Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu link=msg=16543I am not comfortable removing the ennumeration of the Ziu's powers. It would be a drastic expansion of government power, and any such change should be considered in isolation and carefully.
Except that it's not an "expansion of state power" VS citizens: according with IX.6 those powers not enumerated in VII.3 are organically vested in the Provinces.
Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on June 07, 2022, 11:01:28 AMQuote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on May 31, 2022, 06:39:01 PMI would also appreciate a response to the question of throwing off the "bogus federalism" verbiage and moving to an explicit "devolved government" model.
I think it's a bad idea, and it's not something I'm willing to entertain in the context of this bill. Limiting the powers of the Ziu is a way of protecting our citizens from future unknown abuse of their civil rights, since I don't think the Covenants are sufficient in the case of a country like Talossa.
So, using your own words, today the citizens are not protected from any "future unknown abuse of their civil rights" because those powers are not limited: Provinces have them. "Future unknown abuses of their civil rights" you are afraid of could be carried even today by the Provinces.
And I hope you all agree with me that in Talossa the national level is more suited and equipped (and active) to protect citizens from abuses than the provincial ones.
This is one of the few instances (there are more, like the whole VII.3.15) when in the OrgLaw survives a "U.S. federal approach" which is not part of the nature of our nationette that we should get rid of in my opinion. In by far the greatest part of the OrgLaw clearly the sovereignty flows top-down (from the Kingdom to Provinces) and not bottom-up. From a constitutional point of view Provinces derives their existence, powers and authority from the OrgLaw, they are created by the OrgLaw and partake in the Kingdom's own and exclusive sovereignty, and not the opposite way. One big fat evidence of this is the fact that Provinces do not need to consent to OrgLaw amendments because they are not the source of the Kingdom sovereignty (as in federal nations like the U.S., Canada, Australia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, etc...).
Those very few "U.S. instinctly surviving" pieces of the OrgLaw should be modified accordingly.
Your bill is fine -as it is (and with the agree that we should stop to add renumbering clauses in the future) but the above is a topic worth to be addressed I believe.