[Spoon-business] Council of Elders fix

["The Voice" <nomicvoice0@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

{{ __Isn't This Game Supposed To Be Democratic?__

Replace the text of rule 1229 with the following -0- delimited text in its 
entirety.

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A. Definition
There exists a society known as the Council of Elders. Any player who is a 
Patriarch, Matriarch, or Oligarch of B Nomic is eligible to be a member of 
the Council of Elders.  The Council of Elders has three seats, each held by 
one eligible player for a term of nine nweeks.

B. Elections
At the beginning of every nweek which is an integral multiple of three, an 
election is held for the seat on the Council of Elders occupied by the 
player whose term is over.  Any player who is eligible to be a member may 
run for this seat by declaring that e is doing so by the beginning of nday 3 
of that nweek.  A vote is then immediately held of all players, and the 
eligible player who recieves the most votes recieves the seat on the 
Council.

C. Petitioning the Council
Players may submit petitions for changes to rules or the gamestate to the 
Council of Elders by posting them to a public forum. Petitions that have not 
been ruled on by the Council of Elders are collected by the Council of 
Elders in a Docket, which must be made available for public review. A player 
can have no more than one petition in the Docket at any given time; if e 
already has a petition in the Docket, e cannot submit another.

No more than once per nweek, each member of the Council of Elders can review 
the Docket, ruling Yea or Nay on each petition. If a majority of Council 
members rule Yea on a petition, the Administrator applies the changes; 
otherwise, the petition is not applied. Petitions are removed from the 
Docket once ruled on.

The Administrator is encouraged to insist on the non-implementation of a 
petition if it is excessively self-serving to the Council of Elders.

D. Initial Set-Up
When this rule is enacted, three eligible players are selected randomly to 
hold the three seats on the Council.  Also selected randomly is which of 
these three players will be up for re-election in three nweeks, which in six 
nweeks, and which in nine nweeks.  After this is done, repeal this section 
of this rule.

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Any input on how I worded this would be much appreciated... I'm kinda rusty. 
 I think this would fix a lot of the problems the Council seems to be 
having now.  Any thoughts?

-0-The Voice-0-




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