[This file lists all proposals submitted in 2006 and later (pool
numbers 06-001 onwards, sequence numbers 4847 onwards), including
proposals never distributed and proposals not yet resolved. It should
contain complete information, subject only to data that are not yet
determined.  It is maintained by the Promotor.]

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-01-12
dist_mid: <20060112145624.9677.qmail@periware.org>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2006-01-21
fate_mid: <43D29C69.607@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-001
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4847
submit_date: 2006-01-03
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601031228010.24698@homer21.u.washington.edu>
title: Finite Library

Amend Rule 2089 (Gardner Library) to read:

      A player (hereafter the Borrower) may check out a specified card
      from the Library by announcement, which must satisfy a number of
      satisfiable pending draws that e, in fact, possesses.  The
      number is 2 pending draws for Students and 1 pending draw for
      Faculty Members.  Whenever a card is checked out from the
      Library, it is transferred to the Borrower, and the Library
      gains a pending draw.

      The President of the University may discard any card in the
      possession of the Library and replace it with a pending draw,
      without two objections.  If the Library has no cards and no
      pending draws, the President may grant the Library 5 pending
      draws, by announcement.


The Library is hereby deemed to have exactly 5 pending draws.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-02-16
dist_mid: <20060216171108.17246.qmail@periware.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-03-14
fate_mid: <fa0147d90603131515p3873d79bxf48e3fcb1ed0739b@mail.gmail.com>
pool_number: 06-002
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4848
submit_date: 2006-02-09
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602081848330.5075@homer24.u.washington.edu>
title: Remove Some Cards

Amend the Onepower Cardbook as follows:

   Change the Limited Exploit to read:
      * Limited [X a type of entity] [Y a positive integer]: If you
        are not an X, treat this card as if it were Costly[Y].

   Change the Costly Exploit to read:
      * Costly [ Y a positive integer]: You must discard Y cards to
        play this card.  For each of these discards, you
        may substitute one of your existing pending draws which
        is then considered satisfied.

   Remove the descriptions of the following cards:
     Not Your Turn
     Two for One
     Chaos Reborn
     Greedy Bastard
     Charity Brings Happiness
     Thieves in the Night
     Instant Gratification
     Instant Punishment
     Instant Millionaire

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
fate: discarded
fate_date: 2006-03-16
fate_mid: <44199AF6.3050907@udel.edu>
pool_number: 06-003
proposer: Murphy
submit_date: 2006-02-13
submit_mid: <43F04543.3040204@socal.rr.com>
title: Chips

Amend Rule 2069 (Card Actions) by replacing this text:

      plus one for each free pending draw for that gambler.

with this text:

      plus one for each of eir red chips.

and by replacing this text:

      the sum of the number of pending draws for each gambler is
      greater than the number of cards in the deck, or that there are
      no cards in the deck

with this text:

      there are no cards in the deck

Amend Rule 2074 (Hand Flux) by replacing this text:

      nor may the Deckmastor satisfy pending draws for that hand.

with this text:

      nor may chips be transferred from that hand.

Amend Rule 2075 (Winning Hands) by replacing this text:

      all heavy pending draws shall be deemed satisfied.

with this text:

      all white chips shall be forfeited to the Pot.

Amend Rule 2080 (Basic Draws) to read:

      A player's maximum hand size is the maximum hand size in the
      Deckmastor's Budget plus the number of offices (counting the
      Speakership as an office) that the player holds.

      At the beginning of each month, each player receives three white
      chips and one red chip.

      Upon the adoption of a proposal, the author receives one white
      chip.

      A player who gains a Boon receives a red chip.  A player who
      gains an Albatross loses a chip.

Amend Rule 2120 (Satisfying Draws) to read:

      A player may transfer one or more of eir chips to the Pot.  As
      soon as possible after e does so, the Deckmastor shall deal em a
      card for each non-forfeited chip.

      While a player's hand size equals or exceeds eir maximum hand
      size, any white chips e transfers to the Pot are forfeited.

      If the rules say that a player loses a chip:

        (a) If e has at least one red chip, then one of eir red chips
            is forfeited to the Pot.

        (b) Otherwise, if e has at least one white chip, then one of
            eir white chips is forfeited to the Pot.

        (c) Otherwise, if e has at least one card, then the Deckmastor
            shall discard one of that player's cards at random.

        (d) Otherwise, the next chip e gains is immediately forfeited
            to the Pot.

Amend Rule 2049 (Ephemera) by removing this text:

      A Player who gains a Boon is considered to have drawn a free
      card for that boon.  A Player who gains an Albatross loses a
      pending draw.

Amend Rule 2089 (Gardner Library) to read:

      Whenever the Library's hand size is less than five, it receives
      a red chip.

      A player (the Borrower) may check out a specified card currently
      in the Library's hand by transferring chips to the Pot (2 for
      Students, 1 for Faculty Members).  These chips are forfeited,
      and the card is transferred to the Borrower.

      The President of the University may discard any card in the
      possession of the Library without two objections.

Amend Rule 2075 (Winning Hands) by replacing this text:

      If the announcement is true, the holding Gambler Wins the Game,
      and is awarded the boon of Pokerface and the defined regular
      Patent Title Champion.

with this text:

      If the announcement is true, the holding Gambler Wins the Game,
      and is awarded the boon of Pokerface, the defined regular Patent
      Title Champion, and a blue chip (non-transferrable, and marked
      with the number of red and white chips in the Pot, after which
      the Pot is emptied).

Create a rule titled "Fees" with this text:

      A player plays a fee of X by transferring X chips to the Pot.
      These chips are forfeited.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2006-02-20
fate_mid: <43FA24A8.404@udel.edu>
pool_number: 06-004
proposer: root
submit_date: 2006-02-16
submit_mid: <20060216210743.GA17830@zeus.periware.org>
title: Fees, Please 1.1

Changes from version 1.0:

* A refund is given if the action fails for any reason, not just
 insufficient cards.

* Intentionally failing actions to replace bad cards or to dodge
 hand reduction is a crime.


Create a Rule titled "Fees", reading:

      A fee-based action is an action with which the rules associate a
      fee, which must be a natural number.  If the rules describe a
      fee-based action but do not indicate the fee for that action,
      then that fee is zero.


      A player (the Actor) attempts to perform a fee-based action by
      announcing that e performs it; specifying the action to be
      performed; if the fee is nonzero, noting that there is a fee for
      the action; and optionally indicating a set of cards (the Down
      Payment) in eir collection to be applied to the fee.  If the
      Down Payment is not indicated, then it is the empty set.  The
      Actor has sufficient cards to perform the action if the number
      of cards in the Down Payment plus the number of pending draws e
      has meets or exceeds the fee.


      Upon eir announcement, if the Actor had sufficient cards to
      perform the action, then the following events occur in order:

      1) Each card in the Down Payment is discarded, and the Fieri
         Etiam Emptum (FEE) is set to the amount of the fee less the
         number of cards so discarded, with a minimum of zero.

      2) The Actor loses a number of pending draws equal to the
         minimum of the FEE and the number of pending draws e has.

      3) The Actor performs the action.


      If the success of the Actor's attempt to perform a fee-based
      action is publicly challenged within a week of the time the
      action was attempted, then the Deckmastor shall, as soon as
      possible, determine whether the Actor had sufficient cards when
      e attempted to perform the action, and announce eir
      determination.


      If the Deckmastor announces that the Actor did not have
      sufficient cards to perform a fee-based action at the time of
      eir attempt, and eir announcement was published within a
      fortnight from the time the action was attempted, then the
      action shall be deemed not to have been performed.


      If the success of an Actor's attempt to perform a fee-based
      action is not publicly challenged within a week of the time the
      action was attempted, then the action shall be deemed to have
      been performed.


      If for any reason the action is deemed not to have been
      performed, then the Actor shall gain a number of pending draws
      equal to the number of cards discarded in 1) plus the number of
      pending draws e lost in 2).


      Attempting to perform a fee-based action with the knowledge that
      the attempt will fail is the Class N Crime of Card Swapping,
      where N is equal to twice the size of the Down Payment.


      Nothing in this rule shall act to prevent a person from
      performing a fee-based action by another mechanism for
      performing that action provided by the rules.


Amend Rule 2106 by replacing the text "noting any fees" with the text
"paying any fees".

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: Goethe
dist_date: 2006-02-26
dist_mid: <20060228050343.23521.qmail@periware.org>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2006-03-13
fate_mid: <fa0147d90603131229m5b042d6avc77d2ccfd012f93c@mail.gmail.com>
pool_number: 06-005
proposer: root
seq_number: 4849
submit_date: 2006-02-20
submit_mid: <43FA24A8.404@udel.edu>
title: Fees, Please 1.3

Changes from version 1.2:

* Players can be refunded for overpayment as well as for failure.

Changes from version 1.1:

* The fee is pragmatically paid regardless of whether the Actor had
  "sufficient cards".

* Removed the crime of Card Swapping.  The Deckmastor will now
  preferentially return the cards discarded to pay the fee.

Changes from version 1.0:

* A refund is given if the action fails for any reason, not just
  insufficient cards.

* Intentionally failing actions to replace bad cards or to dodge hand
  reduction is a crime.


Goethe is a coauthor of this proposal.


Create a Rule titled "Fees", reading:

      A fee-based action is an action with which the rules associate a
      fee, which must be a natural number.  If the rules describe a
      fee-based action but do not indicate the fee for that action,
      then that fee is zero.

      A player (the Actor) attempts to perform a fee-based action by
      announcing that e performs it; specifying the action to be
      performed; if the fee is nonzero, noting that there is a fee for
      the action; and optionally indicating an ordered set of cards
      (the Down Payment) in eir collection to be applied to the fee.
      If the Down Payment is not indicated, then it is the empty set.
      The Actor has sufficient cards to perform the action if the
      number of cards in the Down Payment plus the number of pending
      draws e has meets or exceeds the fee.

      Upon the Actor's announcement, the following events occur in
      order:

      1) The Effective Fee for the attempt is set equal to the fee,
         and the Payment for the attempt is set equal to zero.  The
         Balance for the attempt is defined to be equal to the
         Effective Fee less the Payment.

      2) Each card in the Down Payment is discarded, and the Payment
         is increased by the number of cards so discarded.

      3) The Actor loses a number of pending draws equal to the
         minimum of zero, the Balance, and the number of pending draws
         e has; and the Payment is increased by the same number.

      4) The Actor performs the action.

      If the success of the Actor's attempt to perform a fee-based
      action is publicly challenged within a week of the time the
      action was attempted, then the Deckmastor shall, as soon as
      possible, determine whether the Actor had sufficient cards when
      e attempted to perform the action, and announce eir
      determination.

      If the Deckmastor announces that the Actor did not have
      sufficient cards to perform a fee-based action at the time of
      eir attempt, and eir announcement was published within a
      fortnight from the time the action was attempted, then the
      action shall be deemed not to have been performed.

      If the success of an Actor's attempt to perform a fee-based
      action is not publicly challenged within a week of the time the
      action was attempted, then the action shall be deemed to have
      been performed.

      If for any reason the action is deemed not to have been
      performed, then the Effective Fee shall be set to zero.

      If the Balance of a fee-based action is negative, and the Actor
      submits a request for refund to the Deckmastor within one week
      of performing the action or within one week of the action being
      deemed not to have been performed, then the Deckmastor shall
      perform the following actions as soon as possible:

      1) As long as the Balance remains negative and the Down Payment
         remains non-empty, decrement the Payment, remove the last
         card from the Down Payment, and:

         a) Transfer to the Actor a copy of the same class of card
            from the discard pile, if one exists; otherwise

         b) Transfer to the Actor a copy of the same class of card
            from the deck, if one exists; otherwise

         c) Award the Actor a pending draw.

      2) As long as the Balance remains negative, decrement the
         Payment and award the Actor a pending draw.

      Nothing in this rule shall act to prevent a person from
      performing a fee-based action by another mechanism for
      performing that action provided by the rules.


Amend Rule 2106 by replacing the text "noting any fees" with the text
"paying any fees".

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ai: 3
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-02-26
dist_mid: <20060228050343.23521.qmail@periware.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2006-03-13
fate_mid: <fa0147d90603131523i33a66529na010b953f836e836@mail.gmail.com>
pool_number: 06-006
proposer: root
seq_number: 4850
submit_date: 2006-02-21
submit_mid: <43FA472A.2030207@udel.edu>
title: Quick Conclave Fix

Amend Rule 1950 (Voting Limits) by replacing the text:

      The voting limit of an eligible voter on a referendum or an
      election is always one and cannot be changed.

with:

      The voting limit of an eligible voter on a referendum, election,
      or conclave is always one and cannot be changed.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-03-06
dist_mid: <20060306053018.28897.qmail@periware.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2006-03-18
fate_mid: <441C78CE.8080108@udel.edu>
pool_number: 06-007
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4854
submit_date: 2006-02-27
submit_mid: <4402CB7D.8080309@socal.rr.com>
title: Third Vatican Council

Amend Rule 681 (Conditions for Conclavity) to read:

      A conclave must be convened if any of the following events have
      occurred since the last time a player became a pope, and no
      competing conclave is currently convened:

      (a) the Speaker has resigned the Speakership;

      (b) the Speaker has become inactive;

      (c) the Herald has confirmed an allegation that the Speaker is
          lawless;

      (d) a valid notice of deregistration naming the Speaker has been
          published;

      (e) the success of a Call for Revolt has been announced, and the
          Speaker was abiding at the time of the Call for Revolt, in
          which case the cardinals who were abiding at the time of the
          Call for Revolt are disqualified;

      (f) two or more cardinals have simultaneously won the game, in
          which case all other cardinals are disqualified;

      (g) no pope has become Speaker in the past six months; or

      (h) a pope has ceased to be pope without becoming Speaker.

      So there's always hope
      that you can be pope.

Amend Rule 786 (Default Procedure for Conclaves) by appending, after
this text:

      A cardinal is qualified for a conclave unless the rules specify
      otherwise.

this text:

      However, if a conclave would otherwise have no qualified
      cardinals, then all cardinals are qualified for the duration of
      that conclave.

and by removing the text "quorum is zero,".

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-03-06
dist_mid: <20060306053018.28897.qmail@periware.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-03-18
fate_mid: <441C78CE.8080108@udel.edu>
pool_number: 06-008
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4851
submit_date: 2006-02-27
submit_mid: <4402D524.3030304@socal.rr.com>
title: Chips

Amend Rule 2068 (The Deckmastor) to read:

      The Deckmastor is an office; its holder is responsible for fair
      play, shuffling, and dealing, and is the recordkeepor for cards
      and chips.

      The Deckmastor's weekly report shall contain a record of all
      cards and chips in existence, recent card and chip actions, and
      what entity holds each card and chip.  The Deckmastor need not
      record or report transfers of cards to the table.

Amend Rule 2069 (Card Actions) by replacing this text:

      the sum of the number of pending draws for each gambler is
      greater than the number of cards in the deck, or that there are
      no cards in the deck

with this text:

      there are no cards in the deck

Amend Rule 2075 (Winning Hands) by replacing this text:

      all heavy pending draws shall be deemed satisfied.

with this text:

      all white chips shall be forfeited to the Pot.

Create a rule titled "Gaining and Losing Chips" with this text:

      If the rules say that a player gains a chip, it is created in
      eir possession.  Rumor and superstition have it that these chips
      come from a mystical place referred to in legend as The House,
      which is to be greatly feared by all gamblers.

      If the rules say that a player loses a chip, without specifying
      which chip e loses:

        (a) If e has at least one red chip, then one of eir red chips
            is forfeited to the Pot.

        (b) Otherwise, if e has at least one white chip, then one of
            eir white chips is forfeited to the Pot.

        (c) Otherwise, if e has at least one card, then the Deckmastor
            shall discard one of that player's cards at random.

        (d) Otherwise, the next chip e gains is immediately forfeited
            to the Pot.

Change the name of Rule 2080 (Basic Draws) to "Chip Sources", and
amend it to read:

      At the beginning of each month, each player gains three white
      chips and one red chip.

      Upon the adoption of a proposal, the author gains one white
      chip.

      A player who gains a Boon gains a red chip.  A player who gains
      an Albatross loses a chip.

Amend Rule 2049 (Ephemera) by removing this text:

      A Player who gains a Boon is considered to have drawn a free
      card for that boon.  A Player who gains an Albatross loses a
      pending draw.

Change the name of Rule 2120 (Satisfying Draws) to "Cashing In One's
Chips", and amend it to read:

      The Pot is a site.

      A player may cash in one or more of eir chips by transferring
      them to the Pot.  As soon as possible after e does so, the
      Deckmastor shall deal em a card for each non-forfeited chip.

Amend Rule 2089 (Gardner Library) to read:

      Whenever the Library's hand size plus number of chips is less
      than five, it receives a red chip.

      A player (the Borrower) may check out a specified card currently
      in the Library's hand for a fee (2 for Students, 1 for Faculty
      Members), upon which the card is transferred to the Borrower.

      The President of the University may discard any card in the
      possession of the Library without two objections.

Amend Rule 2075 (Winning Hands) by replacing this text:

      If the announcement is true, the holding Gambler Wins the Game,
      and is awarded the boon of Pokerface and the defined regular
      Patent Title Champion.

with this text:

      If the announcement is true, the holding Gambler Wins the Game,
      and is awarded the boon of Pokerface, the defined regular Patent
      Title Champion, and a blue chip (non-transferrable) marked with
      the number of red and white chips in the Pot (after which the
      Pot is emptied).

Amend Rule 2083 (Hand Reductions) by replacing this text:

        (i) Satisfy all satisfiable pending draws for that gambler and
            announce a pending hand reduction;

       (ii) Wait at least four days, during which e may not satisfy
            pending draws for that gambler;

with this text:

        (i) Satisfy all requirements to deal cards to that gambler for
            cashed-in chips and announce a pending hand reduction;

       (ii) Wait at least four days, during which the gambler may not
            cash in any chips;

Create a rule titled "Fees" with this text:

      A player plays a fee of X by cashing in X chips.  These chips
      are forfeited.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-03-06
dist_mid: <20060306053018.28897.qmail@periware.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-03-18
fate_mid: <441C78CE.8080108@udel.edu>
pool_number: 06-009
proposer: root
seq_number: 4852
submit_date: 2006-03-01
submit_mid: <4405E0AF.8010501@udel.edu>
title: The Black and Yellow Repeals

* This proposal:
*   - Modifies the Library to use fees for checking out cards
*   - Fixes the Library's infinite draw bug
*   - Fixes the Library Renewal card bug
*   - Separates the Library and Card Labs from the University (and
*     shifts maintenance duties from the Speaker to the Deckmastor)
*   - Demolishes the rest of the University (apart from theses)

Amend Rule 2089 (Gardner Library) to read:

      The Library is a site.  The Deckmastor is a limited executor of
      the Library.

      As soon as possible after the beginning of each quarter, the
      Deckmastor shall discard all cards in the possession of the
      Library.  The Library then gains five pending draws.

      A player (hereafter the Borrower) may check out a specified card
      from the Library by paying a fee.  The amount of the fee is 2
      for Students and 1 for Faculty Members.

      Whenever a card is checked out from the Library, it is
      transferred to the Borrower.


Amend the Onepower Cardbook by replacing the text reading:

       * Caption:   Library Renewal
         Frequency: Rare
         Exploit:   Indicate a positive integer less than 6.  As soon
                    as possible, the President of the University must
                    randomly discard the indicated number of cards from
                    the Library's hand, or all cards from the Library's
                    hand, whichever is greater.

with:

       * Caption:   Library Renewal
         Frequency: Rare
         Exploit:   Indicate a non-empty set of at most 5 cards in the
                    possession of the Library.  As soon as possible, the
                    Deckmastor must discard the indicated cards from the
                    Library's hand.  The Library gains a number of
                    pending draws equal to the number of indicated
                    cards.


The Library is hereby deemed to have exactly five pending draws.


Amend Rule 2104 (Contreras Card Labs) by deleting the text "The
University encourages Card experimentation."


Amend Rule 2086 (The University of Agora) by renaming it "Education"
and changing it to read:

      Education is a stuck player switch with values Student and
      Faculty Member.  The Herald is the recordkeepor of education.
      As soon as possible after a player is awarded a degree, the
      Herald shall flip the education of that player to Faculty
      Member.


Amend Rule 1377 (The Herald) by appending the text:

       (iv)  Each player's Education.


Repeal Rule 2091 (The Office of Secretary of the University).
Repeal Rule 2087 (Research Grants).
Repeal Rule 2088 (The University Book Club).

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-03-06
dist_mid: <20060306053018.28897.qmail@periware.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-03-18
fate_mid: <441C78CE.8080108@udel.edu>
pool_number: 06-010
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4853
submit_date: 2006-03-02
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603011058570.29645@homer22.u.washington.edu>
title: Alternate Conclaves

[V1.0 Changes from first version: Should be no different in effects,
 tightened language (for example, realized reasons for Speaker
 deregistering (e.g. lawlessness) could be generalized. Also, found
 that it could be written as two rules and not 3. Bonus: if we ever
 repeal the rule "Conclaves", "Church and State" on its own will put
 us back to Ur-Agora, where you became speaker by winning. ]

[V0.1 Adds mechanism of Agoran consent for quick decisions, rewrites
 Conclaves with that mechanism, and fixes Conclave bugs that have
 turned up].

Create the following Rule, entitled "Agoran Consent"

      If the Rules specify that an entity may perform an action with
      Agoran Consent, then the entity may perform the action with M
      supporters and without N objections, as long as M is greater
      than N.


Amend Rule 2104 (Contreras Card Labs) by replacing:

      Any Player may add, delete, or amend a Scoring Instruction in
      the Blueprints Cardbook, with M support and without N
      Objections, where M is greater than or equal to N at the time
      the change is performed, and N is at least 1.

with:

      Any Player may add, delete, or amend a Scoring Instruction in
      the Blueprints Cardbook, with Agoran Consent.


Amend Rule 681 (Conditions for Conclavity) by changing its title to
"Conclaves" and amending it to read:

      Agora exits from Conclave whenever a player becomes a pope.

      Agora enters into Conclave whenever there is no pope and one of
      the following triggering events occurs:

      (a) the Speaker resigns the Speakership, becomes inactive, or
          otherwise ceases to be Speaker without another player being
          installed as Speaker;

      (b) the success of a Call for Revolt is announced, and the
          Speaker was abiding at the time of the Call for Revolt, in
          which case the rebellious cardinals are the only qualified
          cardinals;

      (c) two or more cardinals simultaneously win the game, in which
          case these cardinals are the only qualified cardinals;

      (d) no pope has become Speaker for the past six months; or

      (e) a pope ceases to be pope without becoming Speaker.

      As soon as possible after Agora enters into conclave, the
      Associate Director of Personnel must announce the fact and
      publish a list of qualified cardinals.  All cardinals are
      considered qualified unless specifically restricted by the
      particular triggering event.  If Agora is already in conclave
      when a triggering event occurs, Agora remains in conclave, but
      the qualification of each cardinal is modified to reflect the
      more recent event.

      While Agora is in conclave, any player may make a qualified
      Cardinal into a pope, with Agoran consent.  If the legality of
      this action is not challenged within seven days of it being
      attempted, then it shall be allowed to stand, even if is
      subsequently found to be illegal.

      So there's always hope
      that you can be pope.


Repeal Rule 786 (Default Procedure for Conclaves).


Amend Rule 402 (Church and State) to read:

      A cardinal is an active, ready player who is neither the current
      Speaker nor the Associate Director of Personnel.

      For seven days after a cardinal wins the game with no other
      players simultaneously winning, that cardinal may announce that
      e becomes a pope.  Upon this announcement, that player becomes a
      pope, so please treat em right good forever.

      When a cardinal becomes a pope, any previous pope immediately
      ceases being a pope.  Whenever a pope is not a cardinal, e
      immediately ceases being a pope.

      As soon as possible after a cardinal becomes a pope, the
      Associate Director of Personnel shall install that pope as
      Speaker, by announcement.  Upon this announcement, if the player
      is still a pope, then the current Speaker ceases to be Speaker,
      and the pope is installed as the new Speaker and ceases to be a
      pope.

      This installation cannot be performed if there are unresolved
      challenges regarding the pope-ness of the player.  If the
      legality of an installation is not challenged within seven days
      of it being attempted, then it shall be allowed to stand, even
      if is subsequently found to be illegal.

      If the office of ADoP is ever vacant, or the identity of its
      holder cannot be determined with reasonable certainty, then
      installation may be performed by any player by announcement.

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ai: 2
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2006-05-03
fate_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605031849330.10139@homer24.u.washington.edu>
pool_number: 06-011
proposer: Goethe
submit_date: 2006-03-02
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603020947300.5157@homer22.u.washington.edu>
title: Chamber fix

[Changes in v1.0: Put in Maud's wording, added Speaker ability to
 unstall with support.  In terms of crime, I don't generally like to
 add them for things that we can undo (e.g., "that's against the
 rules, so it didn't happen").  For good reasons, distributing a
 stalled proposal still happens, so that's a case where it's worth
 having something to prevent the Promoter from distributing something
 against the rules just cause e can.]

Amend Rule 1933 to read:

      Chamber is a stuck proposal switch with values ordinary and
      democratic.

      An ordinary proposal with an adoption index of two or greater is
      stalled.  Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, a stalled
      proposal is undistributable, and if a proposal is distributed
      that was stalled at the time of distribution, its chamber shall
      immediately and automatically be set to democratic.  If the
      Promotor knowingly distributes a stalled proposal, e commits the
      class 4 crime of Improper Debate.

      Any player can flip the Chamber of a stalled proposal to
      democratic without objection.  The Speaker can flip the Chamber
      of a stalled proposal to democratic with support.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-03-27
dist_mid: <20060327174620.9525.qmail@periware.org>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2006-04-03
fate_mid: <44316F77.1070300@udel.edu>
pool_number: 06-012
proposer: OscarMeyr
seq_number: 4855
submit_date: 2006-03-24
submit_mid: <44234028.4DC1CA@earthlink.net>
title: Fixing Your Turn

Amend the Onepower Cardbook by appending the following text to the
exploit of Your Turn:

If that player has no cards at the time you play this card, then this
card has no effect.

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ai: 2
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2006-08-21
fate_mid: <44E90CD8.3040709@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-013
proposer: Murphy
submit_date: 2006-04-03
submit_mid: <4430D5C6.6090905@socal.rr.com>
title: Chip Repair

Upon the adoption of this proposal, each gambler receives
  one white chip for each heavy pending draw
  and one red chip for each free pending draw
  that e had immediately before the adoption of Proposal 4851 (Chips).

Amend Rule 1677 (Honoring the New)
  by replacing "free pending draws" with "red chips".

Amend Rule 2074 (Flux)
  by replacing "nor may the Deckmastor satisfy pending draws for that
  hand"
  with "nor may e cash in chips".

Amend Rule 2075 (Winning Hands)
  by replacing "pending draws" with "white chips":

Amend Rule 2083 (Hand Reductions)
  by removing "or pending draws".

Amend Rule 2021 (Cards for Ex-Cards)
  by replacing "pending draw" with "white chip".

Amend Rule 2089 (Gardner Library)
  by replacing "pending draws" with "white chips".

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ai: 2
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2006-08-21
fate_mid: <44E90CD8.3040709@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-014
proposer: Murphy
submit_date: 2006-04-03
submit_mid: <4430D5E6.4060008@socal.rr.com>
title: Generalize Substitute Actors

Create a rule titled "Substitute Actors" with this text:

      If an action is required to be performed as soon as possible,
      and any of the following is true, then any player may perform
      the action by announcement, unless a player has already done so.

        (1) The player required to perform the action has failed to
            perform it as soon as possible.

        (2) The requirement is attached to a position that is vacant,
            or whose holder cannot be determined via reasonable
            effort.

Amend Rule 790 (Filling Vacant Offices) by removing this text:

      If a player required to initiate an election fails to do so as
      soon as possible, then any player may announce that the election
      has failed.  Provided that this assertion is indeed correct,
      then upon this announcement the election fails.

Amend Rule 402 (Church and State) by removing this text:

      If the office of ADoP is ever vacant, or the identity of its
      holder cannot be determined with reasonable certainty, then
      installation may be performed by any player by announcement.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2006-08-21
fate_mid: <44E90CD8.3040709@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-015
proposer: Murphy
submit_date: 2006-04-03
submit_mid: <4430D60C.1060409@socal.rr.com>
title: Let the ADoP Do Eir Job

(We don't need to prevent the ADoP from conducting eir own
election.  If e refuses to announce the results, then someone
else may announce em.)

Amend Rule 1558 (Defaults for Elections for Offices) by replacing
this text:

      (a) If the election would be held to fill the office of
          Associate Director of Personnel, then the election shall be
          initiated by the Speaker; otherwise, it shall be initiated
          by the Associate Director of Personnel.

with this text:

      (a) The election shall be initiated by the Associate Director of
          Personnel.

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ai: 1
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-09-06
dist_mid: <C826EED6-6707-4541-8CCD-7017C39C2502@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-09-20
fate_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609201615310.26294@homer21.u.washington.edu>
pool_number: 06-016
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4869
submit_date: 2006-04-03
submit_mid: <4430D636.6080503@socal.rr.com>
title: Pope Drew I

(We don't need to prevent the ADoP from being a cardinal.  If e
attempts to install emself as Speaker while e is not actually a
pope, then the installation is platonically unsuccessful.)

Amend Rule 402 (Church and State) by replacing this text:

       A cardinal is an active, ready player who is neither the current
       Speaker nor the Associate Director of Personnel.

with this text:

       A cardinal is an active, ready player who is not the Speaker.

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ai: 2
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-05-10
dist_mid: <20060510022358.308.qmail@periware.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2006-05-22
fate_mid: <44711021.8060407@udel.edu>
pool_number: 06-017
proposer: OscarMeyr
seq_number: 4860
submit_date: 2006-04-03
submit_mid: <44316F77.1070300@udel.edu>
title: Fixing Your Turn

Amend the Onepower Cardbook by appending the following text to the
exploit of Your Turn:

If that player has no cards at the time you play this card, then this
card has no effect.

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ai: 2
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2006-07-21
fate_mid: <DB6884E5-3CEE-4D85-A982-D0D7020CFBA6@earthlink.net>
pool_number: 06-018
proposer: OscarMeyr
submit_date: 2006-04-09
submit_mid: <4439512F.E5E5B710@earthlink.net>
title: Multi Independently Targeted Fixes

If the proposal titled "Fixing Your Turn" was rejected, then amend the
Onepower Cardbook by appending the following sentence to the exploit
of Your Turn:

  If that player has no cards at the time you play this card, then
forfeit a chip.

But if "Fixing Your Turn" passed, then remove the following text from
R1664:

  set the initiative of each abiding player to Goethe, and

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ai: 2
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2006-07-21
fate_mid: <DB6884E5-3CEE-4D85-A982-D0D7020CFBA6@earthlink.net>
pool_number: 06-019
proposer: OscarMeyr
submit_date: 2006-04-09
submit_mid: <4439512F.E5E5B710@earthlink.net>
title: A Little Pay To Play

If either "Fixing Your Turn" or "Multi Independently Targeted Fixes"
was adopted -- but not both -- then amend R2019 by replacing the text
reading:

      The Speaker may veto an Ordinary Proposal in its voting period
      by announcement

With text reading:

      The Speaker may veto an Ordinary Proposal in its voting period
      by paying a fee of X chips, where X is the number of players who
      have already cast votes on that Proposal.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-05-08
dist_mid: <20060508020125.13289.qmail@periware.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-05-22
fate_mid: <44710EEC.9040205@udel.edu>
pool_number: 06-020
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4856
submit_date: 2006-05-03
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0605031633010.4457@hymn05.u.washington.edu>
title: Winning rearranged

[Cleans up the sillyness with 72 hours and "any particular moment" of
winning.  Makes repealing scoring instructions automatic on a win].

Amend Rule 2075 (Winning Hands) to read:

      The Scoring Instructions contained in cardbooks, interpreted
      collectively, may define a nonsite gambler as holding a winning
      hand.  Any Player may allege that a nonsite gambler holds a
      winning hand.  The allegation is considered true if any nonsite
      gambler holds a winning hand at the time of the allegation.

      If the allegation is true, the following events occur in order,
      immediately upon the allegation being made:

        (i) All nonsite gamblers holding winning hands are deemed to
            win the game simultaneously, and are awarded the defined
            regular Patent Title Champion, five white chips, and a
            blue chip (non-transferrable) marked with the number of
            red and white chips in the Pot.

       (ii) The pot is emptied.

      (iii) All Scoring Instructions in the Blueprints Cardbook are
            repealed.

       (iv) All Players' hands become subject to a Hand Reduction to
            the Minimum Hand Size.

      If the allegation is false, the Deckmastor shall, as soon as
      possible, discard 1 card at random from the hand of the Gambler
      who made the allegation.

      If no true allegation of a winning hand or a Skunk has been made
      in the last six months, then any Gambler may allege a Skunk,
      which, if true, triggers the effects of (iii) and (iv) above.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2006-05-04
fate_mid: <445A5F75.4090904@udel.edu>
pool_number: 06-021
proposer: root
submit_date: 2006-05-03
submit_mid: <44593DBB.7090008@udel.edu>
title: Emergency Chip Fix

Amend Rule 2069 (Card Actions) by replacing the text:

          When a card is otherwise transferred from one gambler to
          another, the former gambler shall cease to hold the card and
          the latter gambler shall simultaneously come to hold the
          card.

with:

          When a card or chip is otherwise transferred from one gambler
          to another, the former gambler shall cease to hold it and the
          latter gambler shall simultaneously come to hold it.

and by replacing:

          A gambler may transfer a card e holds to another gambler by
          announcement, specifying the card to transfer and, if not
          discarding it, the gambler to receive the card.

with:

          A gambler may transfer a card or chip e holds to another
          gambler by announcement, specifying the card or color of chip
          to transfer and, if not discarding it, the gambler to receive
          it.


Amend Rule 2097 (Card-Carrying Contracts) by replacing the text reading:

      2.  Transfer or discard cards.

with:

      2.  Transfer or discard cards or chips.


Upon adoption of this proposal, proposal 06-011 "Chamber Fix" becomes
Democratic.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-05-08
dist_mid: <20060508020125.13289.qmail@periware.org>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2006-05-22
fate_mid: <44710EEC.9040205@udel.edu>
pool_number: 06-022
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4857
submit_date: 2006-05-03
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605031849330.10139@homer24.u.washington.edu>
title: Chamber fix

[Changes in v1.0: Put in Maud's wording, added Speaker ability to
 unstall with support.  In terms of crime, I don't generally like to
 add them for things that we can undo (e.g., "that's against the
 rules, so it didn't happen").  For good reasons, distributing a
 stalled proposal still happens, so that's a case where it's worth
 having something to prevent the Promoter from distributing something
 against the rules just cause e can.]

Amend Rule 1933 to read:

      Chamber is a stuck proposal switch with values ordinary and
      democratic.

      An ordinary proposal with an adoption index of two or greater is
      stalled.  Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, a stalled
      proposal is undistributable, and if a proposal is distributed
      that was stalled at the time of distribution, its chamber shall
      immediately and automatically be set to democratic.  If the
      Promotor knowingly distributes a stalled proposal, e commits the
      class 4 crime of Improper Debate.

      Any player can flip the Chamber of a stalled proposal to
      democratic without objection.  The Speaker can flip the Chamber
      of a stalled proposal to democratic with support.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-05-08
dist_mid: <20060508020125.13289.qmail@periware.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-05-22
fate_mid: <44710EEC.9040205@udel.edu>
pool_number: 06-023
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4858
submit_date: 2006-05-04
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605031846520.9933@homer24.u.washington.edu>
title: Streamlined hand reductions

[Takes out requirements that draws be satisfied before reduction
announced, and also the restriction against drawing.  Also lengthens
time between reductions but allows deckmastor to deal with shortages].

Amend Rule 2083 (Hand Reductions) to read:

      The Rules may declare that a nonsite Gambler's hand is subject
      to a Hand Reduction.  A particular hand reduction must have a
      maximum hand size associated with it; if none is defined, the
      Maximum Hand Size in the Deckmastor's budget is used.

      As soon as possible after a requirement for a reduction arises,
      the Deckmastor shall:

        (i) Announce the pending hand reduction;

       (ii) Wait at least four days after the announcement;

      (iii) Discard cards at random from that Gambler's hand until eir
            hand size is equal to or less than maximum associated with
            the reduction.

       (iv) If a gambler loses no cards during a reduction, and has
            neither played nor transferred a card since the last
            reduction, the Deckmastor shall discard one card at random
            from the gambler's hand (if it has any cards).

      If a dispute on the gambler's hand size or pending draws is
      raised and not resolved prior to (iii), above, the Deckmastor
      shall not perform (iii) for that hand until the dispute is
      resolved.  If no dispute is raised prior to (iii) being
      performed, then the reduction shall stand regardless of
      subsequent disputes.  However, a Judge in such a dispute may
      Order the Deckmastor to perform further card transfers to
      resolve such disputes.

      If the Deckmastor knowingly reduces a hand incorrectly, e
      commits the Class 4 Crime of Card Thievery.

      If more than one hand reduction is pending for the same hand,
      then the Deckmastor need only perform the reduction for the
      reduction with the lowest associated maximum; this shall satisfy
      all pending reductions.

      At the beginning of each Quarter, every Player's hand becomes
      subject to a hand reduction to the maximum hand size in the
      Deckmastor's Budget plus the number of Offices (including the
      Speakership) that e holds.  If at any time there are more
      unsatisfied pending draws then cards in the Deck and Discard
      Pile put together, the Deckmastor may announce a Shortage, with
      subjects every Player's hand to such a hand reduction.


Add the following Card to the Onepower Cardbook:

    * Caption:   I Fold
      Frequency: Rare
      Elements:  Asleep[30], Costly[3]
      Exploit:   Reduce your hand size to N by discarding one or more
                 cards.  Every Player becomes subject to a Hand
                 Reduction to a maximum of N.


The Quota for I Fold is hereby set to 2.


Amend the Costly exploit in the Onepower cardbook to read:

       * Costly [ Y a nonnegative integer]: There is a fee of Y to
         play this card.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-05-08
dist_mid: <20060508020125.13289.qmail@periware.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-05-22
fate_mid: <44710EEC.9040205@udel.edu>
pool_number: 06-024
proposer: root
seq_number: 4859
submit_date: 2006-05-04
submit_mid: <445A5F75.4090904@udel.edu>
title: Chip Fix 1.1

// This version fixes cashing in chips by defining chip transfers
// and creating a mechanism for cashing in chips.  Arbitrary chip
// transfers are still not permissible due to lack of a mechanism
// for doing so.  This sentence is here to even up the paragraph.

Amend Rule 2120 (Cashing in One's Chips) to read:

      The Pot is a site.

      Cashing in one or more chips is synonymous with transferring
      them to the Pot.  A player may cash in one or more of eir chips
      by announcement.  As soon as possible after e does so, the
      Deckmastor shall deal em a card for each non-forfeited chip
      cashed in.


Amend Rule 2069 (Card Actions) by replacing the text:

          When a card is otherwise transferred from one gambler to
          another, the former gambler shall cease to hold the card and
          the latter gambler shall simultaneously come to hold the
          card.

with:

          When a card or chip is otherwise transferred from one
          gambler to another, the former gambler shall cease to hold
          it and the latter gambler shall simultaneously come to hold
          it.


Amend Rule 2123 (Fees) to read:

      A player plays a fee of X by cashing in X chips and indicating
      the fee to be paid.  These chips are forfeited.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-05-22
dist_mid: <20060522011856.18791.qmail@periware.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-05-30
fate_mid: <3fc761710605300627q4064bc70o708c0e10e7af19ca@mail.gmail.com>
pool_number: 06-025
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4861
submit_date: 2006-05-11
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605111417460.2527@homer21.u.washington.edu>
title: The Speaker is Proclaimed by The People

[Conflict of interest between ADoP and Speaker removed.  For
 separation of powers, automatic retirement of ADoP and CotC upon
 becoming speaker is unchanged for now].

[Differs from Murphy's Pope Drew I.  Pope Drew I protects against an
 ADOP who tries to make a pope illegally, but does not protect against
 an ADOP who refuses to announce a pope.]

Amend Rule 402 (Church and State) to read:

      A cardinal is an active, ready player who is not the current
      Speaker.

      For seven days after a cardinal wins the game with no other
      players simultaneously winning, that cardinal may announce that
      e becomes a pope.  Upon this announcement, that player becomes a
      pope, so please treat em right good forever.

      When a cardinal becomes a pope, any previous pope immediately
      ceases being a pope.  Whenever a pope is not a cardinal, e
      immediately ceases being a pope.

      Any Player who is not a pope may install the pope as Speaker, by
      announcement.  Upon this announcement, if the announced player
      is still a pope, then the current Speaker ceases to be Speaker,
      and the pope is installed as the new Speaker and ceases to be a
      pope.

      This installation cannot be performed if there are unresolved
      challenges regarding the pope-ness of the player.  If the
      legality of an installation is not challenged within seven days
      of it being attempted, then it shall be allowed to stand, even
      if is subsequently found to be illegal.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-05-22
dist_mid: <20060522011856.18791.qmail@periware.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-05-30
fate_mid: <3fc761710605300627q4064bc70o708c0e10e7af19ca@mail.gmail.com>
pool_number: 06-026
proposer: OscarMeyr
seq_number: 4862
submit_date: 2006-05-16
submit_mid: <446A624D.6F93D2DA@earthlink.net>
title: Update "Everybody Gets One"

Amend the Exploit of the card Everybody Gets One in the Blueprint
Cardbook by replacing the sentence:

   Gain one draw for each card you give away, plus one draw for
playing this card.

With the sentence:

   Gain one white chip for each card you give away, plus one white
chip for playing this card.

