names for the
ballot/eballot for the free elections of MIPs.
_30__ A verifiable name and contact information must be provided in
order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
_31__ The final order of the parties/categories on the final prepared
ballot will be determined by the nominees' party name/category and
the parties/categories and will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
_32__ TIES: Ties will be broken by holding a runoff election only
when called by one of the two secretaries. In all other
cases, all the names/items in a tie will be included in the results
and will be in a new "tied" category, even if the size of the assembly
or agenda list must be expanded beyond normal size set forth by these rules.
_33__ ONLY ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENTARY BALLOT, IS PERMITTED TO BE MARKED BY
EACH WORLD RESIDENT: All living world citizens may vote one time and only
one time. In cases where a second ballot (or more) is cast, only
the latter of the ballots will be counted, the former will be marked
spoiled, deleted and regarded disqualified.
_34__ Senators (Donors)
_35__ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donors'
funds will be deposited into a bank account which is controlled
by the ten executives of the International Parliament.
_36__ Senators: New Senate seats will be made available in a donor section of the
International Parliament's members of the International Parliament. All donors, who contribute
money to the political entity International Parliament at the minimum donation price,
will promptly and automatically become a "Senator".
_37__ Senators are not elected during regular election cycles of
the parliament's elections but they do receive all of the same voting rights plus
special donor privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved.
SENATORS. Donor MIPs, i.e. all world citizens who make a donation
shall be known as "Senator" once the donation has been correctly registered
with the Treasury Minister and/or is received by the appropriate clerk
and Senators will be grouped into five donor level groups.
LEVEL FIVE. Services provided for a $0. to $29.99 donation (level five):
LEVEL FOUR. Services provided for a $30. to $49.99 donation (level four):
LEVEL THREE. Services provided for a $50.00 to $149.99. donation (level three):
LEVEL TWO. Services provided for a $150. to $599.99 donation (level two):
LEVEL ONE. Services provided for a $600. and more donation (level one):
Upon approval of this bylaw item, all Senators' current donation levels,
shall have their previous fee levels apply retroactively to new benefits
under the same new fee levels with corresponding cost payments.
"Voting Stoppage"
Whenever a financial crisis occurs where the costs for paying basic
maintenance of the International Parliament are not being met, including
the costs of domain hosting, web design and obligations to all of the Senators, then the
Treasury and/or Vote Counting Ministry can place end to all introductions of free membership
sign ups of Members of International Parliament (MIPs) and other free services
provided by the Vote Counting Ministry and this ending will be known as a "voting stoppage".
This bylaw item can also affect the internal Cabinet voting by Ministers, but it will not
include/affect "votes of confidence" by the MIPs, voting by Senators current in dues and the
voting for election of Cabinet Ministers (parliamentary go-ahead) by the Ten Executives.
The voting stoppage will terminate either upon
the recommendation/consensus to end it by both the Treasury and Vote Counting Ministries,
or once the numbers of Senators reaches the same number of free MIPs within
the general International Parliament's assembly membership.
Diplomatic Passports
Some ministers and deputies will be traveling a lot abroad. At the airports
and borders a diplomatic passport would make sense. Even for the professional
legitimacy to foreign politicians.
ID Cards
For activities within the country an ID card is sufficient. However, a
professionally designed plastic card should be used here. Since the
International Parliament nevertheless plays an important role in the
world standard, you should already pay attention to a professional public image.
_38__ Once the top Senator seats are assigned based on ranking of donation
level, then lower ranked donors "spill over" into the "Senator MPs"
section of the subsidiary Republic of Earth, the country from which the donor originated.
_39__ The Senator's donation will be recorded and should the Senator ever wish to
"stand down", then the donation amount will be not be refunded.
_40__ The numbers of seats for Senators shall never be more than the number
of free elected members of International Parliament (MIPs).
_41__ The Senators may vote on Senate guidelines and decisions from time to time
but there is no requirement for such votes which are voluntary only. These
compilation of votes will be conducted only by the Senators themselves.
_42__ Should a MIP who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Senator, BoD, committee member
and/or the same particular seat title in any subsidiary Republic of Earth,
if their donation remained on the International Parliament's records.
_43__ All Senators shall have access to all financial records for the
International Parliament. More detailed information which isn't available
on the Treasury Ministry's web page will be made available within 90 days
to Senators when a request is made in writing to the Treasury Minister.
_44__ All payments are to be in US dollars only unless pre-approval is
obtained from the Treasury Ministry.
_45__ The International Parliament will not ever hold any election in a single-
winner district where a single-winner decision or name is elected.
_46__ Ballot Preparation
_47__ SPACE FOR THREE OR MORE WRITE-IN choices must be provided on each
and every ballot, in all elections.
_48__ CATEGORIZATION AND PARTY NAMES The first and most important
criterion in determining the nominee's party/category is the
nominee's most recently requested or declared party/category in
Parliament matters. The second most important criterion in
determining the nominee's party/category is determined by the
nominee's state's records, as written by the member while
registering to vote. Appointed members may be categorized with any
party/category that they wish, and the party/category of all
members is considered to be the true one. Elected members
may decide to change or switch their party/categorization at any time
by proclamation. Members automatically qualify for the ballot
in the next election cycle under the party/category of
their choice.
_49__ First and last names are preferred, however all names nominated
will be permitted on the ballot as well as the party/category of the
nominee. If party/category is not known, the label "[Info. Not Avail.]"
will be used. A nominee's name (and thus identity) may appear on the
ballot only once, so fusion voting is not allowed.
All world citizens who had signed up since "RESOLUTION NUMBER 1" was first approved on
10/27/2014 will be automatically added as MIPs retroactively within seven days
after the approval of this bylaw item #39.
_50__ RESIGNATIONS. When any elected member, executive or minister,
stands down, resigns, retires, or dies - the name is deleted. Then
the next highest ranked name is automatically elected to the
seat in their stead.
_51__ When a candidate who has chosen to stand down but then wishes to
return to the position which they had departed, then they must first
be re-affirmed by all the voters who had previously cast a vote for them.
_52__ TEN EXECUTIVES
_53__ MIPs: Once elected, all new Members of International Parliament
(MIPs) may change their vote as a "vote of confidence" for the ten
executives into perpetuity.
_54__ THE VOICE of the International Parliament will be the ten executives.
_55__ Each of the elected ten executives may pick a seat title once elected.
_56__ The ten executives elect up to sixty full Cabinet Ministers and sixty
Deputy Cabinet Ministers using the "parliamentary go-ahead.
_57__ The International Parliament's ten executives agree to rank all names
nominated by each of the other nine executives, thus guaranteeing that each
of the ten executives elects 1/10th of the 60 cabinet ministers and this
is known as the "parliamentary go-ahead".
_58__ THE TEN EXECUTIVES recruit as many
people as possible who will work in the Cabinet to run the efforts,
elects the planks on the platform and run the parliament's efforts free from
political conflict or bias. The executives do not control who
gets elected to the general assembly.
_59__ The ten executives of the International Parliament (IP) will
serve as "Founding Executives" on the unity business entity
named "All Party System Co., International Bureau", which is established
in order to report all unifying news, business, financial matters,
vote counting and results of vote counting of the IP to the public
and to serve as a store for generating sales of products and services..
_60__ SIXTY CABINET MINISTERS
_61__ MINISTRY: A simple majority vote by at least six of
the ten executives establishes the parliamentary go-ahead and
will elect new Ministers, even without the parliamentary go-ahead.
_62__ MINISTRY DIRECTORS: Ministries may elect up to fifty Directors
and any number of resolutions, agenda items, guidelines and administrators.
The fifty Directors must be elected in one at-large district and their titles
as "Directors" may be any title, for example each director may pick their own title too.
_63__ All International national Cabinet Ministers must be live,
real people and no avatars or anonymous names may be used by the
elected Cabinet Ministers. Only real names can be used and
verification of the member's true name may be requested when
such verifications are of interest from anyone of the ten executives.
_64__ HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MINISTRY:
The book "Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously" will be added as a guide to the proposed Health and Human
Services Ministry web page. For many ages, humanity has been
confused about what decisions regenerate and degenerate our living
systems. The Body itself has always held this wisdom of natural laws
for our organ/gland functioning on 253 circuits of personal powers
(but not always available until infrared could shine the light on it).
The Body's own immense wisdom can show us how our next decision
degenerates us or regenerates us (based on 40 years of scientific
research using infrared technology that can be tracked, measured and
decoded by the Language of the Body itself). This Self Evident and
undeniable truth from our energetic design makes it an unparalleled
guide to help humans make decisions (about voting, laws, or new
customs, etc.) that can regenerate us from within as well as from
without. (http://www.consciousnesssystems.com [1] to read the book).
Also, VOLUNTARY LAW: The blog site http://vlda.org/, the Voluntary
Law Development Association, owned by Jonathan Jaech will be added
to the proposed
_65__ VOLUNTARY LAW MINISTRY:
The Voluntary Law Ministry web page
and can accompany 'Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously' (that can both be used as the foundational principles
for voluntary international law). These 2 sources of wisdom can
promote peace, love and the clarity of energetic truth for successful
ways to promote each living systems' regeneration.
_66__ VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY:
The Vote Counting Ministry will make an annual award for
the "United Coalition Secure Paper Ballot Award".
_67__ TREASURY MINISTRY:
The Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the ten
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
The Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for Senators (donor MIPs)
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, Senator mailing addresses, contact information
and rankings, bank account savings and expenditures.
_68__ MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION MINISTRY:
Appeals of a name's removal action may be taken to the
Mediation and Conciliation Service Minister
where rules for such appeals will be written, voted upon and approved.
_69__ United Coalition
_70__ Declare that all of the elected and appointed members of the International Parliament,
all countries' national parliaments, all subsidiary super-state, mini-state
and county micro-state parliaments, to be members of a national and international
"Unity Coalition" or "United Coalition" effective November 5th, 2014.
_71__ The International Parliament's subsidiary Republic "Unity Coalition"
elections shall be in two phases; one before the country's primaries and one after the
country's primaries. That way, a strong emphasis can be placed on official state-recognized
ballot-qualified and write-in candidates both before the primaries and after the
primaries, and the dates are customized for each of the country's official primaries.
_72__ UNITY PLATFORM
_73__ Conduct an international Direct Democracy (DD) election which will elect planks
to a "Unity Platform".
_74__ The promotion of the Unity Coalition's "Unity Platform" can used used as an
example of teamwork. The team can be promoted as being dynamic so that
every item is up for a continual "vote of confidence" by all the members, all the time.
That way, the recruitment of new members can take place in order to collect
more votes for improving the planks on the Unity Platform.
_75__ PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM: The ten elected executives shall elect the
UNITY PLATFORM with a series of "planks" from all the items they pick and
rank from the DD election.
_76__ Guideline of Priority and Procedure
_77__ GENERAL PROVISIONS: Guideline of Priority and Procedure. The
GUIDELINES contained on this web page shall be the official first
GUIDELINES of procedure for the International Parliament and will be used
for all transactions of business once ratified by a majority of the
Members of Parliament (MPs). These GUIDELINES will
take precedence over any other set of GUIDELINES.
_78__ GUIDELINE CHANGES: The Executive Committee reserves the right
to make changes in these GUIDELINES by 6/10th vote and to present
these changes to the delegates/members at any time. All changes should
accommodate the desires or complaints of the MPs or staff so as to
improve the conduct of business online and offline.
_79__ EXECUTIVES: The Executives of the International
Parliament may select or approve persons to serve as Chairpersons, Legal
Counsels, and Secretaries for each committee and any other position
to help conduct the business.
_80__ CHAIR PERSON: Absence of Chairperson. If the Chair should find
it necessary to be absent during any part of a committee meeting,
he/she shall designate an individual (preferably the Legal Counsel)
to assume his/her duties with the same authority.
_81__ Statements by the Executives. The ten elected Executives,
or any person designated by the ten elected Executives, may at
any time make oral or written statements to a committee.
_82__ MEMBERS: Number of Accredited Delegates. The number of delegates
allowed on any delegation of the Parliament shall be limited to
MIPs and Donor MIPs only.
_83__ DIPLOMATIC COURTESY: All delegates MUST accord all other
delegates diplomatic courtesy at all times. Any delegate or visitor
who, after being advised by the Chair, persists in an obvious attempt
to divert the meeting from its intended purpose, or who otherwise
attempts to disrupt the proceedings, shall be subject to disciplinary
action and expulsion by the Chairperson.
_84__ AGENDA
_85__ AGENDA Selection of Agenda Items. Agenda items shall be
selected by the Executive Committee. Once selected, these items
are fixed for the duration of the conference and no other items
will be discussed.
_86__ ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda items will
be considered in the order in which they appear in the agenda
eballot, unless that order is altered by a majority of the Committee.
_87__ PRIOR APPROVED RESOLUTIONS: Order of Consideration of
Prior-Approved Resolutions. Prior-approved resolutions are
resolutions that were received by the specified deadline and
were deemed appropriate by the staff. They will receive
priority over other resolutions. The order of appearance of
resolutions before the Committee is determined by the date
in which they were received, and is listed under the appropriate
committee topic in that order in the resolution book by the
Secretary. When the Chair opens debate on any agenda item,
any delegate may move for consideration of an approved resolution
on the agenda item that has been submitted to the chair with
signatories of 1/8 of the delegations present. If the motion
is seconded, the Chair will direct the committee to an immediate
vote without debate on the motion, a majority being required for
consideration. If no resolution receives a majority vote in favor
of consideration, the Committee will automatically have before it
for consideration the first resolution in the resolution book
under that agenda item that has been received by the chair with
the appropriate number of signatories.
_88__ CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL:
Resolutions that were not received by the specified deadline
may still be considered, but not until 1/2 of the prior approved
resolutions on the agenda item have been considered. For a
resolution without prior approval to be considered, it must
relate to the committee topic currently being debated, be
submitted to the chair with signatories of 1/8 of the delegations
present, and the delegate must supply enough copies of the
resolution for each delegation present. Once these conditions
have been met, any delegate may move for consideration of the
resolution. If the motion is seconded, the chair will direct
the committee to an immediate vote without debate on the motion,
a majority being required for consideration.
_89__ SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSALS: Delegates will receive selected
resolutions for consideration no later than at the time of the
conference registration. The delegates must submit resolutions
in the proper form by the deadline set by the Executive Committee.
_90__ Reporting Resolutions to the Parliament. The Chair
of each committee shall report resolutions passed by that committee
to the Parliament for its consideration. If a
committee fails to approve a resolution on an agenda item, it
shall submit a "Declaration of No Report" on that agenda item.
That topic area will not be considered by the Parliament.
_91__ Amendments. All amendments to resolutions must be signed
by one sponsoring delegation and at least one other seconding
delegation; they must be submitted on an official amendment
form for approval by the Legal Counsel and must be labeled
with an identifying number by the Secretary. Secondary
amendments and amendments by substitution are not acceptable.
Obvious typographical efforts will be brought to the Committee's
attention and collected by the Chair with no vote required.
To move an amendment to the floor, recognition by the Chair
and introduction of the amendment will suffice; no vote
shall be required. Once an amendment has been brought to
the floor, the Committee shall consider only the amendments
and not the Resolutions until final action on the amendment
has been taken (except to the extent that the amendment
pertains to the Resolution).
_92__ Definition of Amendment and Voting on Amendments. An
amendment is a motion that adds to, deletes from, or revises
any part of a resolution. A series of alterations proposed
by a single delegation to the same resolution shall be
considered as a single amendment unless a motion is made
to divide it.
_93__ Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all substantive
debate on the matters before the body at that time, except
when such a motion would interrupt a speaker. Two delegates
may speak against closure, and the motion will then be put to
a vote. During debate on an amendment, a delegate may move
for closure of debate on the resolution. If closure passes,
then the amendment shall be voted on first followed by the
resolution.
_94__ Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second is
required.
_95__ DEBATE AND SPEECH GUIDELINES: Speeches. No delegate
may address the committee without having previously obtained
the permission of the Chair. The Chair shall call upon
speakers in the order in which they signify their desire
to speak. Delegates may not interrupt a speaker except on
a point of order or point of personal privilege. Abusing
these rights may be considered violations of diplomatic
courtesy, and can result in disciplinary action taken by
the chair. Motions should be made at the conclusion of the
speaker's remarks; by making a motion, the speaker yields
the floor.
_96__ Time Limit on Debate. The committee or the Chair may
limit or extend the time allotted to each speaker and the
number of times each delegate may speak on a proposal.
There may be one speaker in favor and one opposed to the
limitation/extension.
_97__ Right of Reply. During debate, the Chair may accord
the right of reply to any delegate if a speech by another
delegate contains unusual or extraordinary language clearly
insulting to personal or national dignity. The decision
granting a right of reply may not be appealed. Requests
for a right of reply shall be in writing to the Chair.
The Chair will limit the time for the reply. There shall
be no reply to a reply.
_98__ POINTS - IN ORDER OF PRIORITY
Point of Order. If, during the discussion of any matter,
a delegate believes that the committee is proceeding in a
manner contrary to these GUIDELINES, he or she may rise to
a point of order. The delegate so rising will be immediately
recognized by the Chair and the point ruled upon. A delegate
rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance
of any matter under discussion.
Point of Personal Privilege. If a delegate wishes to
raise a question or make a request relating to the
organization of the meeting, personal comfort, or the
conduct of fellow delegates or staff, he/she may rise to
a point of personal privilege. When a delegate rises on
privilege, the Chair shall take such action as is necessary.
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry. A point of parliamentary
inquiry is directed to the Chair for information or guidance
on procedure. This point may not interrupt the speaker.
It is a question and does not require seconding or allow
for debate. Replies by the Chair are not appealable.
Point of Information. If a delegate wishes to obtain
a clarification of procedure or a statement of the matter
before the committee, the delegate may address a point of
information to the Chair. During debate, if a delegate
wishes to ask a question of the speaker, a request to
question the speaker may be made in the form of a point
of information directed to the Chair after the speaker
consents to be questioned, all questions and replies are
made through the Chair. Delegates shall not interrupt a
speaker on a point of information.
_99__ MOTIONS - ORDER OF PROCEDURAL MOTIONS
The motions as indicated in the Short Form of Points
and Motions have precedence, in the order given, over all
other proposals or motions before the committee.
Adjournment of Debate. During the discussion of any
matter, a delegate may move the adjournment of debate on
that matter. One delegate may speak in favor of the
motion and one opposed. The motion shall then be put to
an immediate vote. Adjournment of debate on a resolution
or amendment has the effect of tabling that item and moves
the committee on to the next order of business.
See also 8.9 on Reconsideration.
Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all
substantive debate on the matters before the body at that
time, except when such a motion would interrupt a speaker.
Two delegates may speak against closure, and the motion
will then be put to a vote. During debate on an amendment,
a delegate may move for closure of debate on the resolution.
if closure passes, then the amendment shall be voted on
first followed by the resolution.
Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second
is required.
Suspension of the Meeting. During the discussion of
any matter, a delegate may move to suspend the meeting.
Suspending a meeting recesses it until the time specified
in the motion; the Chair may request the mover to modify
the time. When the committee reconvenes it will continue
with its business from the point at which suspension was
moved.
