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Exquisite! I have nothing further to add except this: I support this amendment.

I'd support that.

It's settled. We're now pushing for amendment status!

(Implied) Support of Following Government Officials:

- Snabagag

- Conservative Idealism

- The Grand Macallan

- Miencraft

Requires support of two of three of the following:

- The rest of 1/3 of the population

- The rest of the non-executive government positions

- Liberosia

I support the amendment.

Don't leave me out!

Since the latest revision, the results are as follows:

4/10 government officials approve.

6/28 (28 is 84-ish/3) citizens approve.

0/1 founders approve.

Actually, speaking for each of my puppets, I'd have to say now that 10/28 citizens approve.

Well, it might be 5/10 government officials if I still have TGM's support.

You have my support and the support of three of my puppets.

I've got you penciled down, and adding your three puppets, we're up to 13/28.

Well, I guess the denominator would be closer to 29.

I've got four puppets currently, you could count those too.

17/29 required civ votes.

Post self-deleted by The Republican Guard.

Actum Drone 01 and Actum Drone 02 are mine. Count them in.

And also, Actum Drone 03. Forgot about him.

You now what would make me happy? If I could find out where Glen Beck went. Anyone know?

Post self-deleted by Miencraft.

If he went anywhere, it was to Utah.

I have taken up a new method of voting on WA proposals. If they propose repealing, I vote yes. If they propose further legislation, I vote no. Complicated legislature is a cancer to society.

I just noticed that the PATRIOT act is declared to have passed. What happened to my motion to change the act?

It was not seconded. There was a lot of different proposals, so we went with the original as a compromise.

It was supported by three nations.

I agree on the WA thing.

BOARD Amendment approval stats:

20/29 civilian votes (almost there!)

4/10 government position votes

0/1 Liberosia votes

Snabagag, original = more support.

Hey, Liberosia. Are you going to support the BOARD Amendment? It's currently in voting (well, not voting, per se).

Post self-deleted by Liberosia.

I give my support to the bill.

Citizens, please support the BOARD act!

1 of the 2 needed criteria have been fulfilled.

We still need 8 more civilian votes OR 6 more government position votes.

(Also, what should we call it? BOARD Act, BOARD Amendment, or 1st Amendment?)

Wait, just got a TG. Liberosia has at least seven puppets here, so...

PASSED!

Link to the document in question - here.

Still needs a working title.

Hello, I am the Foreign Affairs Minister of the FFS, here to talk about the embassy situation, if anyone wouldlike to pipe in, just TG me. thank you all.

I support the BOARD Amendment.

I need to go to a ceremony in the CPE. if you would like me to come back afterwords, please TG me, and I would be more than happy to do so.

Why would we need a representative if you closed your embassy? >_>

TCLoF finally has reached their goal of no income tax.

*signals for everyone to applaud*

Anyway, the First Amendment has supposedly been ratified upon reaching the necessary criteria. When will this be added to the law?

I will incorporate it into the constitution. Each provision shall be added into the articles of the constitution.

I will make the BOARD amendment noted in the law factbook, but there will be no notification of an amendment in the constitution itself. Instead, all the provisions in the BOARD amendment will be written into (and change) the constitution.

The constitution has been updated and the BOARD amendment has been incorporated into it. I invite anyone to look over the constitution and the amendment independently to see if something was left out or not added. I assure you I did not intentionally leave anything out.

Today marks a triumph in republicanism. Not in the legislative or executive branches, but in the Judicial. I no longer have the power to deem laws unconstitutional or not, rather the Board (but not the Managers) have that power.

The impact of this law is to give far greater power to the Chairman of the Board (who is currently Macallan) and its other four constituents. There are also some minor changes in executive responsibilities and time limits have been imposed on legislation.

A happy day indeed. Congratulations, all. Especially CI for working so hard on this.

Regretfully, the last-minute changes I made, for some reason, were not saved to the proposal. As such, the Board does have the first and final legal say in whether a law or action is unconstitutional, but may not make a decision until an attorney passes them a vote.

Now that each government position (Vice WA exempted) has just about equal power, a system of checks and balances has been adequately established.

A good day indeed.

*reads World Factbook Entry*

The heck?

The factbook regional control is not working right now.

Try it again. The bug has been reported and appears to have been solved.

Good news: Got my taxes down to 3%.

*averts eyes*

There are too many nudes in Libertatem...

... I swear, they're exhibitionist hippies!

We just happen to have a lot of them.

Considering many of the user-created online skins for Minecraft are nude, I'm not surprised.

...Old-school RuneScape is fun as heck. :)

Oh, you're playing that too? I did a Stronghold of Security rush yesterday, and I'm still trying to get used to not being able to rest.

Favorite part of this is going over to one of those web archive things and going to guide sites from 2007.

I'm just trying to figure out how people got 70+ skills in the one day this thing's been open.

Grinding, the only way to level in 2007Scape.

Post self-deleted by Actum.

Yeah, but you have to admit, it's pretty interesting to see what a general store has to offer one hour that's different than the hour before.

Yeah, back when shops weren't personalized. That's an intense wave of nostalgia.