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ai: 3
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2006-05-22
fate_mid: <44713003.6090409@udel.edu>
pool_number: 06-027
proposer: root
submit_date: 2006-05-21
submit_mid: <44710EBA.10404@udel.edu>
title: Fix Rubberstamps

Amend Rule 2045 (Adoption Indices) by replacing the sentence:

      Once the voting period for a decision has begun, the adoption
      index of that decision can only be changed by the Speaker's
      veto.

with:

      Once the voting period for a decision has begun, the adoption
      index of that decision can only be changed by the Speaker's veto
      or rubberstamp.

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ai: 2
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-05-22
dist_mid: <20060522011856.18791.qmail@periware.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-05-30
fate_mid: <3fc761710605300627q4064bc70o708c0e10e7af19ca@mail.gmail.com>
pool_number: 06-028
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4863
submit_date: 2006-05-22
submit_mid: <44710EEC.9040205@udel.edu>
title: Chamber fix

[Changes in v1.0: Put in Maud's wording, added Speaker ability to
 unstall with support.  In terms of crime, I don't generally like to
 add them for things that we can undo (e.g., "that's against the
 rules, so it didn't happen").  For good reasons, distributing a
 stalled proposal still happens, so that's a case where it's worth
 having something to prevent the Promoter from distributing something
 against the rules just cause e can.]

Amend Rule 1933 to read:

      Chamber is a stuck proposal switch with values ordinary and
      democratic.

      An ordinary proposal with an adoption index of two or greater is
      stalled.  Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, a stalled
      proposal is undistributable, and if a proposal is distributed
      that was stalled at the time of distribution, its chamber shall
      immediately and automatically be set to democratic.  If the
      Promotor knowingly distributes a stalled proposal, e commits the
      class 4 crime of Improper Debate.

      Any player can flip the Chamber of a stalled proposal to
      democratic without objection.  The Speaker can flip the Chamber
      of a stalled proposal to democratic with support.

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ai: 3
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2006-08-21
fate_mid: <44E90CD8.3040709@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-029
proposer: Murphy
submit_date: 2006-07-24
submit_mid: <44C32710.9010509@socal.rr.com>
title: Fifty-Two Card Pick-Up

Repeal the following rules:
   2068 (The Deckmastor)
   2112 (Deckmastor's Budget)
   2113 (Card Constraints)
   2114 (Card Definitions)
   2115 (Cards of Power)
   2116 (Onepower Cardbook)
   2069 (Card Actions)
   2106 (Playing Cards)
   2074 (Hand Flux)
   2075 (Winning Hands)
   2083 (Hand Reductions)
   2080 (Chip Sources)
   2120 (Cashing In One's Chips)
   2121 (Cards for Ex-Cards)
   2122 (Gaining and Losing Chips)
   2123 (Fees)
   1932 (Shareholders and the Corporation)
   2089 (Gardner Library)
   2104 (Contreras Card Labs)
   2097 (Card-Carrying Contracts)

Amend Rule 1664 (Rebellion) by replacing this text:

          (4) set the initiative of each abiding player to Goethe, and
              return all stock cards held by abiding players to the
              Deck;

          (5) retire each abiding electee from office; and

          (6) flip each rebellious player's orthodoxy to abiding;

with this text:

          (4) retire each abiding electee from office; and

          (5) flip each rebellious player's orthodoxy to abiding;

Repeal Rule 1933 (A Proposal's Chamber).

Amend Rule 1950 (Voting Limits) by replacing this text:

      The voting limit of an eligible voter on a non-ordinary proposal
      is one.

      The voting limit of an eligible voter on an ordinary proposal is
      the sum of:

      (a) one;

      (b) eir Share Holdings; and

      (c) the minimum of three and the number of Share cards in the
          Deck, if e is the Deckmastor.

with this text:

      The voting limit of an eligible voter on a proposal is one, but
      this may be modified by other rules.

Rename Rule 2019 (The Speaker's Veto) to "The Speaker's Rubberstamp",
and amend it to read:

      The Speaker may Rubberstamp a Proposal in its voting period by
      announcement.  Quorum for a rubberstamped proposal is three,
      other rules governing quorum nonwithstanding.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2006-08-21
fate_mid: <44E90CD8.3040709@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-030
proposer: Murphy
submit_date: 2006-07-24
submit_mid: <44C450F8.9000501@socal.rr.com>
title: Clarify Multiple Appeals

Amend Rule 1564 (Initiating Appeals) by replacing this text:

      A subject is Appealed when any of the following occurs:

with this text:

      A subject that is not currently Appealed becomes Appealed when
      any of the following occurs.

and by appending this text:

      If the subject has been previously Appealed, then it only
      becomes Appealed if one of these things occurs after the last
      time it was Appealed.  Players should only re-Appeal a subject
      with good reason, e.g. a new line of argument, or a previous
      line of argument that was not addressed.

Amend Rule 2026 (Appellate Determinations) by replacing this text:

      If a majority of the Appellate Judges Judge SUSTAIN, then the
      subject of the Appeal is sustained.  Otherwise, it is
      overturned.  The Board of Appeals shall execute whatever
      Appelate Orders are necessary to enforce its determination.

with this text:

      If a majority of the Appellate Judges Judge SUSTAIN, then the
      subject of the Appeal is sustained.  Otherwise, it is
      overturned.  In either case, the subject ceases to be Appealed.

      The Board of Appeals shall execute whatever Appelate Orders are
      necessary to enforce its determination.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-08-03
dist_mid: <20060803193650.24339.qmail@periware.org>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2006-08-14
fate_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608141140160.328@homer23.u.washington.edu>
pool_number: 06-031
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4864
submit_date: 2006-07-25
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0607250903150.17829@hymn08.u.washington.edu>
title: The Argent Tincture Repeals

[Greatly simplifies patent titles and especially degrees, no more
university]

The Rule Category 'Patent Titles and Degrees' is hereby created.  All
Rules amended by this Proposal are placed in this new category.

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Amend Rule 649 (Patent Titles) to read:

      A Patent Title is a legal item of recognition of a person's
      distinction.

      When a Patent Title is awarded to a person, that person is said
      to Bear that Patent Title.  When a Patent Title is revoked from
      a person, that person ceases to Bear that Patent Title.  The
      status of Bearing a Patent Title can only be changed as
      explicitly set out in the Rules.

      As soon as possible after the Rules state that a Patent title
      shall be awarded or revoked, the Herald shall publicly award or
      revoke that Patent Title.

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Amend Rule 1922 (Defined Regular Patent Titles) to read:

      The following are Patent Titles:

      (a)  Scamster, which may be awarded to any Player who has shown
           great enthusiasm, persistence, or skill in the perpetrating
           of scams.  This title may not be declined, retracted, or
           revoked.

      (b)  A Patent Title (non-unique) now will
           Be known as "Bard", and granted those with wit.
           In order for one Title to be filled,
           A level of Support must call for it.

           Three players to a fourth may grant this name
           If these three write as 1, with 2 Support.
           A current Bard may also grant the same,
           Provided that a second Bard's a sport.

           And so we don't the name of Bard debase,
           A Player with 3 Supporters can conspire
           To (from a Bard), this Title to erase:
           Or Bard (plus 2 Bards) make a Bard retire.

           But lest we ruin some poor minstrel's fun
           No bard will be dis-bard for eir bad pun.

      (c)  Three Months Long Service, Six Months Long Service, Nine
           Months Long Service, Twelve Months Long Service, to be
           awarded to any player who has held a particular Office
           continuously for the specified duration.  Each of these
           titles shall be awarded only once per player.

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Amend Rule 1367 (Degrees) to read:

      A Patent Title is only a Degree if it is specifically made such
      by a Rule.  Persons may come to Bear Degrees only as specified
      in the Rules. Once a person Bears a Degree, e shall keep that
      Degree forever.

      This Rule takes precedence over any Rule specifying default
      properties of Patent Titles.

      The following Degrees are hereby made legal:

         - Associate of Nomic                 (A.N.)
         - Bachelor of Nomic                  (B.N.)
         - Master of Nomic                    (M.N.)
         - Doctor of Nomic History            (D.N. Hist)
         - Doctor of Nomic Science            (D.N. Sci)
         - Doctor of Nomic Philosophy         (D.N.Phil)

      Degrees shall be ranked in the order they appear in this Rule,
      with Degrees listed latest in the Rule being ranked higher.

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Amend Rule 1370 (How to Get a Degree) to read:

     A person becomes a Candidate for a Degree when e publishes a
     Thesis along with a statement explicitly indicating that the
     Thesis is being submitted with the intent to qualify for a
     particular degree.  A Thesis (plural: Theses) is an essay
     whose topic is any facet of Agora Nomic, or Nomic in general.

     The Candidate shall choose a Player other tham emself to be
     the first member of eir Thesis Committee, called eir Chair,
     with the Chair's consent.

     If the Speaker is neither the Chair nor the Candidate, the
     Speaker shall appoint a Player who is neither the Chair nor the
     Candidate to be the second Committee member.  Otherwise, the
     the Clerk of the Courts shall so appoint.  The two Committee
     members shall then select, by mutual consent, a third person
     who is not the Candidate to be the third Committee member.

     The Committee shall examine the Candidate and eir Thesis to
     determine eir qualifications for the Degree.  The Chair of the
     Thesis Committee may award that Degree to the Candidate if and
     only if:

      * the Candidate has satisfied all prerequisites in the Rules for
        the award of that Degree;

      * a majority of members of the Thesis Committee agree that the
        Thesis is worthy of the Degree to be granted.  Attention
        should be paid to the originality and strength of the work, as
        well as the extent of the work with regard to the expectations
        of the particular degree.  The committee may award a lesser
        degree if appropriate; and

      * fewer than seven years have passed since that Committee was
        formed.

      Each Committee Member may publish a Commentary for the Thesis.
      The Rulekeepor shall retain a copy of each Thesis that has
      resulted in a degree, along with all such Commentaries.

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Repeal Rule 1044 (Unique Patent Titles)
Repeal Rule 2049 (Ephemera)
Repeal Rule 2086 (Education)
Repeal Rule 2089 (Gardner Library)
Repeal Rule 1368 (The Legal Degrees)
Repeal Rule 2092 (Honorary Degrees)
Repeal Rule 1369 (Theses)
Repeal Rule 2044 (Awardable Degrees)

Any and all empty Rule Categories are hereby deleted.

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ai: 3
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2006-08-14
fate_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0608141157200.25193@hymn06.u.washington.edu>
pool_number: 06-032
proposer: Goethe
submit_date: 2006-07-25
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0607250926000.17829@hymn08.u.washington.edu>
title: The Red Tape Repeals

[Cut bureaucracy to 5:  Speaker, Herald, Promotor, Rulekeepor, CotC.
(assumes cards are killed elsewhere).  Turns elections into actions
of Agoran Consent.  Simplifies some wording in Proposals section,
eliminates chambers, makes Speaker the vote collector in place of
the Assessor]

The Rulekeepor is hereby requested and required to place Rules
in categories as indicated by this Proposal, in the order indicated
in this Proposal, which may involve the creation of new categories,
moving of rules, or the deletion of categories.  Some rules are
included for reference and indication of new placement without being
actually amended.

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Amend Rule 2124 (Agoran Consent) to read:

      If the Rules specify that an entity may perform an action with
      Agoran Consent, then the entity may perform the action by
      announcement if all of the following are true:

      (a) e has published eir intent to perform the action,
          unambiguously describing the action to be performed, at
          least four days and no more than fourteen days before
          attempting to perform the action;

      (b) at least one other player has announced (and not
          withdrawn) support for the intended action since intent
          was published; and

      (c) more players have announced (and not withdrawn) support
          than have announced (and not withdrawn) objections to the
          action since the intent was published.

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Offices
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Rule 103/1 (Power=3)
The Speaker May Not Deregister

      At any time, there is exactly one Player who is the Speaker. The
      Speaker may not deregister or be deregistered for any reason,
      any other Rule to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Amend Rule 402 (Church and State) to read:

      A cardinal is an active, ready player who is not the current
      Speaker.

      For seven days after a cardinal wins the game with no other
      players simultaneously winning, then any player may announce that
      the winning cardinal becomes a pope.  Upon this announcement,
      that player becomes a pope, so please treat em right good forever.
      Also upon this announcement, the current Speaker ceases to be
      Speaker, and the new pope is installed as the new Speaker.

      If the
      legality of an installation is not challenged within seven days
      of it being attempted, then it shall be allowed to stand, even
      if is subsequently found to be illegal.

      Rules to the contrary nonwithstanding, if a Player becomes
      Speaker via this method, e may not be removed from the
      Speakership for 90 days without eir own consent.

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Amend Rule 1006 (Offices) to read:

      The Rules may designate positions to be offices.  No office may
      be held by more than one player.  Each office that would
      otherwise not be held by any player shall be held by the
      Speaker, unless it is not possible for the Speaker to hold that
      office.

      The holder of an office may be referred to by the name of the
      office.  The Herald shall list the holder of each office, and
      the date upon which each holder last came to hold that office.

      Any Player may make an active Player the holder of an office,
      thus removing any previous holder from the office, with
      Agoran Consent, provided:
      (a) that office has not changed hands with this method
          in the previous 30 days, and
      (b) the potential officer consents to hold the office
          after the announcement of intent is made.

      If no attempt to acheive Agoran Consent for changing the holder
      of particular office is announced in a given quarter, then the
      Speaker shall make at least one such attempt to change the
      officeholder in the following quarter, and make the change if
      consent is acheived.

      If the duty of an office is to maintain certain information,
      than the officer shall publish that information once a month,
      or as soon as possible after a substantial change occurs in
      the information or the officer receives a request for the
      information.  A weekly report shall be sufficient to satisfy
      these last two requirements.

      If an Officer or the Speaker fails to satisfy a Timing Order
      to perform a certain offical duty, than the player who executed
      the order may perform the duty as if e were the officer.

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AMEND Rule 1551 (Ratification) to read:

      An officer is permitted to ratify, without
      objection, an official report e produced and was required to
      maintain by virtue of holding that office.  The Speaker is
      permitted to ratify, without objection, any official report.

      When a document is ratified, the gamestate is modified so that
      the ratified document was completely true and accurate at the
      time it was published.  Nevertheless, the ratification of a
      document does not invalidate, reverse, alter, or cancel any
      messages or actions, even if they were unrecorded or overlooked,
      or change the legality of any attempted action.

      A document's maintainer shall
      annotate all publications of that document with the
      date of its most recent ratification.

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Amend Rule 1377 (The Herald) to read:

      The Herald is an office; its holder is responsible for keeping
      track of the History of Agora and its players.

      The Herald's Weekly Report shall include the following:

         (i)  A list of each Patent Title and Degree that at least
              one person Bears, with a list of which persons Bear it.

         (i) a list of all registered players, with their nicknames,
             if any, and listed email addresses;

        (iv) the most recent date on which each registered player
             registered;

         (v) the current Officers and their dates of service.

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Rule 1051/17 (Power=1)
The Rulekeepor

      The Rulekeepor is an office; its holder is responsible for
      maintaining the text of the rules of Agora.

      The Rulekeepor's Weekly Report shall include the Short Logical
      Ruleset.  The Rulekeepor's Monthly Report shall include the Full
      Logical Ruleset.

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Amend Rule 1681 (The Logical Rulesets) to read:

      There is a format of the ruleset known as the Short Logical
      Ruleset (SLR).  In this format, each rule is assigned to a
      category, and the rules are grouped according to their category.

      Rules are assigned to, ordered within, or moved between categories,
      and categories are added, changed, or empty categories removed,
      as the Rulekeepor sees fit.

      The listing of each rule in the SLR must include the rule's
      number, revision number, power, title, and text, and must also
      include any annotations to the rule required by order.

      The Rulekeepor is strongly encouraged not to include any
      additional information in the SLR, except that which increases
      the readability of the SLR.

      There is a format of the ruleset known as the Full Logical
      Ruleset (FLR).  In this format, rules are assigned to the same
      category and presented in the same order as in the SLR.  The FLR
      must contain all the information required to be in the SLR, and
      any historical annotations which the Rulekeepor is required to
      record.

      The Rulekeepor is also free to include any other information
      which e feels may be helpful in the use of the ruleset in the
      FLR.

      Whenever a rule is changed in any way, the Rulekeeper shall
      record a historical annotation to the rule indicating
      the type of change, the date on which the change took effect,
      the mechanism which specified the change, and if the rule was
      changed due to a proposal, a reference to that proposal, its
      proposer, and any coauthors explicitly named in that proposal.


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Rule 889/13 (Power=1)
The Clerk of the Courts

      The Clerk of the Courts (CotC) is an office; its holder is
      responsible for receiving and distributing Calls for Judgement
      (CFJs) and Appeals.

      The CotC's Bi-Weekly Report shall include the following:
         (i) Each Player's Orientation.

      The CotC's Monthly Report shall include the Stare Decisis, which
      is a list of past CFJs.  The following information shall be
      included for each CFJ:

        (i) its statement;
       (ii) the date on which it was called;
      (iii) its outcome (if any) on Judgement; and
       (iv) its outcome (if any) on Appeal.

      Whenever a CFJ is made, the CotC shall add it to the list.  E
      may, at eir discretion, add earlier CFJs.  E may Without
      Objection remove any CFJ e deems no longer relevant from the
      list.

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Amend Rule 1607 (The Promotor) to read:

      The Promotor is an office; its holder is responsible for
      receiving and distributing proposals.

      The Promotor is permitted to distribute a proposal in the
      Proposal Pool at any time.  During each week, the  Promotor
      must distribute each proposal in the proposal pool which
      was in the Proposal Pool at the beginning of the week.

      The Promotor legally distributes a proposal by publishing it
      accompanied by an explicit indication that it is being
      distributed.  When a proposal is distributed, it is removed
      from the Proposal Pool.  The distribution of a proposal
      initiates the Agoran decision of whether to adopt the
      proposal, as described elsewhere.

      The Promotor shall include with the distribution of each
      proposal the identity of its proposer, the proposal's
      coauthors, if any, its chamber, and its adoption index.
      However, the failure of the Promotor to include any of these
      with a proposal does not deprive the distribution of the
      proposal of any legal effect.

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Amend Rule 1450 (Judicial Separation) by renaming it 'Separation
of Powers', increasing its power to 2, and amending it to read:

      The Speaker, Clerk of the Courts, and Promotor are mutually
      exclusive offices.  A Player holding one of these offices may
      not come to simultaneously hold another of them, unless there
      are no other Players in the game eligible.  This Rule takes
      precedence over any other Rule that governs offices.

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Repeal Rule 910 (The Justiciar)
Repeal Rule 2023 (Submitting a CFJ to the Justiciar)
Repeal Rule 2098 (Power=1)  May Day
Repeal Rule 1686 (Power=1) Official Reports
Repeal Rule 1431 (Power=1) Claims of Error
Repeal Rule 559 (The Registrar).
Repeal Rule 1919 (Power=2) Installing Officers through Proposal
Repeal Rule 1555 (Power=1) Electees and Removal from Office
Repeal Rule 1556 (Power=1) Terms of Service for Offices
Repeal Rule 1758 (Power=1) Holding an Office in Perpetuity
Repeal Rule 880  (Power=1) Resignation Repeal Rule 1764 (Modes of Nomination)
Repeal Rule 1645 (Power=1) Temporary Delegation of Office
Repeal Rule 790  (Power=1) Filling Vacant Offices
Repeal Rule 1486 (Power=1) Procedure for an Orderly Witch Hunt
Repeal Rule 1665 (Power=1) Abuse of Responsibility
Repeal Rule 1585 (Power=2) Official Duties upon Officer Change
Repeal Rule 1553 (Power=1) Officer Transition
Repeal Rule 1664 (Power=2) Rebellion
Repeal Rule 1988 (Power=2) Bastille Day
Repeal Rule 1840 (Power=2) Political Status
Repeal Rule 1975 (Power=1) The Associate Director of Personnel
Repeal Rule 1940 (Power=1) Periodic Compensations
Repeal Rule 1932 (Power=2) Shareholders and the Corporation
Repeal Rule 947  (Power=1) Bonus for Repeal
Repeal Rule 2095 (Power=1) The Assessor's Boon Duties
Repeal Rule 2111 (Power=1) Hard Ruleset Limits
Repeal Rule 2118 (Power=1) Nominations for Election
Repeal Rule 1445 (Power=1) Defaults for Elections
Repeal Rule 1558 (Power=1) Defaults for Elections for Offices
Repeal Rule 1957 (Power=1) Budgets
Repeal Rule 1958 (Power=1) Nominating with Budgets
Repeal Rule 1659 (Power=1) The Right to Call Elections
Repeal Rule 1485 (Titles for Rules)
Repeal Rule 1430 (Mandatory Rule Annotations)
Repeal Rule 514  (Keep the Registrar Informed of Your Address)
Repeal Rule 1670 (The Distributor)
Repeal Rule 2073 (Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?)
Repeal Rule 2097 (Card-Carrying Contracts)
Repeal Rule 681  (Conclaves)

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Agoran Decisions
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Amend Rule 693 (Power=3) Agoran Decisions to read:

      When the rules calls for an Agoran decision to be made, the
      decisionmaking process takes place in the following three
      stages, each described elsewhere:

          (a) Initiation of the decision.
          (b) Voting of the people.
          (c) Resolution of the decision.

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Amend Rule 107 (Initiating Agoran Decisions) to read:

      An Agoran decision is initiated when a person authorized to
      initiate it publishes a valid notice which sets forth the intent
      to initiate the decision.  To be valid, this notice must contain
      the following information:

      (a) The matter to be decided (for example, "the adoption of
          proposal 4781").

      (b) A description of the class of eligible voters sufficient to
          enable public agreement on which persons are eligible.  In
          particular, an explicit list of the eligible voters is
          always sufficient for this purpose.

      (c) The identity of the vote collector.

      (d) Any additional information required by the rules for this
          announcement.

      The publication of such a valid notice initiates the voting
      period for the decision.  By default, the voting period lasts
      for seven days.  This rule takes precedence over any rule which
      would require a voting period for some decision to be shorter
      than seven days.

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Rule 683/12 (Power=3)
Voting on Agoran Decisions

      An eligible voter on a particular Agoran decision submits a
      ballot to the vote collector by publishing a valid notice
      indicating which one of the available options e selects.  To be
      valid, the ballot must satisfy the following conditions:

      (a) The ballot is submitted by an eligible voter during the
          voting period for the decision.

      (b) The ballot clearly identifies the matter to be decided.

      (c) The ballot clearly identifies the option selected by the
          voter.

      (d) The voter has not publicly retracted the ballot during the
          voting period.

      The strength of an option is the number of valid ballots
      selecting that option.

      Other rules may place further constraints on the validity of
      ballots.  This rule takes precedence over any rule that would
      loosen the constraints specified by this rule.

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Rule 2117/0 (Power=3)
Replacing the Vote Collector

      If the rules indicate that an office is to be responsible for
      collecting votes on a particular Agoran decision, then the
      holder of that office is the default vote collector for that
      decision.

      The vote collector for a particular Agoran decision is tardy if
      and only if the voting collector has continuously held that role
      for at least seven days following the end of the voting period
      and the decision has not yet been resolved.  If a vote collector
      is tardy, then the first player to announce that e takes up the
      role of vote collector becomes the vote collector for that
      decision.

      This rule takes precedence over any rule that would allow the
      vote collector for an Agoran decision to be changed.

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Amend Rule 1950 (Voting Limits) to read:

      The voting limit of an eligible voter on a democratic proposal
      is always one and cannot be changed.

      The voting limit of an eligible voter on an ordinary proposal
      is one, if not explicitly modified by other rules.

      After the voting period for an Agoran decision has ended, the
      vote collector shall permit the first valid ballots submitted by
      an eligible voter to remain valid, up to a number equal to that
      person's voting limit on that decision as determined when the
      voting period for that decision began, and shall invalidate all
      subsequent ballots submitted by that voter on that decision.

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Rule 208/3 (Power=3)
Resolving Agoran decisions

      The vote collector for a particular Agoran decision is
      authorized to resolve that decision, and does so by publishing a
      valid notice which states that the matter has been resolved,
      indicating the option selected by Agora.  To be valid, this
      notice must satisfy the following conditions:

      (a) It is published after the voting period has ended.

      (b) It clearly identifies the matter to be resolved.

      (c) It clearly identifies the options available.

      (d) It specifies which option was selected by Agora, as
          described elsewhere, and provides a tally of the voters'
          valid ballots on the various options.

      Each Agoran decision shall have at most one vote collector at a
      time.  The identity of the vote collector is set by the message
      initiating the decision, and can only be changed as specified by
      other rules with power at least as great as that of this rule.

      This rule takes precedence over any rule that would provide
      another mechanism by which an Agoran decision may be resolved.

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Amend Rule 955 (Determining the Will of Agora) to read:

      To determine which option on a particular Agoran decision was
      selected by Agora, the vote collector shall perform the
      following steps in order after the voting period has ended.

      (a) E shall invalidate any ballots which the rules require em to
          invalidate, and no others.

      (b) E shall count the number of distinct voters who submitted
          ballots which remain valid.  If this number is less than the
          quorum and there is more than one available option, then the
          option selected by Agora is FAILED QUORUM.  Otherwise, the
          decision achieved quorum.

      (c) If the decision is whether to adopt a proposal, e shall
          determine the voting index as follows:

          (1) if the strength of FOR is positive and the strength of
              AGAINST is zero, then the voting index is Unanimity; but

          (2) if the strength of FOR is zero, then the voting index is
              zero; otherwise,

          (3) the voting index is the ratio of the strength of FOR to
              the strength of AGAINST.

          If the voting index exceeds one and meets or exceeds the
          adoption index of the decision, and if further quorum was
          achieved, then the option selected by Agora is ADOPTED.
          Otherwise, the option selected by Agora is REJECTED.

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Rule 879/22 (Power=2)
Quorum

      The quorum for an Agoran decision is one third the number of
      eligible voters, rounded up, with a minimum of five (unless
      there are fewer than five eligible voters, in which case the
      quorum level is the number of eligible voters).

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Rule 2034/2 (Power=3)
Vote Protection and Cutoff for Challenges

      Any proposal that, as all or part of its effect, would change
      the validity of one or more of a voter's ballots on an Agoran
      decision whose voting period has begun but which has not yet
      been resolved shall be wholly without effect, any rule to the
      contrary notwithstanding.

      Once an Agoran decision has been resolved, no ballots on that
      decision may be validly submitted or retracted, and the outcome
      of the decision may not be changed in any way, any rule to the
      contrary notwithstanding.  Nothing in this rule shall be
      construed as preventing the correction of errors in reporting
      the resolution of an Agoran decision.

      If the success of the resolution of an Agoran decision is not
      challenged within one week from the time the vote collector
      announces it, then the announced result is the true result of
      that decision, even if it would otherwise be in error.

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Repeal Rule 1434 (Default Procedure for Referendum Voting)

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Proposals
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Amend Rule 106 (Adopting Proposals) to read:

      A proposal is a document outlining changes to be made to Agora,
      including enacting, repealing, or amending rules, or making
      other explicit changes to the gamestate.

      A player submits a proposal by publishing it with a clear
      indication that it is intended to become a proposal, which
      places the proposal in the Proposal Pool.  The proposer of a
      proposal may remove it from the Pool by announcement.

      Determining whether to adopt a proposal is an Agoran decision.
      For this decision, the available options are FOR, AGAINST, and
      PRESENT, and by default, the eligible voters are the active
      players, the adoption index is the adoption index of the
      proposal, and the vote collector is the Speaker.

      The default adoption index of a proposal is one.  Before the
      Promotor distributes a proposal, its proposer may modify
      its adoption index by announcement.  A Proposal with an Adoption
      Index of 1 is Ordinary.  All other Proposals are Democratic.

      If the option selected by Agora on this decision is ADOPTED,
      then the proposal is adopted, and unless other rules prevent it
      from taking effect, its power is set to the minimum of four and
      its adoption index, and then it takes effect.  It does not
      otherwise take effect.  This rule takes precedence over any rule
      which would permit a proposal to take effect.

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Rule 1698/0 (Power=3)
The Proposal System Is Protected

      It must always be possible to adopt Proposals within a 4 week
      period. Any change to the game state which would result in
      this condition becoming false is cancelled and does not take
      place, any Rule to the contrary notwithstanding.

      No enactment, repeal, or amendment of the text or substantive
      properties of a Rule may have retroactive application.

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Amend Rule 105  (What Is a Rule Change?) to be called "Rule Changes"
and amend it to read as follows:

      A proposal generally can, as part of its effect:

      (a)  Enact a rule.  When a rule is enacted, the Rulekeepor shall
      assign it a number, which must be greater than any number previously
      assigned.  If the enacting proposal does not specify the power, the
      rule shall have power equal to one.  If the proposal specifies the
      power, then the rule shall have power equal to the minimum of four,
      the power of the proposal, and the power specified by the proposal.
      If the title is not specified, the Rulekeepor may select any
      title e sees fit.

      (b) Modify the power, title, or text of a rule.  A Proposal can
      modify the power, title, or text of a rule with power no greater
      than its own.  However, a proposal cannot cause a rule to have
      power greater than its own.  Any ambiguity in a modification
      specified by a proposal causes that modification to be void and
      without effect.  A variation in whitespace or capitalization in
      the quotation of an existing rule does not constitute ambiguity for
      the purposes of this rule, but any other variation does.

      (c) Repeal a rule.  When a proposal repeals a rule, it ceases to
      be a rule, and the Rulekeepor need no longer maintain a record
      of it.

      This rule provides the only mechanism by which rules can
      be enacted, modified, or repealed.

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Rule 1891/0 (Power=1)
Legislative Orders

      (a) A Proposal may contain one or more Orders.

      (b) The effect of adopting a Proposal which contains Orders is
          to execute those Orders.  Such Orders are known as
          Legislative Orders, are deemed to have been executed by that
          Proposal, and are deemed to have been executed as of the
          date of the proclamation of the Proposal's adoption.

      (c) Legislative Orders may not be stayed, vacated, or amended
          except:
        (1) by a subsequent Legislative Order;
        (2) by a Judicial Order issued only after a judicial finding
            that the Proposal containing the Legislative Order was not
            adopted, was barred from taking effect, or was invalid; or
        (3) by the Clerk of the Courts, but only for the purpose of
            staying such an Order during the pendency of a dispute
            which might reasonably lead to a judicial finding of the
            sort mentioned in subdivision (c)(2) of this Rule.

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Rule 2019/5 (Power=2)
The Speaker's Veto

      The Speaker may veto an Ordinary Proposal in its voting period
      by announcement.  Whenever a proposal is vetoed, its quorum is
      set to the current number of eligible voters on that proposal
      plus one, other rules governing quorum notwithstanding.

      As soon as possible after a vetoed proposal fails quorum, the
      Assessor shall place a copy of that proposal to the Proposal
      Pool.  When e does so, that copy shall become distributable and
      democratic, and its adoption index shall be increased by one.

      The Speaker may Rubberstamp an Ordinary Proposal in its voting
      period by announcement.  Quorum for a rubberstamped ordinary
      proposal is three, other rules governing quorum nonwithstanding.

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Repeal Rule 594  (Enactment of Rules)
Repeal Rule 1322 (Modification of Rules)
Repeal Rule 2119 (Repeal of Rules)
Repeal Rule 1483 (Definition of Proposals)
Repeal Rule 1003 (No Coercive Proposals)
Repeal Rule 108  (When May Rule Changes Take Effect?)
Repeal Rule 1770 (Distributing Proposals)
Repeal Rule 1774 (Discarding Proposals from the Pool)
Repeal Rule 1449 (The Assessor)
Repeal Rule 1933 (A Proposal's Chamber)
Repeal Rule 2045 (Adoption Indices)
Repeal Rule 1952 (Making Proposals Distributable)
Repeal Rule 1690 (Power of New Rules)

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chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2006-08-14
fate_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0608141211300.3892@hymn03.u.washington.edu>
pool_number: 06-033
proposer: Goethe
submit_date: 2006-07-25
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0607250932001.17829@hymn08.u.washington.edu>
title: The Constitutional Repeals

[Changes some basic definitions of Who We Are and How Things Work.
Some shortening, more reorganizing, not a huge amount].

The Rulekeepor is hereby requested and required to place Rules
in categories as indicated by this Proposal, in the order indicated
in this Proposal, which may involve the creation of new categories, moving
of rules, or the deletion of categories.  Some rules are included for
reference and indication of new placement without being actually amended.

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The Game of Agora
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Rule 2105/1 (Power=1)
The Map of Agora

                               ____  _        /|
                    DARWIN ->  \_  |/ |      / \
                              __/    /      |  |
            <- DSV          /      /        |  \
                        _   \      \_       |   \
                  MORNINGTON CRESCENT ->    /    |  <- GOETHE BARRIER REEF
                 _ _/       |         \_/\_/     \
                / \\ <- SHARK BAY      |         |
               /            |          |          \ <- TOWNSVILLE
            ___/            |          |           \_
         __/                |          |             |
        /                   |          |             \
       /           O <- SHERLOCK NESS  |             |/\
      |                     |          |               |_
      |                     |          |  EMERALD ->     \
      \                     |__________=_____,             \
       /                    |                |             | <- BRISBANE
       \      O <- LT. ANNE MOORE            |        __  _\
        \                   |                |_______/  \/ |
         |                __/\      <- TARCOOLA           /   LORD HOWE ->
         \             __/    \_             /           /
 PERTH -> |      _  __/         |   /| IVANHOE ->       | <- WOLLONGONG
          /    _/ \/             \ / /       |         /
         |_   /     <- ESPERANTO  v /__     |_        / <- CANBERRA
           \_/                         \    | \_    _|
               __   __                 |    |   \__/
              __ \ / __                 \___=_  ___|
             /  \ | /  \        MANUBOURNE -> \/
                 \|/
            _,.---v---._                    /\__
   /\__/\  /            \                   |   |
   \_  _/ /              \                   |  /
     \ \_|           @ __|                   \_/ <- HOBART
      \                \_
       \     ,__/       /
     ~~~`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~~

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Rename Rule 101 to "Agoran Rights and Privileges" and amend it to read:

      The rules may define persons as possessing specific rights
      or privileges.  Be it hereby proclaimed that no binding agreement
      or interpretation of Agoran law may abridge, reduce, limit, or
      remove a person's defined rights.  A person's defined privileges
      are assumed to exist in the absense of an explicit, binding
      agreement to the contrary.  This rule takes precedence over
      any rule which would allow restrictions of a person's rights or
      privileges.

       i. Every person has the privilege of doing what e wilt.

      ii. Every player has the right to perform an action which is not
          regulated.

     iii. Every person has the right to invoke judgement, appeal a
          judgement, and to initiate an appeal on a sentencing or
          judicial order binding em.

      iv. Every person has the right to refuse to become party to
          a binding agreement.  The absense of a person's explicit,
          willful consent shall be considered a refusal.

       v. Every person has the right to not be considered bound by
          an agreement, or an amendment to an agreement, which e has
          not had the reasonable opportunity to view.

      vi. Every person has the right of participation in the fora.

     vii. Every person has the right to not be penalized more than once
          for any single action or inaction.

    viii. Every player besides the Speaker has the right to deregister
          rather than continue to play.

    Please treat Agora right good forever.

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Enact a rule entitled 'Regulation Regulations', with a power of 3 and
the following text:

      An action is regulated if:

      (a) the action is prohibited;

      (b) the rules indicate that if certain conditions are satisfied,
          then some player is permitted to perform the action;

      (c) the action would, as part of its effect, modify information
          for which some player is required to be a recordkeepor;

      (d) the action would, as part of its effect, make it impossible
          to make arbitrary modifications to the rules by any
          combinations of actions by players; or

      (e) the courts have held that the action is regulated, and this
          finding has not been overturned.

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Rule 1688/2 (Power=3)
Power

      The power of an entity is a natural number, which is zero unless
      otherwise defined or modified according to procedures defined by
      the rules.  An instrument is an entity with positive power.

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Rule 1482/1 (Power=3)
Precedence between Rules with Unequal Power

      In a conflict between Rules with different Power, the Rule with
      the higher Power takes precedence over the Rule with the lower
      Power.

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Rule 1030/4 (Power=3)
Precedence between Rules with Equal Power

      If two or more Rules with the same Power conflict with one
      another, then the Rule with the lower Number takes precedence.

      If at least one of the Rules in conflict explicitly says of
      itself that it defers to another Rule (or type of Rule) or
      takes precedence over another Rule (or type of Rule), then such
      provisions shall supercede the numerical method for determining
      precedence.

      If all of the Rules in conflict explicitly say that their
      precedence relations are determined by some other Rule for
      determining precedence relations, then the determinations of
      the precedence determining Rule shall supercede the numerical
      method for determining precedence.

      If two or more Rules claim to take precedence over one another
      or defer to one another, then the numerical method again
      governs.

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Rule 2110/0 (Power=3)
Win by Paradox

      If the legality of an action cannot be determined with finality,
      or if by a Judge's best reasoning, not appealed within a week of
      eir Judgement, an action appears equally legal and illegal, then
      the Speaker shall award the Patent Title of Champion to the
      first Player to publicly note that condition.  The Herald shall
      record that this Title was achieved "by paradox" in eir report.

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Amend Rule 1727 (Happy Birthday) to read:

      WHEREAS, in June 1993, the world's only MUD-based nomic, Nomic
      World, had recently collapsed; yet, many of its players enjoyed
      nomic and did not wish to forego such a noble pursuit;

      And WHEREAS, Originator Chuck Carroll therefore composed an
      Initial Ruleset for an email nomic, based on the Initial
      Rulesets of Peter Suber, inventor of Nomic, and on the Rulesets
      of Nomic World and other nomics,

      And WHEREAS, a nomic thus rose like a phoenix from the ashes of
      Nomic World, played on the mailing list originally set up for
      discussion of Nomic World, and coming into existence at June
      30, 1993, 00:04:30 GMT +1200, with a message sent by FIRST
      SPEAKER Michael Norrish, which read, in part,

          "I see no reason to let this get bogged down; there are no
          precedents or rules that cover this situation, so I think
          we may as well begin directly.... Proposals for new rules
          are invited. In accordance with the rules, these will be
          published, numbered and distributed by me at my earliest
          convenience."

      And WHEREAS, this nomic began as a humble and nameless nomic,
      known unofficially as yoyo, after the mailing list it was
      played on, until its Players, much later, gave it its OFFICAL
      NAME of Agora,

      And WHEREAS, Agora has now become the wisest, noblest, eldest,
      and most interesting of all active email nomics, due to the
      hard work and diligence of Agorans as well as the frequent
      advice of Agoraphobes,

      And WHEREAS, Agorans desire to joyously commemorate Agora's
      founding,

      BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that Agora's Birthday is defined to be
      the entire day of June 30, GMT +1200, of each year, and as soon
      as possible after the end of Agora's Birthday, the Herald shall
      award the boon of celebration to each Player who, during Agora's
      Birthday, publicly recognizes this Grand Event.

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Repeal Rule 1020 (Name Is Agora)
Repeal Rule 2039 (Ought implies can)
Repeal Rule 1513 (Authority of Non-Rule Entities)
Repeal Rule 104  (First Speaker)
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Players and Entities
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Rule 1586/2 (Power=2)
Definition and Continuity of Entities

      No two Rule-defined entities shall have the same name or
      nickname.

      If the Rules defining some entity are repealed or amended
      such that they no longer define that entity, then that
      entity along with all its properties shall cease to exist.

      If the Rules defining an entity are amended such that they
      still define that entity but with different properties,
      that entity and its properties shall continue to exist to
      whatever extent is possible under the new definitions.

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Rule 869/17 (Power=1)
How to Join and Leave Agora

      A person who is not currently registered as a player and is not
      prohibited from registering is permitted to register.

      A person registers or deregisters by announcement.

      Whenever a person registers, e becomes a player.

      Whenever a player deregisters or is deregistered, e ceases to be
      a player and is prohibited from registering for the next thirty
      days.


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Rule 1789/3 (Power=1)
Cantus Cygneus

      Whenever a Player feels that e has been treated so egregiously
      by the Agoran community that e can no longer abide to be a part
      of it, e may submit a document to the Clerk of the Courts,
      clearly labeled a Cantus Cygneus, detailing eir grievances and
      expressing eir reproach for those who e feels have treated em so
      badly.

      As soon as possible after receiving a Cantus Cygneus, the Clerk
      of the Courts shall publish this document along with a Writ of
      Fugere Agorae Grandissima Exprobratione, commanding the Player
      to be deregistered and instructing the Herald to note the
      method of deregistration for that Player in subsequent Herald
      Reports, as long as the Player remains deregistered.

      The Player is deregistered as of the posting of the Writ, and
      the notation in the Herald's Report will ensure that,
      henceforth, all may know said Player deregistered in a Writ of
      FAGE.

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Repeal Rule 1677 (Honoring the New)
Repeal Rule 1976 (Honoring the Old)
Repeal Rule 1016 (Activity Levels)
Repeal Rule 2036 (The Silent Treatment)

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Definitions
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Amend Rule 478 (Fora) by setting its power to 3, and amending it
to read:

      Freedom of speech being essential for the healthy functioning of
      any non-Imperial nomic, it is hereby resolved that No Player
      shall be prohibited from participating in the Fora.

      A Forum's Publicity may be either null, Discussion, or Public
      (default null).  A forum's publicity may not be changed except
      as described in this rule.

      The Herald may change the publicity of a forum without
      objection as long as:

      (a) e sends eir announcement of intent to that forum; and

      (b) if the forum is to be made public, the announcement by which
          the Herald makes that forum public is sent to all
          existing public fora.

      Each active player should ensure e can receive messages via each
      public forum.

      The Herald's report shall include a list of all public or
      discussion fora and sufficient data regarding each to allow
      players to receive messages via that medium.  The Herald need
      not keep track of null fora.