Adjournment of the Meeting. The motion of adjournment
means that all business of the committee has been
completed, and that the committee win not reconvene
until the next Annual Session. The Chair may refuse
to recognize a motion to adjourn the meeting if the
Committee still has business before it. A motion to
adjourn is not debatable, and will be put to an immediate vote.
Decisions of Competence. Any motion calling for a
decision on the competence of the Committee to discuss
or adopt a proposal shall be put to a vote before the
vote is taken on the proposal in question. If a
Committee decides it is not competent to discuss or
vote on an amendment or resolution, the effect is the
same as adjourning debate on the matter. See also 8.9
on Reconsideration.
Withdrawal of Motions. A motion may be withdrawn
by its proposer at any time before voting on it has
begun, provided the motion has not been amended. A
withdrawn motion may be reintroduced by any other
delegation.
Reconsideration of Proposals. When a proposal has
been adopted, or rejected through a vote of adjournment
or "no competence", it may be reconsidered at the same
session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting. The motion to reconsider
must be made by a delegation which originally voted
on the prevailing side of the proposal; thus,
reconsideration may be moved only on the proposals
voted on by roll-call.
Division of the Question. A motion to divide the
question, proposing that parts of an amendment or
resolution be voted on separately, is in order at any
time prior to commencement of voting on the amendment
or resolution. Motions to divide shall apply only to
operative clauses. Permission to speak on the motion
shall be granted to one speaker in favor and one
opposed, after which there shall be an immediate vote.
The first motion for division to receive a majority
vote shall become the final manner in which the
proposal is presented. Those parts of the proposal
which are approved shall be put to a vote as a whole.
If all operative clauses of a proposal have been
rejected, the proposal as a whole has been rejected.
Dilatory Motions. The Chair may rule as dilatory,
and therefore out of order, any motion repeating or
closely approximating a substantive measure on which
the committee has already rendered an opinion. Such
rulings can not be appealed.
Appealing a Decision of the Chair. Rulings of
the chair can be appealed unless otherwise specified
in these GUIDELINES. Appeals can be debated by one
speaker in favor and one opposed.
_100__ MOTIONS are actions which trigger activity in
the California Super-state Parliament (Editing
guideline #s once approved).
_101__ : Motions : Interrupt Speaker? : Second Required? : Debatable? : Vote Required?
_102__ VOTING METHODS AND RIGHTS: Each member delegation shall
have one vote in each Committee in which it is represented. No
delegate may cast a vote on behalf of another member.
_103__ Simple Majority. Unless otherwise specified in these
GUIDELINES, decisions in the Committee shall be made by a majority
vote of those members present and voting. The phrase "MSPs present
and voting" refers to members casting ranked choice votes. Members
which cast a final abstention are not voting. If a vote is equally
divided between two sums of the same value, the motion fails.
_104__ Method of Voting. The Committee shall use ranked choice
voting (RCV). The Chair, however, may grant a request for a
roll-call vote; the decision to grant such a request is not
appealable. All final votes on resolutions shall be taken by
roll-call; the roll shall be called in English alphabetical order
beginning with a person selected at random by the Secretary.
Delegates shall reply "#1," or "abstain," or "abstain from the order
of voting." A member may abstain from the order of voting once
during the roll-call; a second abstention from the order of voting
will be recorded as an abstention. Rights of explanation are
permitted on roll-call votes and may be limited in time by the Chair.
At the end of roll-call, but before rights of explanation and the
subsequent announcement of the vote, the Secretary will ask for
changes of vote. A delegation may not change from "0" to "#1",
or "#1 with right of explanation" or from "0" to "0 with right
of explanation." Those abstaining may be accorded rights of
explanation. The result of the vote shall be inserted into the
Committee record.
_105__ ONLINE VOTING: The International Parliament will
conduct elections using online voting and all votes will be
posted where they can be easily viewed by the public with the
information as to who had cast the vote.
_106__ Conduct during Voting. Immediately prior to a vote,
the Chair shall describe to the Committee the proposal to be
voted on, and shall explain the consequence of a 1 or 0 vote.
Voting shall begin upon the chair's declaration and shall end
when the results of the vote are announced. Once voting has
begun, no delegate shall interrupt the voting except on a
point of order or information concerning the actual conduct
of the vote, or on a point of personal privilege.
_107__ Supplemental GUIDELINES
_108__ PREAMBULAR PHRASES provide background information
and establish proper context for reading and interpreting the resolution.
_109__ OPERATIVE CLAUSES are set out to achieve the committee's main policy goals on
the topic.
_110__ SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR REPUBLIC OF EARTH COUNTRIES
_111__ January 1st is the best day of the year for new countries to start an
election schedules and December 31st is the best day to end activities.
_112__ PERMANENCE. These Rules, intent, purpose and function, will not
change once approved by majority vote by the elected members, or MIPs,
of the International Parliament.
_113__ Contact the International Parliament via telephone (831) 383-1409 or the web
site at http://www.usparliament.org
for obtaining more information.
_114__ We form a global union, open to all people, and a constitution
drafted for ratification by this body which shall outline and define the
provisions of this resolution, that This union shall be governed by a
world parliament.
_115__ Voting blocks (communities, bands, tribes, federations) need no longer be
limited to geographical areas. People are now able to connect with like-minded
'others' from around the planet (and beyond).
_116__ SLANDERERS and ANTAGONISTS
_117__ NO PERSON MAY BE CENSORED, and no limits may be placed on free
speech by/of any other person or nominee,
including US Parliament's elected members and staff, at any time
except when applying guidelines to party/category labels/names
and parts of this rule which regulate antagonists.
_118__ NO HATE WORDS AS PARTY/CATEGORY NAME: Party/category's labels/names
may not be used in such a way that slanders or libels names of any
person or other party/categories or individuals. Those that refuse
to comply by continuing to libel others through their choice
of party name will be categorized as members of the Censored Party.
Elected members using a name or pseudonym rather than their actual
name, which libels, slanders or mimics (such as incorrect spellings),
shall have their name censored and instead will be known only as
Anonymous.
_119__ Members of any International Parliament entity who antagonize others more than once
use through the use of profanity, slander, insulting or offensive vulgar
language, harassing or chauvinistic speech, terrorizing threats, including
the threats of lawsuits against other members/vote counters or volunteers
within the International Parliament or those who use actual physical force or violence,
may be permanently or temporarily removed by the full Minister in that
Cabinet Ministry, by any of the ten executives of the International Parliament
or by the International Parliament's web page maintainer.
Marked by Ian Luckett on 10/27/2014
_1__ RESOLUTION NUMBER 1 : 8/21/2014 : ogle and knight
_2__ Parliamentary procedures, terms and proportional representation
for the International Parliament.
_3__ Require all the elected members to be in communication either
through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service or
else their name will be eliminated after one year.
__4_ The number of seats on the executive may remain at ten but not more than ten.
_5__ Paper Ballot Guidelines Recommended for State, National and International Elections
_6__ The paper ballots are placed in a clear ballot box by the voter, the box
is guarded, video taped all day and the votes are counted at the polling
location the night of the election.
_7__ The votes are counted two times by two different and diverse teams of
counters, recorded/taped/broadcast by two different devices with the public
able to observe and video/livestream the counting.
_8__ The results from the polling locations will be called to the Board
of Elections, emailed to the BoE and hand delivered. All three must
match. The Board of Elections will hand tally the results from all
the polling locations, again, two times by two different and diverse
teams of counters with this being taped, recorded and broadcast and
the public able to observe, tape and live-stream the entire proceedings.
And, the same goes for what happens at the state level.
_9__ The polling location should serve a maximum of 1,000 voters and
Election Day should be a national holiday with employers, if necessary,
having to arrange for special accommodations for employees that must
work, as with hospitals. A minimum of two hours personal time to vote
will be given to all US citizens and voters.
_10__ The voters' names and marking on the ballot will remain secret
but the vote counting will be publicly observable.
_11__ PAPER BALLOTS will be made confidential to the highest level possible.
_12__ VOTER ELIGIBILITY:
The voter must be a voting citizen of a country.
_13__ VOTER AUTHENTICATION:
When two or more methods of contact aren't provided by the voter, then
further explanation will be considered by the Vote Counting Ministry verifiers.
_14__ General Counting, Balloting and Eballoting Guidelines for International Parliament Elections
_15__ RANKED VOTING ONLY: All voting and vote counting shall be in the form of
ranked paper ballots only (and eballots when practical and verifiable).
Consecutive numbers beginning with the #s 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. etc. must always be
used when marking on (e)ballot of all alternative decisions or names.
Deviation from this guideline will disqualify the ballot, and the ballot
will be marked spoiled.
_16__ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
_17__ THE SAINTE-LAGUE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM, Hagenbach-Bischoff method,
under ranked choice voting, for seat allocation in all multi-seat districts:
Divide the election's total number of votes by the number of seats.
This is the 1st quota.
Divide this quota into each candidate's votes, and round off to the
nearest whole number.
That's that candidate's seat allocation.
If, due to rounding, this awards a number of seats different from
the desired number
of seats, then adjust the quota slightly up or down, till, when
paragraph two is carried out,
it will award all seats.
_18__ Any resident of earth, nominee and/or proxy may observe the counting of the
ballots. Volunteer counters will conduct the vote counting.
_19__ Choices marked on "eballots" are posted for public view and are
not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of the Parliament.
_20__ EBALLOTS are ballots cast via email and must be emailed to
vvc at allpartysystem dot org, a private email address used by the
secretary and observers for receiving such eballots. No reply email
will be sent to voters who cast eballots other than a verification
message, unless the voter indicates that he/she wishes to be self
appointed to the www.international-parliament.org site, or when a
question regarding verification or validation is raised by a volunteer vote counter.
_21__ Volunteer vote counters may be added to the exploder email address
vvc at allpartysystem dot org as a subscriber by sending the message
"subscribe" to vvc at allpartysystem dot org.
_22__ Telephone voting is permissible, acceptable and verification
and validations will be provided when requested.
_23__ Elections of rules shall be perpetual and the simple majority vote,
by elected MIPs who vote on rules, passes rules.
_24__ BALLOTS AND EBALLOTS: All world residents are eligible to vote in
International Parliament Elections 365 days year.
_25__ There will be fifty member of International Parliament (MIPs) who
_26__ THE PARTY LEADER within the International Parliament is a label for the
highest ranked name categorized under each party. Party leaders are
responsible for the distribution of all ballots and rules to the
members of their party/category and lists.
_27__ Such ballots may be retype set or altered to specifically identify
their select nominees' correct name and party affiliation. All ballots
released to public use by the International Parliament's elected secretaries
shall count as a legitimate ballot and shall be presumed to represent
the correct and most current candidate name information.
_28__ BALLOT: ORDER OF NOMINEES of all names in the parliament elections
and subsidiary parliament elections will be determined by the results
caused by the voters' ranking of the nominees on the previous election's
ballots. This is known as the correct consecutive order of nominee.
_29__ NOMINEE ACCEPTANCE AND WRITE-INS:
Only names who formally ACCEPT the nomination of their name, self write-in
names and those currently already elected will qualify for the ballot/eballot
for the International Parliament. There will be a cap at 100 names for the
ballot/eballot.
_30__ A verifiable name and contact information must be provided in
order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
_31__ The final order of the parties/categories on the final prepared
ballot will be determined by the nominees' party name/category and
the parties/categories and will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
_32__ TIES: Ties will be broken by holding a runoff election only
when called by one of the two secretaries. In all other
cases, all the names/items in a tie will be included in the results
and will be in a new "tied" category, even if the size of the assembly
or agenda list must be expanded beyond normal size set forth by these rules.
_33__ ONLY ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENTARY BALLOT, IS PERMITTED TO BE MARKED BY
EACH WORLD RESIDENT: All living world citizens may vote one time and only
one time. In cases where a second ballot (or more) is cast, only
the latter of the ballots will be counted, the former will be marked
spoiled and regarded disqualified.
_34__ EBALLOTS are posted for public view and
are not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of
the Parliament.
_35__ The International Parliament will not ever hold any election in a single
winner district where a single winner decision or name is elected.
_36__ Ballot Preparation
_37__ SPACE FOR THREE OR MORE WRITE-IN choices must be provided on each
and every ballot, in all elections.
_38__ CATEGORIZATION AND PARTY NAMES The first and most important
criterion in determining the nominee's party/category is the
nominee's most recently requested or declared party/category in
Parliament matters. The second most important criterion in
determining the nominee's party/category is determined by the
nominee's state's records, as written by the member while
registering to vote. Appointed members may be categorized with any
party/category that they wish, and the party/category of all
members is considered to be the true one. Elected members
may decide to change or switch their party/categorization at any time
by proclamation. Members automatically qualify for the ballot
in the next election cycle under the party/category of
their choice.
_39__ First and last names are preferred, however all names nominated
will be permitted on the ballot as well as the party/category of the
nominee. If party/category is not known, the label "[Info. Not Avail.]"
will be used. A nominee's name (and thus identity) may appear on the
ballot only once, so fusion voting is not allowed. Other than the
"automatic nominations", all new nominees within each party /category
will qualify for the ballot, to be ranked below all other names on the
prepared ballot. The order of these names will be determined first
based on the rankings of "nomination ballots", and secondly by
chronological order of the dates that the nominee's name was received.
_40__ Donor MIPs are not elected during regular election cycles of
the parliament's elections but they receive all same voting rights plus
special donor privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved.
_41__ RESIGNATIONS. When any elected member, executive or minister,
stands down, resigns, retires, or dies - the name is deleted. Then
the next highest ranked name is automatically elected to the
seat.
_42__ When a candidate who has chosen to stand down but then wishes to
return to the position which they had departed, then they must first
be re-affirmed by all the voters who had previously cast a vote for them.
_43__ TEN EXECUTIVES
_44__ MIPs: Once elected, all new Members of International Parliament
(MIPs) may change their vote as a "vote of confidence" for the ten
executives into perpetuity.
_45__ THE VOICE of the International Parliament will be the ten executives.
_46__ Each of the elected ten executives may pick a seat title once elected.
__47_ The ten executives elect up to sixty full Cabinet Ministers using the
"parliamentary go-ahead".
_48__ The International Parliament's ten executives agree to rank all names
nominated by each of the other nine executives, thus guaranteeing that each
of the ten executives elects 1/10th of the 60 cabinet ministers.
_49__ THE TEN EXECUTIVES recruits as many
people as possible who will work in the Cabinet to run the efforts,
elects the planks and run the parliament's efforts free from
political conflict or bias. The executives do not control who
gets elected to the general assembly.
_50__ The ten executives of the International Parliament (IP) will
serve as "Founding Executives" on the unity business entity
named All Party System Co., International Bureau, which is established
in order to report all unifying news, business, financial matters,
vote counting and results of vote counting of the IP to the public.
_51__ SIXTY CABINET MINISTERS
_52__ MINISTRY: Once a simple majority vote by at least six of
the ten executives establishes elects a new Minister, then a Ministry
of the International Paliament is established.
_53__ MINISTRY DIRECTORS: Ministries may elect up to fifty Directors
and any number of resolutions, agenda items, guidelines and administrators.
_54__ All International national Cabinet Ministers must be live,
real people and no avatars or anonymous names may be used by the
elected Cabinet Ministers. Only real names can be used and
verification of the member's true name may be requested when
such verifications are of interest from the ten executives.
_55__ HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MINISTRY:
The book "Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously" will be added as a guide to the proposed Health and Human
Services Ministry web page. For many ages, humanity has been
confused about what decisions regenerate and degenerate our living
systems. The Body itself has always held this wisdom of natural laws
for our organ/gland functioning on 253 circuits of personal powers
(but not always available until infrared could shine the light on it).
The Body's own immense wisdom can show us how our next decision
degenerates us or regenerates us (based on 40 years of scientific
research using infrared technology that can be tracked, measured and
decoded by the Language of the Body itself). This Self Evident and
undeniable truth from our energetic design makes it an unparalleled
guide to help humans make decisions (about voting, laws, or new
customs, etc.) that can regenerate us from within as well as from
without. (http://www.consciousnesssystems.com [1] to read the book).
Also, VOLUNTARY LAW: The blog site http://vlda.org/, the Voluntary
Law Development Association, owned by Jonathan Jaech will be added
to the proposed
_56__ VOLUNTARY LAW MINISTRY:
The Voluntary Law Ministry web page
and can accompany 'Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously' (that can both be used as the foundational principles
for voluntary international law). These 2 sources of wisdom can
promote peace, love and the clarity of energetic truth for successful
ways to promote each living systems' regeneration.
_57__ VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY:
The Vote Counting Ministry will make an annual award for
the "United Coalition Secure Paper Ballot Award".
_58__ TREASURY MINISTRY:
The Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the five
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
The Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for Donor MIPs
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, donor rankings, savings
and expenditures.
_59__ MEDIATION AND CONCELIATION MINISTRY:
Appeals of a name's removal action may be taken to the
Mediation and Conciliation Service Minister
where rules for such appeals will be written, voted upon and approved.
_60__ Donor MIPs
_61__ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donors'
funds will be deposited into a bank account which is controlled
by the ten executives of the International Parliament.
_62__ Donors: New seats will be made available in a donor section of the
International Parliament's members of national parliament. All donors, who contribute
money to the political entity International Parliament at the minimum donation price,
will promptly and automatically become a "donor member of international parliament (Donor MIP)",
and they will be members with all voting rights on any geographical level or region that they
pick and may be moved from time to time upon request.
_63__ The donor fee is a one-time membership fee which will be tied to
the exact cost of one unit of common stock in the parliament's All
Party System Co.'s International Bureau, the same exact price of the
purchase price of the share at the time the donation is accepted.
This donation level does not represent a purchase of any stocks.
_64__ The donation will be recorded and should the "Donor MIP" wish to
"stand down", then the donation amount will be not be refunded.
_65__ The numbers of seats for donor members shall never be more than the number
of free elected members in the national assembly, political party,
or other entity in the International Parliament.
_66__ Once the numbers of members in the international parliament reach saturation
point and no seats are available for donors, then new donors with the lowest
donation level (or the chronologically newer or more recent membership
in cases of ties) will automatically spill over to a lower geographical region
or they may request to have their name moved to a different geographical level.
_67__ Should a Donor MP/BoD/political entity who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Donor MIP, BoD or committee member
if their donation remained on the parliament's records.
_68__ All donor members shall have access to all financial records for the
International Parliament. More detailed information which isn't available
on the Treasury Ministry's web page will be made available to Donor MIPs when
a request is made to the Treasury Minister.
_69__ The donation cost and payment method for the Donor Members will be the
same cost and method for all geographical levels and regions in the International.
All payments are to be in US dollars only.
_70__ United Coalition
_71__ Declare that all of the elected and appointed members of the International Parliament,
all countries' national parliaments, all subsidiary super-state, mini-state
and county micro-state parliaments, to be members of a national and international
"Unity Coalition" or "United Coalition" effective November 5th, 2014.
