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Succession Act; Reopened
Topic Started: Sep 19 2012, 04:01 PM (375 Views)
Deckard Christopher
Here is my revised Succession Act. I have denoted changes/revisions to existing clauses in green. Additional clauses are denoted in red.

Section I: Defining Succession
A. The Succession to the office of Lord Chancellor shall be done starting with members of the Executive Branch, then the Judicial Branch, then the Legislative Branch.
B. Officials involved in the Executive Line of Succession will be the Ministers of the Cabinet, the High Judicator of the World Court, the two Associate Judicators of the World Court, and finally the Speaker of the League of Nations.
B1. The Lord Chancellor has full discretion as to the order in which each Cabinet Official may succeed to the office of Lord Chancellor, but all Cabinet Officials must precede all Judicial and Legislative Officials.
C. No named Official in these offices may succeed to the office of Lord Chancellor unless the Lord Chancellor proper has become inactive for a period of no less than 18 days, their nation has ceased to exist within the region, or they have voluntarily or otherwise resigned the office of Lord Chancellor.

Section II: The Official Line of Succession
A. Upon any conditions resulting in the Lord Chancellor being unable to fulfill his duties, then the first available Cabinet Official in the order determined by the Lord Chancellor beforehand shall succeed to the office of Lord Chancellor.
B. Upon any conditions resulting in the Lord Chancellor being unable to fulfill his duties, but there are no active Cabinet Officials, the High Judicator of the World Court shall succeed to the office of Lord Chancellor.
C. Upon any conditions resulting in the Lord Chancellor being unable to fulfill his duties, but there are no active Cabinet Officials, or an active High Judicator of the World Court, then the Senior Associate Judicator of the World Court shall succeed to the office of Lord Chancellor. If the Senior Associate Judicator is not available, then the Junior Associate Judicator shall succeed to the office of Lord Chancellor.
D. Upon any conditions resulting in the Lord Chancellor being unable to fulfill his duties, but there are no active Cabinet Officials, and there are no available Judicators of the World Court, then the Speaker of the League of Nations shall succeed to the office of Lord Chancellor.

Section III: Powers of Succession
A. If a Minister or Speaker succeeds to the office of Lord Chancellor, said Minister, Judicator, or Speaker shall be immediately recognized as the undisputed Lord Chancellor, and must immediately resign the position they had held.
B. The succeeding Minister, Judicator, or Speaker will serve out the remainder of the previous Lord Chancellor's tenure until the next election, to which they may run for a term in their own right and will be subject to subsequent election law.
C. The succeeding Minister, Judicator, or Speaker will, upon succession to the office of Lord Chancellor, be entitled the full powers and duties of the office he/she has succeeded to without question.
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Likako A. Nehio
This is the most recent version of the Succession Act as proposed by Mr. Christopher I could find, so let the discussion begin again!
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Let me explain why I wrote this:

The Succession Act is designed to provide a line of succession for the government in case we have someone who goes completely inactive, quits, or is impeached without having to rely on special elections while there is nobody holding office.
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Seems good, only one question comes to mind, "Should we include the Commonwealth Senators in the line of succession or not?"
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I dunno... I mean we could, but I was under the impression it was more like a Commonwealth-wide office and not a regional office. Back when this was written that was the premise.
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I think that the legislative branch should come before the judicial branch in the line of succession. It makes more sense to me to have a member of the Parliament take charge than a judge.

I also agree that Commonwealth Senators, just like FRA Representatives, should not be included in the line of succession at all.
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I think that the legislative branch should come before the judicial branch in the line of succession. It makes more sense to me to have a member of the Parliament take charge than a judge.

I also agree that Commonwealth Senators, just like FRA Representatives, should not be included in the line of succession at all.
I can agree to that.
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Yeah, I agree, just wanted to make sure we at least examined that avenue of thought, so no thing is overlooked in this. So are switching the order in Section I.B? To the following:


  1. Lord Chancellor
  2. Cabinet
  3. Speaker of LoN
  4. High Judicator
  5. Other Judicators
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Just to clarify this is the proposed amendment to the Succession Act (the old verbiage is struck out and the amended form shown in green).