      A message is public if and only if it is sent via a public forum
      or is sent to all players and contains a clear designation of
      intent to be public.  A player "publishes" or "announces"
      something by sending a public message.

      A player performs an action "by announcement" by announcing that
      e performs it.  A player performs an action "by private message"
      to some player by sending an appropriate private message to the
      specified player.  Any action performed by sending a message is
      performed at the time date-stamped on that message.


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AMEND Rule 754 (Freedom of Communication) by renaming it
"Definition Definitions", setting its power to 3, and amending
it to read:

      Regularity of communication being essential for the healthy
      function of any nomic, it is hereby resolved:

      (1) A difference in spelling, grammar, or dialect, or the use of
          a synonym or abbreviation in place of a word or phrase, is
          inconsequential in all forms of communication, as long as
          the difference does not create an ambiguity in meaning.

      (2) A term explicitly defined by the Rules shall be interpreted
          as having that meaning, as shall its ordinary-language
          synonyms not explicitly defined by the rules.

      (3) Any term primarily used in mathematical or legal contexts,
          and not addressed by previous provisions of this Rule, shall
          be interpreted as having the meaning it has in those
          contexts.

      (4) Any term not addressed by previous provisions of this Rule
          shall be interpreted as having its ordinary-language
          meaning.

      This rule takes precedence over any other rules which dictate
      terminology or grammar.

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Amend Rule 1023 (Definition of "As Soon As Possible") by renaming
it "Common Definitions" and amending it to read:

      The following terms are defined:

      - Agoran days begin at midnight GMT.  Agoran weeks begin at
        midnight GMT on Monday.  Agoran months begin at midnight GMT on
        the first day of each Gregorian month.  Agoran quarters begin
        when the Agoran months of January, April, July, and October
        begin.  Agoran years begin when the Agoran month of January
        begins.

      - A requirement to perform an action "as soon as possible" is a
        requirement to perform the action within seven days.

      - The term "number" shall be interpreted as "real number".

      - The term "random" shall mean a choice drawn with a
        process whose probability distribution among the possible
        outcomes is reasonably close to that required by the Rules,
        using a uniform distribution if not otherwise specified.

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Rule 1728/11 (Power=2)
Dependent Actions

      An action is dependent, or may be performed dependently, if and
      only if it is an Action Without N Objections or an Action With N
      Supporters, where N is a nonnegative integer.  The phrase
      "Without Objection" is synonymous with "Without 1 Objection",
      and the phrase "With Support" is synonymous with "With 1
      Supporter".

      A player may publicly announce eir intent to perform an
      unambiguously described dependent action.  A player may perform
      a previously unambiguously described dependent action if and
      only if:

      (a)  no more than fourteen days have passed since the
           announcement of intent to perform the action;

      (b)  if the action to be performed is an Action Without N
           Objections, at least four days have passed since the
           announcement made under (a) of this rule;

      (c)  either the player who attempts to perform the action is the
           player who made the announcement under (a) of this rule, or

           (1)  the player who made the announcement under (a) of this
                rule did so by a privilege or duty granted em by
                virtue of holding a rules-defined position; and

           (2)  the player who attempts to perform the action is the
                holder of that position when e attempts to perform the
                action;

      (d)  the rules explicitly authorise the player to perform the
           action dependently;

      (e)  during the time between the announcement made under (a) of
           this rule and the attempt to perform the action,

           (1)  if the action is to be performed Without N Objections,
                fewer than N players have publicly posted objections
                to the performance of the action; or

           (2)  if the action is to be performed With N Supporters, at
                least N players other than the player who made the
                announcement under (a) of this rule have publicly
                posted support for the performance of the action;

      (f)  the announcement made under (a) of this rule specifies
           whether the action is to be performed Without N Objections
           or With N Supporters, unless the rules either do not permit
           the action to be performed Without N Objections or do not
           permit the action to be performed With N Supporters; and

      (g)  e announces that e performs the described action.

      A dependent action is not performed until announced as in (g).

      A player who posts an objection to the performance of an action
      may publicly retract eir objection.  If e does so, e shall be
      deemed not have posted an objection to the performance of that
      action for the purposes of (e)(1) of this rule.

      The specification in the rules that an action may be performed
      dependently does not prohibit performing that action
      independently if doing so would otherwise be permissible.

      A rule authorising the performance of a dependent action may
      restrict the eligibility of players to support or object to that
      specific action.

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Amend Rule 2124 (Agoran Consent) to read:

      If the Rules specify that an entity may perform an action with
      Agoran Consent, then the entity may perform the action by
      announcement if all of the following are true:

      (a) e has published eir intent to perform the action,
          unambiguously describing the action to be performed, at
          least four days and no more than fourteen days before
          attempting to perform the action;

      (b) at least one other player has announced (and not
          withdrawn) support for the intended action since intent
          was published; and

      (c) more players have announced (and not withdrawn) support
          than have announced (and not withdrawn) objections to the
          action since the intent was published.

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Amend Rule 1769 (Holidays) to read:

      A Holiday is a period of time designated as such by the Rules.

      During a Holiday, no Proposal may be distributed by the
      Promotor, nor may any Call for Judgement, Judgement, notice of
      Appeal, Decision of Appeals Boards, or Opinion be published by
      the Clerk of the Courts; however, if any of the above do take
      place during the Holiday in violation of this Rule, this Rule
      does not deprive them of their usual effects.

      If some Rule requires that an action be done prior to a given
      time, and that given time falls during a Holiday, or within the
      72-hour period immediately following that Holiday, then that
      action need not be done until 72 hours after that Holiday ends.

      If some Rule bases the time of a future event upon the time of
      another event, or requires that a Player perform some action
      within some time of another event, and that other event occurs
      during a Holiday, the time at which the Holiday ends shall be
      used instead for the purpose of determining the time of the
      future event or of the time by which the Player must perform the
      specified action.

      This Rule takes precedence over all Rules pertaining to the
      timing of events, and over all Rules which require Players to
      perform events before a specified time.

      The period each year from midnight GMT on the morning of 24
      December to the beginning of the first Agoran week to begin
      after 2 January is a Holiday.

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Rule 1750/1 (Power=1)
Read the Ruleset Week

      The first Agoran week each year which falls entirely in February
      is Read the Ruleset Week.  Agorans are encouraged to read the
      ruleset during Read the Ruleset Week.

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Repeal Rule 459  (Agoran Epochs)
Repeal Rule 2040 (Switches)
Repeal Rule 1527 (Unsnarling Tangles)
Repeal Rule 1478 (Executors and Limited Executors)
Repeal Rule 1079 (Definition of "Random")
Repeal Rule 1787 (April Fool's Day)
Repeal Rule 1870 (Merry Christmas, Agora, And A Happy New Year!)

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ai: 3
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2006-08-14
fate_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0608141201390.3892@hymn03.u.washington.edu>
pool_number: 06-034
proposer: Goethe
submit_date: 2006-07-25
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0607251041200.17829@hymn08.u.washington.edu>
title: Judicial Reform

[Major philosophical change:  Crimes and Infractions become
a matter of Contract Law.  Not much shorter (a little)].

The Rulekeepor is hereby requested and required to place Rules
in categories as indicated by this Proposal, in the order indicated
in this Proposal, which may involve the creation of new categories, moving
of rules, or the deletion of categories.  Some rules are included for
reference and indication of new placement without being actually amended.


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Rename Rule 101 to "Agoran Rights and Privileges" and amend it to read:

      The rules may define persons as possessing specific rights
      or privileges.  Be it hereby proclaimed that no binding agreement
      or interpretation of Agoran law may abridge, reduce, limit, or
      remove a person's defined rights.  A person's defined privileges
      are assumed to exist in the absense of an explicit, binding
      agreement to the contrary.  This rule takes precedence over
      any rule which would allow restrictions of a person's rights or
      privileges.

       i. Every person has the privilege of doing what e wilt.

      ii. Every player has the right to perform an action which is not
          regulated.

     iii. Every person has the right to invoke judgement, appeal a
          judgement, and to initiate an appeal on a sentencing or
          judicial order binding em.

      iv. Every person has the right to refuse to become party to
          a binding agreement.  The absense of a person's explicit,
          willful consent shall be considered a refusal.

       v. Every person has the right to not be considered bound by
          an agreement, or an amendment to an agreement, which e has
          not had the reasonable opportunity to review.

      vi. Every person has the right of participation in the fora.

     vii. Every person has the right to not be penalized more than once
          for any single action or inaction.

    viii. Every player besides the Speaker has the right to deregister
          rather than continue to play.

    Please treat Agora right good forever.

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Contract Law
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Amend Rule 1742 (Agreements between Players) to read:

      Players may make agreements among themselves with the intention
      that such agreements will be binding; i.e. that they become
      parties to the agreement and agree to be bound by the agreement.

      A CFJ that alleges that a specific person (the Defendant) has
      broken an agreement is a Civil CFJ, for which the Caller is the
      Plaintiff.  A CFJ that is not a Civil CFJ is a General CFJ.

      If the judge of a Civil CFJ finds that the agreement was entered
      into with the intention that the agreement be binding, and that
      the agreement has in fact been broken, then e may do any or all
      of the following:

         (i) order the defendant to perform according to the
             agreement or perform substitute acts that would fairly
             serve the interests of the agreement;
        (ii) order the other parties of the agreement to perform such
             acts as may be necessary to preserve fairness and justice;
       (iii) order that additional ("punitive") penalties or actions
             be applied to the defendant, if and only if the
             agreement in question explicitly specifies punitive
             penalties for the type of breach.

      If a Civil CFJ is called by anyone who is not party to that
      agreement, then it lacks standing and shall be dismissed.
      A Civil CFJ that specifies multiple defendants, or multiple
      independent breaches of contract, is improperly made and shall
      be dismissed.

      Nothing in this rule shall be construed so as to impair the
      enforcement of an agreement which requires a Player to violate
      another agreement.

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Amend Rule 1503 (Crimes and Infractions) by naming it
"Rules Violations", setting its Power to 3, and amending it to read:

      In general, the Rules shall be adjudicated as if the
      Rules were a binding agreement between all Players, entered
      into by every player as a part of becoming a Player.  An
      actual or alleged Rule violation shall be treated as the
      violation of a binding agreement to be bound by the Rule or
      Rules in question.

      The proposal, fora, and registration processes shall, prima
      facie, be considered to be protective of a Player's rights and
      privileges with respect to making and changing the agreement
      to be bound by the rules.

      Other rules may further differentiate the treatment of rules
      violations from the treatment of violations of other types
      of agreements.

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Increase the power of Rule 2109 (Agoran Contracts) to 2 and amend
it to read:

      There exists a type of binding agreement known as Agoran Contract.
      An Agoran Contract may only be created or amended by a Proposal
      and becomes effective when the Proposal takes effect.

      Unless otherwise specified in the Rules, all Players are
      bound by Agoran Contracts and no Player may leave an Agoran
      Contract while remaining a Player.  The Proposal process shall,
      prima facie, be considered to be protective of a Player's rights
      and privileges with respect to agreements.

      All Rules regulating Contracts that are inconsistent with this
      Rule are superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.

      The CotC is required to keep track of all Agoran Contracts.

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Amend Rule 1626 (Applications) to read:

      An Application is any document, which has been submitted as an
      Application by some person, to a Player designed by the Rules
      to receive Applications of that particular type.  The submittor
      is known as the Application's Sponsor.

      The Sponsor of an Application may attach the signatures of other
      persons, or signatories, to the Application at the time e
      submits it.  The Sponsor may not attach any signature to an
      Application without first having obtained the explicit consent
      of the signatory.  A signatory may revoke eir consent, once
      granted, by informing the Sponsor before submission.

      Signatures are presumed to have been attached with the consent
      of the signatory.  This presumption shall be rebutted only by a
      declaration from the alleged signatory, made within 60 days of
      the submission of the Application, stating that the signatory
      did not consent or that e consented and then subsequently
      revoked eir consent.  The Sponsor bears the burden of proof to
      show that such a declaration, once made, is false.

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Repeal Rule 2107 (Contracts)
Repeal Rule 2108 (Contract Maintenance)

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Rule Violations
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Amend Rule 1504 (Sentencing Orders) to read:

      Upon a finding in a Civil CFJ that the defendant has broken
      one or more Rules, the Trial Judge must execute exactly one of
      the following types of sentencing orders as punitive damages:

      (1) Without Objection and with 1 Support, an order the
          defendant to make a formal apology;
      (2) Without 2 Objections and with 2 Supporters, an order for
          the defendant to perform a specified service for the
          benefit of the Agoran community proportinate to the
          seriousness of the breach;
      (3) An order for the Herald to place the defendant in the
          Chokey for a number of months equal to the power of
          the highest powered Rule that was broken;
      (4) If and only if the trial judge finds the defendant to
          to have acted willfully in breaking the rules, an order
          for the Herald to place the defendant in the
          Chokey for twice number of months equal to the power of
          the highest-powered Rule that was broken;
      (5) If and only if the judge finds the defendant to have
          acted egregiously, maliciously, or with a consistent
          pattern of abuse, with Agoran Consent, an order for the
          Registrar to deregister the defendant in disgrace (make
          em lawless).  An order to be made lawless is automatically
          appealed upon its initial execution.

      These punishments are considered ranked with "worse" punishments
      being later in the list.

      If an attempted sentencing order does not receive the proper
      support or receives too many objections, the trial judge
      must execute another type of sentencing order.

      No other punitive damages may be assessed for Rules violations.

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Amend Rule 908 (Formal Apologies) to read:

      A sentencing order may require a defendant (hereafter the Ninny)
      to publish a Formal Apology.

      A Formal Apology must be at least 200 words, and must explain
      the Ninny's error, shame, remorse, and ardent desire for
      self-improvement.  Furthermore, the Order to Apologize may
      include up to ten Prescribed Words of the Judge's choice, all of
      which must appear in the Formal Apology.

      A defendant must obey an Order to Apologize within 72 hours of
      its execution.

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Amend Rule 1505 (Standard Classes of Crimes and Infractions) to
be called "Dishonor Rolls" and amend it to read:

      When the Herald is ordered to place someone in the Chokey,
      e shall publically award em the patent title "In the Chokey".

      This title shall be automatically revoked after a length
      of time indicated by the sentencing order, and the Herald
      shall announce the revokation.  If a sentencing order is
      executed against a defendant who already holds this title,
      the length of time of the new sentencing order shall be
      added to the time left on any previous ones.

      A person is considered to be In Disgrace while in the
      Chokey, between the execution and satisfaction of any
      sentencing orders binding em, or if deregistered for
      lawlessness.  A person who leaves the game in disgrace shall
      be awarded the Patent Title Fugitive by the Herald.
      A Player may revoke the title Fugitive from emself as long
      as e is no longer in Disgrace.  A non-player may have
      this title revoked by Agoran Consent.

      The rules may further specify actions prohibited to persons
      in particular types of disgrace.

      The Herald is encouraged to publish lists of those in
      disgrace separate from patent titles of honor, to indicate
      the disgrace.

When this Proposal takes effect, all persons who were fugitives
when this proposal was adopted are hereby awarded the patent title
Fugitive.

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Repeal Rule 1816 (No Double Jeopardy for Crimes)
Repeal Rule 1812 (Notices of Infraction)
Repeal Rule 1814 (Timing of Penalties for Crimes and Infractions)
Repeal Rule 1505 (Standard Classes of Crimes and Infractions)
Repeal Rule 2017 (Blots)
Repeal Rule 1714 (Lawlessness)

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Calling for Judgement
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Amend Rule 991 (Invoking Judgement) to read:

      Any person may request formal resolution of a dispute pertaining
      to this Nomic by submitting a Call for Judgement (CFJ) to the
      Clerk of the Courts.  The submission of a CFJ constitutes proof
      of the existence of such a dispute.

      A CFJ should be a single clearly-labeled Statement whose truth
      or falsity can be determined using logical reasoning, assuming
      perfect knowledge.  A CFJ may be accompanied by Arguments,
      Evidence, or other related material; the Judge is encouraged,
      but not required, to take notice of these things.

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Amend Rule 897 (Barring Players from Judgement) to be called
"Court Procedure" and amend it to read:

      The Clerk of the Courts shall publish the text of a CFJ, along
      with any additional material submitted by the Caller and the
      Defendant if any (including but not limited to Arguments and
      Evidence), no later than the time e announces the identity of the
      first Judge assigned to that CFJ.

      When a Civil CFJ is submitted, the Clerk of the Courts shall
      publish the text of the CFJ and send a copy of the CFJ to
      the Defendant's registered e-mail address, if any, and inform
      the Defendant that e has one week to publish a defense and/or
      bar a Player from judging as described below.

      The CotC will not assign a Civil CFJ to a judge until one week
      has passed since after a publication.  During this time, any
      evidence or arguments, published or submitted to the CotC by
      the Defendant with the clear intent of being part of a defense,
      will become part of the material of that CFJ.

      A Player Barred from Judging a CFJ is ineligible to Judge that
      CFJ.

      When submitting a general CFJ, the Caller may Bar up to
      three Players from Judging that CFJ.

      The defendant of a Civil CFJ is automatically barred from
      judging it. The Plantiff may bar one other Player when e submits
      the CFJ.  The Defendant may bar one other Player from judging
      any time before the CFJ is assigned to a judge.

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Amend Rule 2024 (Linked Statements) to read as follows:

      Linked CFJs are multiple Calls for Judgement that are submitted
      in a single message and clearly labelled as Linked CFJs.

      The Clerk of the Courts shall assign a Judge to a set of Linked
      CFJs, as if they were a single CFJ.  The Judge must be eligible
      to Judge each of the Linked CFJs, and is simultaneously assigned
      as Judge of each of the Linked CFJs.

      A Judge (the first judge) may transfer a CFJ to a second judge
      by announcement, thus linking the first and second CFJs and
      unlinking the first CFJ with any it was previously linked to,
      with the second judge's consent and provided the second judge
      has not been barred or recused from the first CFJ.

      The Judge of a set of Linked CFJs shall submit eir Judgement of
      each of those CFJs in a single message.

      If one or more Linked CFJs beyond the first are unrelated in
      subject matter to the first, then a Trial Judge may remand those
      CFJs to the Clerk of the Courts; e ceases to be Judge of those
      CFJs.

      If a Trial Judge is recused from a Linked CFJ, then it ceases to
      be Linked to any other CFJ.  If a Trial Judge is recused from
      two or more Linked CFJs in a single message, or if a Trial Judge
      is simultaneously and automatically recused from two or more
      Linked CFJs, then those CFJs continue to be Linked to each
      other, but not to any other CFJs to which the Judge is still
      assigned.

      A CFJ made by a person who has previously made five or more CFJs
      during the same Agoran Week is an Excess CFJ.  The Clerk of the
      Courts may dismiss any Excess CFJ.

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Repeal Rule 1562 (Excess CFJs).
Repeal Rule 2025 (Transfer of Jurisdiction).

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Selecting a Judge
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Amend Rule 1868 (Selecting a Judge) to read:

      A CFJ is open if it has not been Judged, or if an outstanding
      judicial motion pertaining to it has been neither granted nor
      denied.  A CFJ is closed if it is not open.

      As soon as possible after becoming aware that an open CFJ has no
      Judge assigned to it, the Clerk of the Courts shall choose a
      Player eligible to Judge it, and announce them as its Trial
      Judge.  That Player remains the Trial Judge of that CFJ until e
      is recused from it or becomes ineligible to Judge it.

      Other rules may explicitly delay the timing requirement of
      making assignments, for example with respect to providing the
      Defendant with response time in a Civil CFJ.

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Amend Rule 698 (Always an Eligible Judge) to read:

      (a) Each active player is eligible to judge a given Call for
          Judgement (CFJ), unless a rule specifically makes em
          ineligible.

      (b) If the Clerk of the Courts is required to select a Judge,
          but after taking all other rules affecting eligibility into
          account, no player is eligible to judge that CFJ, then:

          (1) all non-barred players become eligible to judge that CFJ;
              then

          (2) if there is still no player eligible to judge, then all
              barred players, other than the caller emself, become
              eligible to judge that increasingly annoying CFJ; then

          (3) if there is still no player eligible to judge, then
              don't panic.  Somebody's bound to register someday; let
              em deal with it.

      (c) This rule takes precedence over other rules concerning who
          is and is not eligible to judge CFJs.

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Amend Rule 1871 (Turns for All) to read:

      Whenever a player is selected as Trial Judge of a CFJ, e becomes
      turned.  Turned players are ineligible to be Trial Judge of any
      future CFJs.  When a player registers, e is considered turned.

      Whenever an open CFJ has no Trial Judge assigned to it, and
      there are no players eligible to be assigned, the Clerk of the
      Courts shall publish a Notice of Rotation, specifying at least
      one such CFJ.  Upon such an announcement, all turned players
      become unturned.

      The CotC may turn a player e expects to judge CFJs slowly or not
      at all, without 2 objections.

      If the Clerk of the Courts errs in good faith by selecting a
      Player to Judge a CFJ or Appeal who is not eligible to judge
      that CFJ or Appeal solely because e is turned, then that selection
      shall stand, unless the Clerk of the Courts points out eir error
      and makes a new selection before the selected Player returns
      Judgement.

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Repeal Rule 2032 (Errors in Judge Selection)
Repeal Rule 1567 (Making Oneself Ineligible to Judge a CFJ)
Repeal Rule 1568 (Non-active Judges)

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Delivering Judgement
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Rule 591/18 (Power=1)
Legal Judgements

      The Judge of a CFJ Judges it by submitting eir Judgement to the
      Clerk of the Courts.  "Decision", "Finding", and "Response" are
      unambiguous synonyms for "Judgement".

      For a Trial Judge, a Judgement is exactly one of the following:
      TRUE, FALSE, or DISMISSED.

      As soon as possible after receiving a Judgement, the Clerk of
      the Courts shall publish it, along with any arguments, evidence,
      or other material included with the Judgement.

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Amend Rule 408 (Late Judgement) to read:

      For each Judge assigned to a CFJ, eir Deliberation Period begins
      when the Clerk of the Courts announces eir assignment, and lasts
      seven days; eir Overtime Period begins when eir Deliberation
      Period ends, and lasts seven days.

      During a Judge's Overtime Period, if e has not yet Judged the
      CFJ, then the Clerk of the Courts may recuse em by announcement.

      Upon the end of a Judge's Overtime Period, if e has not yet
      Judged the CFJ, then the Clerk of the Courts shall recuse em by
      announcement as soon as possible.

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Increase the power of Rule 217 (Judgements Must Accord with the Rules)
to 3 and amend it to read:

      All Judgements must be in accordance with the Rules; however, if
      the Rules are silent, inconsistent, or unclear on the Statement
      to be Judged, then the Judge shall consider game custom, common
      sense, past Judgements, and the best interests of the game
      before applying other standards.

      When a Judge is considering eir Judgement of a Statement
      contained in a CFJ, e shall make eir evaluation based on the
      truth or falsity of the Statement at the time the CFJ was
      issued.

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Amend Rule 1575 (Standards of Proof) to read:

      Unless otherwise specified, all Judgements shall be consistent
      with the preponderance of the evidence.

      A defendant may not be assessed punitive damages for Rules
      Violations any worse than a formal apology, unless a Judge finds
      that evidence for the violation is beyond a reasonable doubt.

      The published Report of an Officer constitutes prima facie
      evidence of the truth of those matters reported therein which
      that Officer is required by law to report.  This presumption may
      be set aside only by clear and convincing evidence to the
      contrary.

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Rule 1565/10 (Power=1)
Dismissal of a CFJ

      A Judgement of DISMISSED should be delivered if and only if one
      or more of the following is true:

        i) The CFJ does not contain a single clearly-identified
           Statement.

       ii) After a reasonable effort to obtain all relevant
           information, the Judge can neither determine the Statement
           to be true nor determine it to be false.

      iii) The Statement does not relate to a matter relevant to the
           Rules.

       iv) The CFJ lacks standing, as defined elsewhere.

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Rule 1803/2 (Power=1)
Judicial and Sentencing Orders

      Judicial Orders and Sentencing Orders are executed by being sent
      to the Clerk of the Courts, but do not take effect until their
      publication by the Clerk of the Courts.  The Clerk of the Courts
      shall publish each Judicial Order and Sentencing Order as soon
      as possible after receiving it from the Judge who executed it.

      Any Player may formally request a Judge issue any Judicial Order
      by filing a motion requesting that Order.  If granted, the Judge
      shall issue the Order requested.


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Amend Rule 1826 (Motions) to read:

      A Motion is a formal request made by a Player to the Judge of a
      CFJ.  A Motion is made by submitting it to the Clerk of the
      Courts, clearly identifying the CFJ to which the Motion applies.

      The Clerk of the Courts shall forward each properly-filed Motion
      to the Judge of the CFJ to which the Motion applies as soon as
      possible after receiving it.  A Judge must either grant or deny
      each Motion so forwarded within five days of receiving it.
      A Judge grants or denies a Motion by sending eir determination
      on that Motion to the Clerk of the Courts, along with any reasons
      e chooses to provide.

      The effect of granting a Motion depends on its nature, but
      generally amounts to requiring the Judge to perform as requested
      by the Motion.

      Upon receipt of a Judge's determination on a Motion, the Clerk
      shall note the determination made and the reasons, if any, on
      the record of the CFJ, and shall notify the Player who made the
      Motion of that determination.

      If a Judge fails to Grant or Deny a Motion within five days of
      when it was forwarded to em by the Clerk of the Courts,
      the Clerk of the Courts shall Recuse the Judge and assign a new
      one as usual.

      If a Motion is made after a case is closed, and the original
      Judge of that case is not active or is not a player, then a new
      Judge shall be assigned to the case as usual.

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Rule 1509/4 (Power=1)
Orders to Compel

      Upon a judicial finding that a Player has failed to perform a
      duty required of em by the Rules, the Judge so finding shall
      execute an Order, requiring that Player to perform that duty as
      soon as possible.  Such an Order is known as an Order to Compel.

      If the duty in question arises because the Player in question
      holds a specific Office or other position of official
      responsibility, the Order shall be directed to that Office or
      position.  If the Player holding that Office fails to perform
      the duty in question as ordered, the Judge shall Order that that
      Player be removed from Office or position.

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Rule 1830/2 (Power=1)
No Compulsion of Judges

      Any Order to Compel directed to a Judge, or requiring the
      performance of a duty required of a Player because that Player
      is a Judge, is invalid, unless that Order is a valid Appellate
      Order.

      Any CFJ alleging that a Judgement is incorrect, or that a Judge
      has failed to perform a judicial duty, lacks standing.  Such a
      claim should instead be pursued via Appeal.

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Amend Rule 789 (Orders to Annotate Rules) to read:

      The Judge of any CFJ, the Statement of which alleges that a Rule
      should be interpreted in a certain way, which is judged TRUE,
      may, at eir discretion, issue an Order requiring the Rulekeepor
      to annotate the Rule in question with the Statement of that CFJ.
      Such an annotation, while it exists, shall guide application of
      that Rule.

      The Rulekeepor may remove such an annotation only if that
      Rule is repealed; if required to do so by a valid Order;
      or if the original Order to annotate is amended, stayed, or
      vacated.  The Rulekeepor may vacate an Order to annotate
      a Rule Without Objection.  Annotations to a Rule may not be
      modified in any way except as specified in this Rule.

      If a Player believes that an annotation is no longer pertinent,
      e may file, in the original CFJ from which the Order of
      Annotation arises, a Motion to Vacate the Order of Annotation.
      If such a Motion is granted, the Judge granting it shall Order
      the original Order Vacated and shall Order the Rulekeepor to
      remove the annotation in question.

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Amend Rule 1365 (Concurring and Dissenting Opinions) to read:

      Two or more players may submit a Concurring or Dissenting
      Opinion for a given CFJ trial or appeals decision, via a
      single application to the Clerk of the Courts signed by all
      submittors.

      The opinion must include reference to the CFJ and the
      particular judgement or appeals decision to which it applies
      and be accompanied by reasons or arugments for the opinion.

      The Clerk of the Courts shall publish any properly submitted
      Opinion and append it to the text of the legal judgement.

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Repeal Rule 1768 (Evidentiary Status of Officer Reports)
Repeal Rule 451  (Determination of Judgement--Timing)
Repeal Rule 502 (Salary for Judges)
Repeal Rule 1827 (Granting or Denying Motions)

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Overturning Judgement
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Amend Rule 1564 (Initiating Appeals) to read:

      The following are subject to Appeal:

        a) The Judgement of a Trial Judge.
        b) The grant or denial of a Motion.
        c) The execution of a Judicial or Sentencing Order.
        d) A claim that a Trial Judge has failed to perform a required
           judicial duty.

      A subject is Appealed when any of the following occurs:

        i) Three Players Appeal it.
       ii) A Player Appeals a Judicial or Sentencing Order binding em.
      iii) A Player Appeals a Trial Judgement convicting em of a
           Crime.

      A single subject (e.g. a specific judgement, motion, or order)
      may only be appealed once.

      As soon as possible after an Appeal is initiated, or a Player
      becomes or ceases to be an Appellate judge, the Clerk of the
      Courts shall announce the event.

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Amend Rule 911 (The Board of Appeals) to read:

      When an Appeal is initiated, a Board of Appeals shall be
      selected to reach a decision about the subject of the Appeal.
      A Board of Appeals consists of three Appellate Judges.  Any
      Judge assigned according to this Rule is an Appellate Judge.

      A Board of Appeals is selected when the Clerk of the Courts
      correctly announces the identity of all Appellate Judges,
      determined as follows:

        a) The Speaker is selected, if eligible.
        b) The Clerk of the Courts is selected, if eligible.
        c) Any remaining positions are filled by selection by
           the Clerk of the Courts from all remaining eligible
           Players.

      A Player is ineligible for selection if any of the following is
      true:

        i) E has already been selected for that Board.
       ii) E has been dismissed from that Board.
      iii) E has been Trial Judge of the subject of the Appeal.
       iv) E is ineligible to Judge the CFJ at the time of selection.

      An Appellate Judge may appoint another eligible Player as eir
      replacement by informing the Clerk of the Courts, provided the
      Player consents.

      As soon as possible after an Appellate Judge is recused, the
      Clerk of the Courts shall randomly select an eligible Player to
      replace em.

      The last Appellate Judge selected is the Lead Judge for that
      Board.  If the Lead Judge is replaced, then the replacement
      becomes Lead Judge.

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Amend Rule 1447 (Final Judgement upon Appeal) to read:

      For an Appelate Judge assigned to the Appeal of a Judgement, a
      Judgement is exactly one of the following: SUSTAIN, REVERSE,
      REASSIGN, or REMAND.  For the appeal of other matters, a
      Judgement is exactly one of the following: SUSTAIN or OVERTURN.
      Other Rules may modify this based on the subject of the Appeal.

      If a Judgement of TRUE or FALSE is Appealed, the Board of
      Appeals shall consider the correctness of that Judgement.
      If a Judgement of DISMISSED is Appealed, the Board shall not
      consider the truth or falsity of the original CFJ; they shall
      only consider whether a Judgement of DISMISSED should have been
      delivered.

      If a majority of the Appellate Judges Judge SUSTAIN, then the
      subject of the Appeal is sustained.  Otherwise, it is
      overturned.  The Board of Appeals shall execute whatever
      Appelate Orders are necessary to enforce its determination.

      When a Judgement is overturned:

        a) If a majority of the Appelate Judges Judge REVERSE, then
           the CFJ shall be treated as if it were Judged normally,
           with the Judgement being that which a majority of the
           Appelate Judges agree on.

        b) If a majority of the Appelate Judges Judge REASSIGN, then
           the original Judgement is ignored, the original Judge is
           recused, and the Clerk of the Courts shall reassign the CFJ
           to a new Judge in the same fashion as it was originally
           assigned.  The new Judge cannot make the same Judgement as
           the original Judge for the same reason.

        c) If a majority of the Appelate Judges Judge REMAND, then the
           original Judgement shall be ignored, and the Clerk of the
           Courts shall reassign the CFJ to the original Judge as if
           it were being originally assigned. The Judge may not make
           the same Judgement for the same reason.

        d) If none of the above is true, then the CFJ shall be
           reassigned as described above.

      As soon as possible after all members of a Board of Appeals have
      submitted eir Judgement, the Clerk of the Courts shall announce
      that this has happened.

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Amend Rule 1804 (Appeal of Judicial and Sentencing Orders) to read:

      As soon as possible after a Judicial Order or Sentencing Order
      is Appealed, the Clerk of the Courts shall stay it.  If the
      Appeal is sustained, then the Board of Appeals shall vacate this
      stay as soon as possible.  If the Appeal is overturned, then the
      Board of Appeals shall vacate the stayed Order as soon as
      possible.

      In the Appeal of a Judicial Order or Sentencing Order, the Board
      of Appeals shall consider whether the Order was properly and
      validly executed.

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Amend Rule (Appellate Orders) to read:

      Appellate Orders are executed by being sent to the Clerk of the
      Courts by the Lead Judge of a Board of Appeals, but do not
      take effect until their publication by the Clerk of the Courts.
      The Lead Judge must certify in the execution that the order is
      executed by the concurrence of the majority of the Justices
      comprising that Board of Appeals; failure to do so deprives the
      Order of effect.

      Appellate Orders are not subject to appeal.  However, upon a
      judicial finding that the required certification was falsely
      provided, the Clerk of the Courts shall vacate the Order which
      was accompanied by that false certification.

      Appellate Orders are valid only if addressed to:
        a) The Clerk of the Courts in eir Official capacity;
        b) an Order issued by the Clerk of the Courts in eir Official
           Capacity;
        c) The Judge of the CFJ which that Board of Appeals was
           convened to consider, or any Order issued by that Judge in
           that particular CFJ; or
        d) any combination of the above.
      All other Appellate Orders are presumptively invalid.

      The Clerk of the Courts shall publish each Appellate Order as
      soon as possible after receiving it from the Board of Appeal
      which executed it.

      This Rule takes precedence over all Rules pertaining to the
      validity of Appellate Orders.

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Repeal Rule 1570 (Announcement of Appeal)
Repeal Rule 2026 (Appellate Determinations).
Repeal Rule 1693 (Appeal of a Judgement).
Repeal Rule 1806 (No Appeal of Appellate Orders)
Repeal Rule 1807 (Validity of Appellate Orders)

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Orders
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Amend Rule 1793 (Orders) to read:

      An Order is a command, executed by a player and directed to some
      entity requiring that entity to perform exactly one action, or
      to refrain from performing one or more actions.

      An Order may be directed to the holder of an official position
      in eir capacity in that official position, and if the position
      changes hands before the Order is satisfied, the duty to abide
      by the Order automatically attaches to the new holder of that
      position.

      An Order may also be directed at a prior order so as to affect
      the prior order's operation, as the Rules permit.

      All Orders executed in the manner prescribed by the Rules for
      their class are presumed valid and enforceable until proven
      otherwise by CFJ.


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Amend Rule 1794 (Classes of Orders) to read:

      Each Order is of exactly one of the following classes.  If an
      Order could be of more than one of these classes, then it is of
      the first class that matches.

        (a) A Legislative Order is an Order executed as part of the
            effect of the adoption of a Proposal.

        (b) An Appellate Order is an Order executed by a Board of
            Appeals.

        (c) A Judicial Order is an Order executed by a Judge in the
            course of performing eir duties or privileges as Judge.

        (d) A Timing Order is an Order which may be executed by any
            person and directed at any entity.  A timing order is
            valid if and only if it orders the entity to perform, as
            soon as possible, a duty specifically required of em by
            the Rules that does not otherwise have a specified timing
            requirement, or for which the otherwise specified timing
            requirement will have been exceeded as soon as possible
            after the Order is executed.

      No other types of Orders are valid.

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Amend Rule 1795 (Order Timing) to read:

      An Order may specify the time limit for the performance of an
      ordered action.  If a time limit is less than 72 hours after the
      Order takes effect, the time limit shall be 72 hours.  If no
      time limit is specified, time limit shall be as soon as possible
      after the Order takes effect.

      If an Order which commands the performance of an action is
      directed to an Office or other position of authority, and the
      holder of that position of authority changes after the Order
      takes effect, but before the Order is satisfied, then the current
      holder shall have as soon as possible to satisfy that order.

      The noncompliance of an order with this Rule does not deprive that
      order of all effect, but instead modifies the timing requirements
      of the order.

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Amend Rule 1799 (Stay and Vacation of Orders) to read:

      The effect of staying an Order is to temporarily prevent the
      stayed Order from having any effect.

      A stay may be specified to expire after a fixed time.  If no
      specification is made in the Order to Stay, the stay shall not
      expire.

      When the stay expires or is vacated, the previously stayed order
      again has effect as if it had been originally executed at the
      moment the stay ceases to be effective.  However, if at the time
      the staying Order expires or otherwise ceases to have effect,
      the stayed Order has been vacated or is subject to another
      staying Order, it does not regain effect.

      The effect of vacating an Order is to permanently deny the
      vacated Order from having any effect.  Vacating an Order to
      Vacate reinstates the ability of the vacated Order to have
      effect, as of the moment the Order to Vacate is itself vacated.

      Any Order may always be stayed or vacated by the Player (or, in
      the case of Appellate Orders, Board of Appeal) who executed it.
      Certain classes of Orders may be stayed or vacated in other
      circumstances as well, but only as the Rules allow.

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Amend Rule 1810 (Satisfying Orders) to read:

      An Order requiring an entity to perform an action is satisfied
      when that entity performs that action.  Other Rules may define
      other ways for Orders to be satisfied.  Except when otherwise
      specified, a single action can result in the satisfaction of at
      most one Order.  If an action would satisfy more than one Order,
      and no other specification is made, the Action satisfies the
      oldest Order which it would satisfy.

      Willfully performing contrary to valid orders, either through
      action or inaction, is a violation of this Rule.

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ai: 2
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-09-06
dist_mid: <C826EED6-6707-4541-8CCD-7017C39C2502@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2006-09-20
fate_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609201615310.26294@homer21.u.washington.edu>
pool_number: 06-035
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4870
submit_date: 2006-08-12
submit_mid: <44DD9AE8.2060704@socal.rr.com>
title: Five Is Right Out

Amend Rule 879 (Quorum) by replacing each instance of "five" with
"three".

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-08-20
dist_mid: <20060820184257.7253.qmail@periware.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-08-28
fate_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0608281004380.2318@hymn07.u.washington.edu>
pool_number: 06-036
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4865
submit_date: 2006-08-14
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0608141151240.25193@hymn06.u.washington.edu>
title: The Lion Rampant Repeals

[Same as previous proposal, with numbers in poem spelled out]
[Greatly simplifies patent titles and especially degrees, no more
university]

The Rule Category 'Patent Titles and Degrees' is hereby created.  All
Rules amended by this Proposal are placed or moved into this new
category.

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Amend Rule 649 (Patent Titles) to read:

      A Patent Title is a legal item of recognition of a person's
      distinction.

      When a Patent Title is awarded to a person, that person is said
      to Bear that Patent Title.  When a Patent Title is revoked from
      a person, that person ceases to Bear that Patent Title.  The
      status of Bearing a Patent Title can only be changed as
      explicitly set out in the Rules.

      As soon as possible after the Rules state that a Patent title
      shall be awarded or revoked, the Herald shall publicly award or
      revoke that Patent Title.

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Amend Rule 1922 (Defined Regular Patent Titles) to read:

      The following are Patent Titles:

      (a)  Scamster, which may be awarded to any Player who has shown
           great enthusiasm, persistence, or skill in the perpetrating
           of scams.  This title may not be declined, retracted, or
           revoked.

      (b)  A Patent Title (non-unique) now will
           Be known as "Bard", and granted those with wit.
           In order for the Title to be filled,
           A level of Support must call for it.

           Three players to a fourth may grant this name
           If these three write as one, with two Support.
           A current Bard may also grant the same,
           Provided that a second Bard's a sport.

           And so we don't the name of Bard debase,
           A Player with three Supporters can conspire
           To (from a Bard), this Title to erase:
           Or Bard (plus two Bards) make a Bard retire.

           But lest we ruin some poor minstrel's fun
           No bard will be dis-bard for eir bad pun.

      (c)  Three Months Long Service, Six Months Long Service, Nine
           Months Long Service, Twelve Months Long Service, to be
           awarded to any player who has held a particular Office
           continuously for the specified duration.  Each of these
           titles shall be awarded only once per player.

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Amend Rule 1367 (Degrees) to read:

      A Patent Title is only a Degree if it is specifically made
      such by a Rule.  Persons may come to Bear Degrees only as
      specified in the Rules. Once a person Bears a Degree, e shall
      keep that Degree forever.

      This Rule takes precedence over any Rule specifying default
      properties of Patent Titles.

      The following Degrees are hereby made legal:

         - Associate of Nomic                 (A.N.)
         - Bachelor of Nomic                  (B.N.)
         - Master of Nomic                    (M.N.)
         - Doctor of Nomic History            (D.N. Hist)
         - Doctor of Nomic Science            (D.N. Sci)
         - Doctor of Nomic Philosophy         (D.N.Phil)

      Degrees shall be ranked in the order they appear in this Rule,
      with Degrees listed latest in the Rule being ranked higher.

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Amend Rule 1370 (How to Get a Degree) to read:

     A person becomes a Candidate for a Degree when e publishes a
     Thesis along with a statement explicitly indicating that the
     Thesis is being submitted with the intent to qualify for a
     particular degree.  A Thesis (plural: Theses) is an essay
     whose topic is any facet of Agora Nomic, or Nomic in general.

     The Candidate shall choose a Player other tham emself to be
     the first member of eir Thesis Committee, called eir Chair,
     with the Chair's consent.

