Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on December 08, 2025, 05:48:03 AMThe old system of laws was just a crazy hodgepodge of dozens of individual things that only a few people knew about,

This is true, though you yourself didn't seem to have seen it that way at first:

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu link=https://talossa.proboards.com/thread/9034/el-lexhatxSome Talossans have complained that they have difficulty figuring out the laws and procedure. Frankly, in my experience these individuals have never actually bothered to try... especially with the existence of the wiki, which allows a simple-word search through the whole law, it's not too difficult to find laws on any given subject.

But besides all this, saying that you yourself never opposed the creation of a unified Legal Code -- I don't have a reason not to believe you on this -- in no way refutes the fact that having a unified Legal Code was part of the Opposition manifesto as early as two months after Reunision, meaning more than a year prior to the passing of el Lexhatx, or that the party you were a member of was historically opposed to this endeavour.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on December 08, 2025, 09:24:01 AMTo clarify, I mean the total number of seats each individual was permitted to hold.  For example, this Cosa it's 20 seats maximum per person.  Would it be 2 seats maximum per person under this new law?

EDIT: Okay, so it sounds like it would be 2 per person for an election like this one.

Yeah, as much as I would like a proper Real Cosă (and this could be easily achieved by deleting Lexh.H.4.1), I understand that we currently don't have the manpower to have 20 individual MCs — hence why this is called the Pseudo-Real Cosă Act.

As a cross-party sponsor who would be put in a tough spot by this, please don't.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on December 08, 2025, 09:18:30 AMWill there be any effect on things like the party seat rules or the number of seats a person can hold?

The formula used to determine the maximum amount of seats an MC can hold (party seats * 10 / number of votes, rounded up) remains unchanged.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on December 08, 2025, 05:33:25 AMI think probably just that it's more granular, which this bill is specifically supposed to change.  So I guess it depends on whether or not you think it's good that the Cosa more closely resembles the actual vote.

The Cosă as it stands is more granular than the actual vote tally! I don't believe this sort of granularity for its own sake outweighs the impracticality of MCs consistently holding two digits worth of seats.

I also think that in the current setup, political power is something that can be easily bought on a whim, which cheapens it. One thing that I always appreciated about Talossa is that citizenship and titles are handed out based on commitment and merit instead of simply being for sale like in other similarly sized but no doubt more recognisable nationettes such as Sealand. Thus it seems strange to me that while citizenship and titles need to be earned, this same standard is not consistently applied to power.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on December 08, 2025, 08:41:11 AMNot speaking for the entire Green Party just as an individual MC. I would be voting against this as it is currently written.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on it.

Quote from: Françal I. Lux on December 08, 2025, 08:24:45 AMThe URL leadership's penchant for personal attacks and hyperbole is the very reason you lost this election, but by all means double down on your vindictive approach. I'm sure it'll work wonders for you in the Opposition.

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Your fear-mongering lost you the election, so keep it up. In the meantime, we will govern well and not neglect our responsibilities because of personal animosities.

Setting aside the deeply unprofessional and needlessly aggressive tone, it is not hyperbole or fearmongering to say that the PA is planning to work together with an absolutist theocrat. And it is also not hyperbole or fearmongering to point out that some members of the PA have professed similar opinions in the past, as such this collaboration appears very natural.

QuoteThis country has as much chance turning into a theocratic absolute monarchy as it does into an anarchic republic and everyone knows that.

We don't, in fact, know that.

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Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on December 07, 2025, 07:34:07 PMYes - up to, as the existing legislation provides, 7.5% of the Cosa rounded up - i.e. 2 extra seats in total. Enough to make thing spicy lol

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Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on December 07, 2025, 07:33:07 PMSo this proposal would reduce the size of the Cosa from 200 to 20, but would still permit new citizens to claim seats?

Yes. The number of party seats in the Cosă can be changed by statute, whereas abolishing New Citizens' seats would require modifying the Organic Law. I wouldn't want to do that, anyway.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on December 07, 2025, 07:44:26 PMSo someone can vote for themselves and still not get a seat, since you'd need multiple votes to get even one seat.