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Executive Line of Succession Act
Authored by: Deckard Christopher
Proposed On: September 19, 2012


Section I: Defining Succession

  1. . The Succession to the office of Lord Chancellor shall be done starting with members of the Executive Branch, then the Judicial Branch, then the Legislative Branch. followed by the Legislative Branch, then the Judicial Branch.
  2. . Officials involved in the Executive Line of Succession will be the Ministers of the Cabinet, the High Judicator of the World Court, the two Associate Judicators of the World Court, and finally the Speaker of the League of Nations. The Speaker of the League of Nations, the High Judicator of the World Court, and finally the Associate Judicators of the World Court.
    1. The Lord Chancellor has full discretion as to the order in which each Cabinet Official may succeed to the office of Lord Chancellor, but all Cabinet Officials must precede all Judicial and Legislative Officials.

  3. . No named Official in these offices may succeed to the office of Lord Chancellor unless the Lord Chancellor proper has become inactive for a period of no less than 18 days, their nation has ceased to exist within the region, or they have voluntarily or otherwise resigned the office of Lord Chancellor.


Section II: The Official Line of Succession

  1. . Upon any conditions resulting in the Lord Chancellor being unable to fulfill his duties, then the first available Cabinet Official in the order determined by the Lord Chancellor beforehand shall succeed to the office of Lord Chancellor.
  2. . Upon any conditions resulting in the Lord Chancellor being unable to fulfill his duties, but there are no active Cabinet Officials, the High Judicator of the World Court shall succeed to the office of Lord Chancellor. the Speaker of the League of Nations shall succeed to the office of Lord Chancellor
  3. . Upon any conditions resulting in the Lord Chancellor being unable to fulfill his duties, but there are no active Cabinet Officials, or an active High Judicator of the World Court, then the Senior Associate Judicator of the World Court shall succeed to the office of Lord Chancellor. If the Senior Associate Judicator is not available, then the Junior Associate Judicator shall succeed to the office of Lord Chancellor.Speaker of the League of Nations, the High Judicator of the World Court shall succeed to the office of the Lord Chancellor.
  4. . Upon any conditions resulting in the Lord Chancellor being unable to fulfill his duties, but there are no active Cabinet Officials, and there are no available Judicators of the World Court, then the Speaker of the League of Nations shall succeed to the office of Lord Chancellor. Speaker of the League of Nations, nor High Judicator of the World Court, then the Senior Associate Judicator shall succeed to the office of the Lord Chancellor, if the Senior Associate Judicator is not available the line of succession continues through the remaining Associate Judicators in order of seniority.


Section III: Powers of Succession
  • . If a Minister or Speaker succeeds to the office of Lord Chancellor, said Minister, Judicator, or Speaker shall be immediately recognized as the undisputed Lord Chancellor, and must immediately resign the position they had held.
  • . The succeeding Minister, Judicator, or Speaker will serve out the remainder of the previous Lord Chancellor's tenure until the next election, to which they may run for a term in their own right and will be subject to subsequent election law.
  • . The succeeding Minister, Judicator, or Speaker will, upon succession to the office of Lord Chancellor, be entitled the full powers and duties of the office he/she has succeeded to without question.


The only slight modification I made outside of the proposed change is that I removed the "two" in front of Associate Judicators to reflect that the World Court can grow as stated in the Charter.
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It doesn't look bad...
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The order of the law seems good to me, as well as the premise of it.
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before we vote on this proposed change, I'd like to discuss another possible addition, which is the defining of "active". Which is not only obvious for this particular act, but will be useful to have a clear definition of what is considered to being "active" in this region.
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I would think that "active" would be posting a least once every two days. For a Lord Chancellor I think helping to create activity/discussions should also be considered a major part.
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Yes, perhaps, however we should consider the kind of posts. I mean we don't want the LC just posting in the spam room, we need him/her to make constructive posts too.
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I would agree to that definition.
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