     If the Speaker is neither the Chair nor the Candidate, the
     Speaker shall appoint a Player who is neither the Chair nor the
     Candidate to be the second Committee member.  Otherwise, the
     the Clerk of the Courts shall so appoint.  The two Committee
     members shall then select, by mutual consent, a third person
     who is not the Candidate to be the third Committee member.

     The Committee shall examine the Candidate and eir Thesis to
     determine eir qualifications for the Degree.  The Chair of the
     Thesis Committee may award that Degree to the Candidate if and
     only if:

      * the Candidate has satisfied all prerequisites in the Rules for
        the award of that Degree;
      * a majority of members of the Thesis Committee agree that the
        Thesis is worthy of the Degree to be granted.  Attention
        should be paid to the originality and strength of the work, as
        well as the extent of the work with regard to the expectations
        of the particular degree.  The committee may award a lesser
        degree if appropriate; and
      * fewer than seven years have passed since that Committee was
        formed.

      Each Committee Member may publish a Commentary for the Thesis.
      The Rulekeepor shall retain a copy of each Thesis that has
      resulted in a degree, along with all such Commentaries.

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Repeal Rule 1044 (Unique Patent Titles)
Repeal Rule 2049 (Ephemera)
Repeal Rule 2086 (Education)
Repeal Rule 2089 (Gardner Library)
Repeal Rule 1368 (The Legal Degrees)
Repeal Rule 2092 (Honorary Degrees)
Repeal Rule 1369 (Theses)
Repeal Rule 2044 (Awardable Degrees)

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ai: 3
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-08-20
dist_mid: <20060820184257.7253.qmail@periware.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-08-28
fate_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0608281605260.29860@hymn03.u.washington.edu>
pool_number: 06-037
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4868
submit_date: 2006-08-14
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0608141157200.25193@hymn06.u.washington.edu>
title: Red Tape Repeals 2.0

[Minor Wording changes from Maud from v1.0 to 2.0]
[Cut bureaucracy to 5: Speaker, Herald, Promotor, Rulekeepor, CotC.
(assumes cards are killed elsewhere).  Turns elections into actions of
Agoran Consent.  Simplifies some wording in Proposals section,
eliminates chambers, makes Speaker the vote collector in place of the
Assessor]

The Rulekeepor is hereby requested to place Rules in categories as
indicated by this Proposal, in the order indicated in this Proposal,
which may involve the creation of new categories, moving of rules, or
the deletion of categories.  Some rules are included for reference and
indication of new placement without being actually amended.

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Amend Rule 2124 (Agoran Consent) to read:

      An entity that may perform an action with Agoran Consent can do
      so by announcement if all of the following are true:

      (a) e has published eir intent to perform the action,
          unambiguously describing the action to be performed, at
          least four days and no more than fourteen days before
          attempting to perform the action;

      (b) at least one other player has announced (and not withdrawn)
          support for the intended action since intent was published;
          and

      (c) more players have announced (and not withdrawn) support than
          have announced (and not withdrawn) objections to the action
          since the intent was published.

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Offices
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Rule 103/1 (Power=3)
The Speaker May Not Deregister

      At any time, there is exactly one Player who is the Speaker. The
      Speaker may not deregister or be deregistered for any reason,
      any other Rule to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Amend Rule 402 (Church and State) to read:

      A cardinal is an active, ready player who is not the current
      Speaker.

      For seven days after a cardinal wins the game with no other
      players simultaneously winning, then any player may announce
      that the winning cardinal becomes a pope.  Upon this
      announcement, that player becomes a pope, so please treat em
      right good forever.  Also upon this announcement, the current
      Speaker ceases to be Speaker, and the new pope is installed as
      the new Speaker.

      If the legality of an installation is not challenged within
      seven days of it being attempted, then it shall be allowed to
      stand, even if is subsequently found to be illegal.

      Rules to the contrary nonwithstanding, if a Player becomes
      Speaker via this method, e may not be removed from the
      Speakership for 90 days without eir own consent.

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Amend Rule 1006 (Offices) to read:

      The Rules may designate positions to be offices.  No office may
      be held by more than one player.  Each office that would
      otherwise not be held by any player shall be held by the
      Speaker, unless it is not possible for the Speaker to hold that
      office.

      The holder of an office may be referred to by the name of the
      office.  The Herald shall list the holder of each office, and
      the date upon which each holder last came to hold that office.

      Any Player may make an active Player the holder of an office,
      thus removing any previous holder from the office, with Agoran
      Consent, provided:
      (a) that office has not changed hands with this method in the
          previous 30 days, and
      (b) the potential officer consents to hold the office after the
          announcement of intent is made.

      If no attempt to acheive Agoran Consent for changing the holder
      of particular office is announced in a given quarter, then the
      Speaker shall make at least one such attempt to change the
      officeholder in the following quarter, and make the change if
      consent is acheived.

      If the duty of an office is to maintain certain information,
      than the officer shall publish that information once a month, or
      as soon as possible after a substantial change occurs in the
      information or the officer receives a request for the
      information.  A weekly report shall be sufficient to satisfy
      these last two requirements.

      If an Officer or the Speaker fails to satisfy a Timing Order to
      perform a certain offical duty, than the player who executed the
      order may perform the duty as if e were the officer.

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AMEND Rule 1551 (Ratification) to read:

      An officer is permitted to ratify, without objection, an
      official report e produced and was required to maintain by
      virtue of holding that office.  The Speaker is permitted to
      ratify, without objection, any official report.

      When a document is ratified, the gamestate is modified so that
      the ratified document was completely true and accurate at the
      time it was published.  Nevertheless, the ratification of a
      document does not invalidate, reverse, alter, or cancel any
      messages or actions, even if they were unrecorded or overlooked,
      or change the legality of any attempted action.

      A document's maintainer shall annotate all publications of that
      document with the date of its most recent ratification.

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Amend Rule 1377 (The Herald) to read:

      The Herald is an office; its holder is responsible for keeping
      track of the History of Agora and its players.

      The Herald's Weekly Report shall include the following:

         (i) A list of each Patent Title and Degree that at least one
             person Bears, with a list of which persons Bear it.

        (ii) a list of all registered players, with their nicknames,
             if any, and listed email addresses;

       (iii) the most recent date on which each registered player
             registered;

        (iv) the current Officers and their dates of service.

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Rule 1051/17 (Power=1)
The Rulekeepor

      The Rulekeepor is an office; its holder is responsible for
      maintaining the text of the rules of Agora.

      The Rulekeepor's Weekly Report shall include the Short Logical
      Ruleset.  The Rulekeepor's Monthly Report shall include the Full
      Logical Ruleset.

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Amend Rule 1681 (The Logical Rulesets) to read:

      There is a format of the ruleset known as the Short Logical
      Ruleset (SLR).  In this format, each rule is assigned to a
      category, and the rules are grouped according to their category.

      Rules are assigned to, ordered within, or moved between
      categories, and categories are added, changed, or empty
      categories removed, as the Rulekeepor sees fit.

      The listing of each rule in the SLR must include the rule's
      number, revision number, power, title, and text, and must also
      include any annotations to the rule required by order.

      The Rulekeepor is strongly encouraged not to include any
      additional information in the SLR, except that which increases
      the readability of the SLR.

      There is a format of the ruleset known as the Full Logical
      Ruleset (FLR).  In this format, rules are assigned to the same
      category and presented in the same order as in the SLR.  The FLR
      must contain all the information required to be in the SLR, and
      any historical annotations which the Rulekeepor is required to
      record.

      The Rulekeepor is also free to include any other information
      which e feels may be helpful in the use of the ruleset in the
      FLR.

      Whenever a rule is changed in any way, the Rulekeeper shall
      record a historical annotation to the rule indicating the type
      of change, the date on which the change took effect, the
      mechanism which specified the change, and if the rule was
      changed due to a proposal, a reference to that proposal, its
      proposer, and any coauthors explicitly named in that proposal.


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Rule 889/13 (Power=1)
The Clerk of the Courts

      The Clerk of the Courts (CotC) is an office; its holder is
      responsible for receiving and distributing Calls for Judgement
      (CFJs) and Appeals.

      The CotC's Bi-Weekly Report shall include the following:
         (i) Each Player's Orientation.

      The CotC's Monthly Report shall include the Stare Decisis, which
      is a list of past CFJs.  The following information shall be
      included for each CFJ:

        (i) its statement;
       (ii) the date on which it was called;
      (iii) its outcome (if any) on Judgement; and
       (iv) its outcome (if any) on Appeal.

      Whenever a CFJ is made, the CotC shall add it to the list.  E
      may, at eir discretion, add earlier CFJs.  E may Without
      Objection remove any CFJ e deems no longer relevant from the
      list.

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Amend Rule 1607 (The Promotor) to read:

      The Promotor is an office; its holder is responsible for
      receiving and distributing proposals.

      The Promotor is permitted to distribute a proposal in the
      Proposal Pool at any time.  During each week, the Promotor must
      distribute each proposal in the proposal pool which was in the
      Proposal Pool at the beginning of the week.

      The Promotor legally distributes a proposal by publishing it
      accompanied by an explicit indication that it is being
      distributed.  When a proposal is distributed, it is removed from
      the Proposal Pool.  The distribution of a proposal initiates the
      Agoran decision of whether to adopt the proposal, as described
      elsewhere.

      The Promotor shall include with the distribution of each
      proposal the identity of its proposer, the proposal's coauthors,
      if any, its chamber, and its adoption index.  However, the
      failure of the Promotor to include any of these with a proposal
      does not deprive the distribution of the proposal of any legal
      effect.

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Amend Rule 1450 (Judicial Separation) by renaming it 'Separation of
Powers', increasing its power to 2, and amending it to read:

      The Speaker, Clerk of the Courts, and Promotor are mutually
      exclusive offices.  A Player holding one of these offices may
      not come to simultaneously hold another of them, unless there
      are no other Players in the game eligible.  This Rule takes
      precedence over any other Rule that governs offices.

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Repeal Rule 910 (The Justiciar)
Repeal Rule 2023 (Submitting a CFJ to the Justiciar)
Repeal Rule 2098 (Power=1)  May Day
Repeal Rule 1686 (Power=1) Official Reports
Repeal Rule 1431 (Power=1) Claims of Error
Repeal Rule 559 (The Registrar).
Repeal Rule 1919 (Power=2) Installing Officers through Proposal
Repeal Rule 1555 (Power=1) Electees and Removal from Office
Repeal Rule 1556 (Power=1) Terms of Service for Offices
Repeal Rule 1758 (Power=1) Holding an Office in Perpetuity
Repeal Rule 880  (Power=1) Resignation
Repeal Rule 1764 (Modes of Nomination)
Repeal Rule 1645 (Power=1) Temporary Delegation of Office
Repeal Rule 790  (Power=1) Filling Vacant Offices
Repeal Rule 1486 (Power=1) Procedure for an Orderly Witch Hunt
Repeal Rule 1665 (Power=1) Abuse of Responsibility
Repeal Rule 1585 (Power=2) Official Duties upon Officer Change
Repeal Rule 1553 (Power=1) Officer Transition
Repeal Rule 1664 (Power=2) Rebellion
Repeal Rule 1988 (Power=2) Bastille Day
Repeal Rule 1840 (Power=2) Political Status
Repeal Rule 1975 (Power=1) The Associate Director of Personnel
Repeal Rule 1940 (Power=1) Periodic Compensations
Repeal Rule 1932 (Power=2) Shareholders and the Corporation
Repeal Rule 947  (Power=1) Bonus for Repeal
Repeal Rule 2095 (Power=1) The Assessor's Boon Duties
Repeal Rule 2111 (Power=1) Hard Ruleset Limits
Repeal Rule 2118 (Power=1) Nominations for Election
Repeal Rule 1445 (Power=1) Defaults for Elections
Repeal Rule 1558 (Power=1) Defaults for Elections for Offices
Repeal Rule 1957 (Power=1) Budgets
Repeal Rule 1958 (Power=1) Nominating with Budgets
Repeal Rule 1659 (Power=1) The Right to Call Elections
Repeal Rule 1485 (Titles for Rules)
Repeal Rule 1430 (Mandatory Rule Annotations)
Repeal Rule 514  (Keep the Registrar Informed of Your Address)
Repeal Rule 1670 (The Distributor)
Repeal Rule 2073 (Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?)
Repeal Rule 2097 (Card-Carrying Contracts)
Repeal Rule 681  (Conclaves)

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Agoran Decisions
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Amend Rule 693 (Power=3) Agoran Decisions to read:

      When the rules calls for an Agoran decision to be made, the
      decisionmaking process takes place in the following three
      stages, each described elsewhere:

          (a) Initiation of the decision.
          (b) Voting of the people.
          (c) Resolution of the decision.

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Amend Rule 107 (Initiating Agoran Decisions) to read:

      An Agoran decision is initiated when a person authorized to
      initiate it publishes a valid notice which sets forth the intent
      to initiate the decision.  To be valid, this notice must contain
      the following information:

      (a) The matter to be decided (for example, "the adoption of
          proposal 4781").

      (b) A description of the class of eligible voters sufficient to
          enable public agreement on which persons are eligible.  In
          particular, an explicit list of the eligible voters is
          always sufficient for this purpose.

      (c) The identity of the vote collector.

      (d) Any additional information required by the rules for this
          announcement.

      The publication of such a valid notice initiates the voting
      period for the decision.  By default, the voting period lasts
      for seven days.  This rule takes precedence over any rule which
      would require a voting period for some decision to be shorter
      than seven days.

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Rule 683/12 (Power=3)
Voting on Agoran Decisions

      An eligible voter on a particular Agoran decision submits a
      ballot to the vote collector by publishing a valid notice
      indicating which one of the available options e selects.  To be
      valid, the ballot must satisfy the following conditions:

      (a) The ballot is submitted by an eligible voter during the
          voting period for the decision.

      (b) The ballot clearly identifies the matter to be decided.

      (c) The ballot clearly identifies the option selected by the
          voter.

      (d) The voter has not publicly retracted the ballot during the
          voting period.

      The strength of an option is the number of valid ballots
      selecting that option.

      Other rules may place further constraints on the validity of
      ballots.  This rule takes precedence over any rule that would
      loosen the constraints specified by this rule.

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Rule 2117/0 (Power=3)
Replacing the Vote Collector

      If the rules indicate that an office is to be responsible for
      collecting votes on a particular Agoran decision, then the
      holder of that office is the default vote collector for that
      decision.

      The vote collector for a particular Agoran decision is tardy if
      and only if the voting collector has continuously held that role
      for at least seven days following the end of the voting period
      and the decision has not yet been resolved.  If a vote collector
      is tardy, then the first player to announce that e takes up the
      role of vote collector becomes the vote collector for that
      decision.

      This rule takes precedence over any rule that would allow the
      vote collector for an Agoran decision to be changed.

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Amend Rule 1950 (Voting Limits) to read:

      The voting limit of an eligible voter on a democratic proposal
      is always one and cannot be changed.

      The voting limit of an eligible voter on an ordinary proposal is
      one, if not explicitly modified by other rules.

      After the voting period for an Agoran decision has ended, the
      vote collector shall permit the first valid ballots submitted by
      an eligible voter to remain valid, up to a number equal to that
      person's voting limit on that decision as determined when the
      voting period for that decision began, and shall invalidate all
      subsequent ballots submitted by that voter on that decision.

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Rule 208/3 (Power=3)
Resolving Agoran decisions

      The vote collector for a particular Agoran decision is
      authorized to resolve that decision, and does so by publishing a
      valid notice which states that the matter has been resolved,
      indicating the option selected by Agora.  To be valid, this
      notice must satisfy the following conditions:

      (a) It is published after the voting period has ended.

      (b) It clearly identifies the matter to be resolved.

      (c) It clearly identifies the options available.

      (d) It specifies which option was selected by Agora, as
          described elsewhere, and provides a tally of the voters'
          valid ballots on the various options.

      Each Agoran decision shall have at most one vote collector at a
      time.  The identity of the vote collector is set by the message
      initiating the decision, and can only be changed as specified by
      other rules with power at least as great as that of this rule.

      This rule takes precedence over any rule that would provide
      another mechanism by which an Agoran decision may be resolved.

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Amend Rule 955 (Determining the Will of Agora) to read:

      To determine which option on a particular Agoran decision was
      selected by Agora, the vote collector shall perform the
      following steps in order after the voting period has ended.

      (a) E shall invalidate any ballots which the rules require em to
          invalidate, and no others.

      (b) E shall count the number of distinct voters who submitted
          ballots which remain valid.  If this number is less than the
          quorum and there is more than one available option, then the
          option selected by Agora is FAILED QUORUM.  Otherwise, the
          decision achieved quorum.

      (c) If the decision is whether to adopt a proposal, e shall
          determine the voting index as follows:

          (1) if the strength of FOR is positive and the strength of
              AGAINST is zero, then the voting index is Unanimity; but

          (2) if the strength of FOR is zero, then the voting index is
              zero; otherwise,

          (3) the voting index is the ratio of the strength of FOR to
              the strength of AGAINST.

          If the voting index exceeds one and meets or exceeds the
          adoption index of the decision, and if further quorum was
          achieved, then the option selected by Agora is ADOPTED.
          Otherwise, the option selected by Agora is REJECTED.

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Rule 879/22 (Power=2)
Quorum

      The quorum for an Agoran decision is one third the number of
      eligible voters, rounded up, with a minimum of five (unless
      there are fewer than five eligible voters, in which case the
      quorum level is the number of eligible voters).

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Rule 2034/2 (Power=3)
Vote Protection and Cutoff for Challenges

      Any proposal that, as all or part of its effect, would change
      the validity of one or more of a voter's ballots on an Agoran
      decision whose voting period has begun but which has not yet
      been resolved shall be wholly without effect, any rule to the
      contrary notwithstanding.

      Once an Agoran decision has been resolved, no ballots on that
      decision may be validly submitted or retracted, and the outcome
      of the decision may not be changed in any way, any rule to the
      contrary notwithstanding.  Nothing in this rule shall be
      construed as preventing the correction of errors in reporting
      the resolution of an Agoran decision.

      If the success of the resolution of an Agoran decision is not
      challenged within one week from the time the vote collector
      announces it, then the announced result is the true result of
      that decision, even if it would otherwise be in error.

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Repeal Rule 1434 (Default Procedure for Referendum Voting)

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Proposals
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Amend Rule 106 (Adopting Proposals) to read:

      A proposal is a document outlining changes to be made to Agora,
      including enacting, repealing, or amending rules, or making
      other explicit changes to the gamestate.

      A player submits a proposal by publishing it with a clear
      indication that it is intended to become a proposal, which
      places the proposal in the Proposal Pool.  The proposer of a
      proposal may remove it from the Pool by announcement.

      Determining whether to adopt a proposal is an Agoran decision.
      For this decision, the available options are FOR, AGAINST, and
      PRESENT, and by default, the eligible voters are the active
      players, the adoption index is the adoption index of the
      proposal, and the vote collector is the Speaker.

      The default adoption index of a proposal is one.  Before the
      Promotor distributes a proposal, its proposer may modify its
      adoption index by announcement.  A Proposal with an Adoption
      Index of 1 is Ordinary.  All other Proposals are Democratic.

      If the option selected by Agora on this decision is ADOPTED,
      then the proposal is adopted, and unless other rules prevent it
      from taking effect, its power is set to the minimum of four and
      its adoption index, and then it takes effect.  It does not
      otherwise take effect.  This rule takes precedence over any rule
      which would permit a proposal to take effect.

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Rule 1698/0 (Power=3)
The Proposal System Is Protected

      It must always be possible to adopt Proposals within a 4 week
      period. Any change to the game state which would result in
      this condition becoming false is cancelled and does not take
      place, any Rule to the contrary notwithstanding.

      No enactment, repeal, or amendment of the text or substantive
      properties of a Rule may have retroactive application.

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Amend Rule 105 (What Is a Rule Change?) to be called "Rule Changes"
and amend it to read as follows:

      A proposal generally can, as part of its effect:

      (a) Enact a rule.  When a rule is enacted, the Rulekeepor shall
      assign it a number, which must be greater than any number
      previously assigned.  If the enacting proposal does not specify
      the power, the rule shall have power equal to one.  If the
      proposal specifies the power, then the rule shall have power
      equal to the minimum of four, the power of the proposal, and the
      power specified by the proposal.  If the title is not specified,
      the Rulekeepor may select any title e sees fit.

      (b) Modify the power, title, or text of a rule.  A Proposal can
      modify the power, title, or text of a rule with power no greater
      than its own.  However, a proposal cannot cause a rule to have
      power greater than its own.  Any ambiguity in a modification
      specified by a proposal causes that modification to be void and
      without effect.  A variation in whitespace or capitalization in
      the quotation of an existing rule does not constitute ambiguity
      for the purposes of this rule, but any other variation does.

      (c) Repeal a rule.  When a proposal repeals a rule, it ceases to
      be a rule, and the Rulekeepor need no longer maintain a record
      of it.

      This rule provides the only mechanism by which rules can be
      enacted, modified, or repealed.

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Rule 1891/0 (Power=1)
Legislative Orders

      (a) A Proposal may contain one or more Orders.

      (b) The effect of adopting a Proposal which contains Orders is
          to execute those Orders.  Such Orders are known as
          Legislative Orders, are deemed to have been executed by that
          Proposal, and are deemed to have been executed as of the
          date of the proclamation of the Proposal's adoption.

      (c) Legislative Orders may not be stayed, vacated, or amended
          except:
        (1) by a subsequent Legislative Order;
        (2) by a Judicial Order issued only after a judicial finding
            that the Proposal containing the Legislative Order was not
            adopted, was barred from taking effect, or was invalid; or
        (3) by the Clerk of the Courts, but only for the purpose of
            staying such an Order during the pendency of a dispute
            which might reasonably lead to a judicial finding of the
            sort mentioned in subdivision (c)(2) of this Rule.

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Rule 2019/5 (Power=2)
The Speaker's Veto

      The Speaker may veto an Ordinary Proposal in its voting period
      by announcement.  Whenever a proposal is vetoed, its quorum is
      set to the current number of eligible voters on that proposal
      plus one, other rules governing quorum notwithstanding.

      As soon as possible after a vetoed proposal fails quorum, the
      Assessor shall place a copy of that proposal to the Proposal
      Pool.  When e does so, that copy shall become distributable and
      democratic, and its adoption index shall be increased by one.

      The Speaker may Rubberstamp an Ordinary Proposal in its voting
      period by announcement.  Quorum for a rubberstamped ordinary
      proposal is three, other rules governing quorum nonwithstanding.

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Repeal Rule 594  (Enactment of Rules)
Repeal Rule 1322 (Modification of Rules)
Repeal Rule 2119 (Repeal of Rules)
Repeal Rule 1483 (Definition of Proposals)
Repeal Rule 1003 (No Coercive Proposals)
Repeal Rule 108  (When May Rule Changes Take Effect?)
Repeal Rule 1770 (Distributing Proposals)
Repeal Rule 1774 (Discarding Proposals from the Pool)
Repeal Rule 1449 (The Assessor)
Repeal Rule 1933 (A Proposal's Chamber)
Repeal Rule 2045 (Adoption Indices)
Repeal Rule 1952 (Making Proposals Distributable)
Repeal Rule 1690 (Power of New Rules)

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ai: 3
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-08-20
dist_mid: <20060820184257.7253.qmail@periware.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-08-28
fate_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0608281007381.2318@hymn07.u.washington.edu>
pool_number: 06-038
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4866
submit_date: 2006-08-14
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0608141211300.3892@hymn03.u.washington.edu>
title: Constitutional Repeals 2.0

[2.0 Kept First Speaker.  Edited R101 rights to keep out spammers.
Added Oscar's Mire.  Added Card Repeal in case Murphy's gets stuck]

[Changes some basic definitions of Who We Are and How Things Work.
Some shortening, more reorganizing, not a huge amount].

The Rulekeepor is hereby requested to place Rules in categories as
indicated by this Proposal, in the order indicated in this Proposal,
which may involve the creation of new categories, moving of rules, or
the deletion of categories.  Some rules are included for reference and
indication of new placement without being actually amended.

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The Game of Agora
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Amend Rule 2105 (The Map of Agora) to read:

                               ____  _        /|
                    DARWIN ->  \_  |/ |      / \
                              __/    /      |  |
            <- DSV          /      /        |  \
                        _   \      \_       |   \
                  MORNINGTON CRESCENT ->    /    |  <- GOETHE BARRIER REEF
                 _ _/       |         \_/\_/     \
                / \\ <- SHARK BAY      |         |
               /            |          |          \ <- TOWNSVILLE
            ___/            |          |           \_
         __/                |          |  .___o  )   |
        /                   |          | ~~vv ===~~~ <-OSCAR'S MIRE
       /           O <- SHERLOCK NESS  |             |/\
      |                     |          |               |_
      |                     |          |  EMERALD ->     \
      \                     |__________=_____,             \
       /                    |                |             | <- BRISBANE
       \      O <- LT. ANNE MOORE            |        __  _\
        \                   |                |_______/  \/ |
         |                __/\      <- TARCOOLA           /   LORD HOWE ->
         \             __/    \_             /           /
 PERTH -> |      _  __/         |   /| IVANHOE ->       | <- WOLLONGONG
          /    _/ \/             \ / /       |         /
         |_   /     <- ESPERANTO  v /__     |_        / <- CANBERRA
           \_/                         \    | \_    _|
               __   __                 |    |   \__/
              __ \ / __                 \___=_  ___|
             /  \ | /  \        MANUBOURNE -> \/
                 \|/
            _,.---v---._                    /\__
   /\__/\  /            \                   |   |
   \_  _/ /              \                   |  /
     \ \_|           @ __|                   \_/ <- HOBART
      \                \_
       \     ,__/       /
     ~~~`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~~

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Rename Rule 101 to "Agoran Rights and Privileges" and amend it to
read:

      The rules may define persons as possessing specific rights or
      privileges.  Be it hereby proclaimed that no binding agreement
      or interpretation of Agoran law may abridge, reduce, limit, or
      remove a person's defined rights.  A person's defined privileges
      are assumed to exist in the absense of an explicit, binding
      agreement to the contrary.  This rule takes precedence over any
      rule which would allow restrictions of a person's rights or
      privileges.

       i. Every person has the privilege of doing what e wilt.

      ii. Every player has the right to perform an action which is not
          regulated.

     iii. Every person has the right to invoke judgement, appeal a
          judgement, and to initiate an appeal on a sentencing or
          judicial order binding em.

      iv. Every person has the right to refuse to become party to
          a binding agreement.  The absense of a person's explicit,
          willful consent shall be considered a refusal.

       v. Every person has the right to not be considered bound by
          an agreement, or an amendment to an agreement, which e has
          not had the reasonable opportunity to view.

      vi. Every player has the right of participation in the fora.

     vii. Every person has the right to not be penalized more than
          once for any single action or inaction.

    viii. Every player besides the Speaker has the right to deregister
          rather than continue to play.

    Please treat Agora right good forever.

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Enact a rule entitled 'Regulation Regulations', with a power of 3 and
the following text:

      An action is regulated if:

      (a) the action is prohibited;

      (b) the rules indicate that if certain conditions are satisfied,
          then some player is permitted to perform the action;

      (c) the action would, as part of its effect, modify information
          for which some player is required to be a recordkeepor;

      (d) the action would, as part of its effect, make it impossible
          to make arbitrary modifications to the rules by any
          combinations of actions by players; or

      (e) the courts have held that the action is regulated, and this
          finding has not been overturned.

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Rule 1688/2 (Power=3)
Power

      The power of an entity is a natural number, which is zero unless
      otherwise defined or modified according to procedures defined by
      the rules.  An instrument is an entity with positive power.

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Rule 1482/1 (Power=3)
Precedence between Rules with Unequal Power

      In a conflict between Rules with different Power, the Rule with
      the higher Power takes precedence over the Rule with the lower
      Power.

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Rule 1030/4 (Power=3)
Precedence between Rules with Equal Power

      If two or more Rules with the same Power conflict with one
      another, then the Rule with the lower Number takes precedence.

      If at least one of the Rules in conflict explicitly says of
      itself that it defers to another Rule (or type of Rule) or
      takes precedence over another Rule (or type of Rule), then such
      provisions shall supercede the numerical method for determining
      precedence.

      If all of the Rules in conflict explicitly say that their
      precedence relations are determined by some other Rule for
      determining precedence relations, then the determinations of
      the precedence determining Rule shall supercede the numerical
      method for determining precedence.

      If two or more Rules claim to take precedence over one another
      or defer to one another, then the numerical method again
      governs.

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Rule 2110/0 (Power=3)
Win by Paradox

      If the legality of an action cannot be determined with finality,
      or if by a Judge's best reasoning, not appealed within a week of
      eir Judgement, an action appears equally legal and illegal, then
      the Speaker shall award the Patent Title of Champion to the
      first Player to publicly note that condition.  The Herald shall
      record that this Title was achieved "by paradox" in eir report.

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Amend Rule 1727 (Happy Birthday) to read:

      WHEREAS, in June 1993, the world's only MUD-based nomic, Nomic
      World, had recently collapsed; yet, many of its players enjoyed
      nomic and did not wish to forego such a noble pursuit;

      And WHEREAS, Originator Chuck Carroll therefore composed an
      Initial Ruleset for an email nomic, based on the Initial
      Rulesets of Peter Suber, inventor of Nomic, and on the Rulesets
      of Nomic World and other nomics,

      And WHEREAS, a nomic thus rose like a phoenix from the ashes of
      Nomic World, played on the mailing list originally set up for
      discussion of Nomic World, and coming into existence at June 30,
      1993, 00:04:30 GMT +1200, with a message sent by FIRST SPEAKER
      Michael Norrish, which read, in part,

          "I see no reason to let this get bogged down; there are no
          precedents or rules that cover this situation, so I think
          we may as well begin directly.... Proposals for new rules
          are invited. In accordance with the rules, these will be
          published, numbered and distributed by me at my earliest
          convenience."

      And WHEREAS, this nomic began as a humble and nameless nomic,
      known unofficially as yoyo, after the mailing list it was played
      on, until its Players, much later, gave it its OFFICAL NAME of
      Agora,

      And WHEREAS, Agora has now become the wisest, noblest, eldest,
      and most interesting of all active email nomics, due to the hard
      work and diligence of Agorans as well as the frequent advice of
      Agoraphobes,

      And WHEREAS, Agorans desire to joyously commemorate Agora's
      founding,

      BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that Agora's Birthday is defined to be
      the entire day of June 30, GMT +1200, of each year, and as soon
      as possible after the end of Agora's Birthday, the Herald shall
      award the boon of celebration to each Player who, during Agora's
      Birthday, publicly recognizes this Grand Event.

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Rule 104/0 (Power=3)
First Speaker

      The Speaker for the first game shall be Michael Norrish.

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Repeal Rule 1020 (Name Is Agora)
Repeal Rule 2039 (Ought implies can)
Repeal Rule 1513 (Authority of Non-Rule Entities)

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Players and Entities
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Rule 1586/2 (Power=2)
Definition and Continuity of Entities

      No two Rule-defined entities shall have the same name or
      nickname.

      If the Rules defining some entity are repealed or amended
      such that they no longer define that entity, then that
      entity along with all its properties shall cease to exist.

      If the Rules defining an entity are amended such that they
      still define that entity but with different properties,
      that entity and its properties shall continue to exist to
      whatever extent is possible under the new definitions.

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Rule 869/17 (Power=1)
How to Join and Leave Agora

      A person who is not currently registered as a player and is not
      prohibited from registering is permitted to register.

      A person registers or deregisters by announcement.

      Whenever a person registers, e becomes a player.

      Whenever a player deregisters or is deregistered, e ceases to be
      a player and is prohibited from registering for the next thirty
      days.


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Rule 1789/3 (Power=1)
Cantus Cygneus

      Whenever a Player feels that e has been treated so egregiously
      by the Agoran community that e can no longer abide to be a part
      of it, e may submit a document to the Clerk of the Courts,
      clearly labeled a Cantus Cygneus, detailing eir grievances and
      expressing eir reproach for those who e feels have treated em so
      badly.

      As soon as possible after receiving a Cantus Cygneus, the Clerk
      of the Courts shall publish this document along with a Writ of
      Fugere Agorae Grandissima Exprobratione, commanding the Player
      to be deregistered and instructing the Herald to note the
      method of deregistration for that Player in subsequent Herald
      Reports, as long as the Player remains deregistered.

      The Player is deregistered as of the posting of the Writ, and
      the notation in the Herald's Report will ensure that,
      henceforth, all may know said Player deregistered in a Writ of
      FAGE.

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Repeal Rule 1677 (Honoring the New)
Repeal Rule 1976 (Honoring the Old)
Repeal Rule 1016 (Activity Levels)
Repeal Rule 2036 (The Silent Treatment)

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Definitions
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Amend Rule 478 (Fora) by setting its power to 3, and amending it to
read:

      Freedom of speech being essential for the healthy functioning of
      any non-Imperial nomic, it is hereby resolved that No Player
      shall be prohibited from participating in the Fora.

      A Forum's Publicity may be either null, Discussion, or Public
      (default null).  A forum's publicity may not be changed except
      as described in this rule.

      The Herald may change the publicity of a forum without objection
      as long as:

      (a) e sends eir announcement of intent to that forum; and

      (b) if the forum is to be made public, the announcement by which
          the Herald makes that forum public is sent to all existing
          public fora.

      Each active player should ensure e can receive messages via each
      public forum.

      The Herald's report shall include a list of all public or
      discussion fora and sufficient data regarding each to allow
      players to receive messages via that medium.  The Herald need
      not keep track of null fora.

      A message is public if and only if it is sent via a public forum
      or is sent to all players and contains a clear designation of
      intent to be public.  A player "publishes" or "announces"
      something by sending a public message.

      A player performs an action "by announcement" by announcing that
      e performs it.  A player performs an action "by private message"
      to some player by sending an appropriate private message to the
      specified player.  Any action performed by sending a message is
      performed at the time date-stamped on that message.


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AMEND Rule 754 (Freedom of Communication) by renaming it "Definition
Definitions", setting its power to 3, and amending it to read:

      Regularity of communication being essential for the healthy
      function of any nomic, it is hereby resolved:

      (1) A difference in spelling, grammar, or dialect, or the use of
          a synonym or abbreviation in place of a word or phrase, is
          inconsequential in all forms of communication, as long as
          the difference does not create an ambiguity in meaning.

      (2) A term explicitly defined by the Rules shall be interpreted
          as having that meaning, as shall its ordinary-language
          synonyms not explicitly defined by the rules.

      (3) Any term primarily used in mathematical or legal contexts,
          and not addressed by previous provisions of this Rule, shall
          be interpreted as having the meaning it has in those
          contexts.

      (4) Any term not addressed by previous provisions of this Rule
          shall be interpreted as having its ordinary-language
          meaning.

      This rule takes precedence over any other rules which dictate
      terminology or grammar.

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Amend Rule 1023 (Definition of "As Soon As Possible") by renaming it
"Common Definitions" and amending it to read:

      The following terms are defined:

      - Agoran days begin at midnight GMT.  Agoran weeks begin at
        midnight GMT on Monday.  Agoran months begin at midnight GMT
        on the first day of each Gregorian month.  Agoran quarters
        begin when the Agoran months of January, April, July, and
        October begin.  Agoran years begin when the Agoran month of
        January begins.

      - A requirement to perform an action "as soon as possible" is a
        requirement to perform the action within seven days.

      - The term "number" shall be interpreted as "real number".

      - The term "random" shall mean a choice drawn with a process
        whose probability distribution among the possible outcomes is
        reasonably close to that required by the Rules, using a
        uniform distribution if not otherwise specified.

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Rule 1728/11 (Power=2)
Dependent Actions

      An action is dependent, or may be performed dependently, if and
      only if it is an Action Without N Objections or an Action With N
      Supporters, where N is a nonnegative integer.  The phrase
      "Without Objection" is synonymous with "Without 1 Objection",
      and the phrase "With Support" is synonymous with "With 1
      Supporter".

      A player may publicly announce eir intent to perform an
      unambiguously described dependent action.  A player may perform
      a previously unambiguously described dependent action if and
      only if:

      (a)  no more than fourteen days have passed since the
           announcement of intent to perform the action;

      (b)  if the action to be performed is an Action Without N
           Objections, at least four days have passed since the
           announcement made under (a) of this rule;

      (c)  either the player who attempts to perform the action is the
           player who made the announcement under (a) of this rule, or

           (1)  the player who made the announcement under (a) of this
                rule did so by a privilege or duty granted em by
                virtue of holding a rules-defined position; and

           (2)  the player who attempts to perform the action is the
                holder of that position when e attempts to perform the
                action;

      (d)  the rules explicitly authorise the player to perform the
           action dependently;

      (e)  during the time between the announcement made under (a) of
           this rule and the attempt to perform the action,

           (1)  if the action is to be performed Without N Objections,
                fewer than N players have publicly posted objections
                to the performance of the action; or

           (2)  if the action is to be performed With N Supporters, at
                least N players other than the player who made the
                announcement under (a) of this rule have publicly
                posted support for the performance of the action;

      (f)  the announcement made under (a) of this rule specifies
           whether the action is to be performed Without N Objections
           or With N Supporters, unless the rules either do not permit
           the action to be performed Without N Objections or do not
           permit the action to be performed With N Supporters; and

      (g)  e announces that e performs the described action.

      A dependent action is not performed until announced as in (g).

      A player who posts an objection to the performance of an action
      may publicly retract eir objection.  If e does so, e shall be
      deemed not have posted an objection to the performance of that
      action for the purposes of (e)(1) of this rule.

      The specification in the rules that an action may be performed
      dependently does not prohibit performing that action
      independently if doing so would otherwise be permissible.

      A rule authorising the performance of a dependent action may
      restrict the eligibility of players to support or object to that
      specific action.

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Amend Rule 2124 (Agoran Consent) to read:

      If the Rules specify that an entity may perform an action with
      Agoran Consent, then the entity may perform the action by
      announcement if all of the following are true:

      (a) e has published eir intent to perform the action,
          unambiguously describing the action to be performed, at
          least four days and no more than fourteen days before
          attempting to perform the action;

      (b) at least one other player has announced (and not withdrawn)
          support for the intended action since intent was published;
          and

      (c) more players have announced (and not withdrawn) support than
          have announced (and not withdrawn) objections to the action
          since the intent was published.

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Amend Rule 1769 (Holidays) to read:

      A Holiday is a period of time designated as such by the Rules.

      During a Holiday, no Proposal may be distributed by the
      Promotor, nor may any Call for Judgement, Judgement, notice of
      Appeal, Decision of Appeals Boards, or Opinion be published by
      the Clerk of the Courts; however, if any of the above do take
      place during the Holiday in violation of this Rule, this Rule
      does not deprive them of their usual effects.

      If some Rule requires that an action be done prior to a given
      time, and that given time falls during a Holiday, or within the
      72-hour period immediately following that Holiday, then that
      action need not be done until 72 hours after that Holiday ends.

      If some Rule bases the time of a future event upon the time of
      another event, or requires that a Player perform some action
      within some time of another event, and that other event occurs
      during a Holiday, the time at which the Holiday ends shall be
      used instead for the purpose of determining the time of the
      future event or of the time by which the Player must perform the
      specified action.

      This Rule takes precedence over all Rules pertaining to the
      timing of events, and over all Rules which require Players to
      perform events before a specified time.

      The period each year from midnight GMT on the morning of 24
      December to the beginning of the first Agoran week to begin
      after 2 January is a Holiday.

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Rule 1750/1 (Power=1)
Read the Ruleset Week

      The first Agoran week each year which falls entirely in February
      is Read the Ruleset Week.  Agorans are encouraged to read the
      ruleset during Read the Ruleset Week.

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Repeal Rule 459  (Agoran Epochs)
Repeal Rule 2040 (Switches)
Repeal Rule 1527 (Unsnarling Tangles)
Repeal Rule 1478 (Executors and Limited Executors)
Repeal Rule 1079 (Definition of "Random")
Repeal Rule 1787 (April Fool's Day)
Repeal Rule 1870 (Merry Christmas, Agora, And A Happy New Year!)

Repeal Rule 1661 (The Right of Patronage)
Repeal Rule 2068 (The Deckmastor)
Repeal Rule 2112 (Deckmastor's Budget)
Repeal Rule 2113 (Card Constraints)
Repeal Rule 2114 (Card Definitions)
Repeal Rule 2115 (Cards of Power)
Repeal Rule 2116 (Onepower Cardbook)
Repeal Rule 2069 (Card Actions)
Repeal Rule 2106 (Playing Cards)
Repeal Rule 2074 (Hand Flux)
Repeal Rule 2075 (Winning Hands)
Repeal Rule 2083 (Hand Reductions)
Repeal Rule 2080 (Chip Sources)
Repeal Rule 2120 (Cashing in One's Chips)
Repeal Rule 2121 (Cards for Ex-Cards)
Repeal Rule 2122 (Gaining and Losing Chips)
Repeal Rule 2123 (Fees)
Repeal Rule 2104 (Contreras Card Labs)

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ai: 3
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-08-20
dist_mid: <20060820184257.7253.qmail@periware.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-08-28
fate_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608281115160.23419@homer21.u.washington.edu>
pool_number: 06-039
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4867
submit_date: 2006-08-14
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0608141201390.3892@hymn03.u.washington.edu>
title: Judicial Reform 2.0

[Only changed rights (R101).]
[Major philosophical change: Crimes and Infractions become a matter of
Contract Law.  Not much shorter (a little)].

The Rulekeepor is hereby requested to place Rules in categories as
indicated by this Proposal, in the order indicated in this Proposal,
which may involve the creation of new categories, moving of rules, or
the deletion of categories.  Some rules are included for reference and
indication of new placement without being actually amended.