Without nationalism, is a country truly a country? What is a nation without nationalism: it is no longer a nation. Without nationalism, a country has nothing.

One nation, one people, one leader, one America.

What is nationalism, really?

I think you mean Patriotism, Liberosia. Nations need patriotism to be nations.

Perhaps that's a better word for it. Patriotism involves looking out for the best interests of the country, while nationalism is puffed-up pride in either a country or racial group at best.

Nationalism and patriotism are so similar. In America, the closest thing to a nationalist is a Tea Party Patriot.

It's true, nationalism could be defined as patriotism on steroids. I kind of like the sound of it.

Patriotism is love for ones' country. Nationalism is love for ones' country and working to prove that love.

I might not be a nationalist, but that simply indicates that I'm not necessarily prideful. I am, however, a self-proclaimed patriot.

Well, I've got to go. Be back in a few hours.

I'm glad many of my citizens are fat. It means they're not skinny, which is inherently advantageous.

Do any of you play Minecraft?

I don't, but it seems quite a few here do.

I don't even want to answer that because it'd be insulting to the intelligence of my fellow human beings.

Hahah! I tried playing online for the first time on Sunday(and played for 7 hours yesterday), and now whenever I close my eyes, I see endermen. Terrible.

An enderman once took a pumpkin of mine and never came back.

So... that Sequester, huh?

I play minecraft.

Let the sequester happen

Underwater basket weaving has hit a new trend in my nation. Our products are even better than before.

Ronald Reagan

Born on February 6, 1911, Reagan was a preservationist of the principles and vision of the Founders, opposed to the "Progressive" revolt against the founding principles of American freedom and prosperity that gained so much steam during the past century. Reagan restored those founding principles, and the freedom and prosperity they engendered, just when they were slipping away.

We have forgotten today what Reagan faced, what he overcame, and what he achieved. Reagan transformed double-digit inflation, double-digit unemployment, double-digit interest rates, with subpar growth about half the long-term U.S. average, declining real wages and incomes, and soaring poverty, to a 25-year boom restoring the long-term U.S. growth trend line, and ultimately full employment, while slaying an historic inflation that remains tamed to this day, with rising real wages and incomes, and persistently declining poverty.

The Reagan recovery grew into a 25-year economic boom, from 1982 to 2007, what Art Laffer and Steve Moore rightly called in their book, The End of Prosperity, "the greatest period of wealth creation in the history of the planet.... [M]ore wealth was created in America in the twenty-five year boom than in the previous two hundred years." The economic growth during the first seven years of the boom alone was equivalent to adding the entire economy of West Germany, the third largest in the world at the time, to the U.S. economy. During the boom's last seven years, the growth was the equivalent of adding the entire economy of China to the U.S. economy.

As George Washington University economist Henry R. Nau recently explained in the Wall Street Journal, by 2007 the entire 25 year economic boom had created 50 million new jobs, and restored the long term U.S. economic growth rate to 3.3%, twice the rate of the 1970s. As Nau elaborated:

[T]he U.S. grew by more than 3% per year [in real terms] from 1980 to 2007, and created more than 50 million new jobs, massively expanding a middle class of working women, African-Americans and legal as well as illegal immigrants. Per capita income increased by 65%, and household income went up substantially in all income categories. (emphasis added).

He added, "In the past three decades [1980 to 2007], the percentage of households making more than $105,000 in inflation adjusted dollars doubled to 24% from 11%."

The magnitude of the turnaround and these results are what make it the greatest economic boom in world history, and a heroic achievement deserving of much greater recognition and award for the major policymakers who led its creation.

That should be enough for any one President. But Reagan also won the Cold War without firing a shot, in Margaret Thatcher's famous phrase, with the Soviet Union actually breaking up and disintegrating.

By their fruits, ye shall know them, the Bible wisely tells us. Barack Obama, by contrast, following exactly the opposite of everything Reagan did, has forced America to suffer the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression. And doing the same in foreign policy and national defense, Obama seems on track to reopen the Cold War as well, this time with America losing, and a lot more than shots fired.

The Anticomintern is now in the process of closing. Any effort I would have spent maintaining it will instead be spent furthering the interests of our own empire.

Post self-deleted by Liberosia.

The Empire appreciates your assistance, CI.

I just saw Obama's speech about the Republicans ruining everyone's lives with the sequester. I think he is gearing up for a 3rd term run. If so, I'm gearing up for a rebellion! Who is with me?

I haven't heard the speech or content of it, but he better not be planning on trying for a third term. At least by that time I'll be old enough to vote.

The constitution says that he can serve only two terms as president. So unless he gets congress and a majority of the states to pass a constitutional amendment, we don't have worry about it.

I think Actum's point is that the President is constantly campaigning as opposed to governing. The two term limit started with George Washington, who voluntarily stepped aside after two years, and with generations of other presidents following suit out of principle. What we have here with Obama, is a guy who, given the opportunity, would gladly take a third term were constitutional limits to be removed.

That is to say, the two-term limit is a relatively recent addition to the constitution (after FDR if I recall).

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