_72__ The International Parliament's subsidiary Republic "Unity Coalition"
elections shall be in two phases; one before the country's primaries and one after the
country's primaries. That way, a strong emphasis can be placed on official state-recognized
ballot-qualified and write-in candidates both before the primaries and after the
primaries, and the dates are customized for each of the country's official primaries.
_73__ UNITY PLATFORM
_74__ Conduct an international Direct Democracy (DD) election which will elect planks
to a "Unity Platform".
_75__ The promotion of the Unity Coalition's "Unity Platform" can used used as an
example of teamwork. The team can be promoted as being dynamic so that
every item is up for a continual "vote of confidence" by all the members, all the time.
That way, the recruitment of new members can take place in order to collect
more votes for improving the planks on the Unity Platform.
_76__ PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM: The ten elected executives shall elect the
UNITY PLATFORM with a series of "planks" from all the items they pick and
rank from the DD election.
_77__ Guideline of Priority and Procedure
_78__ GENERAL PROVISIONS: Guideline of Priority and Procedure. The
GUIDELINES contained on this web page shall be the official first
GUIDELINES of procedure for the International Parliament and will be used
for all transactions of business once ratified by a majority of the
Members of Parliament (MPs). These GUIDELINES will
take precedence over any other set of GUIDELINES.
_79__ GUIDELINE CHANGES: The Executive Committee reserves the right
to make changes in these GUIDELINES by 6/10th vote and to present
these changes to the delegates/members at any time. All changes should
accommodate the desires or complaints of the MPs or staff so as to
improve the conduct of business online and offline.
_80__ EXECUTIVES: The Executives of the International
Parliament may select or approve persons to serve as Chairpersons, Legal
Counsels, and Secretaries for each committee and any other position
to help conduct the business.
_81__ CHAIR PERSON: Absence of Chairperson. If the Chair should find
it necessary to be absent during any part of a committee meeting,
he/she shall designate an individual (preferably the Legal Counsel)
to assume his/her duties with the same authority.
_82__ Statements by the Executives. The ten elected Executives,
or any person designated by the ten elected Executives, may at
any time make oral or written statements to a committee.
_83__ MEMBERS: Number of Accredited Delegates. The number of delegates
allowed on any delegation of the Parliament shall be limited to
MIPs and Donor MIPs only.
_84__ DIPLOMATIC COURTESY: All delegates MUST accord all other
delegates diplomatic courtesy at all times. Any delegate or visitor
who, after being advised by the Chair, persists in an obvious attempt
to divert the meeting from its intended purpose, or who otherwise
attempts to disrupt the proceedings, shall be subject to disciplinary
action and expulsion by the Chairperson.
_85__ AGENDA
_86__ AGENDA Selection of Agenda Items. Agenda items shall be
selected by the Executive Committee. Once selected, these items
are fixed for the duration of the conference and no other items
will be discussed.
_87__ ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda items will
be considered in the order in which they appear in the agenda
eballot, unless that order is altered by a majority of the Committee.
_88__ PRIOR APPROVED RESOLUTIONS: Order of Consideration of
Prior-Approved Resolutions. Prior-approved resolutions are
resolutions that were received by the specified deadline and
were deemed appropriate by the staff. They will receive
priority over other resolutions. The order of appearance of
resolutions before the Committee is determined by the date
in which they were received, and is listed under the appropriate
committee topic in that order in the resolution book by the
Secretary. When the Chair opens debate on any agenda item,
any delegate may move for consideration of an approved resolution
on the agenda item that has been submitted to the chair with
signatories of 1/8 of the delegations present. If the motion
is seconded, the Chair will direct the committee to an immediate
vote without debate on the motion, a majority being required for
consideration. If no resolution receives a majority vote in favor
of consideration, the Committee will automatically have before it
for consideration the first resolution in the resolution book
under that agenda item that has been received by the chair with
the appropriate number of signatories.
_89__ CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL:
Resolutions that were not received by the specified deadline
may still be considered, but not until 1/2 of the prior approved
resolutions on the agenda item have been considered. For a
resolution without prior approval to be considered, it must
relate to the committee topic currently being debated, be
submitted to the chair with signatories of 1/8 of the delegations
present, and the delegate must supply enough copies of the
resolution for each delegation present. Once these conditions
have been met, any delegate may move for consideration of the
resolution. If the motion is seconded, the chair will direct
the committee to an immediate vote without debate on the motion,
a majority being required for consideration.
_90__ SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSALS: Delegates will receive selected
resolutions for consideration no later than at the time of the
conference registration. The delegates must submit resolutions
in the proper form by the deadline set by the Executive Committee.
_91__ Reporting Resolutions to the Parliament. The Chair
of each committee shall report resolutions passed by that committee
to the Parliament for its consideration. If a
committee fails to approve a resolution on an agenda item, it
shall submit a "Declaration of No Report" on that agenda item.
That topic area will not be considered by the Parliament.
_92__ Amendments. All amendments to resolutions must be signed
by one sponsoring delegation and at least one other seconding
delegation; they must be submitted on an official amendment
form for approval by the Legal Counsel and must be labeled
with an identifying number by the Secretary. Secondary
amendments and amendments by substitution are not acceptable.
Obvious typographical efforts will be brought to the Committee's
attention and collected by the Chair with no vote required.
To move an amendment to the floor, recognition by the Chair
and introduction of the amendment will suffice; no vote
shall be required. Once an amendment has been brought to
the floor, the Committee shall consider only the amendments
and not the Resolutions until final action on the amendment
has been taken (except to the extent that the amendment
pertains to the Resolution).
_93__ Definition of Amendment and Voting on Amendments. An
amendment is a motion that adds to, deletes from, or revises
any part of a resolution. A series of alterations proposed
by a single delegation to the same resolution shall be
considered as a single amendment unless a motion is made
to divide it.
__94_ Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all substantive
debate on the matters before the body at that time, except
when such a motion would interrupt a speaker. Two delegates
may speak against closure, and the motion will then be put to
a vote. During debate on an amendment, a delegate may move
for closure of debate on the resolution. If closure passes,
then the amendment shall be voted on first followed by the
resolution.
_95__ Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second is
required.
_96__ DEBATE AND SPEECH GUIDELINES: Speeches. No delegate
may address the committee without having previously obtained
the permission of the Chair. The Chair shall call upon
speakers in the order in which they signify their desire
to speak. Delegates may not interrupt a speaker except on
a point of order or point of personal privilege. Abusing
these rights may be considered violations of diplomatic
courtesy, and can result in disciplinary action taken by
the chair. Motions should be made at the conclusion of the
speaker's remarks; by making a motion, the speaker yields
the floor.
_97__ Time Limit on Debate. The committee or the Chair may
limit or extend the time allotted to each speaker and the
number of times each delegate may speak on a proposal.
There may be one speaker in favor and one opposed to the
limitation/extension.
_98__ Right of Reply. During debate, the Chair may accord
the right of reply to any delegate if a speech by another
delegate contains unusual or extraordinary language clearly
insulting to personal or national dignity. The decision
granting a right of reply may not be appealed. Requests
for a right of reply shall be in writing to the Chair.
The Chair will limit the time for the reply. There shall
be no reply to a reply.
_99__ POINTS - IN ORDER OF PRIORITY
Point of Order. If, during the discussion of any matter,
a delegate believes that the committee is proceeding in a
manner contrary to these GUIDELINES, he or she may rise to
a point of order. The delegate so rising will be immediately
recognized by the Chair and the point ruled upon. A delegate
rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance
of any matter under discussion.
Point of Personal Privilege. If a delegate wishes to
raise a question or make a request relating to the
organization of the meeting, personal comfort, or the
conduct of fellow delegates or staff, he/she may rise to
a point of personal privilege. When a delegate rises on
privilege, the Chair shall take such action as is necessary.
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry. A point of parliamentary
inquiry is directed to the Chair for information or guidance
on procedure. This point may not interrupt the speaker.
It is a question and does not require seconding or allow
for debate. Replies by the Chair are not appealable.
Point of Information. If a delegate wishes to obtain
a clarification of procedure or a statement of the matter
before the committee, the delegate may address a point of
information to the Chair. During debate, if a delegate
wishes to ask a question of the speaker, a request to
question the speaker may be made in the form of a point
of information directed to the Chair after the speaker
consents to be questioned, all questions and replies are
made through the Chair. Delegates shall not interrupt a
speaker on a point of information.
_100__ MOTIONS - ORDER OF PROCEDURAL MOTIONS
The motions as indicated in the Short Form of Points
and Motions have precedence, in the order given, over all
other proposals or motions before the committee.
Adjournment of Debate. During the discussion of any
matter, a delegate may move the adjournment of debate on
that matter. One delegate may speak in favor of the
motion and one opposed. The motion shall then be put to
an immediate vote. Adjournment of debate on a resolution
or amendment has the effect of tabling that item and moves
the committee on to the next order of business.
See also 8.9 on Reconsideration.
Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all
substantive debate on the matters before the body at that
time, except when such a motion would interrupt a speaker.
Two delegates may speak against closure, and the motion
will then be put to a vote. During debate on an amendment,
a delegate may move for closure of debate on the resolution.
if closure passes, then the amendment shall be voted on
first followed by the resolution.
Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second
is required.
Suspension of the Meeting. During the discussion of
any matter, a delegate may move to suspend the meeting.
Suspending a meeting recesses it until the time specified
in the motion; the Chair may request the mover to modify
the time. When the committee reconvenes it will continue
with its business from the point at which suspension was
moved.
Adjournment of the Meeting. The motion of adjournment
means that all business of the committee has been
completed, and that the committee win not reconvene
until the next Annual Session. The Chair may refuse
to recognize a motion to adjourn the meeting if the
Committee still has business before it. A motion to
adjourn is not debatable, and will be put to an immediate vote.
Decisions of Competence. Any motion calling for a
decision on the competence of the Committee to discuss
or adopt a proposal shall be put to a vote before the
vote is taken on the proposal in question. If a
Committee decides it is not competent to discuss or
vote on an amendment or resolution, the effect is the
same as adjourning debate on the matter. See also 8.9
on Reconsideration.
Withdrawal of Motions. A motion may be withdrawn
by its proposer at any time before voting on it has
begun, provided the motion has not been amended. A
withdrawn motion may be reintroduced by any other
delegation.
Reconsideration of Proposals. When a proposal has
been adopted, or rejected through a vote of adjournment
or "no competence", it may be reconsidered at the same
session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting. The motion to reconsider
must be made by a delegation which originally voted
on the prevailing side of the proposal; thus,
reconsideration may be moved only on the proposals
voted on by roll-call.
Division of the Question. A motion to divide the
question, proposing that parts of an amendment or
resolution be voted on separately, is in order at any
time prior to commencement of voting on the amendment
or resolution. Motions to divide shall apply only to
operative clauses. Permission to speak on the motion
shall be granted to one speaker in favor and one
opposed, after which there shall be an immediate vote.
The first motion for division to receive a majority
vote shall become the final manner in which the
proposal is presented. Those parts of the proposal
which are approved shall be put to a vote as a whole.
If all operative clauses of a proposal have been
rejected, the proposal as a whole has been rejected.
Dilatory Motions. The Chair may rule as dilatory,
and therefore out of order, any motion repeating or
closely approximating a substantive measure on which
the committee has already rendered an opinion. Such
rulings can not be appealed.
Appealing a Decision of the Chair. Rulings of
the chair can be appealed unless otherwise specified
in these GUIDELINES. Appeals can be debated by one
speaker in favor and one opposed.
_101__ MOTIONS are actions which trigger activity in
the California Super-state Parliament (Editing
guideline #s once approved).
_102__ : Motions : Interrupt Speaker? : Second Required? : Debatable? : Vote Required?
_103__ VOTING METHODS AND RIGHTS: Each member delegation shall
have one vote in each Committee in which it is represented. No
delegate may cast a vote on behalf of another member.
_104__ Simple Majority. Unless otherwise specified in these
GUIDELINES, decisions in the Committee shall be made by a majority
vote of those members present and voting. The phrase "MSPs present
and voting" refers to members casting ranked choice votes. Members
which cast a final abstention are not voting. If a vote is equally
divided between two sums of the same value, the motion fails.
_105__ Method of Voting. The Committee shall use ranked choice
voting (RCV). The Chair, however, may grant a request for a
roll-call vote; the decision to grant such a request is not
appealable. All final votes on resolutions shall be taken by
roll-call; the roll shall be called in English alphabetical order
beginning with a person selected at random by the Secretary.
Delegates shall reply "#1," or "abstain," or "abstain from the order
of voting." A member may abstain from the order of voting once
during the roll-call; a second abstention from the order of voting
will be recorded as an abstention. Rights of explanation are
permitted on roll-call votes and may be limited in time by the Chair.
At the end of roll-call, but before rights of explanation and the
subsequent announcement of the vote, the Secretary will ask for
changes of vote. A delegation may not change from "0" to "#1",
or "#1 with right of explanation" or from "0" to "0 with right
of explanation." Those abstaining may be accorded rights of
explanation. The result of the vote shall be inserted into the
Committee record.
_106__ ONLINE VOTING: The International Parliament will
conduct elections using online voting and all votes will be
posted where they can be easily viewed by the public with the
information as to who had cast the vote.
_107__ Conduct during Voting. Immediately prior to a vote,
the Chair shall describe to the Committee the proposal to be
voted on, and shall explain the consequence of a 1 or 0 vote.
Voting shall begin upon the chair's declaration and shall end
when the results of the vote are announced. Once voting has
begun, no delegate shall interrupt the voting except on a
point of order or information concerning the actual conduct
of the vote, or on a point of personal privilege.
_108__ Supplemental GUIDELINES
_109__ PREAMBULAR PHRASES provide background information
and establish proper context for reading and interpreting the resolution.
_110__ OPERATIVE CLAUSES are set out to achieve the committee's main policy goals on
the topic.
_111__ SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR REPUBLIC OF EARTH COUNTRIES
_112__ January 1st is the best day of the year for new countries to start an
election schedules and December 31st is the best day to end activities.
_113__ PERMANENCE. These Rules, intent, purpose and function, will not
change once approved by majority vote by the elected members, or MIPs,
of the International Parliament.
_114__ Contact the International Parliament via telephone (831) 383-1409 or the web
site at http://www.usparliament.org
for obtaining more information.
_115__ We form a global union, open to all people, and a constitution
drafted for ratification by this body which shall outline and define the
provisions of this resolution, that This union shall be governed by a
world parliament.
_116__ Voting blocks (communities, bands, tribes, federations) need no longer be
limited to geographical areas. People are now able to connect with like-minded
'others' from around the planet (and beyond).
_117__ SLANDERERS and ANTAGONIZERS
_118__ NO PERSON MAY BE CENSORED, and no limits may be placed on free
speech by/of any other person or nominee,
including US Parliament's elected members and staff, at any time
except when applying guidelines to party/category labels/names
and parts of this rule which regulate antagonists.
_119__ NO HATE WORDS AS PARTY/CATEGORY NAME: Party/category's labels/names
may not be used in such a way that slanders or libels names of any
person or other party/categories or individuals. Those that refuse
to comply by continuing to libel others through their choice
of party name will be categorized as members of the Censored Party.
Elected members using a name or pseudonym rather than their actual
name, which libels, slanders or mimics (such as incorrect spellings),
shall have their name censored and instead will be known only as
Anonymous.
_120__ Members of any International Parliament entity who antagonize others more than once
use through the use of profanity, slander, insulting or offensive vulgar
language, harassing or chauvinistic speech, terrorizing threats, including
the threats of lawsuits against other members/vote counters or volunteers
within the International Parliament or those who use actual physical force or violence,
may be permanently or temporarily removed by the full Minister in that
Cabinet Ministry, by any of the ten executives of the International Parliament
or by the International Parliament's web page maintainer.
Marked by Trevor Tidwell on 10/27/2014
_1__ RESOLUTION NUMBER 1 : 8/21/2014 : ogle and knight
_2__ Parliamentary procedures, terms and proportional representation
for the International Parliament.
_3__ Require all the elected members to be in communication either
through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service or
else their name will be eliminated after one year.
__4_ The number of seats on the executive may remain at ten but not more than ten.
_5__ Paper Ballot Guidelines Recommended for State, National and International Elections
_6__ The paper ballots are placed in a clear ballot box by the voter, the box
is guarded, video taped all day and the votes are counted at the polling
location the night of the election.
_7__ The votes are counted two times by two different and diverse teams of
counters, recorded/taped/broadcast by two different devices with the public
able to observe and video/livestream the counting.
_8__ The results from the polling locations will be called to the Board
of Elections, emailed to the BoE and hand delivered. All three must
match. The Board of Elections will hand tally the results from all
the polling locations, again, two times by two different and diverse
teams of counters with this being taped, recorded and broadcast and
the public able to observe, tape and live-stream the entire proceedings.
And, the same goes for what happens at the state level.
_9__ The polling location should serve a maximum of 1,000 voters and
Election Day should be a national holiday with employers, if necessary,
having to arrange for special accommodations for employees that must
work, as with hospitals. A minimum of two hours personal time to vote
will be given to all US citizens and voters.
_10__ The voters' names and marking on the ballot will remain secret
but the vote counting will be publicly observable.
_11__ PAPER BALLOTS will be made confidential to the highest level possible.
_12__ VOTER ELIGIBILITY:
The voter must be a voting citizen of a country.
_13__ VOTER AUTHENTICATION:
When two or more methods of contact aren't provided by the voter, then
further explanation will be considered by the Vote Counting Ministry verifiers.
_14__ General Counting, Balloting and Eballoting Guidelines for International Parliament Elections
_15__ RANKED VOTING ONLY: All voting and vote counting shall be in the form of
ranked paper ballots only (and eballots when practical and verifiable).
Consecutive numbers beginning with the #s 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. etc. must always be
used when marking on (e)ballot of all alternative decisions or names.
Deviation from this guideline will disqualify the ballot, and the ballot
will be marked spoiled.
_16__ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
_17__ THE SAINTE-LAGUE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM, Hagenbach-Bischoff method,
under ranked choice voting, for seat allocation in all multi-seat districts:
Divide the election's total number of votes by the number of seats.
This is the 1st quota.
Divide this quota into each candidate's votes, and round off to the
nearest whole number.
That's that candidate's seat allocation.
If, due to rounding, this awards a number of seats different from
the desired number
of seats, then adjust the quota slightly up or down, till, when
paragraph two is carried out,
it will award all seats.
_18__ Any resident of earth, nominee and/or proxy may observe the counting of the
ballots. Volunteer counters will conduct the vote counting.
_19__ Choices marked on "eballots" are posted for public view and are
not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of the Parliament.
_20__ EBALLOTS are ballots cast via email and must be emailed to
vvc at allpartysystem dot org, a private email address used by the
secretary and observers for receiving such eballots. No reply email
will be sent to voters who cast eballots other than a verification
message, unless the voter indicates that he/she wishes to be self
appointed to the www.international-parliament.org site, or when a
question regarding verification or validation is raised by a volunteer vote counter.
_21__ Volunteer vote counters may be added to the exploder email address
vvc at allpartysystem dot org as a subscriber by sending the message
"subscribe" to vvc at allpartysystem dot org.