======================================================================


Rename Rule 101 to "Agoran Rights and Privileges" and amend it to
read:

      The rules may define persons as possessing specific rights or
      privileges.  Be it hereby proclaimed that no binding agreement
      or interpretation of Agoran law may abridge, reduce, limit, or
      remove a person's defined rights.  A person's defined privileges
      are assumed to exist in the absense of an explicit, binding
      agreement to the contrary.  This rule takes precedence over any
      rule which would allow restrictions of a person's rights or
      privileges.

       i. Every person has the privilege of doing what e wilt.

      ii. Every player has the right to perform an action which is not
          regulated.

     iii. Every person has the right to invoke judgement, appeal a
          judgement, and to initiate an appeal on a sentencing or
          judicial order binding em.

      iv. Every person has the right to refuse to become party to
          a binding agreement.  The absense of a person's explicit,
          willful consent shall be considered a refusal.

       v. Every person has the right to not be considered bound by
          an agreement, or an amendment to an agreement, which e has
          not had the reasonable opportunity to review.

      vi. Every player has the right of participation in the fora.

     vii. Every person has the right to not be penalized more than
          once for any single action or inaction.

    viii. Every player besides the Speaker has the right to deregister
          rather than continue to play.

    Please treat Agora right good forever.

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Contract Law
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Amend Rule 1742 (Agreements between Players) to read:

      Players may make agreements among themselves with the intention
      that such agreements will be binding; i.e. that they become
      parties to the agreement and agree to be bound by the agreement.

      A CFJ that alleges that a specific person (the Defendant) has
      broken an agreement is a Civil CFJ, for which the Caller is the
      Plaintiff.  A CFJ that is not a Civil CFJ is a General CFJ.

      If the judge of a Civil CFJ finds that the agreement was entered
      into with the intention that the agreement be binding, and that
      the agreement has in fact been broken, then e may do any or all
      of the following:

         (i) order the defendant to perform according to the agreement
             or perform substitute acts that would fairly serve the
             interests of the agreement;
        (ii) order the other parties of the agreement to perform such
             acts as may be necessary to preserve fairness and
             justice;
       (iii) order that additional ("punitive") penalties or actions
             be applied to the defendant, if and only if the agreement
             in question explicitly specifies punitive penalties for
             the type of breach.

      If a Civil CFJ is called by anyone who is not party to that
      agreement, then it lacks standing and shall be dismissed.  A
      Civil CFJ that specifies multiple defendants, or multiple
      independent breaches of contract, is improperly made and shall
      be dismissed.

      Nothing in this rule shall be construed so as to impair the
      enforcement of an agreement which requires a Player to violate
      another agreement.

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Amend Rule 1503 (Crimes and Infractions) by naming it "Rules
Violations", setting its Power to 3, and amending it to read:

      In general, the Rules shall be adjudicated as if the Rules were
      a binding agreement between all Players, entered into by every
      player as a part of becoming a Player.  An actual or alleged
      Rule violation shall be treated as the violation of a binding
      agreement to be bound by the Rule or Rules in question.

      The proposal, fora, and registration processes shall, prima
      facie, be considered to be protective of a Player's rights and
      privileges with respect to making and changing the agreement to
      be bound by the rules.

      Other rules may further differentiate the treatment of rules
      violations from the treatment of violations of other types of
      agreements.

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Increase the power of Rule 2109 (Agoran Contracts) to 2 and amend it
to read:

      There exists a type of binding agreement known as Agoran
      Contract.  An Agoran Contract may only be created or amended by
      a Proposal and becomes effective when the Proposal takes effect.

      Unless otherwise specified in the Rules, all Players are bound
      by Agoran Contracts and no Player may leave an Agoran Contract
      while remaining a Player.  The Proposal process shall, prima
      facie, be considered to be protective of a Player's rights and
      privileges with respect to agreements.

      All Rules regulating Contracts that are inconsistent with this
      Rule are superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.

      The CotC is required to keep track of all Agoran Contracts.

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Amend Rule 1626 (Applications) to read:

      An Application is any document, which has been submitted as an
      Application by some person, to a Player designed by the Rules to
      receive Applications of that particular type.  The submittor is
      known as the Application's Sponsor.

      The Sponsor of an Application may attach the signatures of other
      persons, or signatories, to the Application at the time e
      submits it.  The Sponsor may not attach any signature to an
      Application without first having obtained the explicit consent
      of the signatory.  A signatory may revoke eir consent, once
      granted, by informing the Sponsor before submission.

      Signatures are presumed to have been attached with the consent
      of the signatory.  This presumption shall be rebutted only by a
      declaration from the alleged signatory, made within 60 days of
      the submission of the Application, stating that the signatory
      did not consent or that e consented and then subsequently
      revoked eir consent.  The Sponsor bears the burden of proof to
      show that such a declaration, once made, is false.

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Repeal Rule 2107 (Contracts)
Repeal Rule 2108 (Contract Maintenance)

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Rule Violations
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Amend Rule 1504 (Sentencing Orders) to read:

      Upon a finding in a Civil CFJ that the defendant has broken one
      or more Rules, the Trial Judge must execute exactly one of the
      following types of sentencing orders as punitive damages:

      (1) Without Objection and with 1 Support, an order the defendant
          to make a formal apology;
      (2) Without 2 Objections and with 2 Supporters, an order for the
          defendant to perform a specified service for the benefit of
          the Agoran community proportinate to the seriousness of the
          breach;
      (3) An order for the Herald to place the defendant in the Chokey
          for a number of months equal to the power of the highest
          powered Rule that was broken;
      (4) If and only if the trial judge finds the defendant to to
          have acted willfully in breaking the rules, an order for the
          Herald to place the defendant in the Chokey for twice number
          of months equal to the power of the highest-powered Rule
          that was broken;
      (5) If and only if the judge finds the defendant to have acted
          egregiously, maliciously, or with a consistent pattern of
          abuse, with Agoran Consent, an order for the Registrar to
          deregister the defendant in disgrace (make em lawless).  An
          order to be made lawless is automatically appealed upon its
          initial execution.

      These punishments are considered ranked with "worse" punishments
      being later in the list.

      If an attempted sentencing order does not receive the proper
      support or receives too many objections, the trial judge must
      execute another type of sentencing order.

      No other punitive damages may be assessed for Rules violations.

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Amend Rule 908 (Formal Apologies) to read:

      A sentencing order may require a defendant (hereafter the Ninny)
      to publish a Formal Apology.

      A Formal Apology must be at least 200 words, and must explain
      the Ninny's error, shame, remorse, and ardent desire for
      self-improvement.  Furthermore, the Order to Apologize may
      include up to ten Prescribed Words of the Judge's choice, all of
      which must appear in the Formal Apology.

      A defendant must obey an Order to Apologize within 72 hours of
      its execution.

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Amend Rule 1505 (Standard Classes of Crimes and Infractions) to be
called "Dishonor Rolls" and amend it to read:

      When the Herald is ordered to place someone in the Chokey, e
      shall publically award em the patent title "In the Chokey".

      This title shall be automatically revoked after a length of time
      indicated by the sentencing order, and the Herald shall announce
      the revokation.  If a sentencing order is executed against a
      defendant who already holds this title, the length of time of
      the new sentencing order shall be added to the time left on any
      previous ones.

      A person is considered to be In Disgrace while in the Chokey,
      between the execution and satisfaction of any sentencing orders
      binding em, or if deregistered for lawlessness.  A person who
      leaves the game in disgrace shall be awarded the Patent Title
      Fugitive by the Herald.  A Player may revoke the title Fugitive
      from emself as long as e is no longer in Disgrace.  A non-player
      may have this title revoked by Agoran Consent.

      The rules may further specify actions prohibited to persons in
      particular types of disgrace.

      The Herald is encouraged to publish lists of those in disgrace
      separate from patent titles of honor, to indicate the disgrace.

When this Proposal takes effect, all persons who were fugitives when
this proposal was adopted are hereby awarded the patent title
Fugitive.

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Repeal Rule 1816 (No Double Jeopardy for Crimes)
Repeal Rule 1812 (Notices of Infraction)
Repeal Rule 1814 (Timing of Penalties for Crimes and Infractions)
Repeal Rule 1505 (Standard Classes of Crimes and Infractions)
Repeal Rule 2017 (Blots)
Repeal Rule 1714 (Lawlessness)

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Calling for Judgement
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Amend Rule 991 (Invoking Judgement) to read:

      Any person may request formal resolution of a dispute pertaining
      to this Nomic by submitting a Call for Judgement (CFJ) to the
      Clerk of the Courts.  The submission of a CFJ constitutes proof
      of the existence of such a dispute.

      A CFJ should be a single clearly-labeled Statement whose truth
      or falsity can be determined using logical reasoning, assuming
      perfect knowledge.  A CFJ may be accompanied by Arguments,
      Evidence, or other related material; the Judge is encouraged,
      but not required, to take notice of these things.

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Amend Rule 897 (Barring Players from Judgement) to be called "Court
Procedure" and amend it to read:

      The Clerk of the Courts shall publish the text of a CFJ, along
      with any additional material submitted by the Caller and the
      Defendant if any (including but not limited to Arguments and
      Evidence), no later than the time e announces the identity of
      the first Judge assigned to that CFJ.

      When a Civil CFJ is submitted, the Clerk of the Courts shall
      publish the text of the CFJ and send a copy of the CFJ to the
      Defendant's registered e-mail address, if any, and inform the
      Defendant that e has one week to publish a defense and/or bar a
      Player from judging as described below.

      The CotC will not assign a Civil CFJ to a judge until one week
      has passed since after a publication.  During this time, any
      evidence or arguments, published or submitted to the CotC by the
      Defendant with the clear intent of being part of a defense, will
      become part of the material of that CFJ.

      A Player Barred from Judging a CFJ is ineligible to Judge that
      CFJ.

      When submitting a general CFJ, the Caller may Bar up to three
      Players from Judging that CFJ.

      The defendant of a Civil CFJ is automatically barred from
      judging it. The Plantiff may bar one other Player when e submits
      the CFJ.  The Defendant may bar one other Player from judging
      any time before the CFJ is assigned to a judge.

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Amend Rule 2024 (Linked Statements) to read as follows:

      Linked CFJs are multiple Calls for Judgement that are submitted
      in a single message and clearly labelled as Linked CFJs.

      The Clerk of the Courts shall assign a Judge to a set of Linked
      CFJs, as if they were a single CFJ.  The Judge must be eligible
      to Judge each of the Linked CFJs, and is simultaneously assigned
      as Judge of each of the Linked CFJs.

      A Judge (the first judge) may transfer a CFJ to a second judge
      by announcement, thus linking the first and second CFJs and
      unlinking the first CFJ with any it was previously linked to,
      with the second judge's consent and provided the second judge
      has not been barred or recused from the first CFJ.

      The Judge of a set of Linked CFJs shall submit eir Judgement of
      each of those CFJs in a single message.

      If one or more Linked CFJs beyond the first are unrelated in
      subject matter to the first, then a Trial Judge may remand those
      CFJs to the Clerk of the Courts; e ceases to be Judge of those
      CFJs.

      If a Trial Judge is recused from a Linked CFJ, then it ceases to
      be Linked to any other CFJ.  If a Trial Judge is recused from
      two or more Linked CFJs in a single message, or if a Trial Judge
      is simultaneously and automatically recused from two or more
      Linked CFJs, then those CFJs continue to be Linked to each
      other, but not to any other CFJs to which the Judge is still
      assigned.

      A CFJ made by a person who has previously made five or more CFJs
      during the same Agoran Week is an Excess CFJ.  The Clerk of the
      Courts may dismiss any Excess CFJ.

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Repeal Rule 1562 (Excess CFJs).
Repeal Rule 2025 (Transfer of Jurisdiction).

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Selecting a Judge
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Amend Rule 1868 (Selecting a Judge) to read:

      A CFJ is open if it has not been Judged, or if an outstanding
      judicial motion pertaining to it has been neither granted nor
      denied.  A CFJ is closed if it is not open.

      As soon as possible after becoming aware that an open CFJ has no
      Judge assigned to it, the Clerk of the Courts shall choose a
      Player eligible to Judge it, and announce them as its Trial
      Judge.  That Player remains the Trial Judge of that CFJ until e
      is recused from it or becomes ineligible to Judge it.

      Other rules may explicitly delay the timing requirement of
      making assignments, for example with respect to providing the
      Defendant with response time in a Civil CFJ.

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Amend Rule 698 (Always an Eligible Judge) to read:

      (a) Each active player is eligible to judge a given Call for
          Judgement (CFJ), unless a rule specifically makes em
          ineligible.

      (b) If the Clerk of the Courts is required to select a Judge,
          but after taking all other rules affecting eligibility into
          account, no player is eligible to judge that CFJ, then:

          (1) all non-barred players become eligible to judge that
              CFJ; then

          (2) if there is still no player eligible to judge, then all
              barred players, other than the caller emself, become
              eligible to judge that increasingly annoying CFJ; then

          (3) if there is still no player eligible to judge, then
              don't panic.  Somebody's bound to register someday; let
              em deal with it.

      (c) This rule takes precedence over other rules concerning who
          is and is not eligible to judge CFJs.

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Amend Rule 1871 (Turns for All) to read:

      Whenever a player is selected as Trial Judge of a CFJ, e becomes
      turned.  Turned players are ineligible to be Trial Judge of any
      future CFJs.  When a player registers, e is considered turned.

      Whenever an open CFJ has no Trial Judge assigned to it, and
      there are no players eligible to be assigned, the Clerk of the
      Courts shall publish a Notice of Rotation, specifying at least
      one such CFJ.  Upon such an announcement, all turned players
      become unturned.

      The CotC may turn a player e expects to judge CFJs slowly or not
      at all, without 2 objections.

      If the Clerk of the Courts errs in good faith by selecting a
      Player to Judge a CFJ or Appeal who is not eligible to judge
      that CFJ or Appeal solely because e is turned, then that
      selection shall stand, unless the Clerk of the Courts points out
      eir error and makes a new selection before the selected Player
      returns Judgement.

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Repeal Rule 2032 (Errors in Judge Selection)
Repeal Rule 1567 (Making Oneself Ineligible to Judge a CFJ)
Repeal Rule 1568 (Non-active Judges)

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Delivering Judgement
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Rule 591/18 (Power=1)
Legal Judgements

      The Judge of a CFJ Judges it by submitting eir Judgement to the
      Clerk of the Courts.  "Decision", "Finding", and "Response" are
      unambiguous synonyms for "Judgement".

      For a Trial Judge, a Judgement is exactly one of the following:
      TRUE, FALSE, or DISMISSED.

      As soon as possible after receiving a Judgement, the Clerk of
      the Courts shall publish it, along with any arguments, evidence,
      or other material included with the Judgement.

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Amend Rule 408 (Late Judgement) to read:

      For each Judge assigned to a CFJ, eir Deliberation Period begins
      when the Clerk of the Courts announces eir assignment, and lasts
      seven days; eir Overtime Period begins when eir Deliberation
      Period ends, and lasts seven days.

      During a Judge's Overtime Period, if e has not yet Judged the
      CFJ, then the Clerk of the Courts may recuse em by announcement.

      Upon the end of a Judge's Overtime Period, if e has not yet
      Judged the CFJ, then the Clerk of the Courts shall recuse em by
      announcement as soon as possible.

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Increase the power of Rule 217 (Judgements Must Accord with the Rules)
to 3 and amend it to read:

      All Judgements must be in accordance with the Rules; however, if
      the Rules are silent, inconsistent, or unclear on the Statement
      to be Judged, then the Judge shall consider game custom, common
      sense, past Judgements, and the best interests of the game
      before applying other standards.

      When a Judge is considering eir Judgement of a Statement
      contained in a CFJ, e shall make eir evaluation based on the
      truth or falsity of the Statement at the time the CFJ was
      issued.

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Amend Rule 1575 (Standards of Proof) to read:

      Unless otherwise specified, all Judgements shall be consistent
      with the preponderance of the evidence.

      A defendant may not be assessed punitive damages for Rules
      Violations any worse than a formal apology, unless a Judge finds
      that evidence for the violation is beyond a reasonable doubt.

      The published Report of an Officer constitutes prima facie
      evidence of the truth of those matters reported therein which
      that Officer is required by law to report.  This presumption may
      be set aside only by clear and convincing evidence to the
      contrary.

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Rule 1565/10 (Power=1)
Dismissal of a CFJ

      A Judgement of DISMISSED should be delivered if and only if one
      or more of the following is true:

        i) The CFJ does not contain a single clearly-identified
           Statement.

       ii) After a reasonable effort to obtain all relevant
           information, the Judge can neither determine the Statement
           to be true nor determine it to be false.

      iii) The Statement does not relate to a matter relevant to the
           Rules.

       iv) The CFJ lacks standing, as defined elsewhere.

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Rule 1803/2 (Power=1)
Judicial and Sentencing Orders

      Judicial Orders and Sentencing Orders are executed by being sent
      to the Clerk of the Courts, but do not take effect until their
      publication by the Clerk of the Courts.  The Clerk of the Courts
      shall publish each Judicial Order and Sentencing Order as soon
      as possible after receiving it from the Judge who executed it.

      Any Player may formally request a Judge issue any Judicial Order
      by filing a motion requesting that Order.  If granted, the Judge
      shall issue the Order requested.


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Amend Rule 1826 (Motions) to read:

      A Motion is a formal request made by a Player to the Judge of a
      CFJ.  A Motion is made by submitting it to the Clerk of the
      Courts, clearly identifying the CFJ to which the Motion applies.

      The Clerk of the Courts shall forward each properly-filed Motion
      to the Judge of the CFJ to which the Motion applies as soon as
      possible after receiving it.  A Judge must either grant or deny
      each Motion so forwarded within five days of receiving it.  A
      Judge grants or denies a Motion by sending eir determination on
      that Motion to the Clerk of the Courts, along with any reasons e
      chooses to provide.

      The effect of granting a Motion depends on its nature, but
      generally amounts to requiring the Judge to perform as requested
      by the Motion.

      Upon receipt of a Judge's determination on a Motion, the Clerk
      shall note the determination made and the reasons, if any, on
      the record of the CFJ, and shall notify the Player who made the
      Motion of that determination.

      If a Judge fails to Grant or Deny a Motion within five days of
      when it was forwarded to em by the Clerk of the Courts, the
      Clerk of the Courts shall Recuse the Judge and assign a new one
      as usual.

      If a Motion is made after a case is closed, and the original
      Judge of that case is not active or is not a player, then a new
      Judge shall be assigned to the case as usual.

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Rule 1509/4 (Power=1)
Orders to Compel

      Upon a judicial finding that a Player has failed to perform a
      duty required of em by the Rules, the Judge so finding shall
      execute an Order, requiring that Player to perform that duty as
      soon as possible.  Such an Order is known as an Order to Compel.

      If the duty in question arises because the Player in question
      holds a specific Office or other position of official
      responsibility, the Order shall be directed to that Office or
      position.  If the Player holding that Office fails to perform
      the duty in question as ordered, the Judge shall Order that that
      Player be removed from Office or position.

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Rule 1830/2 (Power=1)
No Compulsion of Judges

      Any Order to Compel directed to a Judge, or requiring the
      performance of a duty required of a Player because that Player
      is a Judge, is invalid, unless that Order is a valid Appellate
      Order.

      Any CFJ alleging that a Judgement is incorrect, or that a Judge
      has failed to perform a judicial duty, lacks standing.  Such a
      claim should instead be pursued via Appeal.

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Amend Rule 789 (Orders to Annotate Rules) to read:

      The Judge of any CFJ, the Statement of which alleges that a Rule
      should be interpreted in a certain way, which is judged TRUE,
      may, at eir discretion, issue an Order requiring the Rulekeepor
      to annotate the Rule in question with the Statement of that CFJ.
      Such an annotation, while it exists, shall guide application of
      that Rule.

      The Rulekeepor may remove such an annotation only if that Rule
      is repealed; if required to do so by a valid Order; or if the
      original Order to annotate is amended, stayed, or vacated.  The
      Rulekeepor may vacate an Order to annotate a Rule Without
      Objection.  Annotations to a Rule may not be modified in any way
      except as specified in this Rule.

      If a Player believes that an annotation is no longer pertinent,
      e may file, in the original CFJ from which the Order of
      Annotation arises, a Motion to Vacate the Order of Annotation.
      If such a Motion is granted, the Judge granting it shall Order
      the original Order Vacated and shall Order the Rulekeepor to
      remove the annotation in question.

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Amend Rule 1365 (Concurring and Dissenting Opinions) to read:

      Two or more players may submit a Concurring or Dissenting
      Opinion for a given CFJ trial or appeals decision, via a single
      application to the Clerk of the Courts signed by all submittors.

      The opinion must include reference to the CFJ and the particular
      judgement or appeals decision to which it applies and be
      accompanied by reasons or arugments for the opinion.

      The Clerk of the Courts shall publish any properly submitted
      Opinion and append it to the text of the legal judgement.

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Repeal Rule 1768 (Evidentiary Status of Officer Reports)
Repeal Rule 451  (Determination of Judgement--Timing)
Repeal Rule 502 (Salary for Judges)
Repeal Rule 1827 (Granting or Denying Motions)

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Overturning Judgement
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Amend Rule 1564 (Initiating Appeals) to read:

      The following are subject to Appeal:

        a) The Judgement of a Trial Judge.
        b) The grant or denial of a Motion.
        c) The execution of a Judicial or Sentencing Order.
        d) A claim that a Trial Judge has failed to perform a required
           judicial duty.

      A subject is Appealed when any of the following occurs:

        i) Three Players Appeal it.
       ii) A Player Appeals a Judicial or Sentencing Order binding em.
      iii) A Player Appeals a Trial Judgement convicting em of a
           Crime.

      A single subject (e.g. a specific judgement, motion, or order)
      may only be appealed once.

      As soon as possible after an Appeal is initiated, or a Player
      becomes or ceases to be an Appellate judge, the Clerk of the
      Courts shall announce the event.

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Amend Rule 911 (The Board of Appeals) to read:

      When an Appeal is initiated, a Board of Appeals shall be
      selected to reach a decision about the subject of the Appeal.  A
      Board of Appeals consists of three Appellate Judges.  Any Judge
      assigned according to this Rule is an Appellate Judge.

      A Board of Appeals is selected when the Clerk of the Courts
      correctly announces the identity of all Appellate Judges,
      determined as follows:

        a) The Speaker is selected, if eligible.
        b) The Clerk of the Courts is selected, if eligible.
        c) Any remaining positions are filled by selection by the
           Clerk of the Courts from all remaining eligible Players.

      A Player is ineligible for selection if any of the following is
      true:

        i) E has already been selected for that Board.
       ii) E has been dismissed from that Board.
      iii) E has been Trial Judge of the subject of the Appeal.
       iv) E is ineligible to Judge the CFJ at the time of selection.

      An Appellate Judge may appoint another eligible Player as eir
      replacement by informing the Clerk of the Courts, provided the
      Player consents.

      As soon as possible after an Appellate Judge is recused, the
      Clerk of the Courts shall randomly select an eligible Player to
      replace em.

      The last Appellate Judge selected is the Lead Judge for that
      Board.  If the Lead Judge is replaced, then the replacement
      becomes Lead Judge.

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Amend Rule 1447 (Final Judgement upon Appeal) to read:

      For an Appelate Judge assigned to the Appeal of a Judgement, a
      Judgement is exactly one of the following: SUSTAIN, REVERSE,
      REASSIGN, or REMAND.  For the appeal of other matters, a
      Judgement is exactly one of the following: SUSTAIN or OVERTURN.
      Other Rules may modify this based on the subject of the Appeal.

      If a Judgement of TRUE or FALSE is Appealed, the Board of
      Appeals shall consider the correctness of that Judgement.  If a
      Judgement of DISMISSED is Appealed, the Board shall not consider
      the truth or falsity of the original CFJ; they shall only
      consider whether a Judgement of DISMISSED should have been
      delivered.

      If a majority of the Appellate Judges Judge SUSTAIN, then the
      subject of the Appeal is sustained.  Otherwise, it is
      overturned.  The Board of Appeals shall execute whatever
      Appelate Orders are necessary to enforce its determination.

      When a Judgement is overturned:

        a) If a majority of the Appelate Judges Judge REVERSE, then
           the CFJ shall be treated as if it were Judged normally,
           with the Judgement being that which a majority of the
           Appelate Judges agree on.

        b) If a majority of the Appelate Judges Judge REASSIGN, then
           the original Judgement is ignored, the original Judge is
           recused, and the Clerk of the Courts shall reassign the CFJ
           to a new Judge in the same fashion as it was originally
           assigned.  The new Judge cannot make the same Judgement as
           the original Judge for the same reason.

        c) If a majority of the Appelate Judges Judge REMAND, then the
           original Judgement shall be ignored, and the Clerk of the
           Courts shall reassign the CFJ to the original Judge as if
           it were being originally assigned. The Judge may not make
           the same Judgement for the same reason.

        d) If none of the above is true, then the CFJ shall be
           reassigned as described above.

      As soon as possible after all members of a Board of Appeals have
      submitted eir Judgement, the Clerk of the Courts shall announce
      that this has happened.

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Amend Rule 1804 (Appeal of Judicial and Sentencing Orders) to read:

      As soon as possible after a Judicial Order or Sentencing Order
      is Appealed, the Clerk of the Courts shall stay it.  If the
      Appeal is sustained, then the Board of Appeals shall vacate this
      stay as soon as possible.  If the Appeal is overturned, then the
      Board of Appeals shall vacate the stayed Order as soon as
      possible.

      In the Appeal of a Judicial Order or Sentencing Order, the Board
      of Appeals shall consider whether the Order was properly and
      validly executed.

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Amend Rule (Appellate Orders) to read:

      Appellate Orders are executed by being sent to the Clerk of the
      Courts by the Lead Judge of a Board of Appeals, but do not take
      effect until their publication by the Clerk of the Courts.  The
      Lead Judge must certify in the execution that the order is
      executed by the concurrence of the majority of the Justices
      comprising that Board of Appeals; failure to do so deprives the
      Order of effect.

      Appellate Orders are not subject to appeal.  However, upon a
      judicial finding that the required certification was falsely
      provided, the Clerk of the Courts shall vacate the Order which
      was accompanied by that false certification.

      Appellate Orders are valid only if addressed to:
        a) The Clerk of the Courts in eir Official capacity;
        b) an Order issued by the Clerk of the Courts in eir Official
           Capacity;
        c) The Judge of the CFJ which that Board of Appeals was
           convened to consider, or any Order issued by that Judge in
           that particular CFJ; or
        d) any combination of the above.
      All other Appellate Orders are presumptively invalid.

      The Clerk of the Courts shall publish each Appellate Order as
      soon as possible after receiving it from the Board of Appeal
      which executed it.

      This Rule takes precedence over all Rules pertaining to the
      validity of Appellate Orders.

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Repeal Rule 1570 (Announcement of Appeal)
Repeal Rule 2026 (Appellate Determinations).
Repeal Rule 1693 (Appeal of a Judgement).
Repeal Rule 1806 (No Appeal of Appellate Orders)
Repeal Rule 1807 (Validity of Appellate Orders)

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Orders
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Amend Rule 1793 (Orders) to read:

      An Order is a command, executed by a player and directed to some
      entity requiring that entity to perform exactly one action, or
      to refrain from performing one or more actions.

      An Order may be directed to the holder of an official position
      in eir capacity in that official position, and if the position
      changes hands before the Order is satisfied, the duty to abide
      by the Order automatically attaches to the new holder of that
      position.

      An Order may also be directed at a prior order so as to affect
      the prior order's operation, as the Rules permit.

      All Orders executed in the manner prescribed by the Rules for
      their class are presumed valid and enforceable until proven
      otherwise by CFJ.


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Amend Rule 1794 (Classes of Orders) to read:

      Each Order is of exactly one of the following classes.  If an
      Order could be of more than one of these classes, then it is of
      the first class that matches.

        (a) A Legislative Order is an Order executed as part of the
            effect of the adoption of a Proposal.

        (b) An Appellate Order is an Order executed by a Board of
            Appeals.

        (c) A Judicial Order is an Order executed by a Judge in the
            course of performing eir duties or privileges as Judge.

        (d) A Timing Order is an Order which may be executed by any
            person and directed at any entity.  A timing order is
            valid if and only if it orders the entity to perform, as
            soon as possible, a duty specifically required of em by
            the Rules that does not otherwise have a specified timing
            requirement, or for which the otherwise specified timing
            requirement will have been exceeded as soon as possible
            after the Order is executed.

      No other types of Orders are valid.

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Amend Rule 1795 (Order Timing) to read:

      An Order may specify the time limit for the performance of an
      ordered action.  If a time limit is less than 72 hours after the
      Order takes effect, the time limit shall be 72 hours.  If no
      time limit is specified, time limit shall be as soon as possible
      after the Order takes effect.

      If an Order which commands the performance of an action is
      directed to an Office or other position of authority, and the
      holder of that position of authority changes after the Order
      takes effect, but before the Order is satisfied, then the
      current holder shall have as soon as possible to satisfy that
      order.

      The noncompliance of an order with this Rule does not deprive
      that order of all effect, but instead modifies the timing
      requirements of the order.

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Amend Rule 1799 (Stay and Vacation of Orders) to read:

      The effect of staying an Order is to temporarily prevent the
      stayed Order from having any effect.

      A stay may be specified to expire after a fixed time.  If no
      specification is made in the Order to Stay, the stay shall not
      expire.

      When the stay expires or is vacated, the previously stayed order
      again has effect as if it had been originally executed at the
      moment the stay ceases to be effective.  However, if at the time
      the staying Order expires or otherwise ceases to have effect,
      the stayed Order has been vacated or is subject to another
      staying Order, it does not regain effect.

      The effect of vacating an Order is to permanently deny the
      vacated Order from having any effect.  Vacating an Order to
      Vacate reinstates the ability of the vacated Order to have
      effect, as of the moment the Order to Vacate is itself vacated.

      Any Order may always be stayed or vacated by the Player (or, in
      the case of Appellate Orders, Board of Appeal) who executed it.
      Certain classes of Orders may be stayed or vacated in other
      circumstances as well, but only as the Rules allow.

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Amend Rule 1810 (Satisfying Orders) to read:

      An Order requiring an entity to perform an action is satisfied
      when that entity performs that action.  Other Rules may define
      other ways for Orders to be satisfied.  Except when otherwise
      specified, a single action can result in the satisfaction of at
      most one Order.  If an action would satisfy more than one Order,
      and no other specification is made, the Action satisfies the
      oldest Order which it would satisfy.

      Willfully performing contrary to valid orders, either through
      action or inaction, is a violation of this Rule.

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ai: 3
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-10-04
dist_mid: <DDEB1D58-C447-4405-BCA8-20E754CC0783@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-10-26
fate_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0610261257190.5817@hymn01.u.washington.edu>
pool_number: 06-040
proposer: OscarMeyr
seq_number: 4872
submit_date: 2006-09-08
submit_mid: <DE0E28D5-381B-4ABB-9C1D-A8CDEB5BF313@earthlink.net>
title: Voting Credits

Create a new rule titled "Voting Credits" of Power 3 with the
following text, delimited by '---'.
---
Voting Credits (VCs) are a measure of each player's ability to affect
voting limits on ordinary proposals.  A player's VC is at all times a
non-negative integer.  The Promotor is the recordkeepor of VCs.  VCs
are not any form of property and cannot be traded.  VCs can be
affected only as described in this rule.

When one or more players win the game, all players' voting limits on
ordinary proposals are reset to one, subject to modification by other
rules.

When a player joins Agora, eir VCs are set to zero.

When a proposal is adopted, its proposer gains VCs equal to the
integer portion of the proposal's adoption index, and each co-author
of the proposal gains one VC.

A player may expend two VCs to increase eir own voting limit on
ordinary proposals by one.

A player may expend one VC to increase any other player's voting
limit on ordinary proposals by one.

A player may expend two VCs to decrease any other player's voting
limit on ordinary proposals by one, down to a minimum voting limit of
zero.  Attempts to decrease a player's voting limit on ordinary
proposals below this minimum fail.

If a player attempts to expend more VCs than e currently has, the
action fails, and the VCs are not expended.

The Promotor may accept reasonable synonyms for "expend" (such as
"pay" or "use") as valid actions under this rule.
---
Upon adoption of this proposal, each player's VCs are set to two.

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ai: 3
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2006-10-04
dist_mid: <DDEB1D58-C447-4405-BCA8-20E754CC0783@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2006-10-26
fate_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0610261257190.5817@hymn01.u.washington.edu>
pool_number: 06-041
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4871
submit_date: 2006-09-10
submit_mid: <45039900.70708@socal.rr.com>
title: High-Power Deference

Amend Rule 1482 (Precedence between Rules with Unequal Power) by
appending
this text:

       If the Rule with the higher Power explicitly says of itself
that it
       defers to another Rule (or type of Rule), then such provisions
shall
       supercede the Power method for determining precedence.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
db_note: overlooked at the time, distributed much later
dist_date: 2007-08-25
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1IOv8Q-0001DZ-GU@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-09-03
fate_mid: <46DC3FB6.3010608@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
pool_number: <none>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 5183
submit_date: 2006-09-18
submit_mid: <450E41D9.9090707@socal.rr.com>
title: Dora the Explorer (who teaches children all over the world to speak REALLY LOUDLY)

Amend Rule 1727 (Happy Birthday) by replacing "OFFICAL" with "OFFICIAL".

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
db_note: distribution had AI wrong, was really 4 (and Democratic), need to sort this out
dist_date: 2006-11-06
dist_mid: <443ADD91-B8A5-4F2B-BAC6-BAC7E471B9D7@earthlink.net>
fate: apparently dropped
pool_number: 06-042
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4873
submit_date: 2006-10-27
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610261757590.27959@homer22.u.washington.edu>
title: The Final Word

Eris is hereby, by legislative order, declared EMPRESS.


Amend Rule 2029 to read:

                   Ceci n'est pas une fontaine.

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ai: 4
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
db_note: proposal text already distributed, this was a repeat to correct AI and chamber, need to sort this out
dist_date: 2006-11-08
dist_mid: <2BE422E7-70E9-467F-A8A3-86111FF8D017@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2006-12-01
fate_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0612011135200.22993@hymn05.u.washington.edu>
pool_number: 06-043
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4874
submit_date: 2006-10-27
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610261757590.27959@homer22.u.washington.edu>
title: The Final Word

Eris is hereby, by legislative order, declared EMPRESS.


Amend Rule 2029 to read:

                   Ceci n'est pas une fontaine.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2006-11-12
fate_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611121000580.25315@homer24.u.washington.edu>
pool_number: 06-044
proposer: Goethe
submit_date: 2006-11-10
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611091613370.9177@homer23.u.washington.edu>
title: If

Enact the following rule entitiled Conditional Votes:

    A ballot option (vote) on an Agoran decision may be
    submitted conditionally, and the truth or falsity of
    the condition and thus the selected option will be
    determined as it exists at the end of the voting period.

    The option selected shall be considered to be clearly
    identified if and only if the truth or falsity of the
    specified condition(s) can be reasonably determined,
    without circularity or paradox, from information published
    within the 30 days prior to the end of the voting period.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
db_note: there was a purported but incorrect distribution of this proposal as proposal 4875
dist_date: 2007-08-25
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1IOv8Q-0001DZ-GU@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-09-03
fate_mid: <46DC3FB6.3010608@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
pool_number: 06-045
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 5184
submit_date: 2006-11-12
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611121000580.25315@homer24.u.washington.edu>
title: If 2.0

[Only change:  shorten "30 days" to "in the voting period"]

Enact the following rule entitiled Conditional Votes:

     A ballot option (vote) on an Agoran decision may be
     submitted conditionally, and the truth or falsity of
     the condition and thus the selected option will be
     determined as it exists at the end of the voting period.

     The option selected shall be considered to be clearly
     identified if and only if the truth or falsity of the
     specified condition(s) can be reasonably determined,
     without circularity or paradox, from information
     published within the voting period.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
db_note: this was a duff distribution, mangling the text of a submitted proposal
dist_date: 2006-11-17
dist_mid: <78312A3A-4FC4-495B-A083-EF66174FAE96@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2006-12-01
fate_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0612011135200.22993@hymn05.u.washington.edu>
pool_number: <never in pool>
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4875
submit_date: <not submitted>
submit_mid: <not submitted>
title: If 2.0

Enact the following rule entitiled Conditional Votes:

     A ballot option (vote) on an Agoran decision may be
     submitted conditionally, and the truth or falsity of
     the condition and thus the selected option will be
     determined as it exists at the end of the voting period.

     The option selected shall be considered to be clearly
     identified if and only if the truth or falsity of the
     specified condition(s) can be reasonably determined,
     without circularity or paradox, from information
     published within the voting period.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
db_note: there was a purported but incorrect distribution of this proposal as proposal 4876
dist_date: 2007-08-25
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1IOv8Q-0001DZ-GU@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-09-03
fate_mid: <46DC3FB6.3010608@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
pool_number: 06-046
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 5185
submit_date: 2006-11-25
submit_mid: <456896AD.7090502@socal.rr.com>
title: Dishonor Rolls

(Repairing an apparent mistake in Proposal 4867)

Create a rule titled "Dishonor Rolls" with this text:

       When the Herald is ordered to place someone in the Chokey, e
       shall publically award em the patent title "In the Chokey".

       This title shall be automatically revoked after a length of time
       indicated by the sentencing order, and the Herald shall announce
       the revokation.  If a sentencing order is executed against a
       defendant who already holds this title, the length of time of
       the new sentencing order shall be added to the time left on any
       previous ones.

       A person is considered to be In Disgrace while in the Chokey,
       between the execution and satisfaction of any sentencing orders
       binding em, or if deregistered for lawlessness.  A person who
       leaves the game in disgrace shall be awarded the Patent Title
       Fugitive by the Herald.  A Player may revoke the title Fugitive
       from emself as long as e is no longer in Disgrace.  A non-player
       may have this title revoked by Agoran Consent.

       The rules may further specify actions prohibited to persons in
       particular types of disgrace.

       The Herald is encouraged to publish lists of those in disgrace
       separate from patent titles of honor, to indicate the disgrace.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
db_note: this was a duff distribution, mangling the text of a submitted proposal
dist_date: 2006-11-30
dist_mid: <74B8630E-45A5-4D5F-8D14-85514FD5A91C@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-01-31
fate_mid: <D7568A29-E24D-4186-AF61-1C3AD347AF1C@earthlink.net>
pool_number: <never in pool>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4876
submit_date: <not submitted>
submit_mid: <not submitted>
title: Dishonor Rolls

Create a rule titled "Dishonor Rolls" with this text:

       When the Herald is ordered to place someone in the Chokey, e
       shall publically award em the patent title "In the Chokey".

       This title shall be automatically revoked after a length of time
       indicated by the sentencing order, and the Herald shall announce
       the revokation.  If a sentencing order is executed against a
       defendant who already holds this title, the length of time of
       the new sentencing order shall be added to the time left on any
       previous ones.

       A person is considered to be In Disgrace while in the Chokey,
       between the execution and satisfaction of any sentencing orders
       binding em, or if deregistered for lawlessness.  A person who
       leaves the game in disgrace shall be awarded the Patent Title
       Fugitive by the Herald.  A Player may revoke the title Fugitive
       from emself as long as e is no longer in Disgrace.  A non-player
       may have this title revoked by Agoran Consent.

       The rules may further specify actions prohibited to persons in
       particular types of disgrace.

       The Herald is encouraged to publish lists of those in disgrace
       separate from patent titles of honor, to indicate the disgrace.

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ai: 2
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-08
dist_mid: <EBDF235A-85B9-4361-95D2-DE635249BF5B@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-01-22
fate_mid: <45B44E63.1000306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-047
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4881
submit_date: 2006-12-01
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0612010849570.18399@hymn10.u.washington.edu>
title: Honor dies hard

repeal Rule 2092

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-08
dist_mid: <EBDF235A-85B9-4361-95D2-DE635249BF5B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-01-22
fate_mid: <45B44E63.1000306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-048
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4877
submit_date: 2006-12-01
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0612010912250.18399@hymn10.u.washington.edu>
title: Conditional defugitation

If Proposal 4876 has been adopted, repeal Rule 1437.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-08
dist_mid: <EBDF235A-85B9-4361-95D2-DE635249BF5B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-01-22
fate_mid: <45B44E63.1000306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-049
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4878
submit_date: 2006-12-01
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0612011039540.12796@hymn08.u.washington.edu>
title: Win again and again

[No defined way to win other than paradox right now.  Let's
start playing again, most general way: contests].

[This first part is in case Sherlock wants an early out, also adds
"inactive Speaker" protection.  Not intended to be a dig
at
Sherlock.]

Amend Rule 402 by appending the following text:

     If no cardinal has become a pope in the past six months, or
     a judge finds that the current Speaker has been inactive,
     inattentive, unwilling, or unable to perform eir Agoran
     duties, then a cardinal may be named a pope (and therefore
     Speaker as above) by Agoran Consent.  This is not considered
     winning.

Create the following Rule, entitled "Winning":

     The current Speaker may, with two supporters, invite
     players to enter into a specified agreement (hereafter a
     Contest) to determine who wins the game.  The contest
     must be open to all players.  Winners determined by the
     procedures of the contest do in fact win the game.  When
     the initiating Speaker ceases to be Speaker, the contest
     loses the legal authority to determine winners.

Amend rule 1922 by appending the following text:

     (d) Champion, to be awarded to players who win the game.

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ai: 2
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-08
dist_mid: <EBDF235A-85B9-4361-95D2-DE635249BF5B@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-01-22
fate_mid: <45B44E63.1000306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-050
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4883
submit_date: 2006-12-16
submit_mid: <4584868B.5070007@socal.rr.com>
title: Revert Quorum

Amend Rule 879 (Quorum) by replacing each instance of "five"
with "three".

