INU Regional Legislature

How about something more to the point?: The Legislative Committee

Or perhaps The Northern Legislative Committee?

INU Congressional Assembly?

Shall i add a poll with the current options?

I prefer to let people simply post their votes here; that way, they can add an idea themselves during the vote.

Well, the way i see it we current have a 1-1-1-1 tie

The regional assembly?

On a side note (Im not sure who said it) I totally disagree with the idea that only the supreme council should vote on legislation.

Do we not seek to follow the traditional method of separation of powers? I think its crazy that the supreme council have the executive and legislative powers monopolised.

@Iarphairc: The Supreme Council only retains that power until we have the legislature made. We needed a part of government to temporarily make laws until we were able to finish forming the legislature, and the Supreme Council was the only one with multiple members. So you don't need to worry about that; it will only last for a little longer.


Now, everyone, we'll vote to pick the most popular names. Since we have too many candidate names for an ordinary vote, each person will pick TWO names for his or her vote. Then we will use a second vote to determine the favorite of the remaining two. Here are the options:

Vote:
1. INU Federal Convention
2. Legislative Committee
3. Northern Legislative Committee
4. INU Congressional Assembly
5. Regional Assembly

Again, pick two of these names instead of just one. The vote will be finished simply when most or all of us submit a vote.

I vote for the INU Federal Convention and the INU Congressional Assembly.

I vote for Northern Legislative Committee and INU Congressional Assembly

Legislative committee or regional assembly

1. Northern Legislative Committee
2. INU Congressional Assembly

INU Congressional Assembly
Northern Legislative Committee

My 2 votes go to

1) INU Federal Convention
2) INU Congressional Assembly

1. INU Federal Convention
2. INU Congressional Assembly

Our vote is now completed: the INU's legislature will be called the INU Congressional Assembly.

WIth that completed, we now have to decide how many members we want to be in it. For this number, I recommend that we pick a percentage of the region instead of a set number; that will allow the number of representatives to grow along with the rest of the region without us constantly deciding on how many more to add. Feel free to post your suggestions here.

I suggest 15%. That's large enough to where we have sufficient representation, but it's small enough to where too much of the region is an official, and it will remain a small enough number to manage when the INU gets larger.

15% is much harder to manage than 10% or 20%.

Not particularly, no; it will almost always be a decimal, so we just round to the nearest odd number. 10% would be a good figure, but it isn't enough to begin with; that would mean we'll start with only 5 or 6 nations in the legislature, which makes it more of an executive position than legislature. 20% is too many, because that means a whole fifth of the region would be in the legislature. I do like 10%, but we need to start out with something larger so we actually have a legislature.

15%

We can start with 20% now but then make it less later on as we have more members until we reach 10%. We have 33 members right now, 20% would gave us 6/7 people.

Not all those those 33 members would be interested in the position; however. 10% is rather fine, i think. We can just hold off on creating the legislature until we have a larger population.

@Mundimundi: We won't actually be starting the legislature until we reach 50-60 nations, so we'll have more.

@Xin Prussia: If we use 10% now or even when we reach about 50, we'll only have 3-5 members; that's not really a legislature, it's just an executive council. We'd need to reach 100 before 10% would give us a true legislature.

Okay, since we only have a few ideas and no more are coming in, we'll hold a vote to decide on this now. These are the options for the number of legislators elected to form the Congressional Assembly:

Vote Options:
1. A starting 15% of the regional population will be elected, which will change to 10% when a sufficient population is attained. (Zwotstyg's plan)
2. A starting 20% of the regional population will be elected, which will gradually be lowered to 10%. (Mundimundi's plan)
3. 10% of the regional population will be elected. (Xin Prussia's plan)

Please only vote for one of the options; if you have another idea, feel free to post it and it will become an option as well. This vote will conclude when enough votes are collected.

I vote 2, obviously.