_22__ Telephone voting is permissible, acceptable and verification
and validations will be provided when requested.
_23__ Elections of rules shall be perpetual and the simple majority vote,
by elected MIPs who vote on rules, passes rules.
_24__ BALLOTS AND EBALLOTS: All world residents are eligible to vote in
International Parliament Elections 365 days year.
_25__ There will be fifty member of International Parliament (MIPs) who
_26__ THE PARTY LEADER within the International Parliament is a label for the
highest ranked name categorized under each party. Party leaders are
responsible for the distribution of all ballots and rules to the
members of their party/category and lists.
_27__ Such ballots may be retype set or altered to specifically identify
their select nominees' correct name and party affiliation. All ballots
released to public use by the International Parliament's elected secretaries
shall count as a legitimate ballot and shall be presumed to represent
the correct and most current candidate name information.
_28__ BALLOT: ORDER OF NOMINEES of all names in the parliament elections
and subsidiary parliament elections will be determined by the results
caused by the voters' ranking of the nominees on the previous election's
ballots. This is known as the correct consecutive order of nominee.
_29__ NOMINEE ACCEPTANCE AND WRITE-INS:
Only names who formally ACCEPT the nomination of their name, self write-in
names and those currently already elected will qualify for the ballot/eballot
for the International Parliament. There will be a cap at 100 names for the
ballot/eballot.
_30__ A verifiable name and contact information must be provided in
order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
_31__ The final order of the parties/categories on the final prepared
ballot will be determined by the nominees' party name/category and
the parties/categories and will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
_32__ TIES: Ties will be broken by holding a runoff election only
when called by one of the two secretaries. In all other
cases, all the names/items in a tie will be included in the results
and will be in a new "tied" category, even if the size of the assembly
or agenda list must be expanded beyond normal size set forth by these rules.
_33__ ONLY ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENTARY BALLOT, IS PERMITTED TO BE MARKED BY
EACH WORLD RESIDENT: All living world citizens may vote one time and only
one time. In cases where a second ballot (or more) is cast, only
the latter of the ballots will be counted, the former will be marked
spoiled and regarded disqualified.
_34__ EBALLOTS are posted for public view and
are not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of
the Parliament.
_35__ The International Parliament will not ever hold any election in a single
winner district where a single winner decision or name is elected.
_36__ Ballot Preparation
_37__ SPACE FOR THREE OR MORE WRITE-IN choices must be provided on each
and every ballot, in all elections.
_38__ CATEGORIZATION AND PARTY NAMES The first and most important
criterion in determining the nominee's party/category is the
nominee's most recently requested or declared party/category in
Parliament matters. The second most important criterion in
determining the nominee's party/category is determined by the
nominee's state's records, as written by the member while
registering to vote. Appointed members may be categorized with any
party/category that they wish, and the party/category of all
members is considered to be the true one. Elected members
may decide to change or switch their party/categorization at any time
by proclamation. Members automatically qualify for the ballot
in the next election cycle under the party/category of
their choice.
_39__ First and last names are preferred, however all names nominated
will be permitted on the ballot as well as the party/category of the
nominee. If party/category is not known, the label "[Info. Not Avail.]"
will be used. A nominee's name (and thus identity) may appear on the
ballot only once, so fusion voting is not allowed. Other than the
"automatic nominations", all new nominees within each party /category
will qualify for the ballot, to be ranked below all other names on the
prepared ballot. The order of these names will be determined first
based on the rankings of "nomination ballots", and secondly by
chronological order of the dates that the nominee's name was received.
_40__ Donor MIPs are not elected during regular election cycles of
the parliament's elections but they receive all same voting rights plus
special donor privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved.
_41__ RESIGNATIONS. When any elected member, executive or minister,
stands down, resigns, retires, or dies - the name is deleted. Then
the next highest ranked name is automatically elected to the
seat.
_42__ When a candidate who has chosen to stand down but then wishes to
return to the position which they had departed, then they must first
be re-affirmed by all the voters who had previously cast a vote for them.
_43__ TEN EXECUTIVES
_44__ MIPs: Once elected, all new Members of International Parliament
(MIPs) may change their vote as a "vote of confidence" for the ten
executives into perpetuity.
_45__ THE VOICE of the International Parliament will be the ten executives.
_46__ Each of the elected ten executives may pick a seat title once elected.
__47_ The ten executives elect up to sixty full Cabinet Ministers using the
"parliamentary go-ahead".
_48__ The International Parliament's ten executives agree to rank all names
nominated by each of the other nine executives, thus guaranteeing that each
of the ten executives elects 1/10th of the 60 cabinet ministers.
_49__ THE TEN EXECUTIVES recruits as many
people as possible who will work in the Cabinet to run the efforts,
elects the planks and run the parliament's efforts free from
political conflict or bias. The executives do not control who
gets elected to the general assembly.
_50__ The ten executives of the International Parliament (IP) will
serve as "Founding Executives" on the unity business entity
named All Party System Co., International Bureau, which is established
in order to report all unifying news, business, financial matters,
vote counting and results of vote counting of the IP to the public.
_51__ SIXTY CABINET MINISTERS
_52__ MINISTRY: Once a simple majority vote by at least six of
the ten executives establishes elects a new Minister, then a Ministry
of the International Paliament is established.
_53__ MINISTRY DIRECTORS: Ministries may elect up to fifty Directors
and any number of resolutions, agenda items, guidelines and administrators.
_54__ All International national Cabinet Ministers must be live,
real people and no avatars or anonymous names may be used by the
elected Cabinet Ministers. Only real names can be used and
verification of the member's true name may be requested when
such verifications are of interest from the ten executives.
_55__ HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MINISTRY:
The book "Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously" will be added as a guide to the proposed Health and Human
Services Ministry web page. For many ages, humanity has been
confused about what decisions regenerate and degenerate our living
systems. The Body itself has always held this wisdom of natural laws
for our organ/gland functioning on 253 circuits of personal powers
(but not always available until infrared could shine the light on it).
The Body's own immense wisdom can show us how our next decision
degenerates us or regenerates us (based on 40 years of scientific
research using infrared technology that can be tracked, measured and
decoded by the Language of the Body itself). This Self Evident and
undeniable truth from our energetic design makes it an unparalleled
guide to help humans make decisions (about voting, laws, or new
customs, etc.) that can regenerate us from within as well as from
without. (http://www.consciousnesssystems.com [1] to read the book).
Also, VOLUNTARY LAW: The blog site http://vlda.org/, the Voluntary
Law Development Association, owned by Jonathan Jaech will be added
to the proposed
_56__ VOLUNTARY LAW MINISTRY:
The Voluntary Law Ministry web page
and can accompany 'Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously' (that can both be used as the foundational principles
for voluntary international law). These 2 sources of wisdom can
promote peace, love and the clarity of energetic truth for successful
ways to promote each living systems' regeneration.
_57__ VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY:
The Vote Counting Ministry will make an annual award for
the "United Coalition Secure Paper Ballot Award".
_58__ TREASURY MINISTRY:
The Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the five
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
The Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for Donor MIPs
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, donor rankings, savings
and expenditures.
_59__ MEDIATION AND CONCELIATION MINISTRY:
Appeals of a name's removal action may be taken to the
Mediation and Conciliation Service Minister
where rules for such appeals will be written, voted upon and approved.
_60__ Donor MIPs
_61__ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donors'
funds will be deposited into a bank account which is controlled
by the ten executives of the International Parliament.
_62__ Donors: New seats will be made available in a donor section of the
International Parliament's members of national parliament. All donors, who contribute
money to the political entity International Parliament at the minimum donation price,
will promptly and automatically become a "donor member of international parliament (Donor MIP)",
and they will be members with all voting rights on any geographical level or region that they
pick and may be moved from time to time upon request.
_63__ The donor fee is a one-time membership fee which will be tied to
the exact cost of one unit of common stock in the parliament's All
Party System Co.'s International Bureau, the same exact price of the
purchase price of the share at the time the donation is accepted.
This donation level does not represent a purchase of any stocks.
_64__ The donation will be recorded and should the "Donor MIP" wish to
"stand down", then the donation amount will be not be refunded.
_65__ The numbers of seats for donor members shall never be more than the number
of free elected members in the national assembly, political party,
or other entity in the International Parliament.
_66__ Once the numbers of members in the international parliament reach saturation
point and no seats are available for donors, then new donors with the lowest
donation level (or the chronologically newer or more recent membership
in cases of ties) will automatically spill over to a lower geographical region
or they may request to have their name moved to a different geographical level.
_67__ Should a Donor MP/BoD/political entity who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Donor MIP, BoD or committee member
if their donation remained on the parliament's records.
_68__ All donor members shall have access to all financial records for the
International Parliament. More detailed information which isn't available
on the Treasury Ministry's web page will be made available to Donor MIPs when
a request is made to the Treasury Minister.
_69__ The donation cost and payment method for the Donor Members will be the
same cost and method for all geographical levels and regions in the International.
All payments are to be in US dollars only.
_70__ United Coalition
_71__ Declare that all of the elected and appointed members of the International Parliament,
all countries' national parliaments, all subsidiary super-state, mini-state
and county micro-state parliaments, to be members of a national and international
"Unity Coalition" or "United Coalition" effective November 5th, 2014.
_72__ The International Parliament's subsidiary Republic "Unity Coalition"
elections shall be in two phases; one before the country's primaries and one after the
country's primaries. That way, a strong emphasis can be placed on official state-recognized
ballot-qualified and write-in candidates both before the primaries and after the
primaries, and the dates are customized for each of the country's official primaries.
_73__ UNITY PLATFORM
_74__ Conduct an international Direct Democracy (DD) election which will elect planks
to a "Unity Platform".
_75__ The promotion of the Unity Coalition's "Unity Platform" can used used as an
example of teamwork. The team can be promoted as being dynamic so that
every item is up for a continual "vote of confidence" by all the members, all the time.
That way, the recruitment of new members can take place in order to collect
more votes for improving the planks on the Unity Platform.
_76__ PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM: The ten elected executives shall elect the
UNITY PLATFORM with a series of "planks" from all the items they pick and
rank from the DD election.
_77__ Guideline of Priority and Procedure
_78__ GENERAL PROVISIONS: Guideline of Priority and Procedure. The
GUIDELINES contained on this web page shall be the official first
GUIDELINES of procedure for the International Parliament and will be used
for all transactions of business once ratified by a majority of the
Members of Parliament (MPs). These GUIDELINES will
take precedence over any other set of GUIDELINES.
_79__ GUIDELINE CHANGES: The Executive Committee reserves the right
to make changes in these GUIDELINES by 6/10th vote and to present
these changes to the delegates/members at any time. All changes should
accommodate the desires or complaints of the MPs or staff so as to
improve the conduct of business online and offline.
_80__ EXECUTIVES: The Executives of the International
Parliament may select or approve persons to serve as Chairpersons, Legal
Counsels, and Secretaries for each committee and any other position
to help conduct the business.
_81__ CHAIR PERSON: Absence of Chairperson. If the Chair should find
it necessary to be absent during any part of a committee meeting,
he/she shall designate an individual (preferably the Legal Counsel)
to assume his/her duties with the same authority.
_82__ Statements by the Executives. The ten elected Executives,
or any person designated by the ten elected Executives, may at
any time make oral or written statements to a committee.
_83__ MEMBERS: Number of Accredited Delegates. The number of delegates
allowed on any delegation of the Parliament shall be limited to
MIPs and Donor MIPs only.
_84__ DIPLOMATIC COURTESY: All delegates MUST accord all other
delegates diplomatic courtesy at all times. Any delegate or visitor
who, after being advised by the Chair, persists in an obvious attempt
to divert the meeting from its intended purpose, or who otherwise
attempts to disrupt the proceedings, shall be subject to disciplinary
action and expulsion by the Chairperson.
_85__ AGENDA
_86__ AGENDA Selection of Agenda Items. Agenda items shall be
selected by the Executive Committee. Once selected, these items
are fixed for the duration of the conference and no other items
will be discussed.
_87__ ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda items will
be considered in the order in which they appear in the agenda
eballot, unless that order is altered by a majority of the Committee.
_88__ PRIOR APPROVED RESOLUTIONS: Order of Consideration of
Prior-Approved Resolutions. Prior-approved resolutions are
resolutions that were received by the specified deadline and
were deemed appropriate by the staff. They will receive
priority over other resolutions. The order of appearance of
resolutions before the Committee is determined by the date
in which they were received, and is listed under the appropriate
committee topic in that order in the resolution book by the
Secretary. When the Chair opens debate on any agenda item,
any delegate may move for consideration of an approved resolution
on the agenda item that has been submitted to the chair with
signatories of 1/8 of the delegations present. If the motion
is seconded, the Chair will direct the committee to an immediate
vote without debate on the motion, a majority being required for
consideration. If no resolution receives a majority vote in favor
of consideration, the Committee will automatically have before it
for consideration the first resolution in the resolution book
under that agenda item that has been received by the chair with
the appropriate number of signatories.
_89__ CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL:
Resolutions that were not received by the specified deadline
may still be considered, but not until 1/2 of the prior approved
resolutions on the agenda item have been considered. For a
resolution without prior approval to be considered, it must
relate to the committee topic currently being debated, be
submitted to the chair with signatories of 1/8 of the delegations
present, and the delegate must supply enough copies of the
resolution for each delegation present. Once these conditions
have been met, any delegate may move for consideration of the
resolution. If the motion is seconded, the chair will direct
the committee to an immediate vote without debate on the motion,
a majority being required for consideration.
_90__ SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSALS: Delegates will receive selected
resolutions for consideration no later than at the time of the
conference registration. The delegates must submit resolutions
in the proper form by the deadline set by the Executive Committee.
_91__ Reporting Resolutions to the Parliament. The Chair
of each committee shall report resolutions passed by that committee
to the Parliament for its consideration. If a
committee fails to approve a resolution on an agenda item, it
shall submit a "Declaration of No Report" on that agenda item.
That topic area will not be considered by the Parliament.
_92__ Amendments. All amendments to resolutions must be signed
by one sponsoring delegation and at least one other seconding
delegation; they must be submitted on an official amendment
form for approval by the Legal Counsel and must be labeled
with an identifying number by the Secretary. Secondary
amendments and amendments by substitution are not acceptable.
Obvious typographical efforts will be brought to the Committee's
attention and collected by the Chair with no vote required.
To move an amendment to the floor, recognition by the Chair
and introduction of the amendment will suffice; no vote
shall be required. Once an amendment has been brought to
the floor, the Committee shall consider only the amendments
and not the Resolutions until final action on the amendment
has been taken (except to the extent that the amendment
pertains to the Resolution).
_93__ Definition of Amendment and Voting on Amendments. An
amendment is a motion that adds to, deletes from, or revises
any part of a resolution. A series of alterations proposed
by a single delegation to the same resolution shall be
considered as a single amendment unless a motion is made
to divide it.
__94_ Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all substantive
debate on the matters before the body at that time, except
when such a motion would interrupt a speaker. Two delegates
may speak against closure, and the motion will then be put to
a vote. During debate on an amendment, a delegate may move
for closure of debate on the resolution. If closure passes,
then the amendment shall be voted on first followed by the
resolution.
_95__ Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second is
required.
_96__ DEBATE AND SPEECH GUIDELINES: Speeches. No delegate
may address the committee without having previously obtained
the permission of the Chair. The Chair shall call upon
speakers in the order in which they signify their desire
to speak. Delegates may not interrupt a speaker except on
a point of order or point of personal privilege. Abusing
these rights may be considered violations of diplomatic
courtesy, and can result in disciplinary action taken by
the chair. Motions should be made at the conclusion of the
speaker's remarks; by making a motion, the speaker yields
the floor.
_97__ Time Limit on Debate. The committee or the Chair may
limit or extend the time allotted to each speaker and the
number of times each delegate may speak on a proposal.
There may be one speaker in favor and one opposed to the
limitation/extension.
_98__ Right of Reply. During debate, the Chair may accord
the right of reply to any delegate if a speech by another
delegate contains unusual or extraordinary language clearly
insulting to personal or national dignity. The decision
granting a right of reply may not be appealed. Requests
for a right of reply shall be in writing to the Chair.
The Chair will limit the time for the reply. There shall
be no reply to a reply.
_99__ POINTS - IN ORDER OF PRIORITY
Point of Order. If, during the discussion of any matter,
a delegate believes that the committee is proceeding in a
manner contrary to these GUIDELINES, he or she may rise to
a point of order. The delegate so rising will be immediately
recognized by the Chair and the point ruled upon. A delegate
rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance
of any matter under discussion.
Point of Personal Privilege. If a delegate wishes to
raise a question or make a request relating to the
organization of the meeting, personal comfort, or the
conduct of fellow delegates or staff, he/she may rise to
a point of personal privilege. When a delegate rises on
privilege, the Chair shall take such action as is necessary.
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry. A point of parliamentary
inquiry is directed to the Chair for information or guidance
on procedure. This point may not interrupt the speaker.
It is a question and does not require seconding or allow
for debate. Replies by the Chair are not appealable.
Point of Information. If a delegate wishes to obtain
a clarification of procedure or a statement of the matter
before the committee, the delegate may address a point of
information to the Chair. During debate, if a delegate
wishes to ask a question of the speaker, a request to
question the speaker may be made in the form of a point
of information directed to the Chair after the speaker
consents to be questioned, all questions and replies are
made through the Chair. Delegates shall not interrupt a
speaker on a point of information.
_100__ MOTIONS - ORDER OF PROCEDURAL MOTIONS
The motions as indicated in the Short Form of Points
and Motions have precedence, in the order given, over all
other proposals or motions before the committee.
Adjournment of Debate. During the discussion of any
matter, a delegate may move the adjournment of debate on
that matter. One delegate may speak in favor of the
motion and one opposed. The motion shall then be put to
an immediate vote. Adjournment of debate on a resolution
or amendment has the effect of tabling that item and moves
the committee on to the next order of business.
See also 8.9 on Reconsideration.
Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all
substantive debate on the matters before the body at that
time, except when such a motion would interrupt a speaker.
Two delegates may speak against closure, and the motion
will then be put to a vote. During debate on an amendment,
a delegate may move for closure of debate on the resolution.
if closure passes, then the amendment shall be voted on
first followed by the resolution.
Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second
is required.
Suspension of the Meeting. During the discussion of
any matter, a delegate may move to suspend the meeting.
Suspending a meeting recesses it until the time specified
in the motion; the Chair may request the mover to modify
the time. When the committee reconvenes it will continue
with its business from the point at which suspension was
moved.
Adjournment of the Meeting. The motion of adjournment
means that all business of the committee has been
completed, and that the committee win not reconvene
until the next Annual Session. The Chair may refuse
to recognize a motion to adjourn the meeting if the
Committee still has business before it. A motion to
adjourn is not debatable, and will be put to an immediate vote.
Decisions of Competence. Any motion calling for a
decision on the competence of the Committee to discuss
or adopt a proposal shall be put to a vote before the
vote is taken on the proposal in question. If a
Committee decides it is not competent to discuss or
vote on an amendment or resolution, the effect is the
same as adjourning debate on the matter. See also 8.9
on Reconsideration.
