[Proposal] Cabinet of Lazarus Amendment

[The Pharcyde]

(2) The Delegate may create additional ministries...via public announcement. The Delegate must declare a name and a set of responsibilities for any newly-created ministry. 

I believe the law should provide an informative description of how ministries are created. I don't know if what I wrote in grpurpleen is our intended process.

 I would agree, but it is not necessary to set it in stone constitutionally, especially when we already have existing public president of the Delegate always publicly announcing it, and an existing Act to cover public announcement of proposals.

According to the Assembly Procedures Act, all proposals must be publicly announced anyway, and have a minimum discussion period of three days.

My suggestion implicitly allows the Delegate to create new ministries without approval. The Assembly Procedures Act doesn't apply to procedures that don't require Assembly input.  If the Assembly wants to sign off on the creation or elimination of ministries, then we need to decide how ministries will be written into law.

We can either pass the Ministries Act and add/remove ministries through amendments to the act, or we can include a clause about ministries in the "Assembly of Lazarus" section of Mandate 12 and pass the Ministries Act as an annex. I think the second option is better.
 

 

More Proposed Changes:

(6) Cabinet or Deputy Ministers may be removed through an election, in accordance with election procedure as defined by law.

What about recall votes?

How recall votes happen would be for an Elections Act. Cabinet or Deputy Ministers would be removed by how it is defined in that, which is the best way to go about it, as the region is at the very least leaning towards challenge elections or general elections. Generally if we follow from how other votes are established, a 50+1% vote would be the requirement to remove. 

I haven't proposed an Elections Act yet, as I couldn't legally pass it, as it would be in conflict with the existing constitution that doesn't allow for general elections or challenge elections.

I had a brain fart. The first section of the Mandate actually says officials can be recalled with 66% approval. Lol.
 

The election of deputies already exists, as defined in the Assembly Procedures Act: https://www.nslazarus.com/thread-168.html

The Assembly Procedures Act only provides for electing deputies to the Speaker. We still have to decide how deputy ministers  attain office.