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-08
dist_mid: <EBDF235A-85B9-4361-95D2-DE635249BF5B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-01-22
fate_mid: <45B44E63.1000306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-051
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4879
submit_date: 2006-12-16
submit_mid: <45848699.8070701@socal.rr.com>
title: Dishonor Rolls, redux

Create a rule titled "Dishonor Rolls" with this text:

        When the Herald is ordered to place someone in the Chokey, e
        shall publically award em the patent title "In the Chokey".

        This title shall be automatically revoked after a length of time
        indicated by the sentencing order, and the Herald shall announce
        the revokation.  If a sentencing order is executed against a
        defendant who already holds this title, the length of time of
        the new sentencing order shall be added to the time left on any
        previous ones.

        A person is considered to be In Disgrace while in the Chokey,
        between the execution and satisfaction of any sentencing orders
        binding em, or if deregistered for lawlessness.  A person who
        leaves the game in disgrace shall be awarded the Patent Title
        Fugitive by the Herald.  A Player may revoke the title Fugitive
        from emself as long as e is no longer in Disgrace.  A non-player
        may have this title revoked by Agoran Consent.

        The rules may further specify actions prohibited to persons in
        particular types of disgrace.

        The Herald is encouraged to publish lists of those in disgrace
        separate from patent titles of honor, to indicate the disgrace.

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ai: 3
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-08
dist_mid: <EBDF235A-85B9-4361-95D2-DE635249BF5B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-01-22
fate_mid: <45B44E63.1000306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-052
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4884
submit_date: 2006-12-16
submit_mid: <458486B3.6000603@socal.rr.com>
title: Credit for Service

[YAFI, YGI.]

Amend Rule 2126 (Voting Credits) by appending, after this text:

       When a proposal is adopted, its proposer gains VCs equal to the
       integer portion of the proposal's adoption index, and each
       co-author of the proposal gains one VC.

this text:

       At the end of each quarter, for each office, the player (if
       any) who held that office for the majority of that quarter
       gains one VC.

       A player who submits a judgement during eir Deliberation Period
       gains one VC.  A player whose judgement is overturned loses one
       VC, if e has any.

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ai: 2
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-08
dist_mid: <EBDF235A-85B9-4361-95D2-DE635249BF5B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-01-22
fate_mid: <45B44E63.1000306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-053
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4885
submit_date: 2006-12-16
submit_mid: <458486C6.8040309@socal.rr.com>
title: Finish Repealing Assessor

Amend Rule 2019 (The Speaker's Veto) by replacing "Assessor shall place"
with "Promotor shall add".

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-08
dist_mid: <EBDF235A-85B9-4361-95D2-DE635249BF5B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-01-22
fate_mid: <45B44E63.1000306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-054
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4880
submit_date: 2006-12-18
submit_mid: <45865118.9000309@socal.rr.com>
title: Finish Repealing Boons

Amend Rule 1727 (Happy Birthday) by replacing this text:

       BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that Agora's Birthday is defined to be
       the entire day of June 30, GMT +1200, of each year, and as soon
       as possible after the end of Agora's Birthday, the Herald shall
       award the boon of celebration to each Player who, during Agora's
       Birthday, publicly recognizes this Grand Event.

with this text:

       BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that Agora's Birthday is defined to be
       the entire day of June 30, GMT +1200, of each year.

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ai: 3
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-08
dist_mid: <EBDF235A-85B9-4361-95D2-DE635249BF5B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-01-22
fate_mid: <45B44E63.1000306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-055
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4887
submit_date: 2006-12-18
submit_mid: <45865148.4050603@socal.rr.com>
title: Periodic Spell Check

Amend Rule 101 (Agoran Rights and Privileges) by replacing each instance
of "absense" with "absence".

Amend Rule 1030 (Precedence between Rules with Equal Power) by replacing
"precedence determining" with "precedence-determining".

Amend Rules 402 (Church and State) and 2019 (The Speaker's Veto) by
replacing "nonwithstanding" with "notwithstanding".

Amend Rule 1006 (Offices) by replacing "acheive" with "achieve",
"acheived" with "achieved", and "offical" with "official".

Amend Rule 1727 (Happy Birthday) by replacing "OFFICAL" with "OFFICIAL".

Amend Rule 1681 (The Logical Rulesets) by replacing "Rulekeeper" with
"Rulekeepor".

Amend Rule 693 (Agoran Decisions) by replacing "decisionmaking" with
"decision-making".

Amend Rule 897 (Court Procedure) by replacing "Plantiff" with
"Plaintiff".

Amend Rule 2024 (Linked Statements) by replacing "labelled" with
"labeled".

Amend Rule 1365 (Concurring and Dissenting Opinions) by replacing
"submittors" with "submitters", and "arugments" with "arguments".

Amend Rule 1626 (Applications) by replacing "submittor" with
"submitter".

Amend Rule 1447 (Final Judgement upon Appeal) by replacing each instance
of "Appelate" with "Appellate".

Amend Rule 1504 (Sentencing Orders) by replacing "proportinate" with
"proportionate", and "to to" with "to".

Amend Rule 1370 (How to Get a Degree) by replacing "tham" with "than",
and "the the" with "the".

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-31
dist_mid: <1A2184A1-912A-43F9-9371-CE2E29C2F14C@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-02-12
fate_mid: <45CFD1E6.8040006@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-065
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4893
submit_date: 2006-12-19
submit_mid: <458760DA.5070400@socal.rr.com>
title: Inactivity Revisited

Create a rule titled "Inactivity" with this text:

      A player may become active or inactive by announcement.

      A player may, without objection, make another player inactive.

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ai: 3
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-08
dist_mid: <EBDF235A-85B9-4361-95D2-DE635249BF5B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-01-22
fate_mid: <45B44E63.1000306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-056
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4886
submit_date: 2006-12-21
submit_mid: <458A1F72.2090401@socal.rr.com>
title: A is A

Amend Rule 105 (Rule Changes) by replacing this text:

       A variation in whitespace or capitalization in
       the quotation of an existing rule does not constitute ambiguity
       for the purposes of this rule, but any other variation does.

with this text:

       A variation in whitespace, capitalization, or substitution of
       section labels with the same ordinal position (e.g. 1 / a / i,
       2 / b / ii, etc.) in the quotation of an existing rule does not
       constitute ambiguity for the purposes of this rule, but any other
       variation does.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-08
dist_mid: <EBDF235A-85B9-4361-95D2-DE635249BF5B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-01-22
fate_mid: <45B44E63.1000306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-057
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4882
submit_date: 2006-12-22
submit_mid: <458B574E.1010108@socal.rr.com>
title: The Lady, or the Tiger?

Upon the adoption of this proposal, Goethe is deemed to have been
deregistered due to Rule 1789 (Cantus Cygneus) as of the posting of
Murphy's message on or about Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:44:10 -0800; unless
e announced "Wait! Wait! I've changed my mind!" during the voting
period of this proposal, in which case e is deemed not to have been
so deregistered.

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ai: 3
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-08
dist_mid: <EBDF235A-85B9-4361-95D2-DE635249BF5B@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-01-22
fate_mid: <45B44E63.1000306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-059
proposer: OscarMeyr
seq_number: 4888
submit_date: 2006-12-23
submit_mid: <600C4AE1-8424-49EA-A7A1-36B315FE47A9@earthlink.net>
title: Fixing Voting Credits

Delete from Rule 2126 the text reading:

       The Promotor may accept reasonable synonyms for "expend" (such
       as "pay" or "use") as valid actions under this rule.

Append to Rule 2126 the following:

Changes to voting limits under this rule take effect at the beginning
of the next week.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-08
dist_mid: <EBDF235A-85B9-4361-95D2-DE635249BF5B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-01-22
fate_mid: <45B44E63.1000306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 06-061
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4889
submit_date: 2006-12-31
submit_mid: <45971C7E.3020903@socal.rr.com>
title: Two more fixes

Amend Rule 1006 (Offices) by replacing this text:

       The Herald shall list the holder of each office,

with this text:

       The Herald's Report shall list the holder of each office,

and by replacing this text:

       than the officer shall publish that information once a month

with this text:

       then the officer shall publish that information at least once a
       month

Amend Rule 1795 (Order Timing) to read:

       Orders to perform an action shall be satisfied as soon as
       possible, unless the Order specifies a different time limit.  The
       minimum time limit is 72 hours after the Order takes effect; any
       time limit that would be shorter is extended to the minimum.

       If an Order to perform an action is directed to an Office or
other
       position of authority, and the holder of that position changes
       after the Order takes effect, but before the Order is satisfied,
       then the time limit is extended (if needed) to one week after the
       change.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-08
dist_mid: <EBDF235A-85B9-4361-95D2-DE635249BF5B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-01-22
fate_mid: <45B44E63.1000306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-062
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4890
submit_date: 2007-01-04
submit_mid: <459C69AC.1050000@socal.rr.com>
title: Fix Separation of Powers

Amend Rule 1450 (Separation of Powers) to read:

       The positions of Speaker, Clerk of the Courts, and Promotor
       are mutually exclusive.  Whenever a player holds more than
       one of these positions, e is removed from all of them except
       Speaker (if he holds it) or the position e came to hold most
       recently (otherwise).

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ai: 3
chamber: Democratic
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-08
dist_mid: <EBDF235A-85B9-4361-95D2-DE635249BF5B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-01-22
fate_mid: <45B44E63.1000306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-063
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4891
submit_date: 2007-01-05
submit_mid: <459DE9AB.3050803@socal.rr.com>
title: Clarify Win by Paradox

Amend Rule 2110 (Win by Paradox) to read:

       If the legality of an action cannot be determined with finality,
       or if by a Judge's best reasoning, not appealed within a week of
       eir Judgement, an action appears equally legal and illegal, then
       the first player to announce this fact wins the game.

Amend Rule 1922 (Defined Regular Patent Titles) by appending this text:

       (d)  Champion, to be awarded to any player who wins the game.
The
            Herald's report shall record how the player won.

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ai: 1
chamber: Ordinary
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-08
dist_mid: <EBDF235A-85B9-4361-95D2-DE635249BF5B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-01-22
fate_mid: <45B44E63.1000306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-064
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4892
submit_date: 2007-01-07
submit_mid: <45A12BCC.6090108@socal.rr.com>
title: Fix Separated Powers

(In case Rule 1450 is interpreted as having kept me out of the
Speakership.  Possibly-ex-Speaker Sherlock is my second nominee
for CotC; I considered making em my first nominee, but if R1450
blocked my Speakership, then it would possibly block still-Speaker
Sherlock's Clerkship as well.)

This proposal has no effect unless Murphy's proposal "Fix Separation
of Powers" has been previously adopted.

This proposal has no effect unless at least one candidate for Clerk
of the Courts votes for it.

Upon the adoption of this proposal, Murphy becomes Speaker, and the
first candidate for Clerk of the Courts who voted for it becomes
Clerk of the Courts.

The candidates for Clerk of the Courts are:
   1) GreyKnight
   2) Sherlock

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-31
dist_mid: <1A2184A1-912A-43F9-9371-CE2E29C2F14C@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-02-12
fate_mid: <45CFD1E6.8040006@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-066
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4894
submit_date: 2007-01-11
submit_mid: <45A66D59.50004@socal.rr.com>
title: Red Tape Scam

Create a rule titled "Fantasy Rule Changes" with this text:

      A proposal generally can, as part of its effect:

      (a) Enact a rule.  When enacted, rules have Power 1.

      (b) Assign a number to a rule.

      (c) Modify the power, title, or text of a rule.

      (d) Repeal a rule.  When a proposal repeals a rule, it ceases
      to be a rule, and the Rulekeepor need no longer maintain a record
      of it.

Repeal Rule 105 (Rule Changes).

Upon the adoption of this proposal:
  OscarMeyr is awarded the Patent Title of Fantasy Rule Conspirator.
  Peter is awarded the Patent Title of Fantasy Rule Catalyst.
  Murphy is awarded the Patent Title of Fantasy Rule Creator.
  Zefram is awarded the Patent Title of Fantasy Rule Compulsion.

Amend the rule titled "Fantasy Rule Changes" to have number 105,
Power 3, title "Rule Changes", and this text:

      A proposal generally can, as part of its effect:

      (a) Enact a rule.  When a rule is enacted, the Rulekeepor shall
      assign it a number, which must be greater than any number
      previously assigned.  If the enacting proposal does not specify
      the power, the rule shall have power equal to one.  If the
      proposal specifies the power, then the rule shall have power
      equal to the minimum of four, the power of the proposal, and the
      power specified by the proposal.  If the title is not specified,
      the Rulekeepor may select any title e sees fit.

      (b) Modify the power, title, or text of a rule.  A Proposal can
      modify the power, title, or text of a rule with power no greater
      than its own.  However, a proposal cannot cause a rule to have
      power greater than its own.  Any ambiguity in a modification
      specified by a proposal causes that modification to be void and
      without effect.  A variation in whitespace or capitalization in
      the quotation of an existing rule does not constitute ambiguity
      for the purposes of this rule, but any other variation does.

      (c) Repeal a rule.  A Proposal can repeal a rule with power no
      greater than its own.  When a proposal repeals a rule, it ceases
      to be a rule, and the Rulekeepor need no longer maintain a record
      of it.

      This rule provides the only mechanism by which rules can be
      enacted, modified, or repealed.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-31
dist_mid: <1A2184A1-912A-43F9-9371-CE2E29C2F14C@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-02-12
fate_mid: <45CFD1E6.8040006@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-068
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4895
submit_date: 2007-01-10
submit_mid: <45A563E9.2000906@socal.rr.com>
title: Once is funny, twice would just be annoying

Amend Rule 2024 (Linked Statements) by appending, after this text:

      Linked CFJs are multiple Calls for Judgement that are submitted
      in a single message and clearly labelled as Linked CFJs.

this text:

      When submitting Linked CFJs, the players (if any) barred by the
      caller from judging the first CFJ are the only players e may bar
      from judging any of the other CFJs.

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ai: 1.000001
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-31
dist_mid: <1A2184A1-912A-43F9-9371-CE2E29C2F14C@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-02-12
fate_mid: <45CFD1E6.8040006@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-069
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4896
submit_date: 2007-01-11
submit_mid: <20070111153910.GA6872@fysh.org>
title: switch off the fountain

WHEREAS the Town Fountain is an ugly triviality of ASCII art, unlike
the fine Map of Agora,

and whereas the scamming spirit of the game is adequately honoured
by the Patent Title of "Scamster" held by each of the erectors of the
Town Fountain,

be it therefore resolved that Rule 2029 be repealed.

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ai: 0.000001
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-31
dist_mid: <1A2184A1-912A-43F9-9371-CE2E29C2F14C@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-02-12
fate_mid: <45CFD1E6.8040006@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-070
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4899
submit_date: 2007-01-11
submit_mid: <20070111161240.GA12100@fysh.org>
title: hoopy

Be it therefore resolved that a Rule be created with title "Sass That
Hoopy" and text:

        When the Clerk of the Courts publishes a Judgement as required
        by Rule 591, e must accompany the publication with the
statement
        "Zefram is a frood.".  Any publication of a Judgement that is
        not so accompanied does not satisfy the Clerk of the Courts'
        obligation to publish the Judgement.  This Rule takes
precedence
        over Rule 591.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-31
dist_mid: <1A2184A1-912A-43F9-9371-CE2E29C2F14C@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-02-12
fate_mid: <45CFD1E6.8040006@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-071
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4897
submit_date: 2007-01-11
submit_mid: <20070111161240.GA12100@fysh.org>
title: fix Power and Rule Changes

Be it therefore resolved that one second after the adoption of this
Proposal Rule 105 "Rule Changes" be modified by replacing the text
"Enact a rule" with "Enact a Rule with Power no greater than its own",
and by replacing the text "Repeal a rule" with "Repeal a Rule with Power
no greater than its own".

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-31
dist_mid: <1A2184A1-912A-43F9-9371-CE2E29C2F14C@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-02-12
fate_mid: <45CFD1E6.8040006@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-072
proposer: Greyknight
seq_number: 4898
submit_date: 2007-01-11
submit_mid: <20070111203416.18852.qmail@web60720.mail.yahoo.com>
title: Agoran Arms

The coat of arms of Agora is defined by the following blazon:

    Tierced palewise sable, argent, and sable, charged with a quill and
an
axe in saltire, proper, and in the chief a capital letter A, gules.

When any Player requires an image that e may use to represent Agora or
the interests thereof, e must use an image which accurately depicts the
blazon presented here.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-31
dist_mid: <1A2184A1-912A-43F9-9371-CE2E29C2F14C@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-02-12
fate_mid: <45CFD1E6.8040006@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-073
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4900
submit_date: 2007-01-11
submit_mid: <20070111224628.GA7475@fysh.org>
title: fix unanimity

Be it therefore resolved that Rule 955 "Determining the Will of Agora"
be amended by replacing the word "Unanimity" with "aleph-0".

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-31
dist_mid: <1A2184A1-912A-43F9-9371-CE2E29C2F14C@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-02-12
fate_mid: <45CFD1E6.8040006@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-074
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4901
submit_date: 2007-01-11
submit_mid: <20070111225501.GC7475@fysh.org>
title: fix proposal efficiacy

Be it therefore resolved that Rule 106 "Adopting Proposals" be amended
by replacing the text "and then it takes effect" with "and then if its
power is at least 1 then it takes effect".

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-31
dist_mid: <1A2184A1-912A-43F9-9371-CE2E29C2F14C@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-02-12
fate_mid: <45CFD1E6.8040006@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-075
proposer: Greyknight
seq_number: 4902
submit_date: 2007-01-12
submit_mid: <267289.38273.qm@web60724.mail.yahoo.com>
title: Yet Another Fine Unanimity

Amend Rule 955, "Determining the Will of Agora", by appending the
following:

    A voting index of Unanimity shall be understood to exceed one, and
to meet or exceed any adoption index.

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ai: "2 yellow smarties"
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-01-31
dist_mid: <1A2184A1-912A-43F9-9371-CE2E29C2F14C@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-02-12
fate_mid: <45CFD1E6.8040006@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-076
proposer: Greyknight
seq_number: 4903
submit_date: 2007-01-12
submit_mid: <800032.58600.qm@web60723.mail.yahoo.com>
title: Egregrious AI Modification Abuse

Upon adoption of this proposal, Rule 2127 (Conditional Votes) is
repealed.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-02-19
dist_mid: <2C2677C9-6235-402D-99E8-145700BA5C2F@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-03-06
fate_mid: <45EE38C7.9050506@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-077
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4905
submit_date: 2007-01-29
submit_mid: <45BD73AC.3030503@socal.rr.com>
title: Cleaning up after myself

[Anyone who takes issue with this wording should also take issue
with the similar wording of Rule 1551 (Ratification).]

Upon the adoption of this proposal, the gamestate is modified so
that Goethe was deregistered due to Rule 1789 (Cantus Cygneus) as
of the posting of Murphy's message on or about Mon, 18 Dec 2006
07:44:10 -0800.

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-02-19
dist_mid: <2C2677C9-6235-402D-99E8-145700BA5C2F@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-03-06
fate_mid: <45EE38C7.9050506@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-078
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4906
submit_date: 2007-01-30
submit_mid: <45BE8B3D.4@socal.rr.com>
title: "Deem" deemed harmful

Amend Rule 1728 (Dependent Actions) by replacing this text:

           (1)  if the action is to be performed Without N Objections,
                fewer than N players have publicly posted objections
                to the performance of the action; or

with this text:

           (1)  if the action is to be performed Without N Objections,
                fewer than N players have publicly posted objections
                (and not publicly retracted eir objections) to the
                performance of the action; or

and by removing this text:

      A player who posts an objection to the performance of an action
      may publicly retract eir objection.  If e does so, e shall be
      deemed not have posted an objection to the performance of that
      action for the purposes of (e)(1) of this rule.

Amend Rule 1891 (Legislative Orders) by replacing this text:

      (b) The effect of adopting a Proposal which contains Orders is
          to execute those Orders.  Such Orders are known as
          Legislative Orders, are deemed to have been executed by that
          Proposal, and are deemed to have been executed as of the
          date of the proclamation of the Proposal's adoption.

with this text:

      (b) The effect of adopting a Proposal which contains Orders is
          to execute those Orders.  Such Orders are known as
          Legislative Orders, and are executed by that Proposal as
          of the date of the proclamation of the Proposal's adoption.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-02-19
dist_mid: <2C2677C9-6235-402D-99E8-145700BA5C2F@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-03-06
fate_mid: <45EE38C7.9050506@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-079
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4904
submit_date: 2007-01-30
submit_mid: <20070130071220.GA21230@fysh.org>
title: some deeming

Upon the adoption of this proposal, Goethe is deemed to be a banana.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-02-19
dist_mid: <2C2677C9-6235-402D-99E8-145700BA5C2F@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-03-06
fate_mid: <45EE38C7.9050506@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-080
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4907
submit_date: 2007-02-26
submit_mid: <20070206111318.GA29218@fysh.org>
title: Timing without Orders

Amend Rule 1006 ("Offices") by deleting the paragraph that starts "If
an Officer or the Speaker fails to satisfy a Timing Order".

Amend Rule 1794 ("Classes of Orders") by deleting item (d).

Create a rule titled "Default Timing" in the category "Definitions"
with the text:

        Where the Rules oblige a person to perform some action but do
        not otherwise specify a time limit by which the action must be
        performed, the action must be performed as soon as possible
        after the first instant when both the person was obliged to
        perform that action and the action was logically possible.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-02-19
dist_mid: <2C2677C9-6235-402D-99E8-145700BA5C2F@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-03-06
fate_mid: <45EE38C7.9050506@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-081
proposer: Greyknight
seq_number: 4908
submit_date: 2007-01-31
submit_mid: <519070.22408.qm@web60715.mail.yahoo.com>
title: No Silly Orders

Amend Rule 1793, "Orders" by appending the following paragraph:

    Any Order which requires any entity to perform an impossible or
illegal action, or to refrain from performing an action which that
entity is either legally required to perform or which it is impossible
not to perform, is considered an invalid order.

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ai: 1.00000000000000000000000001337
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-02-19
dist_mid: <2C2677C9-6235-402D-99E8-145700BA5C2F@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-03-06
fate_mid: <45EE38C7.9050506@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-082
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4909
submit_date: 2007-01-31
submit_mid: <20070131095752.GB11078@fysh.org>
title: broaden annotations

Amend rule 789 "Orders to Annotate Rules" by replacing the paragraph
that begins "The Judge of any CFJ" with:

        The Judge of any CFJ, the Statement of which alleges that a
Rule
        should be interpreted in a certain way, which is judged TRUE
        or FALSE, may, at eir discretion, issue an Order requiring the
        Rulekeepor to annotate the Rule in question accordingly.  If
the
        CFJ was judged TRUE then the annotation shall be the Statement
        of the CFJ, and if the CFJ was judged FALSE then the annotation
        shall be the contrary of the Statement of the CFJ.  Such an
        annotation, while it exists, shall guide application of that
Rule.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-03-04
dist_mid: <323DFE8F-231B-4797-93F5-B5B6072ABA62@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-03-11
fate_mid: <45F46FD7.5080102@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-083
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4910
submit_date: 2007-02-22
submit_mid: <45DDC8D5.4020705@socal.rr.com>
title: Initialize Activity

Upon the adoption of this proposal, all players become active.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-03-04
dist_mid: <323DFE8F-231B-4797-93F5-B5B6072ABA62@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-03-11
fate_mid: <45F46FD7.5080102@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-084
proposer: OscarMeyr
seq_number: 4911
submit_date: 2007-02-25
submit_mid: <467CBE6B-0F95-48D3-B353-D475037179E4@earthlink.net>
title: An End To Silly Proposal Adoption Indices (sorry Zefram)

Amend R106 by replacing the text:
      The default adoption index of a proposal is one.  Before the
      Promotor distributes a proposal, its proposer may modify its
      adoption index by announcement.  A Proposal with an Adoption
      Index of 1 is Ordinary.  All other Proposals are Democratic.

With this text:

The adoption index of a proposal is a positive integer, with a default
value of one.  Before the Promotor distributes a proposal, its proposer
may modify its adoption index by announcement.  A Proposal with
an Adoption Index of 1 is Ordinary.  All other Proposals are Democratic.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-03-11
dist_mid: <972564F9-B336-4C10-B767-5AF02085CC0C@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-03-21
fate_mid: <4600D9E9.1060403@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-085
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4912
submit_date: 2007-02-26
submit_mid: <45E31911.3030100@socal.rr.com>
title: Multiple judicial fixes

Amend Rule 2024 (Linked Statements) to read:

      Linked CFJs are multiple Calls for Judgement deemed to be
      sufficiently similar that they should have a single judge.

      Linkage is transitive.  When a set of one or more linked CFJs
      change jurisdiction, they remain linked to each other, but
      become unlinked from any other CFJs; they may become linked
      to one or more CFJs within the new jurisdiction.

      Multiple CFJs, submitted in a single message and clearly
      labelled as Linked CFJs, become linked.  The players (if any)
      barred by the caller from judging the first CFJ are the only
      players e may bar from judging the others.

      The Clerk of the Courts shall not assign judges directly to the
      members of a set of Linked CFJs, but shall assign a judge to the
      set, as if it was a single CFJ.  The judge must be eligible to
      judge each member of the set, and is simultaneously assigned
      as judge of each member of the set.

      The judge of a set of Linked CFJs shall submit eir judgement of
      each of those CFJs in a single message.

      A trial judge may remand one or more linked CFJs to the Clerk of
      the Courts by announcement.  E ceases to be their judge.

      A trial judge may transfer one or more of eir CFJs to a second
      trial judge by announcement (identifying one of the second
judge's
      CFJs), provided that the second judge consents, and is
eligible to
      judge all of them.  The transferred CFJs become linked to the
      second judge's CFJ (and any others to which it is already
linked).

Create a rule titled "Excess CFJs" with this text:

      A CFJ made by a person who has previously made five or more CFJs
      during the same Agoran Week as that CFJ is an Excess CFJ.  The
      Clerk of the Courts may dismiss an Excess CFJ by announcement.

Amend Rule 1871 (Turns for All) to read:

      When a player is selected as Trial Judge of a CFJ, e becomes
      turned.  A player is ineligible to be Trial Judge of a CFJ if
      e was turned when it was called.

      When a player registers, e becomes turned.

      The Clerk of the Courts may (without 2 objections) turn a
      player.  E is encouraged to do this only if e expects the
      player to judge CFJs slowly or not at all.

      When the Clerk of the Courts publishes a Notice of Rotation, all
      players become unturned.  The Clerk of the Courts shall only do
      so when all open CFJs without a Trial Judge have no players
      eligible to be assigned, and at least one of them has at least
      one player ineligible solely to being turned; e shall list all
      CFJs in the first set, and at least one in the second.  However,
      failing to meet these requirements does not deprive the Notice
      of effect.

Create a Rule titled "Pragmatic Judicial Assignments" with this text:

      If the Clerk of the Courts errs in good faith by assigning an
      ineligible judge, then the selection stands.  However, if the
      player has not yet delivered judgement, then the Clerk of the
      Courts may point out eir error and recuse the player.

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-03-11
dist_mid: <972564F9-B336-4C10-B767-5AF02085CC0C@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-03-21
fate_mid: <4600D9E9.1060403@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-086
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4913
submit_date: 2007-02-27
submit_mid: <45E4C46B.9060304@socal.rr.com>
title: Paragraphs and pineapples

Upon the adoption of this proposal, each natural person who is part
of a player that is not a natural person is awarded the Patent Title
of Denny Crane.

Upon the adoption of this proposal, each player that is not a natural
person is deregistered.

Amend Rule 1023 (Common Definitions) to read:

      The following terms are defined:

        (a) The term "person" shall mean "natural person".

        (b) The term "number" shall mean "real number".

        (c) The phrase "as soon as possible" shall mean "within seven
            days".

        (d) The term "random" shall mean a choice drawn with a process
            whose probability distribution among the possible outcomes
            is reasonably close to that required by the Rules, using a
            uniform distribution if not otherwise specified.

        (e) The term "paragraph" shall mean a subset of text determined
            as follows:

            (1) Each bulleted section is a unit of text.

            (2) Any remaining text is divided into units at blank
lines.

            (3) Units are considered in a tree hierarchy, interpreting
                the original body of text as a depth-first search.  The
                root is empty, the unbulleted units are its children,
                and the bulleted units following an unbulleted unit are
                its descendants (with nested bullets corresponding to
                nested levels of the tree).

            (4) A "paragraph" identified by partial quotation is
                determined by the minimum sub-tree containing the
                entirety of that quotation.

        (f) Agoran epochs:

            (1) Agoran days begin at midnight UTC.

            (2) Agoran weeks begin at midnight UTC on Monday.

            (3) Agoran months begin at midnight UTC on the first day of
                each Gregorian month.

            (4) Agoran quarters begin when the Agoran months of
January,
                April, July, and October begin.

            (5) Agoran years begin when the Agoran month of January
                begins.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-03-11
dist_mid: <972564F9-B336-4C10-B767-5AF02085CC0C@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-03-21
fate_mid: <4600D9E9.1060403@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-087
proposer: OscarMeyr
seq_number: 4914
submit_date: 2007-03-04
submit_mid: <90821244-FFD5-49D8-841F-0D3EE03AF1B3@earthlink.net>
title: Fixing Voting Credits

Delete from Rule 2126 the text reading:

      The Promotor may accept reasonable synonyms for "expend" (such
      as "pay" or "use") as valid actions under this rule.

Append to Rule 2126 the following:

Changes to voting limits under this rule take effect at the beginning
of the next week.

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-03-26
dist_mid: <6CAEFCFD-6C62-49DE-B572-AB3D4622FADE@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-02
fate_mid: <461162E6.1010701@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-088
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4915
submit_date: 2007-03-06
submit_mid: <45EE3912.6070202@socal.rr.com>
title: "Deem" deemed harmful, take two

Amend Rule 1728 (Dependent Actions) by replacing this text:

          (1)  if the action is to be performed Without N Objections,
               fewer than N players have publicly posted objections
               to the performance of the action; or

with this text:

          (1)  if the action is to be performed Without N Objections,
               fewer than N players have publicly posted objections
               (and not publicly retracted eir objections) to the
               performance of the action; or

and by removing this text:

     A player who posts an objection to the performance of an action
     may publicly retract eir objection.  If e does so, e shall be
     deemed not have posted an objection to the performance of that
     action for the purposes of (e)(1) of this rule.

Amend Rule 1891 (Legislative Orders) by replacing this text:

     (b) The effect of adopting a Proposal which contains Orders is
         to execute those Orders.  Such Orders are known as
         Legislative Orders, are deemed to have been executed by that
         Proposal, and are deemed to have been executed as of the
         date of the proclamation of the Proposal's adoption.

with this text:

     (b) The effect of adopting a Proposal which contains Orders is
         to execute those Orders.  Such Orders are known as
         Legislative Orders, and are executed by that Proposal as
         of the date of the proclamation of the Proposal's adoption.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-03-26
dist_mid: <6CAEFCFD-6C62-49DE-B572-AB3D4622FADE@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-02
fate_mid: <461162E6.1010701@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-089
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4916
submit_date: 2007-03-07
submit_mid: <20070307091804.GA21012@fysh.org>
title: Timing without Orders, take two

Amend Rule 1006 ("Offices") by deleting the paragraph that starts "If
an Officer or the Speaker fails to satisfy a Timing Order".

Amend Rule 1794 ("Classes of Orders") by deleting item (d).

Create a rule titled "Default Timing" in the category "Definitions"
with the text:

       Where the Rules oblige a person to perform some action but do
       not otherwise specify a time limit by which the action must be
       performed, the action must be performed as soon as possible
       after the first instant when both the person was obliged to
       perform that action and the action was logically possible.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-03-26
dist_mid: <6CAEFCFD-6C62-49DE-B572-AB3D4622FADE@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-02
fate_mid: <461162E6.1010701@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-090
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4917
submit_date: 2007-03-07
submit_mid: <20070307091804.GA21012@fysh.org>
title: broaden annotations, take two

Amend rule 789 "Orders to Annotate Rules" by replacing the paragraph
that begins "The Judge of any CFJ" with:

       The Judge of any CFJ, the Statement of which alleges that a Rule
       should be interpreted in a certain way, which is judged TRUE
       or FALSE, may, at eir discretion, issue an Order requiring the
       Rulekeepor to annotate the Rule in question accordingly.  If the
       CFJ was judged TRUE then the annotation shall be the Statement
       of the CFJ, and if the CFJ was judged FALSE then the annotation
       shall be the contrary of the Statement of the CFJ.  Such an
       annotation, while it exists, shall guide application of that
Rule.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-03-26
dist_mid: <6CAEFCFD-6C62-49DE-B572-AB3D4622FADE@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-02
fate_mid: <461162E6.1010701@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-091
proposer: OscarMeyr
seq_number: 4918
submit_date: 2007-03-21
submit_mid: <94EB3930-564C-4B1F-9DD7-97E37FA0E38B@earthlink.net>
title: An End To Silly Proposal Adoption Indices, v2

Amend R106 by replacing the text:
     The default adoption index of a proposal is one.

With this text:

The adoption index of a proposal is an integral multiple of 0.1, with a
default and minimum value of 1.0.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-03-26
dist_mid: <6CAEFCFD-6C62-49DE-B572-AB3D4622FADE@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-02
fate_mid: <461162E6.1010701@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-092
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4919
submit_date: 2007-03-23
submit_mid: <20070323100351.GA15309@fysh.org>
title: reorientation

Amend rule 889 ("The Clerk of the Courts") by deleting the text

     The CotC's Bi-Weekly Report shall include the following:
        (i) Each Player's Orientation.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-03-26
dist_mid: <6CAEFCFD-6C62-49DE-B572-AB3D4622FADE@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-03
fate_mid: <46119BB8.2060409@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-093
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4920
submit_date: 2007-03-23
submit_mid: <20070323101419.GA16049@fysh.org>
title: bootstrapped enough

Whereas the identity of Agora's first Speaker is a matter of historical
record, long since fixed and impervious to the influence of the rules,

and whereas Michael Norrish's seminal role is recognised by the Patent
Title of "First Speaker",

rule 104 is hereby repealed.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-03-26
dist_mid: <6CAEFCFD-6C62-49DE-B572-AB3D4622FADE@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-03
fate_mid: <46119BB8.2060409@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-094
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4921
submit_date: 2007-03-23
submit_mid: <20070323103444.GA18161@fysh.org>
title: clean off stains

Repeal rule 1437 ("Fugitives from Justice").

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-03-26
dist_mid: <6CAEFCFD-6C62-49DE-B572-AB3D4622FADE@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-03
fate_mid: <46119BB8.2060409@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-095
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4922
submit_date: 2007-03-23
submit_mid: <20070323141410.GA13464@fysh.org>
title: contracts -> rules

Create a rule titled "The Envoy" with the text:

     The person who is most responsible for advertising Agora and
     soliciting new Players, in the opinion of the Speaker, shall be
     known as the Envoy.  Any changes in the identity of the Envoy
     shall take effect when announced publicly by the Speaker.

     The Envoy shall advertise Agora on a regular basis in any
     non-Agoran public forums e deems appropriate.

Repeal rule 2109 ("Agoran Contracts").

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-08
dist_mid: <21DFF86C-A21F-4AAF-8D2A-20DFCCD12DCA@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-18
fate_mid: <46266158.6090004@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-096
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4923
submit_date: 2007-03-26
submit_mid: <4607F28D.9040200@socal.rr.com>
title: VC Raffle

Amend Rule 2126 (Voting Credits) by adding, just before this text:

     A player may expend two VCs to increase eir own voting limit on
     ordinary proposals by one.

the following text:

     As soon as possible after announcing the results of an Agoran
     decision, the vote collector shall choose a random integer from
     1 to 10 (inclusive); if it is 7, then e shall choose a random
     player who voted on that decision, and that player gains a number
     of VCs equal to the number of players who voted on that decision
     divided by 7 (rounded up).

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ai: 4
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2007-04-01
fate_mid: <20070401161944.GA11042@fysh.org>
pool_number: <none>
proposer: Zefram
submit_date: 2007-03-31
submit_mid: <20070331073359.GA11737@fysh.org>
title: give the Rule Changes rule its own number back

Create a rule with Power=4, title "Fix Number of Rule Changes Rule",
and text

      Immediately upon the creation of this rule, rule 105 is amended
      by appending the sentence "This rule takes precedence over all
      other rules." to its final paragraph.

      Immediately after a rule has been amended by the preceding
      paragraph, rule 105's number is changed to 2131.

      Immediately after a rule has been renumbered by the preceding
      paragraph, this rule is repealed.

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ai: 4
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-08
dist_mid: <21DFF86C-A21F-4AAF-8D2A-20DFCCD12DCA@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-18
fate_mid: <46266158.6090004@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-097
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4924
submit_date: 2007-03-31
submit_mid: <20070331134214.GA20159@fysh.org>
title: fixing a number, fixed edition

Create a rule with Power=4, title "Fix Number of Rule Changes Rule",
and text

     Immediately upon the creation of this rule, rule 105 is amended by
     appending the sentence "This rule takes precedence over all other
     rules with Power less than or equal to 3." to its final paragraph.

     Immediately after a rule has been amended by the preceding
     paragraph, rule 105's number is changed to 2131.

     Immediately after a rule has been renumbered by the preceding
     paragraph, this rule is repealed.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-08
dist_mid: <21DFF86C-A21F-4AAF-8D2A-20DFCCD12DCA@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-18
fate_mid: <46266158.6090004@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-098
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4925
submit_date: 2007-03-31
submit_mid: <20070331205229.GA611@fysh.org>
title: avoid precedence paradoxes

Amend rule 1482 by appending the text:

     No change to the Ruleset can occur that would cause a Rule to
     stipulate any other means of determining precedence between
Rules of
     equal Power.  This applies to changes by the enactment or
amendment
     of a Rule, or of any other form.  This Rule takes precedence over
     any Rule that would permit such a change to the Ruleset.

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ai: 4
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-08
dist_mid: <21DFF86C-A21F-4AAF-8D2A-20DFCCD12DCA@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-18
fate_mid: <46266158.6090004@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-099
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4926
submit_date: 2007-03-31
submit_mid: <20070331205229.GA611@fysh.org>
title: precedence takes precedence

Change the Power of rule 1482 to 4.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-08
dist_mid: <21DFF86C-A21F-4AAF-8D2A-20DFCCD12DCA@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-18
fate_mid: <46266158.6090004@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-100
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4927
submit_date: 2007-03-31
submit_mid: <20070331205229.GA611@fysh.org>
title: liberalise rule changes

Amend the rule titled "Rule Changes" (which was numbered 2131 when
first enacted, and then renumbered to 105) by replacing each instance
of "a proposal" or "a Proposal" with "an instrument" and replacing
each instance of "A proposal" or "A Proposal" with "An instrument".
In performing this amendment, the case of characters is significant, and
the casing given in the preceding sentence is to be interpreted
strictly;
the case of the word "a" is to be preserved in the replacement word
"an".

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-08
dist_mid: <21DFF86C-A21F-4AAF-8D2A-20DFCCD12DCA@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-18
fate_mid: <46266158.6090004@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-101
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4928
submit_date: 2007-04-01
submit_mid: <20070401114141.GA11469@fysh.org>
title: belatedly repeal rule 2009

Repeal rule 2009.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-08
dist_mid: <21DFF86C-A21F-4AAF-8D2A-20DFCCD12DCA@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-18
fate_mid: <46266158.6090004@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-102
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4929
submit_date: 2007-04-01
submit_mid: <20070401114141.GA11469@fysh.org>
title: belatedly repeal rule 2037

Repeal rule 2037.

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ai: 1.1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-19
dist_mid: <1E87E57C-B30A-4A33-9EA3-BB46B02F604B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-29
fate_mid: <46350085.8010502@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-103
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4930
submit_date: 2007-04-02
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0704020800210.28294@hymn10.u.washington.edu>
title: simple VC wins

Enact the following rule:

  If a single player has a voting power on ordinary
  proposals equal to or greater than the total voting
  power on ordinary proposals of all other players
  combined, that player wins the game upon any player
  announcing the fact.

[
We need wins.  This is simple, uses a mechanism already
in play.  A player getting to that point could pass a
proposal declaring emself the winner.  Except (1) quorum and
(2) e wouldn't want to, because e'd lose eir votes.  This
makes em the winner, with the added strategy that you could
push someone who wants to keep eir votes over the edge.
]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-19
dist_mid: <1E87E57C-B30A-4A33-9EA3-BB46B02F604B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-29
fate_mid: <46350085.8010502@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-104
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4931
submit_date: 2007-04-04
submit_mid: <20070404155521.GA17086@fysh.org>
title: Herald to advertise

Create a rule with title "Herald to Advertise" and text:

     Every month the Herald shall update the page about Agora on the
     NomicWiki at nomic.net, provided that that wiki is operational.
     This page, when updated, is to include a list of the current
     players.  In updating the page the Herald shall ensure that
     information that is currently incorrect is either corrected or
     removed, and that all links on the page point to extant pages
     that are correctly described.  The Herald may add new correct
     information to the page at eir discretion.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-19
dist_mid: <1E87E57C-B30A-4A33-9EA3-BB46B02F604B@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-29
fate_mid: <46350085.8010502@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-105
proposer: Levi
seq_number: 4932
submit_date: 2007-04-05
submit_mid: <46145A5B.40706@optusnet.com.au>
title: Clarifying Excess CFJs

Replace the entire text of rule 2132 with the following text:
    A CFJ submitted by a person who has previously submitted five or
more CFJs during
  the same Agoran Week as that CFJ is an Excess CFJ. The Clerk of
the Courts may
  Refuse an Excess CFJ by announcement. A Refused CFJ ceases to be a
CFJ.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-19
dist_mid: <1E87E57C-B30A-4A33-9EA3-BB46B02F604B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-29
fate_mid: <46350085.8010502@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-106
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4933
submit_date: 2007-04-05
submit_mid: <20070405083359.GA30518@fysh.org>
title: constrained refusal of excess

Amend rule 2132 to read:

     A CFJ submitted by a person who has previously submitted five or
     more CFJs during the same Agoran Week as that CFJ is an Excess
CFJ.
     The Clerk of the Courts can, by announcement, Refuse an Excess CFJ
     that has not had any judge assigned to it.  Refusal of an Excess
     CFJ causes it to cease to be a CFJ.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-19
dist_mid: <1E87E57C-B30A-4A33-9EA3-BB46B02F604B@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-29
fate_mid: <46350085.8010502@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-107
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4934
submit_date: 2007-04-03
submit_mid: <20070403081918.GA8394@fysh.org>
title: Herald's report defines address listing

Amend rule 1377 by deleting the word "listed".