Withdrawal of Motions. A motion may be withdrawn
by its proposer at any time before voting on it has
begun, provided the motion has not been amended. A
withdrawn motion may be reintroduced by any other
delegation.
Reconsideration of Proposals. When a proposal has
been adopted, or rejected through a vote of adjournment
or "no competence", it may be reconsidered at the same
session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting. The motion to reconsider
must be made by a delegation which originally voted
on the prevailing side of the proposal; thus,
reconsideration may be moved only on the proposals
voted on by roll-call.
Division of the Question. A motion to divide the
question, proposing that parts of an amendment or
resolution be voted on separately, is in order at any
time prior to commencement of voting on the amendment
or resolution. Motions to divide shall apply only to
operative clauses. Permission to speak on the motion
shall be granted to one speaker in favor and one
opposed, after which there shall be an immediate vote.
The first motion for division to receive a majority
vote shall become the final manner in which the
proposal is presented. Those parts of the proposal
which are approved shall be put to a vote as a whole.
If all operative clauses of a proposal have been
rejected, the proposal as a whole has been rejected.
Dilatory Motions. The Chair may rule as dilatory,
and therefore out of order, any motion repeating or
closely approximating a substantive measure on which
the committee has already rendered an opinion. Such
rulings can not be appealed.
Appealing a Decision of the Chair. Rulings of
the chair can be appealed unless otherwise specified
in these GUIDELINES. Appeals can be debated by one
speaker in favor and one opposed.
_101__ MOTIONS are actions which trigger activity in
the California Super-state Parliament (Editing
guideline #s once approved).
_102__ : Motions : Interrupt Speaker? : Second Required? : Debatable? : Vote Required?
_103__ VOTING METHODS AND RIGHTS: Each member delegation shall
have one vote in each Committee in which it is represented. No
delegate may cast a vote on behalf of another member.
_104__ Simple Majority. Unless otherwise specified in these
GUIDELINES, decisions in the Committee shall be made by a majority
vote of those members present and voting. The phrase "MSPs present
and voting" refers to members casting ranked choice votes. Members
which cast a final abstention are not voting. If a vote is equally
divided between two sums of the same value, the motion fails.
_105__ Method of Voting. The Committee shall use ranked choice
voting (RCV). The Chair, however, may grant a request for a
roll-call vote; the decision to grant such a request is not
appealable. All final votes on resolutions shall be taken by
roll-call; the roll shall be called in English alphabetical order
beginning with a person selected at random by the Secretary.
Delegates shall reply "#1," or "abstain," or "abstain from the order
of voting." A member may abstain from the order of voting once
during the roll-call; a second abstention from the order of voting
will be recorded as an abstention. Rights of explanation are
permitted on roll-call votes and may be limited in time by the Chair.
At the end of roll-call, but before rights of explanation and the
subsequent announcement of the vote, the Secretary will ask for
changes of vote. A delegation may not change from "0" to "#1",
or "#1 with right of explanation" or from "0" to "0 with right
of explanation." Those abstaining may be accorded rights of
explanation. The result of the vote shall be inserted into the
Committee record.
_106__ ONLINE VOTING: The International Parliament will
conduct elections using online voting and all votes will be
posted where they can be easily viewed by the public with the
information as to who had cast the vote.
_107__ Conduct during Voting. Immediately prior to a vote,
the Chair shall describe to the Committee the proposal to be
voted on, and shall explain the consequence of a 1 or 0 vote.
Voting shall begin upon the chair's declaration and shall end
when the results of the vote are announced. Once voting has
begun, no delegate shall interrupt the voting except on a
point of order or information concerning the actual conduct
of the vote, or on a point of personal privilege.
_108__ Supplemental GUIDELINES
_109__ PREAMBULAR PHRASES provide background information
and establish proper context for reading and interpreting the resolution.
_110__ OPERATIVE CLAUSES are set out to achieve the committee's main policy goals on
the topic.
_111__ SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR REPUBLIC OF EARTH COUNTRIES
_112__ January 1st is the best day of the year for new countries to start an
election schedules and December 31st is the best day to end activities.
_113__ PERMANENCE. These Rules, intent, purpose and function, will not
change once approved by majority vote by the elected members, or MIPs,
of the International Parliament.
_114__ Contact the International Parliament via telephone (831) 383-1409 or the web
site at http://www.usparliament.org
for obtaining more information.
_115__ We form a global union, open to all people, and a constitution
drafted for ratification by this body which shall outline and define the
provisions of this resolution, that This union shall be governed by a
world parliament; that This parliament shall be comprised of two-hundred
and fifty members; that Fifty of the members shall constitute a senate
to manage world affairs; that An executive council be organized from the
senate; that A world court be organized from the senate, along with any
lesser courts; that Continental unions shall be organized under the
world union once sufficient membership is attained in a given region;
that The remaining two hundred members of the world parliament shall
devolve to be members of the governing bodies of their respective
continental unions; that Provision be made for the creation of a world
assembly consisting of all citizens once sufficient membership is
attained globally; that All elections and choosing of world leaders
shall be tied to the world assembly of citizens, in their respective
continental unions, and that sovereignty shall ultimately reside in this
body; that Someone be appointed by the current executive committee of
the international Parliament to draft this constitution and submit it
for ratification; that This constitution be binding according to its
terms and provisions on this body and organization upon its
ratification; that The constitution drafted shall be submitted to this
body for vote no later than 17 September 2014; that Any rules standing
at the time of ratification not in opposition to the provisions of the
constitution shall be transferred as rules and laws within the ratified
system; that Once ratified this resolution and it's provisions shall
stand immune from repeal or vote until 17 September 2014, but nothing
shall be construed to prevent the functioning of this body, or the
proposal of other new rules and resolutions.
_116__ Voting blocks (communities, bands, tribes, federations) need no longer be
limited to geographical areas. People are now able to connect with like-minded
'others' from around the planet (and beyond).
_117__ SLANDERERS and ANTAGONIZERS
_118__ NO PERSON MAY BE CENSORED, and no limits may be placed on free
speech by/of any other person or nominee,
including US Parliament's elected members and staff, at any time
except when applying guidelines to party/category labels/names
and parts of this rule which regulate antagonists.
_119__ NO HATE WORDS AS PARTY/CATEGORY NAME: Party/category's labels/names
may not be used in such a way that slanders or libels names of any
person or other party/categories or individuals. Those that refuse
to comply by continuing to libel others through their choice
of party name will be categorized as members of the Censored Party.
Elected members using a name or pseudonym rather than their actual
name, which libels, slanders or mimics (such as incorrect spellings),
shall have their name censored and instead will be known only as
Anonymous.
_120__ Members of any International Parliament entity who antagonize others more than once
use through the use of profanity, slander, insulting or offensive vulgar
language, harassing or chauvinistic speech, terrorizing threats, including
the threats of lawsuits against other members/vote counters or volunteers
within the International Parliament or those who use actual physical force or violence,
may be permanently or temporarily removed by the full Minister in that
Cabinet Ministry, by any of the ten executives of the International Parliament
or by the International Parliament's web page maintainer.
Marked by Ernest Wells on 10/27/2014
_1__ RESOLUTION NUMBER 1 : 8/21/2014 : ogle and knight
_2__ Parliamentary procedures, terms and proportional representation
for the International Parliament.
_3__ Require all the elected members to be in communication either
through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service or
else their name will be eliminated after one year.
__4_ The number of seats on the executive may remain at ten but not more than ten.
_5__ Paper Ballot Guidelines Recommended for State, National and International Elections
_6__ The paper ballots are placed in a clear ballot box by the voter, the box
is guarded, video taped all day and the votes are counted at the polling
location the night of the election.
_7__ The votes are counted two times by two different and diverse teams of
counters, recorded/taped/broadcast by two different devices with the public
able to observe and video/livestream the counting.
_8__ The results from the polling locations will be called to the Board
of Elections, emailed to the BoE and hand delivered. All three must
match. The Board of Elections will hand tally the results from all
the polling locations, again, two times by two different and diverse
teams of counters with this being taped, recorded and broadcast and
the public able to observe, tape and live-stream the entire proceedings.
And, the same goes for what happens at the state level.
_9__ The polling location should serve a maximum of 1,000 voters and
Election Day should be a national holiday with employers, if necessary,
having to arrange for special accommodations for employees that must
work, as with hospitals. A minimum of two hours personal time to vote
will be given to all US citizens and voters.
_10__ The voters' names and marking on the ballot will remain secret
but the vote counting will be publicly observable.
_11__ PAPER BALLOTS will be made confidential to the highest level possible.
_12__ VOTER ELIGIBILITY:
The voter must be a voting citizen of a country.
_13__ VOTER AUTHENTICATION:
When two or more methods of contact aren't provided by the voter, then
further explanation will be considered by the Vote Counting Ministry verifiers.
_14__ General Counting, Balloting and Eballoting Guidelines for International Parliament Elections
_15__ RANKED VOTING ONLY: All voting and vote counting shall be in the form of
ranked paper ballots only (and eballots when practical and verifiable).
Consecutive numbers beginning with the #s 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. etc. must always be
used when marking on (e)ballot of all alternative decisions or names.
Deviation from this guideline will disqualify the ballot, and the ballot
will be marked spoiled.
_16__ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
_17__ THE SAINTE-LAGUE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM, Hagenbach-Bischoff method,
under ranked choice voting, for seat allocation in all multi-seat districts:
Divide the election's total number of votes by the number of seats.
This is the 1st quota.
Divide this quota into each candidate's votes, and round off to the
nearest whole number.
That's that candidate's seat allocation.
If, due to rounding, this awards a number of seats different from
the desired number
of seats, then adjust the quota slightly up or down, till, when
paragraph two is carried out,
it will award all seats.
_18__ Any resident of earth, nominee and/or proxy may observe the counting of the
ballots. Volunteer counters will conduct the vote counting.
_19__ Choices marked on "eballots" are posted for public view and are
not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of the Parliament.
_20__ EBALLOTS are ballots cast via email and must be emailed to
vvc at allpartysystem dot org, a private email address used by the
secretary and observers for receiving such eballots. No reply email
will be sent to voters who cast eballots other than a verification
message, unless the voter indicates that he/she wishes to be self
appointed to the www.international-parliament.org site, or when a
question regarding verification or validation is raised by a volunteer vote counter.
_21__ Volunteer vote counters may be added to the exploder email address
vvc at allpartysystem dot org as a subscriber by sending the message
"subscribe" to vvc at allpartysystem dot org.
_22__ Telephone voting is permissible, acceptable and verification
and validations will be provided when requested.
_23__ Elections of rules shall be perpetual and the simple majority vote,
by elected MIPs who vote on rules, passes rules.
_24__ BALLOTS AND EBALLOTS: All world residents are eligible to vote in
International Parliament Elections 365 days year.
_25__ There will be fifty member of International Parliament (MIPs) who
_26__ THE PARTY LEADER within the International Parliament is a label for the
highest ranked name categorized under each party. Party leaders are
responsible for the distribution of all ballots and rules to the
members of their party/category and lists.
_27__ Such ballots may be retype set or altered to specifically identify
their select nominees' correct name and party affiliation. All ballots
released to public use by the International Parliament's elected secretaries
shall count as a legitimate ballot and shall be presumed to represent
the correct and most current candidate name information.
_28__ BALLOT: ORDER OF NOMINEES of all names in the parliament elections
and subsidiary parliament elections will be determined by the results
caused by the voters' ranking of the nominees on the previous election's
ballots. This is known as the correct consecutive order of nominee.
_29__ NOMINEE ACCEPTANCE AND WRITE-INS:
Only names who formally ACCEPT the nomination of their name, self write-in
names and those currently already elected will qualify for the ballot/eballot
for the International Parliament. There will be a cap at 100 names for the
ballot/eballot.
_30__ A verifiable name and contact information must be provided in
order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
_31__ The final order of the parties/categories on the final prepared
ballot will be determined by the nominees' party name/category and
the parties/categories and will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
_32__ TIES: Ties will be broken by holding a runoff election only
when called by one of the two secretaries. In all other
cases, all the names/items in a tie will be included in the results
and will be in a new "tied" category, even if the size of the assembly
or agenda list must be expanded beyond normal size set forth by these rules.
_33__ ONLY ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENTARY BALLOT, IS PERMITTED TO BE MARKED BY
EACH WORLD RESIDENT: All living world citizens may vote one time and only
one time. In cases where a second ballot (or more) is cast, only
the latter of the ballots will be counted, the former will be marked
spoiled and regarded disqualified.
_34__ EBALLOTS are posted for public view and
are not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of
the Parliament.
_35__ The International Parliament will not ever hold any election in a single
winner district where a single winner decision or name is elected.
_36__ Ballot Preparation
_37__ SPACE FOR THREE OR MORE WRITE-IN choices must be provided on each
and every ballot, in all elections.
_38__ CATEGORIZATION AND PARTY NAMES The first and most important
criterion in determining the nominee's party/category is the
nominee's most recently requested or declared party/category in
Parliament matters. The second most important criterion in
determining the nominee's party/category is determined by the
nominee's state's records, as written by the member while
registering to vote. Appointed members may be categorized with any
party/category that they wish, and the party/category of all
members is considered to be the true one. Elected members
may decide to change or switch their party/categorization at any time
by proclamation. Members automatically qualify for the ballot
in the next election cycle under the party/category of
their choice.
_39__ First and last names are preferred, however all names nominated
will be permitted on the ballot as well as the party/category of the
nominee. If party/category is not known, the label "[Info. Not Avail.]"
will be used. A nominee's name (and thus identity) may appear on the
ballot only once, so fusion voting is not allowed. Other than the
"automatic nominations", all new nominees within each party /category
will qualify for the ballot, to be ranked below all other names on the
prepared ballot. The order of these names will be determined first
based on the rankings of "nomination ballots", and secondly by
chronological order of the dates that the nominee's name was received.
_40__ Donor MIPs are not elected during regular election cycles of
the parliament's elections but they receive all same voting rights plus
special donor privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved.
_41__ RESIGNATIONS. When any elected member, executive or minister,
stands down, resigns, retires, or dies - the name is deleted. Then
the next highest ranked name is automatically elected to the
seat.
_42__ When a candidate who has chosen to stand down but then wishes to
return to the position which they had departed, then they must first
be re-affirmed by all the voters who had previously cast a vote for them.
_43__ TEN EXECUTIVES
_44__ MIPs: Once elected, all new Members of International Parliament
(MIPs) may change their vote as a "vote of confidence" for the ten
executives into perpetuity.
_45__ THE VOICE of the International Parliament will be the ten executives.
_46__ Each of the elected ten executives may pick a seat title once elected.
__47_ The ten executives elect up to sixty full Cabinet Ministers using the
"parliamentary go-ahead".
_48__ The International Parliament's ten executives agree to rank all names
nominated by each of the other nine executives, thus guaranteeing that each
of the ten executives elects 1/10th of the 60 cabinet ministers.
_49__ THE TEN EXECUTIVES recruits as many
people as possible who will work in the Cabinet to run the efforts,
elects the planks and run the parliament's efforts free from
political conflict or bias. The executives do not control who
gets elected to the general assembly.
_50__ The ten executives of the International Parliament (IP) will
serve as "Founding Executives" on the unity business entity
named All Party System Co., International Bureau, which is established
in order to report all unifying news, business, financial matters,
vote counting and results of vote counting of the IP to the public.
_51__ SIXTY CABINET MINISTERS
_52__ MINISTRY: Once a simple majority vote by at least six of
the ten executives establishes elects a new Minister, then a Ministry
of the International Paliament is established.
_53__ MINISTRY DIRECTORS: Ministries may elect up to fifty Directors
and any number of resolutions, agenda items, guidelines and administrators.
_54__ All International national Cabinet Ministers must be live,
real people and no avatars or anonymous names may be used by the
elected Cabinet Ministers. Only real names can be used and
verification of the member's true name may be requested when
such verifications are of interest from the ten executives.
_55__ HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MINISTRY:
The book "Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously" will be added as a guide to the proposed Health and Human
Services Ministry web page. For many ages, humanity has been
confused about what decisions regenerate and degenerate our living
systems. The Body itself has always held this wisdom of natural laws
for our organ/gland functioning on 253 circuits of personal powers
(but not always available until infrared could shine the light on it).
The Body's own immense wisdom can show us how our next decision
degenerates us or regenerates us (based on 40 years of scientific
research using infrared technology that can be tracked, measured and
decoded by the Language of the Body itself). This Self Evident and
undeniable truth from our energetic design makes it an unparalleled
guide to help humans make decisions (about voting, laws, or new
customs, etc.) that can regenerate us from within as well as from
without. (http://www.consciousnesssystems.com [1] to read the book).
Also, VOLUNTARY LAW: The blog site http://vlda.org/, the Voluntary
Law Development Association, owned by Jonathan Jaech will be added
to the proposed
_56__ VOLUNTARY LAW MINISTRY:
The Voluntary Law Ministry web page
and can accompany 'Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously' (that can both be used as the foundational principles
for voluntary international law). These 2 sources of wisdom can
promote peace, love and the clarity of energetic truth for successful
ways to promote each living systems' regeneration.
_57__ VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY:
The Vote Counting Ministry will make an annual award for
the "United Coalition Secure Paper Ballot Award".
_58__ TREASURY MINISTRY:
The Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the five
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
The Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for Donor MIPs
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, donor rankings, savings
and expenditures.
_59__ MEDIATION AND CONCELIATION MINISTRY:
Appeals of a name's removal action may be taken to the
Mediation and Conciliation Service Minister
where rules for such appeals will be written, voted upon and approved.
_60__ Donor MIPs
_61__ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donors'
funds will be deposited into a bank account which is controlled
by the ten executives of the International Parliament.
_62__ Donors: New seats will be made available in a donor section of the
International Parliament's members of national parliament. All donors, who contribute
money to the political entity International Parliament at the minimum donation price,
will promptly and automatically become a "donor member of international parliament (Donor MIP)",
and they will be members with all voting rights on any geographical level or region that they
pick and may be moved from time to time upon request.
_63__ The donor fee is a one-time membership fee which will be tied to
the exact cost of one unit of common stock in the parliament's All
Party System Co.'s International Bureau, the same exact price of the
purchase price of the share at the time the donation is accepted.
This donation level does not represent a purchase of any stocks.
_64__ The donation will be recorded and should the "Donor MIP" wish to
"stand down", then the donation amount will be not be refunded.
_65__ The numbers of seats for donor members shall never be more than the number
of free elected members in the national assembly, political party,
or other entity in the International Parliament.
_66__ Once the numbers of members in the international parliament reach saturation
point and no seats are available for donors, then new donors with the lowest
donation level (or the chronologically newer or more recent membership
in cases of ties) will automatically spill over to a lower geographical region
or they may request to have their name moved to a different geographical level.
_67__ Should a Donor MP/BoD/political entity who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Donor MIP, BoD or committee member
if their donation remained on the parliament's records.
_68__ All donor members shall have access to all financial records for the
International Parliament. More detailed information which isn't available
on the Treasury Ministry's web page will be made available to Donor MIPs when
a request is made to the Treasury Minister.
