Removal of the RtL forums

[The RCS]

Article I: Regional Citizenship

1. Citizenship shall be granted, upon application, to every person who is a resident of Right to Life, a member of the regional forums region for at least seven days, and a supporter of the pro-life cause. No other person shall be naturalized.

Article II: Declaration of Principles and Rights

3. The sovereignty of Right to Life resides in the Founder of Right to Life, who controls the region and its forums, and in the citizens of Right to Life, who give the region its influence and vitality. The Founder and the citizens have a sovereign right to create the regional government and to alter or abolish it when it is conducive to their happiness and prosperity.

Article V: The Administrative Branch

8. The Founder is primarily responsible for managing the offsite forums of Right to Life and for enforcing their terms of use and service. To aid him in the performance of these duties, he may appoint and dismiss forum administrators and moderators as he deems fit.[/s]

Article VII: Senatorial Elections

2. Senatorial elections shall take place publicly on the regional forumsmain Right to Life NS page in a poll. Subject to such reasonable restrictions that the laws may impose, all citizens shall have the right to vote.

Article VIII: Presidential Elections

3. In each presidential election, a system of weighted, first-past-the-post voting shall be used. Citizens and World Assembly residents, endorsing the current president, (exempting members of the armed forces who are serving in a foreign region) shall cast their votes publicly in the regional forums, and qualified World Assembly residents (exempting members of the armed forces who are serving in a foreign region) shall cast their votes in a public poll on the main page of the region. Nations that are both citizens and a WA member will have their vote count as two. Any person who is a citizen and a qualified World Assembly resident may vote twice (once in each area).

[Culture of Life]

Until the region drafts and approves a comprehensive package of constitutional changes, it might be easiest (1) to redefine citizenship as World Assembly membership plus residence in Right to Life, (2) to maintain the current schedule of presidential elections but with World Assembly residents being the only voters, and (3) to suspend senatorial elections until a comprehensive package of constitutional changes is approved.

In my mind, I've been tossing around a few ideas for a potential package of permanent constitutional amendments, including:

• Citizenship = (1) WA residence in RTL (domestic citizens) or (2) WA residence in an embassy region plus registration (citizens abroad).
• Merging the High Court into the Senate. Some years ago, the Senate acted as RTL's combined legislative and judicial branch.
• Turning the Senate into a partially elected, partially appointed body. For example, maybe the Senate could look something like this: two nations appointed by the president, the nation that finished second place in the most recent presidential election (meaning three senators total).
• Various minor changes (e.g., changing Founder and Viceroy to Governor and Lieutenant Governor).

[The RCS]

Article I: Regional Citizenship

1. Citizenship shall be granted, upon application, to every person who is a resident of Right to Life, a member of the regional forums region for at least seven days, and a supporter of the pro-life cause. No other person shall be naturalized

2. To be pro-life under this Constitution, a person must be opposed to induced abortion in general; but he may tolerate limited exceptions in certain rare cases, specifically maternal life, maternal health, rape, incest, and serious fetal abnormalities.

3. The citizenship application shall require an oath or affirmation be sent via telegram to the founder, president, or the minister of the interior stating: "I, USERNAME, hereby affirm that I am pro-life; I am against induced abortion in all or most cases." Once received the notified official shall make note in an official dispatch on the main RtL page

4. The regional government shall not process citizenship applications during senatorial elections and presidential elections, unless the citizenship application was filed before the election and would have been accepted at the time that it was filed.

5. From time to time and at the beginning of every senatorial election and every presidential election, the administrative branch shall purge the roster of citizens of forum members who no longer meet the conditions outlined in the first section of this article. However, at its discretion, the administrative branch may (without removing citizenship) simply warn a forum member who has temporarily allowed his residence in Right to Life to lapse but who has a nation that is located in a foreign region, that is active, and that can be contacted.

6. Without a reapplication, the administrative branch may automatically restore citizenship to persons who return to Right to Life, having held citizenship in the past.

7. The administrative branch, with or without a law, may suspend or remove citizenship in cases of egregious or extraordinary misconduct. However, such decisions shall not be immune from judicial review or executive clemency, unless a real-world crime is involved.

[The RCS]

Article VII: Senatorial Elections

1. Senatorial elections shall begin on the fifteenth day of the months of January, April, July, and October. There shall be seven days of nominations followed by three days of voting. Nominations must be sent to the minister of the interior or the nation responsible for calling the election via telegram.

2. Senatorial elections shall take place publicly on the regional forumsvia a poll on the main Right to Life page. Subject to such reasonable restrictions that the laws may impose, all citizens shall have the right to vote.

3. Citizens who are members of the World Assembly will have two (2) votes to cast and non-World Assembly members will have one (1).

3.4. The number of senators and the method of their election shall be determined by law. However, no law altering the number of senators shall become effective until the senatorial election following the law's enactment.

4.5. The President shall break any ties that might occur in a senatorial election.