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-19
dist_mid: <1E87E57C-B30A-4A33-9EA3-BB46B02F604B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-29
fate_mid: <46350085.8010502@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-108
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4935
submit_date: 2007-04-11
submit_mid: <461D75AC.40306@socal.rr.com>
title: Return of the Contests

Create a rule titled "Contests" with this text:

     A contest is a contract that identifies itself as such, and
     identifies exactly one party as its contestmaster; all other
     parties are its contestants.

     Points are a measure of a player's contentiousness.  The
     number of points possessed by a player is eir score.  When a
     player registers, eir score is set to zero.

     A contestmaster may award a total of up to 10 points per month
     to one or more contestants, unless e was contestmaster of a
     different contest for at least 15 days of the previous month.

     A player with 100 or more points may win the game by announcing
     this fact.  Upon such an announcement, each player's score is
     set to zero.

Upon the adoption of this proposal, each player's score is set to zero.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-19
dist_mid: <1E87E57C-B30A-4A33-9EA3-BB46B02F604B@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-29
fate_mid: <46350085.8010502@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-109
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4936
submit_date: 2007-04-11
submit_mid: <461D758F.9050700@socal.rr.com>
title: Agoran Chromodynamics

Repeal Rule 2126 (Voting Credits).

Create a rule titled "Beads" with this text:

     Beads are a measure of each player's economic power.

     Players may spend eir own beads (destroying them), or trade
     them to other players.

     When a player wins the game, all beads are destroyed.

     At the end of each quarter, half of each player's supply of
     each type of bead (rounding up) are destroyed.

     The Jewelor is an office, and the recordkeepor of each type
     of bead.

Create a rule titled "Earning Beads" with this text:

     When a proposal is adopted, its author gains Red Beads equal
     to the integer portion of the proposal's adoption index, and
     each of its co-authors gains one Red Bead.

     At the end of each month, each player gains Yellow Beads equal
     to the number of offices e held for at least 15 days during that
     month, plus one more if e was Speaker for the entire month.

     When a player judges a CFJ during eir Deliberation Period, e gains
     a Blue Bead.

Create a rule titled "Combining Beads" with this text:

     A player may spend two Beads to create a third, as follows:

       a) Red + Yellow = Orange
       b) Red + Blue = Purple
       c) Yellow + Blue = Green

Create a rule titled "Spending Beads" with this text:

     A player may spend:

       * Two Orange Beads to increase eir own voting limit on ordinary
           proposals (VLOP) by one.
       * One Orange Bead to increase another player's VLOP by one.
       * Two Orange Beads to decrease another player's VLOP by one, to
           a minimum of zero.

     When a player wins the game, each player's VLOP is reset to one,
     subject to modification by other rules.

       * One Purple Bead to increase quorum on an ordinary proposal in
           its voting period by one.
       * Two Purple Beads to decrease quorum on such a proposal by one,
           to a minimum of three.

     A proposal that fails quorum increased in this fashion is vetoed.

       * One Green Bead to waive all time limits for attempting to
           replace an officer.
       * One Green Bead to bar a player from judging a CFJ.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-19
dist_mid: <1E87E57C-B30A-4A33-9EA3-BB46B02F604B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-29
fate_mid: <46350085.8010502@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-110
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4937
submit_date: 2007-04-11
submit_mid: <461D75E1.9050604@socal.rr.com>
title: Good form should be suggested by the rules

Amend Rule 1564 (Initiating Appeals) by appending this text:

     An Appeal may be accompanied by Arguments, Evidence, or
     other related material; the Board of Appeals is encouraged,
     but not required, to take notice of these things.

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-19
dist_mid: <1E87E57C-B30A-4A33-9EA3-BB46B02F604B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-29
fate_mid: <46350085.8010502@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-111
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4938
submit_date: 2007-04-11
submit_mid: <461D7630.5090309@socal.rr.com>
title: Paragraphs

Amend Rule 1023 (Common Definitions) to read:

     The following terms are defined:

       (a) The term "number" shall mean "real number".

       (b) The phrase "as soon as possible" shall mean "within seven
           days".

       (c) The term "random" shall mean a choice drawn with a process
           whose probability distribution among the possible outcomes
           is reasonably close to that required by the Rules, using a
           uniform distribution if not otherwise specified.

       (d) The term "paragraph" shall mean a subset of text determined
           as follows:

           (1) Each bulleted section is a unit of text.

           (2) Any remaining text is divided into units at blank lines.

           (3) Units are considered in a tree hierarchy, interpreting
               the original body of text as a depth-first search.  The
               root is empty, the unbulleted units are its children,
               and the bulleted units following an unbulleted unit are
               its descendants (with nested bullets corresponding to
               nested levels of the tree).

           (4) A "paragraph" identified by partial quotation is
               determined by the minimum sub-tree containing the
               entirety of that quotation.

       (e) Agoran epochs:

           (1) Agoran days begin at midnight UTC.

           (2) Agoran weeks begin at midnight UTC on Monday.

           (3) Agoran months begin at midnight UTC on the first day of
               each Gregorian month.

           (4) Agoran quarters begin when the Agoran months of January,
               April, July, and October begin.

           (5) Agoran years begin when the Agoran month of January
               begins.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
db_note: there was a purported but incorrect distribution of this proposal as proposal 4939
dist_date: 2007-06-16
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HzXm3-0007Tz-5F@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-25
fate_mid: <467FCAA6.9050306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-112
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 5019
submit_date: 2007-04-12
submit_mid: <461D777E.60309@socal.rr.com>
title: Re-divide some offices

[Smaller Offices may be less intimidating to newer players.]

Create a rule titled "The Assessor" with this text:

      The Assessor is an office; its holder is responsible for
      collecting votes and keeping track of related properties.

      The Assessor is the default vote collector for all Agoran
      decisions that do not specify a different vote collector.

      The Assessor's report shall include the following:

        a) Each player's voting limit on ordinary proposals.
        b) Each player's voting credits.

Amend Rule 106 (Adopting Proposals) by replacing this text:

      Determining whether to adopt a proposal is an Agoran decision.
      For this decision, the available options are FOR, AGAINST, and
      PRESENT, and by default, the eligible voters are the active
      players, the adoption index is the adoption index of the
      proposal, and the vote collector is the Speaker.

with this text:

      Determining whether to adopt a proposal is an Agoran decision.
      For this decision, the available options are FOR, AGAINST, and
      PRESENT, and by default, the eligible voters are the active
      players, and the adoption index is the adoption index of the
      proposal.

Upon the adoption of this proposal, the office of Assessor becomes
held by the Speaker.

Create a rule titled "The International Associate Director of Personnel"
with this text:

      The International Associate Director of Personnel is an office; its
      holder is responsible for keeping track of officers and reports.

      The Director of Personnel's report shall include the following:

        a) The holder of each office.
        b) The date on which each holder last came to hold that office.
        c) The date of the most recent attempt to achieve Agoran Consent
             for changing the holder of that office.

Amend Rule 1006 (Offices) by removing this text:

               The Herald shall list the holder of each office, and
      the date upon which each holder last came to hold that office.

and by replacing this text:
      If no attempt to achieve Agoran Consent for changing the holder
      of particular office is announced in a given quarter, then the
      Speaker shall make at least one such attempt to change the
      officeholder in the following quarter, and make the change if
      consent is achieved.

with this text:

      If no attempt to achieve Agoran Consent for changing the holder
      of a particular office is announced in a given quarter, then the
      Director of Personnel shall make at least one such attempt to
      change the officeholder in the following quarter, and make the
      change if consent is acheived.

Upon the adoption of this proposal, the office of Director of Personnel
becomes held by the Herald.

Create a rule titled "The Registrar" with this text:

      The Registrar is an office; its holder is responsible for keeping
      track of players.

      The Registrar's report shall include the following:

        a) Each player's nickname (if any) and listed e-mail address(es).
        b) The date on which each player most recently registered.
        c) A list of all public or discussion fora, with sufficient data
             regarding each forum to players to receive messages there.

Amend Rule 478 (Fora) by removing this text:

      The Herald's report shall include a list of all public or
      discussion fora and sufficient data regarding each to allow
      players to receive messages via that medium.  The Herald need
      not keep track of null fora.

and by replacing each instance of "Herald" with "Registrar".

Upon the adoption of this proposal, the office of Registrar becomes held
by the Herald.

Amend Rule 1377 (The Herald) to read:

      The Herald is an office; its holder is responsible for keeping
      track of the History of Agora and its players.

      The Herald's report shall include the following:

        a) A list of each Patent Title and Degree that at least one
             person Bears, with a list of which persons Bear it.
        b) A list of one or more Threats, including Bears.

Amend Rule 1450 (Separation of Powers) to read:

      The following sets of positions are mutually exclusive:

        a) Promotor and Assessor
        b) Speaker and Clerk of the Courts

      A player holding two or more positions within one of these sets
      is removed from all but one of them.  If one of them is the
      Speakership, then e retains it; otherwise, e retains the position
      e came to hold most recently.

      This rule takes precedence over all rules governing offices.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
db_note: this was a duff distribution, mangling the text of a submitted proposal
dist_date: 2007-04-19
dist_mid: <1E87E57C-B30A-4A33-9EA3-BB46B02F604B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-29
fate_mid: <46350085.8010502@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: <never in pool>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4939
submit_date: <not submitted>
submit_mid: <not submitted>
title: Re-divide some offices

[Smaller Offices may be less intimidating to newer players.]

Create a rule titled "The Assessor" with this text:

     The Assessor is an office; its holder is responsible for
     collecting votes and keeping track of related properties.

     The Assessor is the default vote collector for all Agoran
     decisions that do not specify a different vote collector.

     The Assessor's report shall include the following:

       a) Each player's voting limit on ordinary proposals.
       b) Each player's voting credits.

Amend Rule 106 (Adopting Proposals) by replacing this text:

     Determining whether to adopt a proposal is an Agoran decision.
     For this decision, the available options are FOR, AGAINST, and
     PRESENT, and by default, the eligible voters are the active
     players, the adoption index is the adoption index of the
     proposal, and the vote collector is the Speaker.

with this text:

     Determining whether to adopt a proposal is an Agoran decision.
     For this decision, the available options are FOR, AGAINST, and
     PRESENT, and by default, the eligible voters are the active
     players, and the adoption index is the adoption index of the
     proposal.

Upon the adoption of this proposal, the office of Assessor becomes
held by the Speaker.

Create a rule titled "The International Associate Director of Personnel"
with this text:

     The International Associate Director of Personnel is an office;
its
     holder is responsible for keeping track of officers and reports.

     The Director of Personnel's report shall include the following:

       a) The holder of each office.
       b) The date on which each holder last came to hold that office.
       c) The date of the most recent attempt to achieve Agoran Consent
            for changing the holder of that office.

Amend Rule 1006 (Offices) by removing this text:

              The Herald shall list the holder of each office, and
     the date upon which each holder last came to hold that office.

and by replacing this text:

     If no attempt to achieve Agoran Consent for changing the holder
     of particular office is announced in a given quarter, then the
     Speaker shall make at least one such attempt to change the
     officeholder in the following quarter, and make the change if
     consent is achieved.

with this text:

     If no attempt to achieve Agoran Consent for changing the holder
     of a particular office is announced in a given quarter, then the
     Director of Personnel shall make at least one such attempt to
     change the officeholder in the following quarter, and make the
     change if consent is acheived.

Upon the adoption of this proposal, the office of Director of Personnel
becomes held by the Herald.

Create a rule titled "The Registrar" with this text:

     The Registrar is an office; its holder is responsible for keeping
     track of players.

     The Registrar's report shall include the following:

       a) Each player's nickname (if any) and listed e-mail address
(es).
       b) The date on which each player most recently registered.
       c) A list of all public or discussion fora, with sufficient data
            regarding each forum to players to receive messages there.

Amend Rule 478 (Fora) by removing this text:

     The Herald's report shall include a list of all public or
     discussion fora and sufficient data regarding each to allow
     players to receive messages via that medium.  The Herald need
     not keep track of null fora.

and by replacing each instance of "Herald" with "Registrar".

Upon the adoption of this proposal, the office of Registrar becomes held
by the Herald.

Amend Rule 1377 (The Herald) to read:

     The Herald is an office; its holder is responsible for keeping
     track of the History of Agora and its players.

     The Herald's report shall include the following:

       a) A list of each Patent Title and Degree that at least one
            person Bears, with a list of which persons Bear it.
       b) A list of one or more Threats, including Bears.

Amend Rule 1450 (Separation of Powers) to read:

     The following sets of positions are mutually exclusive:

       a) Promotor and Assessor
       b) Speaker and Clerk of the Courts

     A player holding two or more positions within one of these sets
     is removed from all but one of them.  If one of them is the
     Speakership, then e retains it; otherwise, e retains the position
     e came to hold most recently.

     This rule takes precedence over all rules governing offices.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-19
dist_mid: <1E87E57C-B30A-4A33-9EA3-BB46B02F604B@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-04-29
fate_mid: <46350085.8010502@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-113
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4940
submit_date: 2007-04-13
submit_mid: <20070413101539.GA987@fysh.org>
title: instrument mechanics

Amend rule 1688 to read:

     The power of an entity is a non-negative rational number.
     An instrument is an entity with positive power.

     The power of an entity cannot be set or modified except as
     stipulated by the rules.  All entities have power zero except
     where specifically allowed by the rules.

[The former restriction of power to natural numbers is ineffective,
and we have often found some use for non-integer powers.]

Enact a rule with title "Power Controls Mutability", Power=3, and text:

     No entity with power below the power of this rule can

     (a) cause an entity to have power greater than its own.

     (b) adjust the power of an instrument with power greater than
         its own.

     (c) modify any other substantive aspect of an instrument with
power
         greater than its own.  A "substantive" aspect of an instrument
         is any aspect that affects the instrument's operation.

[This is the full generalisation of the power restrictions on rule
changes.  Expressing it all in fully general form avoids prior scams
concerned with instruments other than rules and proposals.  The
exception
for entities with power greater than or equal to this rule is simply
admitting what is effectively the case anyway.]

Enact a rule with title "Role and Attributes of Rules", Power=3, and
text:

     A rule is a type of instrument with the capacity to govern the
     game generally.  A rule's content takes the form of a text, and
     is unlimited in scope.  In particular, a rule may define in-game
     entities and regulate their behaviour, make instantaneous changes
     to the state of in-game entities, prescribe or proscribe certain
     player behaviour, modify the rules or the application thereof,
     or do any of these things in a conditional manner.

     Every rule has power between one and four inclusive.  It is not
     possible for a rule to have a power outside this range.

     Every rule shall have a number for identification.  If a rule
     ever does not have an identifying number, the Rulekeepor shall
     assign a number to it by announcement as soon as possible.
     The number assigned must be a natural number greater than any
     number previously assigned to a rule.  Once properly assigned,
     a rule's number cannot be changed.

     Every rule shall have a title to aid in identification.  If a rule
     ever does not have a title, the Rulekeepor shall assign a title
     to it by announcement as soon as possible.

     For the purposes of rules governing modification of instruments,
     the text, power, number, and title of a rule are all substantive
     aspects of the rule.

[Defines the role of rules in the game.  Incorporates the restriction
on the power of rules.  Assignment of numbers and default titles fits
nicely here, not dependent on the particular mechanism for enactment.
Also makes assignment of titles mandatory, and requires the Rulekeepor
to announce assignments.]

Amend the rule titled "Rule Changes" to read:

     Where permitted by other rules, an instrument generally can,
     as part of its effect,

     (a) enact a rule.  The new rule has power equal to the minimum of
         the power specified by the enacting instrument, defaulting
         to one if the enacting instrument does not specify, and the
         maximum power permitted by other rules.  The enacting
instrument
         may specify a title for the new rule, which if present shall
         prevail.  The number of the new rule cannot be specified by
the
         enacting instrument; any attempt to so specify is null and
void.

     (b) repeal a rule.  When a rule is repealed, it ceases to be a
rule,
         and the Rulekeepor need no longer maintain a record of it.

     (c) amend the text of a rule.

     (d) retitle a rule.

     (e) change the power of a rule.

     A rule change is any effect that falls into the above classes.
     Rule changes always occur sequentially, never simultaneously.

     Any ambiguity in the specification of a rule change causes that
     change to be void and without effect.  A variation in whitespace
     or capitalization in the quotation of an existing rule does not
     constitute ambiguity for the purposes of this rule, but any other
     variation does.

     This rule provides the only mechanism by which rules can be
created,
     modified, or destroyed, or by which an entity can become a rule
     or cease to be a rule.

[All generalised.  Any instrument can effect a rule change, and the
ambiguity clause applies to all forms of rule change rather than just
amendments.  Power-based restrictions are no longer in this rule; they
are handled by the rule created above.  Now makes explicit the prior
interpretation and game custom that rule changes happen one at a time.]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-25
dist_mid: <37E552EE-1D9E-4AC8-A946-01DC7359A3FB@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-02
fate_mid: <463975F9.2000002@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-114
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4942
submit_date: 2007-04-08
submit_mid: <20070408214930.GA16428@fysh.org>
title: avoid precedence paradoxes and bugs too

Amend rule 1482 by appending the text:

     No change to the Ruleset can occur that would cause a Rule
     to stipulate any other means of determining precedence between
     Rules of unequal Power.  This applies to changes by the enactment
     or amendment of a Rule, or of any other form.  This Rule takes
     precedence over any Rule that would permit such a change to the
     Ruleset.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-25
dist_mid: <37E552EE-1D9E-4AC8-A946-01DC7359A3FB@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-02
fate_mid: <463975F9.2000002@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-115
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4941
submit_date: 2007-04-11
submit_mid: <20070411112146.GA30175@fysh.org>
title: resurrect the Assessor

Amend rule 106 by replacing the text "the vote collector is the
Speaker." with "the vote collector is the Assessor.  The Assessor is
an office.".

[There's no reason to tie vote collection duties to the Speakership.
By making it a separate office, someone can specialise in it.]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-25
dist_mid: <37E552EE-1D9E-4AC8-A946-01DC7359A3FB@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-02
fate_mid: <463975F9.2000002@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-116
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4943
submit_date: 2007-04-20
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0704201047420.7121@hymn01.u.washington.edu>
title: Reward and Punishment

[It's absurd that people who have punted on multiple CFJs,
making more work for officers, have more VCs than said officers.]

Amend Rule 2126 by replacing this text:
     A player who submits a judgement during eir Deliberation Period
     gains one VC.  A player whose judgement is overturned loses one
     VC, if e has any.
with this text:
     A player who submits a judgement during eir Deliberation Period
     gains one VC.  A player whose judgement is overturned, or who
     is recused for failing to judge within eir Deliberation Period,
     loses one VC, if e has any.

and by replacing this text:
     At the end of each quarter, for each office, the player (if
     any) who held that office for the majority of that quarter
     gains one VC.
with this text:
     At the end of each month, for each office, the player (if
     any) who held that office for the majority of that month
     gains two VCs, unless the Speaker publicly announces that
     the officer has performed poorly in eir duties.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-25
dist_mid: <37E552EE-1D9E-4AC8-A946-01DC7359A3FB@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-02
fate_mid: <463975F9.2000002@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-117
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4944
submit_date: 2007-04-20
submit_mid: <20070420175325.GA12658@fysh.org>
title: allow Speaker deregistration

Amend rule 101 by deleting the words "besides the Speaker".

Retitle rule 103 to "Exactly One Speaker".

Amend rule 103 to read:

     There should always be exactly one player who is the Speaker.
     No one other than a player can be Speaker, and there can never be
     more than one Speaker.  If there is ever no Speaker then the
player
     whose most recent registration was earliest becomes the Speaker.

[A Speaker leaving the game is not the disaster that it used to be.
I see no justification for continuing to deny the Speaker eir civil
right
to leave the game.  Speakership passing to the most senior player was
something I previously put into R786/6 back in 1997 and which stayed in
that rule until 2005.]

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ai: 1.1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-25
dist_mid: <37E552EE-1D9E-4AC8-A946-01DC7359A3FB@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-02
fate_mid: <463975F9.2000002@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-118
proposer: Goethe
seq_number: 4945
submit_date: 2007-04-20
submit_mid: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0704201055420.5662@hymn02.u.washington.edu>
title: V\!

     BE IT HEREBY PROCLAIMED that upon THIS PROPOSAL TAKING EFFECT,
     OscarMeyr Wins the Game.

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ai: 1.1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-25
dist_mid: <37E552EE-1D9E-4AC8-A946-01DC7359A3FB@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-02
fate_mid: <463975F9.2000002@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-119
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4946
submit_date: 2007-04-20
submit_mid: <20070420225723.GA12691@fysh.org>
title: slim the map

Amend rule 2105 to appear:

                              ____  _        /|
                   DARWIN ->  \_  |/ |      / \
                             __/    /      |  |
           <- DSV          /      /        |  \
                       _   \      \_       |   \
                 MORNINGTON CRESCENT ->    /    |  <- GOETHE BARRIER
                _ _/       |         \_/\_/     \     REEF
               / \\ <- SHARK BAY      |         |
              /            |          |          \ <- TOWNSVILLE
           ___/            |          |           \_
        __/                |          |  .___o  )   |
       /                   |          | ~~vv ===~~~ <-OSCAR'S MIRE
      /           O <- SHERLOCK NESS  |             |/\
     |                     |          |               |_
     |                     |          |  EMERALD ->     \
     \                     |__________=_____,             \ BRISBANE
      /                    |                |             | <-'
      \      O <- LT. ANNE MOORE            |        __  _\
       \                   |                |_______/  \/ |  LORD
        |                __/\      <- TARCOOLA           /   HOWE ->
        \  PERTH      __/    \_             /           /
         | <-'  _  __/         |   /| IVANHOE ->       | <-.
         /    _/ \/             \ / /       |         /  WOLLONGONG
        |_   /     <- ESPERANTO  v /__     |_        / <- CANBERRA
          \_/                         \    | \_    _|
                 __   __              |    |   \__/
                __ \ / __              \___=_  ___|
               /  \ | /  \     MANUBOURNE -> \/
                   \|/
              _,.---v---._                 /\__
     /\__/\  /            \                |   |
     \_  _/ /              \                |  /
       \ \_|           @ __|                \_/ <- HOBART
        \                \_
         \     ,__/       /
       ~~~`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~~

[This just shifts some labels (and the whale) a bit so that the whole
thing fits the standard width for rule text.]

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ai: 1.1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-30
dist_mid: <4A7E075E-3060-4998-BB58-65D00F2DE006@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-07
fate_mid: <463EBDF4.2020202@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-120
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4947
submit_date: 2007-04-23
submit_mid: <20070423210829.GB8812@fysh.org>
title: default timing

Enact a rule titled "Default Timing" with the text:

     Where the rules oblige a person to perform some action but do
     not otherwise specify a time limit by which the action must be
     performed, the action must be performed as soon as possible
     after the first instant when both the person was obliged to
     perform that action and the action was logically possible.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-30
dist_mid: <4A7E075E-3060-4998-BB58-65D00F2DE006@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-07
fate_mid: <463EBDF4.2020202@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-121
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4948
submit_date: 2007-04-26
submit_mid: <20070426154626.GA26084@fysh.org>
title: rule restoration

Amend rule 105 by appending after the item "(e) change the power of a
rule." the item:

     (f) restore a former rule which is presently not a rule.
         When restored, the former rule becomes a rule once more.
         All substantive aspects of the restored rule, other than its
         power, are identical to what they were at the instant the rule
         most recently ceased to be a rule.  The restored rule has
power
         equal to the minimum of the power specified by the restoring
         instrument, defaulting to one if the restoring instrument does
         not specify, and the maximum power permitted by other rules.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-30
dist_mid: <4A7E075E-3060-4998-BB58-65D00F2DE006@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-07
fate_mid: <463EBDF4.2020202@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-122
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4949
submit_date: 2007-04-26
submit_mid: <20070426231324.GA14933@fysh.org>
title: VC and VLOP decay

Amend rule 2126 by inserting immediately after the first paragraph
the text:

     At the end of each month, each player's VC and voting limit on
     ordinary proposals are each set to 80% of their former value,
     rounded to the nearest integer.  These changes occur before any
     other changes to VCs and voting limits that occur at the end of
     a month.

[Avoids inflation of VLOPs.  This gives new players (or newly-active
players) a chance to catch up with the VLOP of established players, by
earning VCs over a few months.  20% reduction each month is very close
to a 50% reduction each quarter, which Agoran Chromodynamics proposed
for its Beads, but compounding monthly is much smoother.]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-30
dist_mid: <4A7E075E-3060-4998-BB58-65D00F2DE006@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-07
fate_mid: <463EBDF4.2020202@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-123
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4950
submit_date: 2007-04-26
submit_mid: <20070426231324.GA14933@fysh.org>
title: initialise VLOP properly

Amend rule 2126 by replacing the text "eir VCs are set to zero" with
"eir VCs are set to zero and eir voting limit on ordinary proposals is
set to one".

[VLOP isn't explicitly set for new players anywhere.  Without this
amendment, a former player rejoining probably has eir old VLOP,
unaffected
by intervening win-induced resets of players' VLOPs.]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-30
dist_mid: <4A7E075E-3060-4998-BB58-65D00F2DE006@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-07
fate_mid: <463EBDF4.2020202@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-124
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4951
submit_date: 2007-04-26
submit_mid: <20070426231324.GA14933@fysh.org>
title: protect voting limits

Amend rule 1950 by appending after the text "if not explicitly modified
by other rules." the sentence "This voting limit cannot be modified by
any rule with power less than the power of this rule.".

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-30
dist_mid: <4A7E075E-3060-4998-BB58-65D00F2DE006@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-07
fate_mid: <463EBDF4.2020202@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-125
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4952
submit_date: 2007-04-28
submit_mid: <4632BC1B.3010203@socal.rr.com>
title: Protection Racket

[We will, of course, relinquish this power and implement a fix, in
return for a suitable token.  To do otherwise would be Not Fun.]

Create a rule with this text:

     Murphy, OscarMeyr, and Quazie are Oligarchs.

     An Oligarch may refuse a CFJ by announcement.  A refused CFJ
     ceases to be a CFJ.

     An Oligarch may refuse a proposal by announcement.  A refused
     proposal ceases to be a proposal.

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ai: 1.1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-30
dist_mid: <4A7E075E-3060-4998-BB58-65D00F2DE006@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-07
fate_mid: <463EBDF4.2020202@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-126
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4953
submit_date: 2007-05-28
submit_mid: <20070428102254.GE2103@fysh.org>
title: repeal the Oligarchs

Repeal the rule which defines Oligarchs.

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ai: 1.1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-30
dist_mid: <4A7E075E-3060-4998-BB58-65D00F2DE006@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-07
fate_mid: <463EBDF4.2020202@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-127
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4954
submit_date: 2007-04-29
submit_mid: <20070429213630.GD32519@fysh.org>
title: public policy

Enact a rule with Power=1.1, title "Public Policy", and text:

     The Speaker is obliged to veto, as defined by rule 2019, any
     Ordinary Proposal whose effect if adopted would in eir estimation
     achieve any of these results:

     * seriously hinder, or allow any person or group of people to
       seriously hinder, the adoption of Democratic proposals where the
       proportion of players expressing an opinion who are in favour
       is at least than AI/(AI+1)

     * allow the adoption of Democratic proposals where the proportion
       of players expressing an opinion who are in favour is less
       than AI/(AI+1)

     * impair the effectiveness of this rule

     For the purposes of this rule, the Speaker's estimation is not
     required to be accurate.  Failing to veto a proposal that would
     have one of the above effects is a violation of this rule if and
     only if the Speaker was aware that such an effect was likely.

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ai: 1.1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-30
dist_mid: <4A7E075E-3060-4998-BB58-65D00F2DE006@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-07
fate_mid: <463EBDF4.2020202@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-128
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4955
submit_date: 2007-04-29
submit_mid: <20070429214351.GE32519@fysh.org>
title: support democracy

Enact a rule with Power=1.1, title "Support Democracy", and text:

     Any player may change an Ordinary proposal's Adoption Index to
     1.1 during its voting period With 3 Supporters.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-04-30
dist_mid: <4A7E075E-3060-4998-BB58-65D00F2DE006@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-07
fate_mid: <463EBDF4.2020202@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-129
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4956
submit_date: 2007-04-29
submit_mid: <46352699.4090209@socal.rr.com>
title: Finish re-dividing some offices

Amend Rule 2138 (The International Associate Director of Personnel)
by replacing "The Director of Personnel's report" with "The IADoP's
report".

Amend Rule 1006 (Offices) by removing this text:

              The Herald's Report shall list the holder of each office,
     and the date upon which each holder last came to hold that office.

and by replacing this text:

    If no attempt to achieve Agoran Consent for changing the holder
    of particular office is announced in a given quarter, then the
    Speaker shall make at least one such attempt to change the
    officeholder in the following quarter, and make the change if
    consent is achieved.

with this text:

    If no attempt to achieve Agoran Consent for changing the holder
    of a particular office is announced in a given quarter, then the
    IADoP shall make at least one such attempt to change the
    officeholder in the following quarter, and make the change if
    consent is acheived.

Upon the adoption of this proposal, the office of IADoP becomes held
by the Herald.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
db_note: this was purportedly submitted by Murphy on 2007-04-29 in message <46352699.4090209@socal.rr.com> and assigned pool number 07-130 and distributed in the normal manner, but it was later ruled (CFJ 1647) that the submission was invalid and so the proposal had been created by the distribution
dist_date: 2007-04-30
dist_mid: <4A7E075E-3060-4998-BB58-65D00F2DE006@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-07
fate_mid: <463EBDF4.2020202@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: <never in pool>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4957
submit_date: <not submitted>
submit_mid: <not submitted>
title: Protection Racket (2)

[We will, of course, relinquish this power and implement a fix, in
return for a suitable token.  To do otherwise would be Not Fun.]

Create a rule with this text:

     Murphy, OscarMeyr, and Quazie are Oligarchs.

     An Oligarch may refuse a CFJ by announcement.  A refused CFJ
     ceases to be a CFJ.

     An Oligarch may refuse a proposal by announcement.  A refused
     proposal ceases to be a proposal.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-09
dist_mid: <6CD0D729-FA80-4CF1-A9ED-1B0670D77996@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-03
fate_mid: <20070603195025.GA1747@fysh.org>
pool_number: 07-131
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4958
submit_date: 2007-04-30
submit_mid: <463533C8.3060106@socal.rr.com>
title: Improved Turn Radius

Amend Rule 1871 (Turns for All) by replacing "at least one in the
second" with "at least one (and at least one such player for it)
in the second".

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-09
dist_mid: <6CD0D729-FA80-4CF1-A9ED-1B0670D77996@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-03
fate_mid: <20070603195025.GA1747@fysh.org>
pool_number: 07-132
proposer: OscarMeyr
seq_number: 4959
submit_date: 2007-04-30
submit_mid: <99B18716-0188-4BA3-A931-AC54F02058AF@earthlink.net>
title: Bears as Threats

Create a rule titled "What colour was the bear?" with the following
text:

Each player whose Agoran nickname or real name contains the word
"bear", as a word unto itself and not contained in any other word,
and in any Human language, shall be designated as a Threat of the
type Bear.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-09
dist_mid: <6CD0D729-FA80-4CF1-A9ED-1B0670D77996@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-03
fate_mid: <20070603195025.GA1747@fysh.org>
pool_number: 07-133
proposer: OscarMeyr
seq_number: 4960
submit_date: 2007-05-01
submit_mid: <75A8173B-D86C-4C02-AA6E-F16230C7C889@earthlink.net>
title: Patch of the Return of the Contests

Amend R2136, "Contests", by replacing the text:

     A player with 100 or more points may win the game by announcing
     this fact.  Upon such an announcement, each player's score is
     set to zero.

With the text:

     A player with 100 or more points may announce this fact.  If this
     announcement is correct, then the following events happen:

      1.  The announcing player wins the game.
      2.  Each player's score is set to zero.

(It's been good practice in the past to qualify such announcements
with the condition that the announcement be correct.  See previous
versions of the Notice of Speaker Rotation a few years ago.)

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2007-05-05
fate_mid: <fa0147d90705041653n39d05f50sd94c5965e37ac275@mail.gmail.com>
pool_number: <none>
proposer: Goddess Eris
submit_date: 2007-05-04
submit_mid: <fa0147d90705031709m6499b171hf651883269b90e98@mail.gmail.com>
title: No free votes

Change rule 1950 (Voting Limits) to read:

     The voting limit of an eligible voter on a democratic proposal
     is one and cannot be changed except by this rule.

     The voting limit of an eligible voter on an ordinary proposal is
     one if not explicitly modified by other rules.

     The voting limit of an eligible voter is reduced by one if e is
     not a natural person.

     After the voting period for an Agoran decision has ended, the
     vote collector shall permit the first valid ballots submitted by
     an eligible voter to remain valid, up to a number equal to that
     person's voting limit on that decision as determined when the
     voting period for that decision began, and shall invalidate all
     subsequent ballots submitted by that voter on that decision.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-09
dist_mid: <6CD0D729-FA80-4CF1-A9ED-1B0670D77996@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-03
fate_mid: <20070603195025.GA1747@fysh.org>
pool_number: 07-134
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4961
submit_date: 2007-05-05
submit_mid: <20070505011455.GL22919@fysh.org>
title: no VCs for Democratic proposals

Amend rule 2126 by replacing the text

      When a proposal is adopted, its proposer gains VCs equal to the
      integer portion of the proposal's adoption index, and each
      co-author of the proposal gains one VC.

with

      When an Ordinary proposal is adopted, its proposer gains VCs
      equal to the integer portion of twice the proposal's adoption
      index, and each co-author of the proposal gains one VC.

[VCs are henceforth not earned for Democratic proposals, removing the
incentive to vote a Democratic proposal up or down for tactical reasons
concerning VCs.  Proposer's award is doubled, to compensate for being
applicable to fewer proposals.]

Upon the adoption of this proposal, its proposer loses the VCs that
e was (or is being, or will immediately be) awarded by the rules for
its adoption.

[Getting an early start on the new regime.]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-09
dist_mid: <6CD0D729-FA80-4CF1-A9ED-1B0670D77996@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-05-23
fate_mid: <4653A6B1.1020607@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-135
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4962
submit_date: 2007-05-05
submit_mid: <20070505011455.GL22919@fysh.org>
title: more mutability for VCs

Change the Power of rule 2126 to 2.

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ai: 1.1
coauthors: <none>
db_note: there was a purported but incorrect distribution of this proposal as proposal 4963
dist_date: 2007-06-16
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HzXm3-0007Tz-5F@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-25
fate_mid: <467FCAA6.9050306@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-136
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5020
submit_date: 2007-05-05
submit_mid: <20070505011455.GL22919@fysh.org>
title: mostly-random judicial assignments

Enact a rule titled "Policy on Judicial Assignments" with text:

      When the Clerk of the Courts must choose a Trial Judge, e
      shall choose randomly.  The Clerk of the Courts may, without
      objection, replace this requirement with some other means of
      choice for a particular CFJ.

      This rule does not affect which entities are eligible to judge
      a particular CFJ.  This rule takes precedence over other rules
      governing the selection between eligible entities for Trial
      Judge.

      The Clerk of the Courts can cause this rule to repeal itself,
      without 4 objections.

[This formalises Goethe's announced policy.  The second sentence allows
for exceptions, such as I have advocated for particularly tricky CFJs,
by general consent; this arrangement is flexible enough to allow a
completely non-random choice or a random choice among a shortlist.
The final paragraph provides an abbreviated procedure to end the policy,
when no longer thought necessary; 4 objections is what the would-be
Oligarchs can trivially muster.]

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ai: 1.1
coauthors: <none>
db_note: this was a duff distribution, combining the texts of two submitted proposals, and had been alleged to have pool number 07-136
dist_date: 2007-05-09
dist_mid: <6CD0D729-FA80-4CF1-A9ED-1B0670D77996@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-05-23
fate_mid: <4653A6B1.1020607@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: <never in pool>
proposer: <none>
seq_number: 4963
submit_date: <not submitted>
submit_mid: <not submitted>
title: mostly-random judicial assignments

Change the Power of rule 2126 to 2.

}}}

I hereby submit the following proposal, titled "mostly-random judicial
assignments", and set its AI to 1.1:

{{{

Enact a rule titled "Policy on Judicial Assignments" with text:

     When the Clerk of the Courts must choose a Trial Judge, e
     shall choose randomly.  The Clerk of the Courts may, without
     objection, replace this requirement with some other means of
     choice for a particular CFJ.

     This rule does not affect which entities are eligible to judge
     a particular CFJ.  This rule takes precedence over other rules
     governing the selection between eligible entities for Trial
     Judge.

     The Clerk of the Courts can cause this rule to repeal itself,
     without 4 objections.

[This formalises Goethe's announced policy.  The second sentence allows
for exceptions, such as I have advocated for particularly tricky CFJs,
by general consent; this arrangement is flexible enough to allow a
completely non-random choice or a random choice among a shortlist.
The final paragraph provides an abbreviated procedure to end the policy,
when no longer thought necessary; 4 objections is what the would-be
Oligarchs can trivially muster.]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-09
dist_mid: <6CD0D729-FA80-4CF1-A9ED-1B0670D77996@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-03
fate_mid: <20070603195025.GA1747@fysh.org>
pool_number: 07-137
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4964
submit_date: 2007-05-06
submit_mid: <463DECF7.3000406@socal.rr.com>
title: Disambiguate voter eligibility

Amend Rule 107 (Initiating Agoran Decisions) by replacing this text:

      An Agoran decision is initiated when a person authorized to
      initiate it publishes a valid notice which sets forth the intent
      to initiate the decision.  To be valid, this notice must contain
      the following information:

with this text:

      An Agoran decision is initiated when a person authorized to
      initiate it publishes a valid notice which sets forth the intent
      to initiate the decision.  This notice is invalid if it lacks
      any of the following information, and the lack is correctly
      identified within one week after the notice is published:

[107(c) has not been explicitly obeyed for some time, either.]

Amend Rule 683 (Voting on Agoran Decisions) by replacing this text:

      (a) The ballot is submitted by an eligible voter during the
          voting period for the decision.

with this text:

      (a) The ballot is submitted during the voting period for the
          decision, and the submitter is an eligible voter at the
          time of submission.

Amend Rule 1950 (Voting Limits) by replacing each instance of "voting
limit of an eligible voter" with "voting limit of an entity", and by
replacing "submitted by an eligible voter" with "submitted by each voter".

Amend Rule 879 (Quorum) to read:

      Quorum for an Agoran decision is N/3 (where N is the number of
      eligible voters at the start of the voting period), rounded up,
      with a minimum of five (unless this is greater than N, in which
      quorum is N).

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-09
dist_mid: <6CD0D729-FA80-4CF1-A9ED-1B0670D77996@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-05-23
fate_mid: <4653A6B1.1020607@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-138
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4965
submit_date: 2007-05-06
submit_mid: <463DEFD5.7040606@socal.rr.com>
title: The Standing Court

Change the title of Rule 1871 (Turns for All) to "The Standing Court",
and amend it to read:

      Each player is either standing, sitting, or lying down.

      A player may change emself from sitting to lying down, or vice
      versa, by announcement.

      When a player is selected as Trial Judge of a CFJ, e changes to
      sitting.  A player is ineligible to be Trial Judge of a CFJ if
      e was not standing when it was called.

      When a player registers, e is lying down.

      The Clerk of the Courts may (without 2 objections) change a
      player to lying down.  E is encouraged to do this only if e
      expects the player to judge CFJs slowly or not at all.

      When the Clerk of the Courts publishes a Notice of Rotation, all
      sitting players change to standing.  The Clerk of the Courts
      shall only do so when all open CFJs without a Trial Judge have
      no players eligible to be assigned, and at least one of them has
      at least one player ineligible solely to not standing; e shall
      list all CFJs in the first set, and at least one in the second
      (noting at least one of the relevant players).  However, failing
      to meet these requirements does not deprive the Notice of effect.

Upon the adoption of this proposal, the Speaker and Clerk of the Courts
are changed to standing; all other players are changed to lying down.

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ai: 1.1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-09
dist_mid: <6CD0D729-FA80-4CF1-A9ED-1B0670D77996@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-03
fate_mid: <20070603195025.GA1747@fysh.org>
pool_number: 07-139
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4966
submit_date: 2007-05-07
submit_mid: <20070507022718.GF8857@fysh.org>
title: initialise activity

Amend rule 2130 by appending the paragraph:

      Registration as a player causes the new player to become active.
      All non-players are inactive.

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ai: 1.1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-09
dist_mid: <6CD0D729-FA80-4CF1-A9ED-1B0670D77996@earthlink.net>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-03
fate_mid: <20070603195025.GA1747@fysh.org>
pool_number: 07-140
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4967
submit_date: 2007-05-07
submit_mid: <20070507022718.GF8857@fysh.org>
title: report activity

Amend rule 2130 by appending the paragraph:

      The Registrar's report shall indicate, for each player, whether
      the player is active or inactive, and the date on which this status
      last changed.