_69__ The donation cost and payment method for the Donor Members will be the
same cost and method for all geographical levels and regions in the International.
All payments are to be in US dollars only.
_70__ United Coalition
_71__ Declare that all of the elected and appointed members of the International Parliament,
all countries' national parliaments, all subsidiary super-state, mini-state
and county micro-state parliaments, to be members of a national and international
"Unity Coalition" or "United Coalition" effective November 5th, 2014.
_72__ The International Parliament's subsidiary Republic "Unity Coalition"
elections shall be in two phases; one before the country's primaries and one after the
country's primaries. That way, a strong emphasis can be placed on official state-recognized
ballot-qualified and write-in candidates both before the primaries and after the
primaries, and the dates are customized for each of the country's official primaries.
_73__ UNITY PLATFORM
_74__ Conduct an international Direct Democracy (DD) election which will elect planks
to a "Unity Platform".
_75__ The promotion of the Unity Coalition's "Unity Platform" can used used as an
example of teamwork. The team can be promoted as being dynamic so that
every item is up for a continual "vote of confidence" by all the members, all the time.
That way, the recruitment of new members can take place in order to collect
more votes for improving the planks on the Unity Platform.
_76__ PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM: The ten elected executives shall elect the
UNITY PLATFORM with a series of "planks" from all the items they pick and
rank from the DD election.
_77__ Guideline of Priority and Procedure
_78__ GENERAL PROVISIONS: Guideline of Priority and Procedure. The
GUIDELINES contained on this web page shall be the official first
GUIDELINES of procedure for the International Parliament and will be used
for all transactions of business once ratified by a majority of the
Members of Parliament (MPs). These GUIDELINES will
take precedence over any other set of GUIDELINES.
_79__ GUIDELINE CHANGES: The Executive Committee reserves the right
to make changes in these GUIDELINES by 6/10th vote and to present
these changes to the delegates/members at any time. All changes should
accommodate the desires or complaints of the MPs or staff so as to
improve the conduct of business online and offline.
_80__ EXECUTIVES: The Executives of the International
Parliament may select or approve persons to serve as Chairpersons, Legal
Counsels, and Secretaries for each committee and any other position
to help conduct the business.
_81__ CHAIR PERSON: Absence of Chairperson. If the Chair should find
it necessary to be absent during any part of a committee meeting,
he/she shall designate an individual (preferably the Legal Counsel)
to assume his/her duties with the same authority.
_82__ Statements by the Executives. The ten elected Executives,
or any person designated by the ten elected Executives, may at
any time make oral or written statements to a committee.
_83__ MEMBERS: Number of Accredited Delegates. The number of delegates
allowed on any delegation of the Parliament shall be limited to
MIPs and Donor MIPs only.
_84__ DIPLOMATIC COURTESY: All delegates MUST accord all other
delegates diplomatic courtesy at all times. Any delegate or visitor
who, after being advised by the Chair, persists in an obvious attempt
to divert the meeting from its intended purpose, or who otherwise
attempts to disrupt the proceedings, shall be subject to disciplinary
action and expulsion by the Chairperson.
_85__ AGENDA
_86__ AGENDA Selection of Agenda Items. Agenda items shall be
selected by the Executive Committee. Once selected, these items
are fixed for the duration of the conference and no other items
will be discussed.
_87__ ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda items will
be considered in the order in which they appear in the agenda
eballot, unless that order is altered by a majority of the Committee.
_88__ PRIOR APPROVED RESOLUTIONS: Order of Consideration of
Prior-Approved Resolutions. Prior-approved resolutions are
resolutions that were received by the specified deadline and
were deemed appropriate by the staff. They will receive
priority over other resolutions. The order of appearance of
resolutions before the Committee is determined by the date
in which they were received, and is listed under the appropriate
committee topic in that order in the resolution book by the
Secretary. When the Chair opens debate on any agenda item,
any delegate may move for consideration of an approved resolution
on the agenda item that has been submitted to the chair with
signatories of 1/8 of the delegations present. If the motion
is seconded, the Chair will direct the committee to an immediate
vote without debate on the motion, a majority being required for
consideration. If no resolution receives a majority vote in favor
of consideration, the Committee will automatically have before it
for consideration the first resolution in the resolution book
under that agenda item that has been received by the chair with
the appropriate number of signatories.
_89__ CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL:
Resolutions that were not received by the specified deadline
may still be considered, but not until 1/2 of the prior approved
resolutions on the agenda item have been considered. For a
resolution without prior approval to be considered, it must
relate to the committee topic currently being debated, be
submitted to the chair with signatories of 1/8 of the delegations
present, and the delegate must supply enough copies of the
resolution for each delegation present. Once these conditions
have been met, any delegate may move for consideration of the
resolution. If the motion is seconded, the chair will direct
the committee to an immediate vote without debate on the motion,
a majority being required for consideration.
_90__ SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSALS: Delegates will receive selected
resolutions for consideration no later than at the time of the
conference registration. The delegates must submit resolutions
in the proper form by the deadline set by the Executive Committee.
_91__ Reporting Resolutions to the Parliament. The Chair
of each committee shall report resolutions passed by that committee
to the Parliament for its consideration. If a
committee fails to approve a resolution on an agenda item, it
shall submit a "Declaration of No Report" on that agenda item.
That topic area will not be considered by the Parliament.
_92__ Amendments. All amendments to resolutions must be signed
by one sponsoring delegation and at least one other seconding
delegation; they must be submitted on an official amendment
form for approval by the Legal Counsel and must be labeled
with an identifying number by the Secretary. Secondary
amendments and amendments by substitution are not acceptable.
Obvious typographical efforts will be brought to the Committee's
attention and collected by the Chair with no vote required.
To move an amendment to the floor, recognition by the Chair
and introduction of the amendment will suffice; no vote
shall be required. Once an amendment has been brought to
the floor, the Committee shall consider only the amendments
and not the Resolutions until final action on the amendment
has been taken (except to the extent that the amendment
pertains to the Resolution).
_93__ Definition of Amendment and Voting on Amendments. An
amendment is a motion that adds to, deletes from, or revises
any part of a resolution. A series of alterations proposed
by a single delegation to the same resolution shall be
considered as a single amendment unless a motion is made
to divide it.
__94_ Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all substantive
debate on the matters before the body at that time, except
when such a motion would interrupt a speaker. Two delegates
may speak against closure, and the motion will then be put to
a vote. During debate on an amendment, a delegate may move
for closure of debate on the resolution. If closure passes,
then the amendment shall be voted on first followed by the
resolution.
_95__ Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second is
required.
_96__ DEBATE AND SPEECH GUIDELINES: Speeches. No delegate
may address the committee without having previously obtained
the permission of the Chair. The Chair shall call upon
speakers in the order in which they signify their desire
to speak. Delegates may not interrupt a speaker except on
a point of order or point of personal privilege. Abusing
these rights may be considered violations of diplomatic
courtesy, and can result in disciplinary action taken by
the chair. Motions should be made at the conclusion of the
speaker's remarks; by making a motion, the speaker yields
the floor.
_97__ Time Limit on Debate. The committee or the Chair may
limit or extend the time allotted to each speaker and the
number of times each delegate may speak on a proposal.
There may be one speaker in favor and one opposed to the
limitation/extension.
_98__ Right of Reply. During debate, the Chair may accord
the right of reply to any delegate if a speech by another
delegate contains unusual or extraordinary language clearly
insulting to personal or national dignity. The decision
granting a right of reply may not be appealed. Requests
for a right of reply shall be in writing to the Chair.
The Chair will limit the time for the reply. There shall
be no reply to a reply.
_99__ POINTS - IN ORDER OF PRIORITY
Point of Order. If, during the discussion of any matter,
a delegate believes that the committee is proceeding in a
manner contrary to these GUIDELINES, he or she may rise to
a point of order. The delegate so rising will be immediately
recognized by the Chair and the point ruled upon. A delegate
rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance
of any matter under discussion.
Point of Personal Privilege. If a delegate wishes to
raise a question or make a request relating to the
organization of the meeting, personal comfort, or the
conduct of fellow delegates or staff, he/she may rise to
a point of personal privilege. When a delegate rises on
privilege, the Chair shall take such action as is necessary.
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry. A point of parliamentary
inquiry is directed to the Chair for information or guidance
on procedure. This point may not interrupt the speaker.
It is a question and does not require seconding or allow
for debate. Replies by the Chair are not appealable.
Point of Information. If a delegate wishes to obtain
a clarification of procedure or a statement of the matter
before the committee, the delegate may address a point of
information to the Chair. During debate, if a delegate
wishes to ask a question of the speaker, a request to
question the speaker may be made in the form of a point
of information directed to the Chair after the speaker
consents to be questioned, all questions and replies are
made through the Chair. Delegates shall not interrupt a
speaker on a point of information.
_100__ MOTIONS - ORDER OF PROCEDURAL MOTIONS
The motions as indicated in the Short Form of Points
and Motions have precedence, in the order given, over all
other proposals or motions before the committee.
Adjournment of Debate. During the discussion of any
matter, a delegate may move the adjournment of debate on
that matter. One delegate may speak in favor of the
motion and one opposed. The motion shall then be put to
an immediate vote. Adjournment of debate on a resolution
or amendment has the effect of tabling that item and moves
the committee on to the next order of business.
See also 8.9 on Reconsideration.
Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all
substantive debate on the matters before the body at that
time, except when such a motion would interrupt a speaker.
Two delegates may speak against closure, and the motion
will then be put to a vote. During debate on an amendment,
a delegate may move for closure of debate on the resolution.
if closure passes, then the amendment shall be voted on
first followed by the resolution.
Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second
is required.
Suspension of the Meeting. During the discussion of
any matter, a delegate may move to suspend the meeting.
Suspending a meeting recesses it until the time specified
in the motion; the Chair may request the mover to modify
the time. When the committee reconvenes it will continue
with its business from the point at which suspension was
moved.
Adjournment of the Meeting. The motion of adjournment
means that all business of the committee has been
completed, and that the committee win not reconvene
until the next Annual Session. The Chair may refuse
to recognize a motion to adjourn the meeting if the
Committee still has business before it. A motion to
adjourn is not debatable, and will be put to an immediate vote.
Decisions of Competence. Any motion calling for a
decision on the competence of the Committee to discuss
or adopt a proposal shall be put to a vote before the
vote is taken on the proposal in question. If a
Committee decides it is not competent to discuss or
vote on an amendment or resolution, the effect is the
same as adjourning debate on the matter. See also 8.9
on Reconsideration.
Withdrawal of Motions. A motion may be withdrawn
by its proposer at any time before voting on it has
begun, provided the motion has not been amended. A
withdrawn motion may be reintroduced by any other
delegation.
Reconsideration of Proposals. When a proposal has
been adopted, or rejected through a vote of adjournment
or "no competence", it may be reconsidered at the same
session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting. The motion to reconsider
must be made by a delegation which originally voted
on the prevailing side of the proposal; thus,
reconsideration may be moved only on the proposals
voted on by roll-call.
Division of the Question. A motion to divide the
question, proposing that parts of an amendment or
resolution be voted on separately, is in order at any
time prior to commencement of voting on the amendment
or resolution. Motions to divide shall apply only to
operative clauses. Permission to speak on the motion
shall be granted to one speaker in favor and one
opposed, after which there shall be an immediate vote.
The first motion for division to receive a majority
vote shall become the final manner in which the
proposal is presented. Those parts of the proposal
which are approved shall be put to a vote as a whole.
If all operative clauses of a proposal have been
rejected, the proposal as a whole has been rejected.
Dilatory Motions. The Chair may rule as dilatory,
and therefore out of order, any motion repeating or
closely approximating a substantive measure on which
the committee has already rendered an opinion. Such
rulings can not be appealed.
Appealing a Decision of the Chair. Rulings of
the chair can be appealed unless otherwise specified
in these GUIDELINES. Appeals can be debated by one
speaker in favor and one opposed.
_101__ MOTIONS are actions which trigger activity in
the California Super-state Parliament (Editing
guideline #s once approved).
_102__ : Motions : Interrupt Speaker? : Second Required? : Debatable? : Vote Required?
_103__ VOTING METHODS AND RIGHTS: Each member delegation shall
have one vote in each Committee in which it is represented. No
delegate may cast a vote on behalf of another member.
_104__ Simple Majority. Unless otherwise specified in these
GUIDELINES, decisions in the Committee shall be made by a majority
vote of those members present and voting. The phrase "MSPs present
and voting" refers to members casting ranked choice votes. Members
which cast a final abstention are not voting. If a vote is equally
divided between two sums of the same value, the motion fails.
_105__ Method of Voting. The Committee shall use ranked choice
voting (RCV). The Chair, however, may grant a request for a
roll-call vote; the decision to grant such a request is not
appealable. All final votes on resolutions shall be taken by
roll-call; the roll shall be called in English alphabetical order
beginning with a person selected at random by the Secretary.
Delegates shall reply "#1," or "abstain," or "abstain from the order
of voting." A member may abstain from the order of voting once
during the roll-call; a second abstention from the order of voting
will be recorded as an abstention. Rights of explanation are
permitted on roll-call votes and may be limited in time by the Chair.
At the end of roll-call, but before rights of explanation and the
subsequent announcement of the vote, the Secretary will ask for
changes of vote. A delegation may not change from "0" to "#1",
or "#1 with right of explanation" or from "0" to "0 with right
of explanation." Those abstaining may be accorded rights of
explanation. The result of the vote shall be inserted into the
Committee record.
_106__ ONLINE VOTING: The International Parliament will
conduct elections using online voting and all votes will be
posted where they can be easily viewed by the public with the
information as to who had cast the vote.
_107__ Conduct during Voting. Immediately prior to a vote,
the Chair shall describe to the Committee the proposal to be
voted on, and shall explain the consequence of a 1 or 0 vote.
Voting shall begin upon the chair's declaration and shall end
when the results of the vote are announced. Once voting has
begun, no delegate shall interrupt the voting except on a
point of order or information concerning the actual conduct
of the vote, or on a point of personal privilege.
_108__ Supplemental GUIDELINES
_109__ PREAMBULAR PHRASES provide background information
and establish proper context for reading and interpreting the resolution.
_110__ OPERATIVE CLAUSES are set out to achieve the committee's main policy goals on
the topic.
_111__ SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR REPUBLIC OF EARTH COUNTRIES
_112__ January 1st is the best day of the year for new countries to start an
election schedules and December 31st is the best day to end activities.
_113__ PERMANENCE. These Rules, intent, purpose and function, will not
change once approved by majority vote by the elected members, or MIPs,
of the International Parliament.
_114__ Contact the International Parliament via telephone (831) 383-1409 or the web
site at http://www.usparliament.org
for obtaining more information.
_115__ We form a global union, open to all people, and a constitution
drafted for ratification by this body which shall outline and define the
provisions of this resolution, that This union shall be governed by a
world parliament; that This parliament shall be comprised of two-hundred
and fifty members; that Fifty of the members shall constitute a senate
to manage world affairs; that An executive council be organized from the
senate; that A world court be organized from the senate, along with any
lesser courts; that Continental unions shall be organized under the
world union once sufficient membership is attained in a given region;
that The remaining two hundred members of the world parliament shall
devolve to be members of the governing bodies of their respective
continental unions; that Provision be made for the creation of a world
assembly consisting of all citizens once sufficient membership is
attained globally; that All elections and choosing of world leaders
shall be tied to the world assembly of citizens, in their respective
continental unions, and that sovereignty shall ultimately reside in this
body; that Someone be appointed by the current executive committee of
the international Parliament to draft this constitution and submit it
for ratification; that This constitution be binding according to its
terms and provisions on this body and organization upon its
ratification; that The constitution drafted shall be submitted to this
body for vote no later than 17 September 2014; that Any rules standing
at the time of ratification not in opposition to the provisions of the
constitution shall be transferred as rules and laws within the ratified
system; that Once ratified this resolution and it's provisions shall
stand immune from repeal or vote until 17 September 2014, but nothing
shall be construed to prevent the functioning of this body, or the
proposal of other new rules and resolutions.
_116__ Voting blocks (communities, bands, tribes, federations) need no longer be
limited to geographical areas. People are now able to connect with like-minded
'others' from around the planet (and beyond).
_117__ SLANDERERS and ANTAGONIZERS
_118__ NO PERSON MAY BE CENSORED, and no limits may be placed on free
speech by/of any other person or nominee,
including US Parliament's elected members and staff, at any time
except when applying guidelines to party/category labels/names
and parts of this rule which regulate antagonists.
_119__ NO HATE WORDS AS PARTY/CATEGORY NAME: Party/category's labels/names
may not be used in such a way that slanders or libels names of any
person or other party/categories or individuals. Those that refuse
to comply by continuing to libel others through their choice
of party name will be categorized as members of the Censored Party.
Elected members using a name or pseudonym rather than their actual
name, which libels, slanders or mimics (such as incorrect spellings),
shall have their name censored and instead will be known only as
Anonymous.
_120__ Members of any International Parliament entity who antagonize others more than once
use through the use of profanity, slander, insulting or offensive vulgar
language, harassing or chauvinistic speech, terrorizing threats, including
the threats of lawsuits against other members/vote counters or volunteers
within the International Parliament or those who use actual physical force or violence,
may be permanently or temporarily removed by the full Minister in that
Cabinet Ministry, by any of the ten executives of the International Parliament
or by the International Parliament's web page maintainer.
Marked by Kristy Knight on 10/27/2014
_1__ RESOLUTION NUMBER 1 : 8/21/2014 : ogle and knight
_2__ Parliamentary procedures, terms and proportional representation
for the International Parliament.
_3__ Require all the elected members to be in communication either
through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service or
else their name will be eliminated after one year.
__4_ The number of seats on the executive may remain at ten but not more than ten.
_5__ Paper Ballot Guidelines Recommended for State, National and International Elections
_6__ The paper ballots are placed in a clear ballot box by the voter, the box
is guarded, video taped all day and the votes are counted at the polling
location the night of the election.
_7__ The votes are counted two times by two different and diverse teams of
counters, recorded/taped/broadcast by two different devices with the public
able to observe and video/livestream the counting.
_8__ The results from the polling locations will be called to the Board
of Elections, emailed to the BoE and hand delivered. All three must
match. The Board of Elections will hand tally the results from all
the polling locations, again, two times by two different and diverse
teams of counters with this being taped, recorded and broadcast and
the public able to observe, tape and live-stream the entire proceedings.
And, the same goes for what happens at the state level.
_9__ The polling location should serve a maximum of 1,000 voters and
Election Day should be a national holiday with employers, if necessary,
having to arrange for special accommodations for employees that must
work, as with hospitals. A minimum of two hours personal time to vote
will be given to all US citizens and voters.
_10__ The voters' names and marking on the ballot will remain secret
but the vote counting will be publicly observable.
_11__ PAPER BALLOTS will be made confidential to the highest level possible.
_12__ VOTER ELIGIBILITY:
The voter must be a voting citizen of a country.
_13__ VOTER AUTHENTICATION:
When two or more methods of contact aren't provided by the voter, then
further explanation will be considered by the Vote Counting Ministry verifiers.