Yes, that is by design. Under the 200-seat Cosă, a party with only one vote would be entitled to at least 2 seats. I never really understood the point of that.

WHEREAS Talossa is not roleplaying, and
WHEREAS therefore, operating under a "D&D Cosă" with more seats than voting citizens is untenable, and
WHEREAS political power ought not be a matter of course that is bought and paid for, but a privilege derived from sufficient popular mandate (or for our newest citizens, a courtesy extended by law),

NOW THEREFORE, be it enacted that the following provision be added to el Lexhatx as subsubsection H.4.1.1:

QuoteThe total number of party seats is twenty.

FURTHERMORE, according to LegOrg IV.2.1, this change will not take effect until the next election following the passage of a calendar year.

Uréu q'estadra så:
Marcel Tafial

Quote from: Max Maltezos on December 07, 2025, 05:52:40 PMWell, heaven isn't a democracy...

Talossa is, and should continue to be one.

Are there any concrete plans on what those "activities that promote el Glheþ" that the Minister of Culture will be restricted to are?

Also, are there any plans to replace me as Ladintsch Naziunal?

This might just be fluff, but I'm worried that the part about "RID[DING] THIS REALM OF ALL SLANDER AGAINST [BEN]" could potentially run afoul of the First Covenant.

I also find it personally gross to try and question people's love for the country if they don't wish to rehabilitate Ben, especially considering everything that might've gone on between them and him.

Quote from: xpb on December 03, 2025, 11:25:32 PMI'm somewhat ignorant on the "how" but would it be plausible to get assistance from an AI tool to read Witt and then suggest changes to some of these pages? (of course subject to actual editing by respirating mammals...)

Probably not. Chances are the changes suggested would be vague to the point of uselessness, or completely inappropriate (if the AI hallucinates, which it does in roughly 20% of all cases).

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on December 01, 2025, 11:20:39 PMOkay, looks like it's just the two of us.

Do claims via ballot not count?

New word proposal!

aðcedaziun "accession (to the throne)", first used by then-King John in 2011, and subsequently in 2015.

and, backderived from that,

aðcedar "accede (to the throne)"

I was surprised to find out we didn't already have a word for this in l'Översteir. If there are no objections I'd like add them right away.

Quote from: Hüseyin Çiftçi on November 23, 2025, 12:51:08 PMI am a candidate for president

Talossa is a kingdom, we don't have a president. And it's already too late to announce your candidacy for this election since it's currently ongoing (plus you need to be a citizen to be a candidate for anything).

What sort of confirmation would the Chancery need to mark Flip Molinar as TDE? (Orglaw X.5)

As I've said on the Discord, I have no problem with voting for this now that it includes an enforcement mechanism. I would like to co-sponsor this bill once I am elected into the Ziu (I would've said "if" but it takes some real effort to run for the Cosă and then not to get a seat...)

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on November 14, 2025, 08:40:41 PMI think you're bending over backwards to make it seem like it's pointless to make something illegal without an immediate enforcement mechanism,

Maybe I'm going crazy, but how am I bending over backwards? The first question in my mind at least when someone proposes to stop something from happening is "Okay but how?". I can't possibly be the first one to ask this question, surely.

QuoteI think if you ask most people if they'd break immigration laws, even if they think they won't get caught, that they'd still say they wouldn't do it.  Now maybe your hypothetical "nefarious immoral mastermind" would still do it, but people aren't either Good or Bad.  As I said, most people don't break serious laws even if they think they might get away with it.

That's not my hypothetical, that was yours! You were talking about biased MinImms "losing", "accidentally deleting" or "not quite processing" applications. The only way criminalising this stuff would make sense if these actions are done deliberately and maliciously. And people who do these things, under the old version of the Public Process Act, would have always gotten away with it. What's so difficult about this, what am I missing?