_14__ General Counting, Balloting and Eballoting Guidelines for International Parliament Elections
_15__ RANKED VOTING ONLY: All voting and vote counting shall be in the form of
ranked paper ballots only (and eballots when practical and verifiable).
Consecutive numbers beginning with the #s 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. etc. must always be
used when marking on (e)ballot of all alternative decisions or names.
Deviation from this guideline will disqualify the ballot, and the ballot
will be marked spoiled.
_16__ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
_17__ THE SAINTE-LAGUE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM, Hagenbach-Bischoff method,
under ranked choice voting, for seat allocation in all multi-seat districts:
Divide the election's total number of votes by the number of seats.
This is the 1st quota.
Divide this quota into each candidate's votes, and round off to the
nearest whole number.
That's that candidate's seat allocation.
If, due to rounding, this awards a number of seats different from
the desired number
of seats, then adjust the quota slightly up or down, till, when
paragraph two is carried out,
it will award all seats.
_18__ Any resident of earth, nominee and/or proxy may observe the counting of the
ballots. Volunteer counters will conduct the vote counting.
_19__ Choices marked on "eballots" are posted for public view and are
not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of the Parliament.
_20__ EBALLOTS are ballots cast via email and must be emailed to
vvc at allpartysystem dot org, a private email address used by the
secretary and observers for receiving such eballots. No reply email
will be sent to voters who cast eballots other than a verification
message, unless the voter indicates that he/she wishes to be self
appointed to the www.international-parliament.org site, or when a
question regarding verification or validation is raised by a volunteer vote counter.
_21__ Volunteer vote counters may be added to the exploder email address
vvc at allpartysystem dot org as a subscriber by sending the message
"subscribe" to vvc at allpartysystem dot org.
_22__ Telephone voting is permissible, acceptable and verification
and validations will be provided when requested.
_23__ Elections of rules shall be perpetual and the simple majority vote,
by elected MIPs who vote on rules, passes rules.
_24__ BALLOTS AND EBALLOTS: All world residents are eligible to vote in
International Parliament Elections 365 days year.
_25__ There will be fifty member of International Parliament (MIPs) who
_26__ THE PARTY LEADER within the International Parliament is a label for the
highest ranked name categorized under each party. Party leaders are
responsible for the distribution of all ballots and rules to the
members of their party/category and lists.
_27__ Such ballots may be retype set or altered to specifically identify
their select nominees' correct name and party affiliation. All ballots
released to public use by the International Parliament's elected secretaries
shall count as a legitimate ballot and shall be presumed to represent
the correct and most current candidate name information.
_28__ BALLOT: ORDER OF NOMINEES of all names in the parliament elections
and subsidiary parliament elections will be determined by the results
caused by the voters' ranking of the nominees on the previous election's
ballots. This is known as the correct consecutive order of nominee.
_29__ NOMINEE ACCEPTANCE AND WRITE-INS:
Only names who formally ACCEPT the nomination of their name, self write-in
names and those currently already elected will qualify for the ballot/eballot
for the International Parliament. There will be a cap at 100 names for the
ballot/eballot.
_30__ A verifiable name and contact information must be provided in
order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
_31__ The final order of the parties/categories on the final prepared
ballot will be determined by the nominees' party name/category and
the parties/categories and will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
_32__ TIES: Ties will be broken by holding a runoff election only
when called by one of the two secretaries. In all other
cases, all the names/items in a tie will be included in the results
and will be in a new "tied" category, even if the size of the assembly
or agenda list must be expanded beyond normal size set forth by these rules.
_33__ ONLY ONE SINGLE PARLIAMENTARY BALLOT, IS PERMITTED TO BE MARKED BY
EACH WORLD RESIDENT: All living world citizens may vote one time and only
one time. In cases where a second ballot (or more) is cast, only
the latter of the ballots will be counted, the former will be marked
spoiled and regarded disqualified.
_34__ EBALLOTS are posted for public view and
are not bound by confidentiality under the behavior of officers of
the Parliament.
_35__ The International Parliament will not ever hold any election in a single
winner district where a single winner decision or name is elected.
_36__ Ballot Preparation
_37__ SPACE FOR THREE OR MORE WRITE-IN choices must be provided on each
and every ballot, in all elections.
_38__ CATEGORIZATION AND PARTY NAMES The first and most important
criterion in determining the nominee's party/category is the
nominee's most recently requested or declared party/category in
Parliament matters. The second most important criterion in
determining the nominee's party/category is determined by the
nominee's state's records, as written by the member while
registering to vote. Appointed members may be categorized with any
party/category that they wish, and the party/category of all
members is considered to be the true one. Elected members
may decide to change or switch their party/categorization at any time
by proclamation. Members automatically qualify for the ballot
in the next election cycle under the party/category of
their choice.
_39__ First and last names are preferred, however all names nominated
will be permitted on the ballot as well as the party/category of the
nominee. If party/category is not known, the label "[Info. Not Avail.]"
will be used. A nominee's name (and thus identity) may appear on the
ballot only once, so fusion voting is not allowed. Other than the
"automatic nominations", all new nominees within each party /category
will qualify for the ballot, to be ranked below all other names on the
prepared ballot. The order of these names will be determined first
based on the rankings of "nomination ballots", and secondly by
chronological order of the dates that the nominee's name was received.
_40__ Donor MIPs are not elected during regular election cycles of
the parliament's elections but they receive all same voting rights plus
special donor privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved.
_41__ RESIGNATIONS. When any elected member, executive or minister,
stands down, resigns, retires, or dies - the name is deleted. Then
the next highest ranked name is automatically elected to the
seat.
_42__ When a candidate who has chosen to stand down but then wishes to
return to the position which they had departed, then they must first
be re-affirmed by all the voters who had previously cast a vote for them.
_43__ TEN EXECUTIVES
_44__ MIPs: Once elected, all new Members of International Parliament
(MIPs) may change their vote as a "vote of confidence" for the ten
executives into perpetuity.
_45__ THE VOICE of the International Parliament will be the ten executives.
_46__ Each of the elected ten executives may pick a seat title once elected.
__47_ The ten executives elect up to sixty full Cabinet Ministers using the
"parliamentary go-ahead".
_48__ The International Parliament's ten executives agree to rank all names
nominated by each of the other nine executives, thus guaranteeing that each
of the ten executives elects 1/10th of the 60 cabinet ministers.
_49__ THE TEN EXECUTIVES recruits as many
people as possible who will work in the Cabinet to run the efforts,
elects the planks and run the parliament's efforts free from
political conflict or bias. The executives do not control who
gets elected to the general assembly.
_50__ The ten executives of the International Parliament (IP) will
serve as "Founding Executives" on the unity business entity
named All Party System Co., International Bureau, which is established
in order to report all unifying news, business, financial matters,
vote counting and results of vote counting of the IP to the public.
_51__ SIXTY CABINET MINISTERS
_52__ MINISTRY: Once a simple majority vote by at least six of
the ten executives establishes elects a new Minister, then a Ministry
of the International Paliament is established.
_53__ MINISTRY DIRECTORS: Ministries may elect up to fifty Directors
and any number of resolutions, agenda items, guidelines and administrators.
_54__ All International national Cabinet Ministers must be live,
real people and no avatars or anonymous names may be used by the
elected Cabinet Ministers. Only real names can be used and
verification of the member's true name may be requested when
such verifications are of interest from the ten executives.
_55__ HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MINISTRY:
The book "Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously" will be added as a guide to the proposed Health and Human
Services Ministry web page. For many ages, humanity has been
confused about what decisions regenerate and degenerate our living
systems. The Body itself has always held this wisdom of natural laws
for our organ/gland functioning on 253 circuits of personal powers
(but not always available until infrared could shine the light on it).
The Body's own immense wisdom can show us how our next decision
degenerates us or regenerates us (based on 40 years of scientific
research using infrared technology that can be tracked, measured and
decoded by the Language of the Body itself). This Self Evident and
undeniable truth from our energetic design makes it an unparalleled
guide to help humans make decisions (about voting, laws, or new
customs, etc.) that can regenerate us from within as well as from
without. (http://www.consciousnesssystems.com [1] to read the book).
Also, VOLUNTARY LAW: The blog site http://vlda.org/, the Voluntary
Law Development Association, owned by Jonathan Jaech will be added
to the proposed
_56__ VOLUNTARY LAW MINISTRY:
The Voluntary Law Ministry web page
and can accompany 'Know Thyself, Your Body's Wisdom for Living
Consciously' (that can both be used as the foundational principles
for voluntary international law). These 2 sources of wisdom can
promote peace, love and the clarity of energetic truth for successful
ways to promote each living systems' regeneration.
_57__ VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY:
The Vote Counting Ministry will make an annual award for
the "United Coalition Secure Paper Ballot Award".
_58__ TREASURY MINISTRY:
The Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the five
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
The Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for Donor MIPs
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, donor rankings, savings
and expenditures.
_59__ MEDIATION AND CONCELIATION MINISTRY:
Appeals of a name's removal action may be taken to the
Mediation and Conciliation Service Minister
where rules for such appeals will be written, voted upon and approved.
_60__ Donor MIPs
_61__ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donors'
funds will be deposited into a bank account which is controlled
by the ten executives of the International Parliament.
_62__ Donors: New seats will be made available in a donor section of the
International Parliament's members of national parliament. All donors, who contribute
money to the political entity International Parliament at the minimum donation price,
will promptly and automatically become a "donor member of international parliament (Donor MIP)",
and they will be members with all voting rights on any geographical level or region that they
pick and may be moved from time to time upon request.
_63__ The donor fee is a one-time membership fee which will be tied to
the exact cost of one unit of common stock in the parliament's All
Party System Co.'s International Bureau, the same exact price of the
purchase price of the share at the time the donation is accepted.
This donation level does not represent a purchase of any stocks.
_64__ The donation will be recorded and should the "Donor MIP" wish to
"stand down", then the donation amount will be not be refunded.
_65__ The numbers of seats for donor members shall never be more than the number
of free elected members in the national assembly, political party,
or other entity in the International Parliament.
_66__ Once the numbers of members in the international parliament reach saturation
point and no seats are available for donors, then new donors with the lowest
donation level (or the chronologically newer or more recent membership
in cases of ties) will automatically spill over to a lower geographical region
or they may request to have their name moved to a different geographical level.
_67__ Should a Donor MP/BoD/political entity who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Donor MIP, BoD or committee member
if their donation remained on the parliament's records.
_68__ All donor members shall have access to all financial records for the
International Parliament. More detailed information which isn't available
on the Treasury Ministry's web page will be made available to Donor MIPs when
a request is made to the Treasury Minister.
_69__ The donation cost and payment method for the Donor Members will be the
same cost and method for all geographical levels and regions in the International.
All payments are to be in US dollars only.
_70__ United Coalition
_71__ Declare that all of the elected and appointed members of the International Parliament,
all countries' national parliaments, all subsidiary super-state, mini-state
and county micro-state parliaments, to be members of a national and international
"Unity Coalition" or "United Coalition" effective November 5th, 2014.
_72__ The International Parliament's subsidiary Republic "Unity Coalition"
elections shall be in two phases; one before the country's primaries and one after the
country's primaries. That way, a strong emphasis can be placed on official state-recognized
ballot-qualified and write-in candidates both before the primaries and after the
primaries, and the dates are customized for each of the country's official primaries.
_73__ UNITY PLATFORM
_74__ Conduct an international Direct Democracy (DD) election which will elect planks
to a "Unity Platform".
_75__ The promotion of the Unity Coalition's "Unity Platform" can used used as an
example of teamwork. The team can be promoted as being dynamic so that
every item is up for a continual "vote of confidence" by all the members, all the time.
That way, the recruitment of new members can take place in order to collect
more votes for improving the planks on the Unity Platform.
_76__ PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM: The ten elected executives shall elect the
UNITY PLATFORM with a series of "planks" from all the items they pick and
rank from the DD election.
_77__ Guideline of Priority and Procedure
_78__ GENERAL PROVISIONS: Guideline of Priority and Procedure. The
GUIDELINES contained on this web page shall be the official first
GUIDELINES of procedure for the International Parliament and will be used
for all transactions of business once ratified by a majority of the
Members of Parliament (MPs). These GUIDELINES will
take precedence over any other set of GUIDELINES.
_79__ GUIDELINE CHANGES: The Executive Committee reserves the right
to make changes in these GUIDELINES by 6/10th vote and to present
these changes to the delegates/members at any time. All changes should
accommodate the desires or complaints of the MPs or staff so as to
improve the conduct of business online and offline.
_80__ EXECUTIVES: The Executives of the International
Parliament may select or approve persons to serve as Chairpersons, Legal
Counsels, and Secretaries for each committee and any other position
to help conduct the business.
_81__ CHAIR PERSON: Absence of Chairperson. If the Chair should find
it necessary to be absent during any part of a committee meeting,
he/she shall designate an individual (preferably the Legal Counsel)
to assume his/her duties with the same authority.
_82__ Statements by the Executives. The ten elected Executives,
or any person designated by the ten elected Executives, may at
any time make oral or written statements to a committee.
_83__ MEMBERS: Number of Accredited Delegates. The number of delegates
allowed on any delegation of the Parliament shall be limited to
MIPs and Donor MIPs only.
_84__ DIPLOMATIC COURTESY: All delegates MUST accord all other
delegates diplomatic courtesy at all times. Any delegate or visitor
who, after being advised by the Chair, persists in an obvious attempt
to divert the meeting from its intended purpose, or who otherwise
attempts to disrupt the proceedings, shall be subject to disciplinary
action and expulsion by the Chairperson.
_85__ AGENDA
_86__ AGENDA Selection of Agenda Items. Agenda items shall be
selected by the Executive Committee. Once selected, these items
are fixed for the duration of the conference and no other items
will be discussed.
_87__ ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS: Agenda items will
be considered in the order in which they appear in the agenda
eballot, unless that order is altered by a majority of the Committee.
_88__ PRIOR APPROVED RESOLUTIONS: Order of Consideration of
Prior-Approved Resolutions. Prior-approved resolutions are
resolutions that were received by the specified deadline and
were deemed appropriate by the staff. They will receive
priority over other resolutions. The order of appearance of
resolutions before the Committee is determined by the date
in which they were received, and is listed under the appropriate
committee topic in that order in the resolution book by the
Secretary. When the Chair opens debate on any agenda item,
any delegate may move for consideration of an approved resolution
on the agenda item that has been submitted to the chair with
signatories of 1/8 of the delegations present. If the motion
is seconded, the Chair will direct the committee to an immediate
vote without debate on the motion, a majority being required for
consideration. If no resolution receives a majority vote in favor
of consideration, the Committee will automatically have before it
for consideration the first resolution in the resolution book
under that agenda item that has been received by the chair with
the appropriate number of signatories.
_89__ CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL:
Resolutions that were not received by the specified deadline
may still be considered, but not until 1/2 of the prior approved
resolutions on the agenda item have been considered. For a
resolution without prior approval to be considered, it must
relate to the committee topic currently being debated, be
submitted to the chair with signatories of 1/8 of the delegations
present, and the delegate must supply enough copies of the
resolution for each delegation present. Once these conditions
have been met, any delegate may move for consideration of the
resolution. If the motion is seconded, the chair will direct
the committee to an immediate vote without debate on the motion,
a majority being required for consideration.
_90__ SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSALS: Delegates will receive selected
resolutions for consideration no later than at the time of the
conference registration. The delegates must submit resolutions
in the proper form by the deadline set by the Executive Committee.
_91__ Reporting Resolutions to the Parliament. The Chair
of each committee shall report resolutions passed by that committee
to the Parliament for its consideration. If a
committee fails to approve a resolution on an agenda item, it
shall submit a "Declaration of No Report" on that agenda item.
That topic area will not be considered by the Parliament.
_92__ Amendments. All amendments to resolutions must be signed
by one sponsoring delegation and at least one other seconding
delegation; they must be submitted on an official amendment
form for approval by the Legal Counsel and must be labeled
with an identifying number by the Secretary. Secondary
amendments and amendments by substitution are not acceptable.
Obvious typographical efforts will be brought to the Committee's
attention and collected by the Chair with no vote required.
To move an amendment to the floor, recognition by the Chair
and introduction of the amendment will suffice; no vote
shall be required. Once an amendment has been brought to
the floor, the Committee shall consider only the amendments
and not the Resolutions until final action on the amendment
has been taken (except to the extent that the amendment
pertains to the Resolution).
_93__ Definition of Amendment and Voting on Amendments. An
amendment is a motion that adds to, deletes from, or revises
any part of a resolution. A series of alterations proposed
by a single delegation to the same resolution shall be
considered as a single amendment unless a motion is made
to divide it.
__94_ Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all substantive
debate on the matters before the body at that time, except
when such a motion would interrupt a speaker. Two delegates
may speak against closure, and the motion will then be put to
a vote. During debate on an amendment, a delegate may move
for closure of debate on the resolution. If closure passes,
then the amendment shall be voted on first followed by the
resolution.
_95__ Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second is
required.
_96__ DEBATE AND SPEECH GUIDELINES: Speeches. No delegate
may address the committee without having previously obtained
the permission of the Chair. The Chair shall call upon
speakers in the order in which they signify their desire
to speak. Delegates may not interrupt a speaker except on
a point of order or point of personal privilege. Abusing
these rights may be considered violations of diplomatic
courtesy, and can result in disciplinary action taken by
the chair. Motions should be made at the conclusion of the
speaker's remarks; by making a motion, the speaker yields
the floor.
_97__ Time Limit on Debate. The committee or the Chair may
limit or extend the time allotted to each speaker and the
number of times each delegate may speak on a proposal.
There may be one speaker in favor and one opposed to the
limitation/extension.
_98__ Right of Reply. During debate, the Chair may accord
the right of reply to any delegate if a speech by another
delegate contains unusual or extraordinary language clearly
insulting to personal or national dignity. The decision
granting a right of reply may not be appealed. Requests
for a right of reply shall be in writing to the Chair.
The Chair will limit the time for the reply. There shall
be no reply to a reply.
_99__ POINTS - IN ORDER OF PRIORITY
Point of Order. If, during the discussion of any matter,
a delegate believes that the committee is proceeding in a
manner contrary to these GUIDELINES, he or she may rise to
a point of order. The delegate so rising will be immediately
recognized by the Chair and the point ruled upon. A delegate
rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance
of any matter under discussion.
Point of Personal Privilege. If a delegate wishes to
raise a question or make a request relating to the
organization of the meeting, personal comfort, or the
conduct of fellow delegates or staff, he/she may rise to
a point of personal privilege. When a delegate rises on
privilege, the Chair shall take such action as is necessary.
Point of Parliamentary Inquiry. A point of parliamentary
inquiry is directed to the Chair for information or guidance
on procedure. This point may not interrupt the speaker.
It is a question and does not require seconding or allow
for debate. Replies by the Chair are not appealable.
Point of Information. If a delegate wishes to obtain
a clarification of procedure or a statement of the matter
before the committee, the delegate may address a point of
information to the Chair. During debate, if a delegate
wishes to ask a question of the speaker, a request to
question the speaker may be made in the form of a point
of information directed to the Chair after the speaker
consents to be questioned, all questions and replies are
made through the Chair. Delegates shall not interrupt a
speaker on a point of information.
_100__ MOTIONS - ORDER OF PROCEDURAL MOTIONS
The motions as indicated in the Short Form of Points
and Motions have precedence, in the order given, over all
other proposals or motions before the committee.
Adjournment of Debate. During the discussion of any
matter, a delegate may move the adjournment of debate on
that matter. One delegate may speak in favor of the
motion and one opposed. The motion shall then be put to
an immediate vote. Adjournment of debate on a resolution
or amendment has the effect of tabling that item and moves
the committee on to the next order of business.
See also 8.9 on Reconsideration.
Closure of Debate. A delegate may move to close debate
at any time on any matter. Such a motion closes all
substantive debate on the matters before the body at that
time, except when such a motion would interrupt a speaker.
Two delegates may speak against closure, and the motion
will then be put to a vote. During debate on an amendment,
a delegate may move for closure of debate on the resolution.
if closure passes, then the amendment shall be voted on
first followed by the resolution.
Move a Resolution to the Floor. Used to bring an
approved resolution to the floor, this motion may not
interrupt a speaker and is not debatable. No second
is required.
Suspension of the Meeting. During the discussion of
any matter, a delegate may move to suspend the meeting.
Suspending a meeting recesses it until the time specified
in the motion; the Chair may request the mover to modify
the time. When the committee reconvenes it will continue
with its business from the point at which suspension was
moved.
Adjournment of the Meeting. The motion of adjournment
means that all business of the committee has been
completed, and that the committee win not reconvene
until the next Annual Session. The Chair may refuse
to recognize a motion to adjourn the meeting if the
Committee still has business before it. A motion to
adjourn is not debatable, and will be put to an immediate vote.
Decisions of Competence. Any motion calling for a
decision on the competence of the Committee to discuss
or adopt a proposal shall be put to a vote before the
vote is taken on the proposal in question. If a
Committee decides it is not competent to discuss or
vote on an amendment or resolution, the effect is the
same as adjourning debate on the matter. See also 8.9
on Reconsideration.
Withdrawal of Motions. A motion may be withdrawn
by its proposer at any time before voting on it has
begun, provided the motion has not been amended. A
withdrawn motion may be reintroduced by any other
delegation.
Reconsideration of Proposals. When a proposal has
been adopted, or rejected through a vote of adjournment
or "no competence", it may be reconsidered at the same
session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting. The motion to reconsider
must be made by a delegation which originally voted
on the prevailing side of the proposal; thus,
reconsideration may be moved only on the proposals
voted on by roll-call.
Division of the Question. A motion to divide the
question, proposing that parts of an amendment or
resolution be voted on separately, is in order at any
time prior to commencement of voting on the amendment
or resolution. Motions to divide shall apply only to
operative clauses. Permission to speak on the motion
shall be granted to one speaker in favor and one
opposed, after which there shall be an immediate vote.
The first motion for division to receive a majority
vote shall become the final manner in which the
proposal is presented. Those parts of the proposal
which are approved shall be put to a vote as a whole.
If all operative clauses of a proposal have been
rejected, the proposal as a whole has been rejected.
Dilatory Motions. The Chair may rule as dilatory,
and therefore out of order, any motion repeating or
closely approximating a substantive measure on which
the committee has already rendered an opinion. Such
rulings can not be appealed.
Appealing a Decision of the Chair. Rulings of
the chair can be appealed unless otherwise specified
in these GUIDELINES. Appeals can be debated by one
speaker in favor and one opposed.
_101__ MOTIONS are actions which trigger activity in
the California Super-state Parliament (Editing
guideline #s once approved).
_102__ : Motions : Interrupt Speaker? : Second Required? : Debatable? : Vote Required?
_103__ VOTING METHODS AND RIGHTS: Each member delegation shall
have one vote in each Committee in which it is represented. No
delegate may cast a vote on behalf of another member.
_104__ Simple Majority. Unless otherwise specified in these
GUIDELINES, decisions in the Committee shall be made by a majority
vote of those members present and voting. The phrase "MSPs present
and voting" refers to members casting ranked choice votes. Members
which cast a final abstention are not voting. If a vote is equally
divided between two sums of the same value, the motion fails.
_105__ Method of Voting. The Committee shall use ranked choice
voting (RCV). The Chair, however, may grant a request for a
roll-call vote; the decision to grant such a request is not
appealable. All final votes on resolutions shall be taken by
roll-call; the roll shall be called in English alphabetical order
beginning with a person selected at random by the Secretary.
Delegates shall reply "#1," or "abstain," or "abstain from the order
of voting." A member may abstain from the order of voting once
during the roll-call; a second abstention from the order of voting
will be recorded as an abstention. Rights of explanation are
permitted on roll-call votes and may be limited in time by the Chair.
At the end of roll-call, but before rights of explanation and the
subsequent announcement of the vote, the Secretary will ask for
changes of vote. A delegation may not change from "0" to "#1",
or "#1 with right of explanation" or from "0" to "0 with right
of explanation." Those abstaining may be accorded rights of
explanation. The result of the vote shall be inserted into the
Committee record.
_106__ ONLINE VOTING: The International Parliament will
conduct elections using online voting and all votes will be
posted where they can be easily viewed by the public with the
information as to who had cast the vote.
_107__ Conduct during Voting. Immediately prior to a vote,
the Chair shall describe to the Committee the proposal to be
voted on, and shall explain the consequence of a 1 or 0 vote.
Voting shall begin upon the chair's declaration and shall end
when the results of the vote are announced. Once voting has
begun, no delegate shall interrupt the voting except on a
point of order or information concerning the actual conduct
of the vote, or on a point of personal privilege.
_108__ Supplemental GUIDELINES
_109__ PREAMBULAR PHRASES provide background information
and establish proper context for reading and interpreting the resolution.
_110__ OPERATIVE CLAUSES are set out to achieve the committee's main policy goals on
the topic.
_111__ SUGGESTED SCHEDULES FOR REPUBLIC OF EARTH COUNTRIES
_112__ January 1st is the best day of the year for new countries to start an
election schedules and December 31st is the best day to end activities.
_113__ PERMANENCE. These Rules, intent, purpose and function, will not
change once approved by majority vote by the elected members, or MIPs,
of the International Parliament.
_114__ Contact the International Parliament via telephone (831) 383-1409 or the web
site at http://www.usparliament.org
for obtaining more information.
_115__ We form a global union, open to all people, and a constitution
drafted for ratification by this body which shall outline and define the
provisions of this resolution, that This union shall be governed by a
world parliament; that This parliament shall be comprised of two-hundred
and fifty members; that Fifty of the members shall constitute a senate
to manage world affairs; that An executive council be organized from the
senate; that A world court be organized from the senate, along with any
lesser courts; that Continental unions shall be organized under the
world union once sufficient membership is attained in a given region;
that The remaining two hundred members of the world parliament shall
devolve to be members of the governing bodies of their respective
continental unions; that Provision be made for the creation of a world
assembly consisting of all citizens once sufficient membership is
attained globally; that All elections and choosing of world leaders
shall be tied to the world assembly of citizens, in their respective
continental unions, and that sovereignty shall ultimately reside in this
body; that Someone be appointed by the current executive committee of
the international Parliament to draft this constitution and submit it
for ratification; that This constitution be binding according to its
terms and provisions on this body and organization upon its
ratification; that The constitution drafted shall be submitted to this
body for vote no later than 17 September 2014; that Any rules standing
at the time of ratification not in opposition to the provisions of the
constitution shall be transferred as rules and laws within the ratified
system; that Once ratified this resolution and it's provisions shall
stand immune from repeal or vote until 17 September 2014, but nothing
shall be construed to prevent the functioning of this body, or the
proposal of other new rules and resolutions.
_116__ Voting blocks (communities, bands, tribes, federations) need no longer be
limited to geographical areas. People are now able to connect with like-minded
'others' from around the planet (and beyond).
_117__ SLANDERERS and ANTAGONIZERS
_118__ NO PERSON MAY BE CENSORED, and no limits may be placed on free
speech by/of any other person or nominee,
including US Parliament's elected members and staff, at any time
except when applying guidelines to party/category labels/names
and parts of this rule which regulate antagonists.
_119__ NO HATE WORDS AS PARTY/CATEGORY NAME: Party/category's labels/names
may not be used in such a way that slanders or libels names of any
person or other party/categories or individuals. Those that refuse
to comply by continuing to libel others through their choice
of party name will be categorized as members of the Censored Party.
Elected members using a name or pseudonym rather than their actual
name, which libels, slanders or mimics (such as incorrect spellings),
shall have their name censored and instead will be known only as
Anonymous.
_120__ Members of any International Parliament entity who antagonize others more than once
use through the use of profanity, slander, insulting or offensive vulgar
language, harassing or chauvinistic speech, terrorizing threats, including
the threats of lawsuits against other members/vote counters or volunteers
within the International Parliament or those who use actual physical force or violence,
may be permanently or temporarily removed by the full Minister in that
Cabinet Ministry, by any of the ten executives of the International Parliament
or by the International Parliament's web page maintainer.
Date: July 30th, 2014
Cathy Bilsky's SPOILED Eballot on 1/28/2014
___ The simple majority vote, by names nominated who vote on rules, passes rules.
___ A self nomination is good enough, that way we'd have a 100% election rate until we hit a number around
100 members of International Parliament.
___ Pure proportional representation (PR) will be used.
___ The election of the new rules should be required to be available in all languages.
___ Elections of rules should be perpetual.
___ When the name gets self-nominated it's the same as being elected.
___ Require all the
elected members to be in communication either through facebook, email, twitter, telephone or postal service
or else their name will be eliminated after one year.
___ A name and contact information must be provided in order to qualify as a nominee and the
name and contact information must be verifiable in order to qualify as a nominee for the (e)ballot.
___ There will be fifty elected members self appointed/self nominated for free and fifty
members who are donors.
___ There will be five executives elected by the member of international parliament (MIPs).
___ Donors: New seats will be made available in a donor section of the
International Parliament's members of international parliament. All donors who contribute money to the
political entity International Parliament of $25. or more will promptly and automatically
become a "donor Member of International Parliament (MIP)".
___ Members of the donor category will be referred to as the Donor Members of International Parliament,
donor MIPs, contributor MIPs, dues-payers, donor members or "MIPs" and they will be members
with all voting rights.
___ Donor members may hold only one MIP seat in the International Parliament.
___ The donor fee is a one-time membership fee of $25. or more
until these rules change.
___ Single "Donor BoD" seats, which are the board of director (BoD) seats
in the International Parliament's Cabinet Ministries and international political parties, may also
be allotted to donors which are to be ranked according to donation level.
___ Donor MIPs and BoD seats are not elected during regular election cycles of
the International Parliament's elections yet they receive all same voting rights plus
special privileges which apply to the donation level of which the donor
has achieved.
___ Should the donor be elected to the free half of the International Parliament's
assembly, BoDs or other political entities, then their name is removed as
Donor MIP or BoD in that international assembly/BoD/international political party.
___ The numbers of seats for donor members shall never be more than the number
of free elected members in the International assembly on any political party, BoD
or other entity in the International Parliament.
___ Once the numbers of members in the International Parliament reach saturation
point and no seats are available for donors, then new donors with the lowest
donation level (or the chronologically newer or more recent membership
in cases of ties) will automatically spill over to a lower geographical region.
___ Should a Donor MIP/BoD/international political entity who had been elected to a free seat,
then be unelected and their name is no longer an elected free member, then
their name will be automatically reinstated as a Donor MIP, BoD or international committee member.
___ Once the donation/contribution is received, the donors' funds will be deposited
into a bank account which is controlled by the five national executives of the
International Parliament.
___ The International Treasury Ministry is where specific records and agreements are posted
for the public. The International Treasury Ministry will maintain all records for donors
and other financial records such as revenue inflow, donor rankings, savings
and expenditures.
___ All donor members shall have access to all financial records for the International Parliament.
Detailed information which isn't available on the International Treasury Ministry's web page
will be made available to donors when a request is made to the International Treasury Minister.
___ The International Treasury Minister of the International Parliament will be accountable only to the five
executives of the International Parliament through a vote of confidence.
___ Office Designations
___ Five Executives, five Worker Board of Directors (Worker BoDs)
___ The board of directors of the International Parliament shall consist three main
___ EXECUTIVES
___ The first five Executives are invited to elect their own names
___ The five Executives of each USA national Party
___ When an Executive or BoD resigns or dies, the next highest ranked
___ VOLUNTEER ELECTED PARTY EXECUTIVE STAFF (EXECS):
___ Elected Volunteer Executive Staff (Execs) shall always consist of five officers
Superindendent, or Chair, or Chief, or President
___ If an opening on the five elected volunteer executive seats ever exists
___ Whenever a new Party or subsidiary is formed, the first five executive
___ Once three (or more) Executives are elected, the three executives
___ Superintendent (or whatever title is picked by top vote-getter):
___ The Superintendent sets the policy and tone for the Party.
___ The Superintendent, once elected by the board of Directors,
___ Vice Superintendent:
___ During absence or disability of the Superintendent, the Vice-Superintendent in
___ Treasurer:
___ Secretary:
___ Ethics & Grievances Officer:
___ "Committee of Four"
___ Once the Ethics & Grievances Officer is elected, the next four top-ranked
___ In cases where none of the consecutively ranked names agree to be elected to
___ The Ethics & Grievances Officer serves as the tie-breaker vote on
___ FIVE WORKER BOARD OF DIRECTORS (WORKER BODS):
___ The five Worker Board of Directors (or BoDs) are elected in a free election.
___ FIVE DONOR BOARD OF DIRECTORS (DONOR BODS):
___ The Donor BoDs (AKA Investor BoDs) are elected with
___ ELECTING FIVE DONOR BOD NAMES: Under the Sainte-Lague voting system,
___ REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL BODS WORKER AND DONOR BODS:
___ The elected board of directors (BoDs) must complete the following minimum
___ A simple majority of the elected board of directors, which includes
___ Elected BoDs must provide their mailing
___ Elected BoDs must participate in the annual
___ If due to resignation, death or as a result of being elected as
___ Elected BoDs must provide a photo and bio by the first day of the new year
___ ELIMINATION OF NONCOMPLIANT BODS
___ The procedure for removing BoDs who do not meet the requirements
___ GENERAL VOTING RULES AND NEW PARTY ELECTION SCHEDULE GUIDELINES:
___ ALL ELECTIONS: The following guidelines apply to all elections for the
___ RANKED CHOICE VOTING: All voting on policy, names and decisions will be
___ NOMINATED NAMES: Nominated names for the ballot electing the BoDs must
___ DORMANCY DURING ELECTIONS: The election of new BoDs and all BoD votes/decisions
___ TIES: When two people self-nominate or a tie-vote for two or more names for the
___ RULES: Only elected directors and ministers of the SBA Party may
___ SCHEDULE OF ELECTIONS: When the nominations of a BoD commences, an election schedule
___ JANUARY FIRST ELECTION CYCLES: On Januaray first, new names for executives
___ CURRENT NAMES ALWAYS QUALIFY: All elected names always qualify for next
___ NEW ELECTIONS: New elections for consecutively ranked names as back-ups as volunteer executive
___ ALL NEW ELECTIONS: All new elections should be scheduled within the following month of the
___ WHO MAY NOMINATE AND VOTE:
___ NOMINEES FOR EXECUTIVES: Any name may be nominated for volunteer
___ ELECTION TIME FOR EXECUTIVES: Once a board of directors of five
___ ORDER OF BODS: All top five BoD names will be elected in
___ NEW NOMINATIONS OF BODS: Once five Board of Directors (BoDs)
___ ELECTIONS OF REPLACEMENT BODS: Only BoDs who have been ranked
___ VOTING SYSTEMS
___ Tic
___ A tic is a numeral, i.e. #1, #2, #3 etc. (or 1, 2, 3).
___ Tics are required in all cases in Party voting and any
___ When more than one tic is used, the next tics must be
___ Ranked Choice Voting (RCV)
___ Ranked choice voting is a system based on algebra where the voter ranks
___ Term - Removal: The officers of the Party other than the executives shall hold office
___ Any officer or agent elected or appointed by the Executives and/or
___ Salaries: The salaries of the officers shall be fixed from time to time by the Executives
___ Executives and Board of Directors Voting: All elected staff and decisions must be
___ ELECTIONS and VOTING
___ VOTING OF FOUR ITEMS: All voting consists of the subjects being voted on:
___ ELECTION RULES AND VOTING FOR ALL BOARD OF DIRECTORS (BODS):
___ THREE CATEGORIES OF DIRECTORS: WORKERS, DONORS AND VOLUNTEER EXECUTIVE STAFF:
___ Newly elected BoDs will retain their seat until they
___ All new nominations to any board of directors and
___ When Donor BoDs become elected to the Worker BoDs,
___ Elections for Donor BoDs only consists of each donor
___ WORKERS
___ DONORS
___ Donors may vote in all Party elections as
___ VOLUNTEER EXECUTIVE STAFF:
___ The national/district or sub-district Ministries elect the
___ The Election Schedule for Volunteer Executive Staff is based on Pacific Standard Time.
___ Anyone may nominate any name(s) including their own name to the ballot for volunteer
___ One week for nominations and one week for the election is the time frame.
___ After one week of nominations, all the known names, information, statements and
___ When the election is complete and the final voting deadline is passed, the top five
___ The highest ranked name will get to choose which one of the five titles they wish to
___ Once elected, the five executives may switch places with each other from
___ During the five months between March 1st of the year and the
___ Once elected, no Volunteer Executive Staff may also hold a seat on the same
___ RULES
___ AGENDA
___ RESOLUTIONS
___ These are the guidelines for submitting resolutions, co-sponsors and date stamping
___ Special Meetings: Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at any place
___ A quorum is not required on any decisions for day to day operations. In all decisions
___ Action of Directors by Communications Equipment: Any action required or which
___ Signing of Checks or Notes: Checks, notes, drafts, and demands for money shall be
___ Indemnification of Directors and Officers: The Party shall indemnify any and
___ Rules By BoDs: The Party's BoDs shall have the power to make, alter, amend and
___ Emergency Bylaws: The Board of Directors may adopt emergency Bylaws, Bylaws: subject
___ RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY DIRECTORS REGARDING ELECTION AND
___ The undersigned, being the Initial Director of the Party, hereby adopts the
___ RESOLVED, that the bylaws be, and the same hereby are, adopted as and for
___ RESOLVED, that the following persons be, and hereby are, elected Board of Directors
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All Elected Members' Eballot to Elect Guidelines "RESOLUTION NUMBER 1" (Eballot #1, Perpetual)
First International Parliament Election 2022 (Paper Ballot #e-aps-16)
Unity Platform (Paper Ballot #e-aps-17)
"Votes of Confidence" (Eballot #3, Perpetual)
All Ten Executives' Agenda Items (Eballot #4, Perpetual)
First International Parliament General Assembly Conferences (Eballot #117)
Welcome Members of International Parliament (MIPs) and History!
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