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ai: 4
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-09
dist_mid: <6CD0D729-FA80-4CF1-A9ED-1B0670D77996@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-03
fate_mid: <20070603195025.GA1747@fysh.org>
pool_number: 07-141
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4968
submit_date: 2007-05-07
submit_mid: <20070507121316.GO8857@fysh.org>
title: precedence takes precedence

Change the Power of rule 1482 to 4.

[At Power=3, R1482 doesn't work properly in the Power>=3 region, because
a Power=3 rule can take precedence over R1482 to stipulate a different
precedence-determining rule.  By its nature, R1482 should have the
highest Power of all rules.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-09
dist_mid: <6CD0D729-FA80-4CF1-A9ED-1B0670D77996@earthlink.net>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-05-23
fate_mid: <4653A6B1.1020607@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-142
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4969
submit_date: 2007-05-08
submit_mid: <20070508225720.GA10920@fysh.org>
title: fix judicial turns

If possible, amend rule 1871 by replacing the text "if e was turned
when it was called" with "if e is turned".  Otherwise, amend rule 1871
by replacing the text "if e was not standing when it was called" with
"if e is not standing".

[Turn status matters at the moment of assignment, not when the CFJ is
called.  Two versions of the amendment to make the same logical change
regardless of whether "The Standing Court" passes.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-16
dist_mid: <E1Ho7ne-0005Vq-F8@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-23
fate_mid: <4653A6EE.5080208@socal.rr.com>
pool_number: 07-143
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4970
submit_date: 2007-05-11
submit_mid: <20070511002028.GK8857@fysh.org>
title: define reports

Enact a rule with title "Official Reports" and text:

      For each office, the rules may designate certain information
      to be part of the corresponding officer's weekly report or
      monthly report.  Any information designated to be part of the
      officer's report without specifying which report shall be part
      of the weekly report.  If no information is designated to be
      part of the weekly (or monthly) report, then that office has
      no weekly (or, respectively, monthly) report.  Each officer's
      report is an official report.

      The holder of an office for which there is an officer's
      report is obliged to maintain all information in the report.
      E is obliged to publish the weekly report, if there is one, at
      least once each week, and the monthly report, if there is one,
      at least once each month.

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ai: 1.1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-16
dist_mid: <E1Ho7ne-0005Vq-F8@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-23
fate_mid: <4653A6EE.5080208@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Human Point Two
seq_number: 4971
submit_date: 2007-05-13
submit_mid: <4647A570.1020608@socal.rr.com>
title: Delete, Delete, Delete!

Upon the adoption of this proposal, Human Point Two wins the game.

Upon the adoption of this proposal, the following players are
deregistered:
  Human Point Three
  Human Point Four
  Human Point Five
  Human Point Six
  Human Point Seven
  Human Point Eight
  Human Point Nine
  Human Point Ten
  Human Point Eleven
  Human Point Twelve
  Human Point Thirteen
  Human Point Fourteen

Amend Rule 1023 (Common Definitions) by appending this text:

      (f) The term "person" shall mean "natural person or
          partnership of natural persons".

Create a rule titled "Limited Partnerships" with this text:

      If a partnership contains exactly the same members as
      another registered partnership, then it is prohibited
      from registering.

      If a registered partnership's membership changes such
      that it contains exactly the same members as another
      registered partnership, then it is deregistered.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-16
dist_mid: <E1Ho7ne-0005Vq-F8@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-23
fate_mid: <4653A6EE.5080208@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Goddess Eris
seq_number: 4972
submit_date: 2007-05-14
submit_mid: <fa0147d90705131701r72569c9fk312e7f582bceb77a@mail.gmail.com>
title: No free votes II

Change rule 1950 (Voting Limits) to read:

    The voting limit of an eligible voter on a democratic proposal
    is one and cannot be changed except by this rule.

    The voting limit of an eligible voter on an ordinary proposal is
    one if not explicitly modified by other rules.

    The voting limit of an eligible voter who is not a natural person
    is always one less than it would otherwise be.

    After the voting period for an Agoran decision has ended, the
    vote collector shall permit the first valid ballots submitted by
    an eligible voter to remain valid, up to a number equal to that
    person's voting limit on that decision as determined when the
    voting period for that decision began, and shall invalidate all
    subsequent ballots submitted by that voter on that decision.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-16
dist_mid: <E1Ho7ne-0005Vq-F8@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-23
fate_mid: <4653A6EE.5080208@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4973
submit_date: 2007-05-14
submit_mid: <46489851.4050508@socal.rr.com>
title: Registration Prohibits Silent Partners

Amend Rule 1742 (Agreements between Players) by appending, after this
text:

      Players may make agreements among themselves with the intention
      that such agreements will be binding; i.e. that they become
      parties to the agreement and agree to be bound by the agreement.

the following text:

      If such an agreement is registered, then as soon as possible
      after its membership changes, it shall announce which players
      have joined and which have left.  This requirement is satisfied
      if the information is published by a member of the agreement,
      or a person who was a member immediately before the change.

Upon the adoption of this proposal, each registered partnership is
ordered to publish a list of all its Partners as soon as possible.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-16
dist_mid: <E1Ho7ne-0005Vq-F8@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-23
fate_mid: <4653A6EE.5080208@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4974
submit_date: 2007-05-14
submit_mid: <20070514233843.GV8857@fysh.org>
title: transparent partnerships

Enact a rule with title "Transparent Personhood" and text:

      When a non-natural person becomes a player, e is obliged to as
      soon as possible announce the legal theory by which e is a person.
      If e is a partnership, e is further obliged to as soon as possible
      announce the set of eir members (the persons onto whom eir legal
      rights and obligations fall).

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-16
dist_mid: <E1Ho7ne-0005Vq-F8@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-23
fate_mid: <4653A6EE.5080208@socal.rr.com>
proposer: OscarMeyr
seq_number: 4975
submit_date: 2007-05-15
submit_mid: <F4AEEBF8-7113-4872-BD62-340E046F5E47@earthlink.net>
title: One Champ To Rule Them All

Delete the following text from R1922:

      (d)  Champion, to be awarded to players who win the game.

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ai: 1.1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-19
dist_mid: <E1HpOQg-0003M5-0q@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-31
fate_mid: <465E3954.5080203@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4976
submit_date: 2007-05-16
submit_mid: <464A355D.6070305@socal.rr.com>
title: Do the Agora Shuffle

Upon the adoption of this proposal, OscarMeyr becomes Speaker.

Upon the adoption of this proposal, Murphy becomes Clerk of the Courts.

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ai: 1.1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-19
dist_mid: <E1HpOQg-0003M5-0q@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-31
fate_mid: <465E3954.5080203@socal.rr.com>
proposer: BobTHJ
seq_number: 4977
submit_date: 2007-05-16
submit_mid: <56732cfd0705152119m553feea3p4dc9de7fd80b7f6d@mail.gmail.com>
title: Formalize Partnerships

Create a rule "Partnerships" with Power 1 that reads:

"A non-natural person that is created by an Agreement between two or more
persons is known as a Partnership. A Partnership comes into existence with
the initiation of the Agreement that creates it, and it ceases to exist when
that Agreement is terminated. The persons who are party to the Agreement may
change during the course of that Agreement (if the Agreement allows for it)
without disrupting the existence of the Partnership as a person as long as
that Agreement remains in effect."

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-19
dist_mid: <E1HpOQg-0003M5-0q@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-31
fate_mid: <465E3954.5080203@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4978
submit_date: 2007-05-16
submit_mid: <464B4222.2060603@socal.rr.com>
title: Tighten Agoran consent

Amend Rule 2124 (Agoran Consent) by replacing "more players"
with "more other players".

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ai: 2
coauthors: Maud
dist_date: 2007-05-19
dist_mid: <E1HpOQg-0003M5-0q@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-31
fate_mid: <465E3954.5080203@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4979
submit_date: 2007-05-17
submit_mid: <20070517123614.GE7437@fysh.org>
title: reintroduce indices

Maud, being the primary author of this proposal but not its submitter,
is hereby named as a coauthor of this proposal.

Enact a rule, titled "Indices", with Power=2, reading:

      Indices are elements of the extended real numbers, which is a
      total order consisting of the real numbers plus a minimum
      element, called negative infinity, and a maximum element, called
      positive infinity or unanimity.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-19
dist_mid: <E1HpOQg-0003M5-0q@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-31
fate_mid: <465E3954.5080203@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4980
submit_date: 2007-05-18
submit_mid: <464D13D5.5060900@socal.rr.com>
title: Don't force redundant elections

Amend Rule 1006 by replacing this text:

      If no attempt to achieve Agoran Consent for changing the holder
      of a particular office is announced in a given quarter, then the
      Director of Personnel shall make at least one such attempt to
      change the officeholder in the following quarter, and make the
      change if consent is acheived.

with this text:

      If no attempt to achieve Agoran Consent for changing the holder
      of a particular office is announced in a given quarter, then the
      IADoP shall make at least one such attempt to change the
      officeholder in the following quarter, and make the change if
      consent is achieved.  This requirement is waived if another player
      changes the officeholder in this way during the following quarter.

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-23
dist_mid: <E1Hqf68-0000NV-0w@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-31
fate_mid: <465E3954.5080203@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4981
submit_date: 2007-05-21
submit_mid: <20070521150335.GA23428@fysh.org>
title: no free dependent actions

Amend rule 1728 by replacing each instance of "N players" with "N players
who are natural persons".

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-23
dist_mid: <E1Hqf68-0000NV-0w@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-31
fate_mid: <465E3954.5080203@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4982
submit_date: 2007-05-22
submit_mid: <20070522132322.GA2881@fysh.org>
title: deregister the absent

If arkestra is inactive, e is hereby deregistered.

If GreyKnight is inactive, e is hereby deregistered.

If Peter is inactive, e is hereby deregistered.

If sproingie is inactive, e is hereby deregistered.

[The long-term inactive players have been screwing up CFJ assignment.
As we no longer have a rule on deregistering for absence, it must be
done by proposal.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-23
dist_mid: <E1Hqf68-0000NV-0w@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-05-31
fate_mid: <465E3954.5080203@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4983
submit_date: 2007-05-22
submit_mid: <20070522132322.GA2881@fysh.org>
title: clean up yin & yang

If Yin Corp is a player and not a natural person, e is hereby deregistered.

If Yang Corp is a player and not a natural person, e is hereby deregistered.

[Only way to clean up that experiment.  The conditional clauses ensure
that the proposal works regardless of the legality of the partnership
shenanigans.]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-26
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HrvlW-00023i-3W@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-06
fate_mid: <46666700.2010104@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4984
submit_date: 2007-05-23
submit_mid: <20070523085239.GD18772@fysh.org>
title: no VCs for Democratic proposals

Amend rule 2126 by replacing the text

      When a proposal is adopted, its proposer gains VCs equal to the
      integer portion of the proposal's adoption index, and each
      co-author of the proposal gains one VC.

with

      When an Ordinary proposal is adopted, its proposer gains VCs
      equal to the integer portion of twice the proposal's adoption
      index, and each co-author of the proposal gains one VC.

[VCs are henceforth not earned for Democratic proposals, removing the
incentive to vote a Democratic proposal up or down for tactical reasons
concerning VCs.  Proposer's award is doubled, to compensate for being
applicable to fewer proposals.]

Upon the adoption of this proposal, its proposer loses the VCs that
e was (or is being, or will immediately be) awarded by the rules for
its adoption.

[Getting an early start on the new regime.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-26
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HrvlW-00023i-3W@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-06
fate_mid: <46666700.2010104@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4985
submit_date: 2007-05-23
submit_mid: <20070523085239.GD18772@fysh.org>
title: initialise activity

Amend rule 2130 by appending the paragraph:

      Registration as a player causes the new player to become active.
      All non-players are inactive.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-26
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HrvlW-00023i-3W@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-06
fate_mid: <46666700.2010104@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4986
submit_date: 2007-05-23
submit_mid: <20070523085239.GD18772@fysh.org>
title: report activity

Amend rule 2130 by appending the paragraph:

      The Registrar's report shall indicate, for each player, whether
      the player is active or inactive, and the date on which this status
      last changed.

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ai: 1.1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-26
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HrvlW-00023i-3W@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-06
fate_mid: <46666700.2010104@socal.rr.com>
proposer: BobTHJ
seq_number: 4987
submit_date: 2007-05-23
submit_mid: <56732cfd0705230947p65f7836bl2491aa98e4207b65@mail.gmail.com>
title: non-player agreements

Rename Rule # 1742 "Agreements Between Players" to "Agreements"

Amend Rule # 1742 by replacing the word "Players" in the first paragraph
with "Persons".

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2007-05-25
fate_mid: <3fc761710705251349s394a08f3r84e90e835fb418da@mail.gmail.com>
proposer: root
submit_date: 2007-05-24
submit_mid: <3fc761710705241028h126ae915l9ff0214885cce80@mail.gmail.com>
title: More on paragraphs

Replace paragraph (d) of Rule 1023 (Common Definitions) with this
text:

     (d) The term "paragraph" shall mean a subset of text determined
         as follows:

         (1) Each bulleted section is a unit of text.

         (2) Any remaining text is divided into units at blank lines.

         (3) Units are considered in an ordered tree hierarchy.  The
             root is empty, any unbulleted units are its children,
             and the bulleted units following an unbulleted unit are
             its descendants (with nested bullets corresponding to
             nested levels of the tree). If the text consists only of
             bulleted units, then the top-most level comprise the
             root's immediate children.

         (4) A "paragraph" identified by partial quotation is
             determined by the minimum sub-tree containing the
             entirety of that quotation.

         (5) A "paragraph" identified by an ordinal n is determined
             by the nth unbulleted unit and its descendants.

         (6) A "paragraph" identified by bulleted section labels is
             determined by the sub-tree arrived at by traversal from
             the root, using the specified series of labels.

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2007-05-24
fate_mid: <56732cfd0705241443u65ed5aabxd46a46a354fba8e3@mail.gmail.com>
proposer: BobTHJ
submit_date: 2007-05-24
submit_mid: <56732cfd0705241252g57ea473bn899320de4de3505b@mail.gmail.com>
title: Nomic Protectorates

Create a new rule titled "Nomic Protectorates" with Power of 2 and the text:
{
Whereas Agora, being the superpower of nomics, has an inherent
responsibility to lead the nomic world; and whereas Agora desires to
encourage growth and promotion of the nomic community, be it hereby known
that Agora shall serve as benevolent protector to any nomic which requests
such status (hereafter referred to as the Protectorate).

In order to become a Protectorate, a nomic must specify in its ruleset that
it submits to Agora as its benevolent protector. It also must allow Agora
unrestricted access to make changes to its ruleset. A player of said nomic
may then cause that nomic to become a Protectorate by announcement to the
public forum. A nomic that no longer meets these requirements ceases to be a
Protectorate.

Agora shall treat a Protectorate in a benevolent fashion, making changes to
that nomic's ruleset only for the purpose of assisting that nomic in its
growth and enabling its longevity. Agora may only make changes to a
Protectorate's ruleset through a Proposal with an Adoption Index of 2 or
more, although this does not prohibit changes made to a Protectorate nomic
by one or more of its players (or closest equivalent) according to the rules
of that Protectorate.

The Ambassador is an office; Its holder is Agora's liaison to its
Protectorates. The Ambassador's report shall include a listing of
Protectorates as well as a list of recent events related to those
Protectorates. On a minimum of a monthly basis, the Ambassador shall review
each Protectorate to ensure it meets the requirements of a Protectorate.

The Ambassador may act on behalf of Agora for an action that is permitted of
Agora in the Protectorate's ruleset, with the exception of direct changes to
that Protectorate's ruleset as described above. Any Player may, with Agoran
consent, require that the Ambassador act or not act in a specified fashion
in relation to a Protectorate.
}
Upon passage of this Proposal, the holder of the Office of Ambassador shall
be BobTHJ

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-26
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HrvlW-00023i-3W@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-06
fate_mid: <46666700.2010104@socal.rr.com>
proposer: BobTHJ
seq_number: 4988
submit_date: 2007-05-24
submit_mid: <56732cfd0705241443u65ed5aabxd46a46a354fba8e3@mail.gmail.com>
title: Nomic Protectorates (2)

Create a new rule titled "Protectorates" with Power of 2 and the text:
{
Whereas Agora, being the superpower of nomics, has an inherent
responsibility to lead the nomic world; and whereas Agora desires to
encourage growth and promotion of the nomic community, be it hereby known
that Agora shall serve as benevolent protector to any nomic which requests
such status (hereafter referred to as the Protectorate).

In order to become a Protectorate, a nomic must specify in its ruleset that
it submits to Agora as its benevolent protector. It also must allow Agora
unrestricted access to make changes to its ruleset. A player of said nomic
may then cause that nomic to become a Protectorate by announcement to the
public forum. A nomic that no longer meets these requirements ceases to be a
Protectorate.

Agora shall treat a Protectorate in a benevolent fashion, making changes to
that nomic's ruleset only for the purpose of assisting that nomic in its
growth and enabling its longevity. Agora may only make changes to a
Protectorate's ruleset through a Proposal with an Adoption Index of 2 or
more, although this does not prohibit changes made to a Protectorate nomic
by one or more of its players (or closest equivalent) according to the rules
of that Protectorate.
}

Create a new rule titled "Ambassador" with Power of 2 and the text:
{
The Ambassador is an office; Its holder is Agora's liaison to its
Protectorates. The Ambassador's report shall include a listing of
Protectorates as well as a list of recent events related to those
Protectorates. On a minimum of a monthly basis, the Ambassador shall review
each Protectorate to ensure it meets the requirements of a Protectorate.

The Ambassador may act on behalf of Agora for an action that is permitted of
Agora in the Protectorate's ruleset, with the exception of direct changes to
that Protectorate's ruleset as described above. Any Player may, with Agoran
consent, require that the Ambassador act or not act in a specified fashion
in relation to a Protectorate.
}
Upon passage of this Proposal, the holder of the Office of Ambassador shall
be BobTHJ

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-26
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HrvlW-00023i-3W@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-06
fate_mid: <46666700.2010104@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4989
submit_date: 2007-05-25
submit_mid: <20070525092511.GA18335@fysh.org>
title: down with non-person players

Amend rule 869 by appending the paragraph:

      A player who is not a person and has never been a natural person
      can be deregistered by any player by announcement.

[We are faced with some players that used to be non-natural legal
persons and are no longer persons.  Such entities can't actually act
as players.  This would allow them to be removed from playerhood in
these circumstances.  The "never been a natural person" provision
is paranoia, to prevent a problem with the definition of personhood
triggering deregistration of humans.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-26
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HrvlW-00023i-3W@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-06
fate_mid: <46666700.2010104@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4990
submit_date: 2007-05-25
submit_mid: <20070525092511.GA18335@fysh.org>
title: truthfulness

Enact a rule with title "Truthfulness" and text:

      Players are prohibited from deliberately or recklessly making
      false statements in any public message.  Merely quoting a false
      statement does not constitute making it for the purposes of this
      rule.  Any disclaimer, conditional clause, or other qualifier
      attached to a statement constitutes part of the statement for
      the purposes of this rule; the truth or falsity of the whole is
      what is significant.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-26
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HrvlW-00023i-3W@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-06
fate_mid: <46666700.2010104@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4991
submit_date: 2007-05-25
submit_mid: <4657001F.6000909@socal.rr.com>
title: The Standing Court

Change the title of Rule 1871 (Turns for All) to "The Standing Court",
and amend it to read:

      Each player is either standing, sitting, or lying down.

      A player may change emself from sitting to lying down, or vice
      versa, by announcement.

      When a player is selected as Trial Judge of a CFJ, e changes to
      sitting.  A player is ineligible to become Trial Judge of a CFJ
      if e is not standing.

      When a player registers, e is lying down.

      The Clerk of the Courts may (without 2 objections) change a
      player to lying down.  E is encouraged to do this only if e
      expects the player to judge CFJs slowly or not at all.

      When the Clerk of the Courts publishes a Notice of Rotation, all
      sitting players change to standing.  The Clerk of the Courts
      shall only do so when all open CFJs without a Trial Judge have
      no players eligible to be assigned, and at least one of them has
      at least one player ineligible solely to not standing; e shall
      list all CFJs in the first set, and at least one in the second
      (noting at least one of the relevant players).  However, failing
      to meet these requirements does not deprive the Notice of effect.

Upon the adoption of this proposal, the Speaker and Clerk of the Courts
are changed to standing; all other players are changed to lying down.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-26
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HrvlW-00023i-3W@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-06
fate_mid: <46666700.2010104@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Goddess Eris
seq_number: 4992
submit_date: 2007-05-25
submit_mid: <fa0147d90705251218v6c25a76cya412f4b8bbd12ba@mail.gmail.com>
title: Quorum fix

Add the following paragraph to the end of Rule 879 (Quorum):

    Voters whose voting limit is less than one are not considered
    eligible for the purposes of this rule.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-26
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HrvlW-00023i-3W@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-06
fate_mid: <46666700.2010104@socal.rr.com>
proposer: BobTHJ
seq_number: 4993
submit_date: 2007-05-25
submit_mid: <56732cfd0705251312u56d55ccfn12da79cb61ea063d@mail.gmail.com>
title: Property

Create a new rule titled "Property" with Power 1 and the text:

{
A Magnate is a type of entity. An entity is not a Magnate unless specified
by the rules. Magnates may own other entities called Properties. All
Properties must be owned by a Magnate. If a Property is ever not owned by a
Magnate, it becomes owned by the Agoran Treasury. The Magnate that owns a
Property has the sole right to use that Property in the manner the rules
allow. No Magnate can use a Property that it does not own.

Properties can not be created or destroyed except as the rules specify.
Specific types of Properties can be either fungible or non-fungible.

All Players are Magnates.
}

Create a new rule titled "Property Transfer" with Power 1 and the text:
{
Whenever a Property or Properties are transferred, the following occur
simultaneously:
* The Property or Properties ceasee to be owned by their current owner
Magnate.
* The Property or Propreties becomee owned by the Magnate identified as
receiving the transfer

Any Magnate can transfer one or more Properties they own to a different
Magnate by making a "Transfer Notice" announcement to the Public Forum,
unless otherwise prohibited. This Transfer Notice must clearly identify the
following information:
* The Magnate who will receive the Property or Properties in question
* Each Property to be transferred as part of this notice
The Property or Properties in question are transferred upon the posting of a
valid Transfer Notice.

If a rule states that a Magnate may pay a specified type and amount of
property, then that Magnate may do so by Transfer Notice, but is not
obligated to.

If a rule states that a Magnate is obliged to pay a specified type and
amount of property, then that Magnate must do so as soon as possible by
Transfer Notice.

If a rule states that a Magnate pays a specified type and amount of
property, then that property is transferred to the designated receiving
Magnate instantly (if possible) upon that requirement taking effect.

Property may only be transferred from one Magnate to a different Magnate.
Property may not be transferred from a Magnate to itself.
}

Create a new rule titled "Secretary of the Treasury" with Power 1 and the
text:
{
There exists an Office titled "Secretary of the Treasury". The holder of
this office is responsible for tracking Properties and Magnates. The
Secretary of the Treasury's report shall include:
* A list of each Magnate and the Properties it owns.
* A summary of all recent events involving the creation, destruction, or
transfer of Property
}

When this Proposal passes, BobTHJ becomes the holder of the Office of
Secretary of the Treasury.

Create a new rule titled "Currency" with Power 1 and the text:
{
Currency is a fungible type of Property. One unit of Currency is known as an
Agoran Dollar. Currency may be referenced using the dollar sign ($).
}

When this Proposal passes, $10,000 shall be created and owned by each
registered Player who is a natural person.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-26
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HrvlW-00023i-3W@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-06
fate_mid: <46666700.2010104@socal.rr.com>
proposer: BobTHJ
seq_number: 4994
submit_date: 2007-05-25
submit_mid: <56732cfd0705251312u56d55ccfn12da79cb61ea063d@mail.gmail.com>
title: Department of the Treasury

Create a rule titled "Department of the Treasury" with Power of 1 and this
text:

{
There shall exist a Magnate known as the Agoran Treasury.

The Tax Levy is a percentage. At the beginning of each week, every Player
pays a percentage of their Currency equal to the Tax Levy to the Agoran
Treasury (rounding down to the nearest Agoran Dollar). This is known as
Paying Taxes and the amount paid is known as the Tax.

The Secretary of the Treasury may change the Tax Levy to a new amount with
Agoran Consent.
}

When this proposal is passed, the Tax Levy is set to 5%, and $10,000 is
created and owned by the Agoran Treasury.

Create a rule titled "Salary for Agoran Officials" with Power of 1 and this
text:

{
Each Office of Agora shall have a Salary amount associated with it. The
Salary is an amount of Currency, and unless otherwise specified is equal to
$500.

At the beginning of each week, after taxes are paid, the Agoran Treasury
pays the holder of each Agoran Office an amount of Currency equal to the
Salary amount of that Office. Salary payments are made in the order that
Offices are defined in the ruleset, when ordered by Rule Number.

The Secretary of the Treasury may change the Salary of an office with Agoran
Consent.
}

Modify rule 1504 "Sentencing Orders" by adding the following point to the
list as item #3, and renumbering all following items:

{
3) An order for the defendant to pay a specified amount of Currency up to
$1000 to the Agoran Treasury
}

Create a rule titled "Bankruptcy" with Power of 1 and this text:

{
If a Magnate other than the Agoran Treasury is unable to pay an amount of a
type of Property that they are required to pay, then that Magnate is said to
be "Bankrupt". Any Magnate (with the exception of the Agoran Treasury) to
whom a Bankrupt Magnate is required to pay Property to is a Creditor. When a
Magnate becomes Bankrupt, it must pay each Creditor the amount and type of
property owed to it as soon as possible. If it does so, it ceases to be
Bankrupt. However, if it fails to do so, the following occurs (in order):
1. All Property owned by Magnate is transferred to the Agoran Treasury.
2. The Agoran Treasury pays to each Creditor one half (rounded down) of the
amount and type of fungible property owed to them, as much as is possible,
and all non-fungible
property owed to them as much as possible. If there are multiple Creditors,
then each shall be paid in random order.
3. The Bankrupt Magnate's Voting Limit on Ordinary Proposals is set to 1.
4. The Bankrupt Magnate ceases to be Bankrupt, and is released from any
current obligation to pay property to a Creditor. However, this does not
prevent the formerly Bankrupt Magnate from being required to pay Property to
another Magnate in the future.

If the Agoran Treasury is ever unable to pay an amount of a type of Property
that it is required to pay to another Magnate, it is released from that
requirement to pay until such a time as it is able to pay the specified
amount and type of Property.
}

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-26
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HrvlW-00023i-3W@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-06
fate_mid: <46666700.2010104@socal.rr.com>
proposer: BobTHJ
seq_number: 4995
submit_date: 2007-05-25
submit_mid: <56732cfd0705251312u56d55ccfn12da79cb61ea063d@mail.gmail.com>
title: Economy

Create a rule called "Certification" with Power 1 that reads:

{
A Player who performs one of the following actions without being certified
for that action has er Voting Limit on Ordinary Proposals reduced by two (to
a minimum of 0):
* Submitting a ballot for distributed proposals
* Supporting or opposing a dependent action
* Submitting a proposal for distribution

Players become certified for an action by obtaining a Certificate. A
Certificate is owned by a player, but is not Property and may not be traded
or exchanged. Each Certificate allows a Player to perform one specific type
of action. Each certificate has an expiration date. The holder of a
Certificate may exercise the action specified in the certificate freely
while that Certificate is valid, unless constrained by another rule or
binding agreement. When the expiration date of a Certificate is reached, it
becomes invalid and ceases to exist.

A Player may hold any number of Certificates, and holding a Certificate does
not prevent another Player from holding a Certificate of the same type.
}

Create a rule called "Licenses" with Power 1 that reads:
{
Certain activities that are regulated under Agoran law require a license.
These activities can only be conducted by an Agoran Player who holds a
license for that activity. Any Agoran Player may purchase a License for one
of the activities regulated by this rule by making an announcement to the
Public Forum and paying the cost of that License in Currency to the Agoran
Treasury.

Each License has an Initial Cost to purchase, and in addition each License
requires a monthly Renewal Fee to be paid to the Agoran Treasury. If a
Player wishes to renew a Licence, e may pay the renewal fee to the Agoran
Treasury as soon as possible after the beginning of a new month. If e
doesn't, e loses that License and if e wishes to become re-licensed in that
activity again, e shall have to pay the initial license purchase fee.

The Secretary of the Treasury may change the Initial Cost and/or the Renewal
Fee of any license with Agoran Consent.

A License is owned by a Player, but is not Property and may not be
transferred. A Player may hold as many Licenses as e wishes, and each
License is available to all Agoran Players to purchase, unless otherwise
specified in another rule with power equal to or higher than the power of
this rule.

The following Licenses are available for purchase:

Voter Certification License
A Player holding this license can (by announcement) issue a Voter's
Certificate to any Player. This Certificate must have an expiration date no
further than one week beyond the date of issue. The holder of a Voter's
Certificate is certified to submit ballots on distributed Proposals.

Dependent Action License
A Player holding this License can (by announcement) issue a Supporter's
Certificate or an Objector's Certificate to any Player. This Certificate
must have an expiration date no further than one week beyond the date of
issue. The holder of a Supporter's Certificate may support any dependent
action and the holder of an Objector's Certificate may object to any
dependent action.

Proposer Certification License
A Player holding this License can (by announcement) issue a Proposer's
Certificate to any Player. This Certificate must have an expiration date no
further than one week beyond the date of issue. The holder of a Proposer's
Certificate may submit proposals for distribution.

Contractor's License
A Player holding this License can (by announcement) create one Land as
described in the rule Land Ownership, as long as e has not done so within
the past week.

Digit Farming License
A Player holding this License can (by announcement) "farm" Digit Ranches e
owns, as described in the rule Land Ownership, as long as e has not done so
within the past week.

Equator's License
A Player holding this License can (by announcement) process equations using
eir Equation Factories, as described in the rule Land Ownership.

Demolitions License
A Player holding this License can (by announcement) destroy any one Land
owned by any Player, as long as e has not done so within the past week.

Broker's License
A Player holding this License is known as a Broker. A Player holding this
License can (by announcement) validate a Bill of Sale.
}
The Initial Cost of each License is set to $2,500, and the Renewal Fee for
each License is set to $1,000.

Create a rule called "Digits" with Power 1 that reads:

{
Digits are a type of Property that may be owned by Players. There are ten
types of Digits, represented by the numbers 0 through 9. All Digits of the
same numerical value are fungible.

After an Ordinary Proposal is distributed, but before voting ends, any
Player may destroy digits e controls corresponding to the digits in the
number of that proposal by announcement. This has the effect of increasing
eir Voting Limit on that Proposal by two. This action may be performed
multiple times by the same Player for the same Proposal.

A Player may destroy one digit he controls of each of the ten digit types by
announcement. If e does, e gains 1 VC.

When a Judge issues a judgment on a CFJ, e may (once per CFJ) destroy digits
e controls corresponding to the digits in the number of the CFJ. If e does,
the Agoran Treasury pays em $1000.

As soon as possible after a new rule is added to the ruleset, a Player may
(once per rule) destroy digits e controls corresponding to the digits in the
number of that new rule. If e does, e gains 1 VC.

Digits destroyed to fulfill one of the above requirements are only valid to
fulfill that sole requirement. They may not also be used to fulfill other
requirements of the same or different type.
}

Create a rule called "Land Ownership" with Power 1 that reads:
{
Land is a type of non-fungible Property. A Magnate may name a specific Land
it owns by announcement.

Land may not be transferred voluntarily (unless specifically permitted in
another rule) except by a Bill of Sale. A Bill of Sale is a type of Transfer
Notice that is inherently invalid unless validated by a Broker.

A Digit Ranch is a type of Land. Each Digit Ranch produces a single type of
Digit, determined at the time the Digit Ranch is created by its creator. A
Digit Ranch's digit type may not be changed. When a Magnate owning a Digit
Ranch "farms", one digit of the same type as the Digit ranch is created and
given to that Magnate.

An Equation Factory is a type of Land. An Equation factory consists of a
mathematical equation containing three variables (represented by the capital
letters X, Y, and Z). An Equation Factory's equation is determined at the
time it is created and it may not be changed. At any time, the owner of an
Equation Factory, if e holds an Equator's License, may use any three digits
e owns to 'Process Equations' by announcement:
1. E substitutes those digits into the equation in place of the Variables.
2. E solves the equation to obtain a result between 0 and 99 inclusive.
3. The original digits are destroyed and e receives two newly created
digits, one for each digit in the resulting number (adding a leading zero if
needed to obtain a two digit number)
If, when solved, an equation produces a number that is not in the range of 0
to 99 that Equation Factory is destroyed.
}

Create a rule titled "Auctions" with Power of 1 and this text:
{
A Magnate may declare one or more amounts and types of Property it owns
(except for Currency) as "Up for Auction" by announcement. The Property or
Properties declared up for auction are collectively known as the Lot. The
Magnate putting the Lot up for auction is known as the Seller. The Magnate
must designate a Broker, that Broker is known as the Auctioneer.

Any Magnate except the Seller may make a Bid on a Lot by announcement. A Bid
must include a specific amount of Currency that is less than or equal to the
amount of Currency that Magnate owns.

The Auctioneer may declare the auction closed at any time by announcement.
When e does e may optionally select a winning bid from among those bids
received on that Lot. If e does, then the Magnate that made that bid pays
the amount of Currency specified in that Bid to the Seller, and the Seller
pays the Lot to the Magnate who made the winning Bid.

The Secretary of the Treasury may act on behalf of the Agoran Treasury to
designate any Property or Properties owned by the Agoran Treasury as Up for
Auction, and may specify a Broker to serve as Auctioneer for that auction.

If an Auctioneer has not selected a winning bid after one week, that auction
is closed without a winning bid.
}

Create a rule titled "Welfare" with Power of 1 and this text:
{
The Unemployment Stipend is an amount of Currency.

At the beginning of each week, after Officer salaries are paid, the Agoran
Treasury pays an amount equal to the Unemployment Stipend to each Magnate
that meets the following conditions:
1. The Magnate is a natural person.
2. The Magnate possesses no Licenses
3. The Magnate owns no Land

The Secretary of the Treasury may change the Unemployment Stipend to a new
amount with Agoran Consent.
}
The Unemployment Stipend is set to $200.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-05-26
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HrvlW-00023i-3W@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-06
fate_mid: <46666700.2010104@socal.rr.com>
proposer: root
seq_number: 4996
submit_date: 2007-05-25
submit_mid: <3fc761710705251349s394a08f3r84e90e835fb418da@mail.gmail.com>
title: More on paragraphs 1.1

Replace paragraph (d) of Rule 1023 (Common Definitions) with this
text:

     (d) The term "paragraph" shall mean a subset of text determined
         as follows:

         (1) Each bulleted or enumerated (hereafter simply
             "bulleted") section is a unit of text.

         (2) Any remaining text is divided into units at blank lines.

         (3) Each unit of a document has a level as follows.  All
             unbulleted units have level 1.  Each bulleted unit has
             level n+2, where n is the number of bulleted units it is
             nested inside.

         (4) A barrier between two units is a unit appearing between
             those units which has level no greater than that of the
             unit appearing first.

         (5) The units of a document form an ordered tree, with the
             hierarchy determined as follows.  The root is an empty
             unit with level zero, which nominally appears at the
             beginning of the document.  One unit is a descendant of
             another unit if it appears after the latter, has
             strictly greater level, and is not separated from the
             latter by a barrier.  The tree's ordering follows the
             order of the units in the document.

         (6) A "paragraph" identified by partial quotation is
             determined by the minimum sub-tree containing the
             entirety of that quotation.

         (7) A "paragraph" identified by an ordinal n is determined
             by the nth unbulleted unit and its descendants.

         (8) A "paragraph" identified by enumerated section labels is
             determined by the sub-tree arrived at by traversal from
             the root, using the specified series of labels.

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ai: 2
coauthors: Goddess Eris
dist_date: 2007-05-30
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HtCQx-0002pT-3V@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-06
fate_mid: <46666700.2010104@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4997
submit_date: 2007-05-29
submit_mid: <20070529133513.GD13230@fysh.org>
title: quorum fix (fixed)

Goddess Eris is a coauthor of this proposal.

Add the following paragraph to the end of Rule 879 (Quorum):

      Voters whose voting limit is less than one are not considered
      eligible for the purposes of this rule.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-02
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HuT6N-0006az-RA@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-12
fate_mid: <466E3BF4.2050007@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 4998
submit_date: 2007-05-30
submit_mid: <465DA903.20005@socal.rr.com>
title: Public appeals

Amend Rule 1564 (Initiating Appeals) by adding, immediately
before this text:

      A subject is Appealed when any of the following occurs:

this text:

      A player Appeals a subject by announcement.

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-02
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HuT6N-0006az-RA@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-12
fate_mid: <466E3BF4.2050007@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 4999
submit_date: 2007-05-31
submit_mid: <20070531162606.GS32061@fysh.org>
title: fix dependent actions

Amend rule 1728 by replacing the text "action; or" with "action; and".

[Before this amendment, an action to be performed Without Objection
can actually be performed despite objections, on the grounds that it
trivially satisfies (e)(2) which is ORed with (e)(1).  To make (e)(1)
matter in that case it must be ANDed with (e)(2).]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2007-06-01
fate_mid: <465F3464.2090106@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Murphy
submit_date: 2007-05-31
submit_mid: <465F06F1.8070103@socal.rr.com>
title: Disambiguate voter eligibility

Amend Rule 107 (Initiating Agoran Decisions) by replacing this text:

     An Agoran decision is initiated when a person authorized to
     initiate it publishes a valid notice which sets forth the intent
     to initiate the decision.  To be valid, this notice must contain
     the following information:

with this text:

     An Agoran decision is initiated when a person authorized to
     initiate it publishes a valid notice which sets forth the intent
     to initiate the decision.  This notice is invalid if it lacks
     any of the following information, and the lack is correctly
     identified within one week after the notice is published:

[107(c) has not been explicitly obeyed for some time, either.]

Amend Rule 683 (Voting on Agoran Decisions) by replacing this text:

     (a) The ballot is submitted by an eligible voter during the
         voting period for the decision.

with this text:

     (a) The ballot is submitted during the voting period for the
         decision.

Amend Rule 1959 (Voting Limits) to read:

      An entity's voting limit on an Agoran decision is:

        (a) If the entity is not an eligible voter, then zero, not
            subject to modification.

        (b) Otherwise, if the decision is to resolve an ordinary
            proposal, then one, subject to modification by the rules.

        (c) Otherwise, one, subject to modification only by this rule.

      The voting limit of an entity who is not a natural person is
      reduced by one.

      At the end of the voting period of an Agoran decision, the first
      N ballots submitted by each entity on that decision (where N is
      the entity's voting limit on the decision at the start of the
      voting period) remain valid; all other ballots submitted on that
      decision are invalid.

Amend Rule 879 (Quorum) to read:

     Quorum for an Agoran decision is N/3 (where N is the number of
     eligible voters), rounded up, with a minimum of five (unless this
     is greater than N, in which quorum is N).

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-02
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HuT6N-0006az-RA@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-12
fate_mid: <466E3BF4.2050007@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 5000
submit_date: 2007-06-01
submit_mid: <465F3464.2090106@socal.rr.com>
title: Disambiguate voter eligibility

Amend Rule 107 (Initiating Agoran Decisions) by replacing this text:

     An Agoran decision is initiated when a person authorized to
     initiate it publishes a valid notice which sets forth the intent
     to initiate the decision.  To be valid, this notice must contain
     the following information:

with this text:

     An Agoran decision is initiated when a person authorized to
     initiate it publishes a valid notice which sets forth the intent
     to initiate the decision.  This notice is invalid if it lacks
     any of the following information, and the lack is correctly
     identified within one week after the notice is published:

[107(c) has not been explicitly obeyed for some time, either.]

Amend Rule 683 (Voting on Agoran Decisions) by replacing this text:

     (a) The ballot is submitted by an eligible voter during the
         voting period for the decision.

with this text:

     (a) The ballot is submitted during the voting period for the
         decision.

Amend Rule 1950 (Voting Limits) to read:

      An entity's voting limit on an Agoran decision is:

        (a) If the entity is not an eligible voter, then zero, not
            subject to modification.

        (b) Otherwise, if the decision is to resolve an ordinary
            proposal, then one, subject to modification by the rules.

        (c) Otherwise, one, subject to modification only by this rule.

      The voting limit of an entity who is not a natural person is
      reduced by one.

      At the end of the voting period of an Agoran decision, the first
      N ballots submitted by each entity on that decision (where N is
      the entity's voting limit on the decision at the start of the
      voting period) remain valid; all other ballots submitted on that
      decision are invalid.

Amend Rule 879 (Quorum) to read:

     Quorum for an Agoran decision is N/3 (where N is the number of
     eligible voters with a positive voting limit on that decision),
     rounded up, with a minimum of five (unless this is greater than
     N, in which case quorum is N).

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ai: 1
coauthors: Quazie
dist_date: 2007-06-02
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HuT6N-0006az-RA@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-12
fate_mid: <466E3BF4.2050007@socal.rr.com>
proposer: root
seq_number: 5001
submit_date: 2007-06-01
submit_mid: <3fc761710705311938t278865a1v4989c55144f69a4a@mail.gmail.com>
title: Putting the bar back into barrister

Quazie is a co-author of this proposal.

Amend R897 by replacing the section reading:

     A Player Barred from Judging a CFJ is ineligible to Judge that
     CFJ.

with:

     A player barred from judging a CFJ is ineligible to judge that
     CFJ.  The caller of a CFJ is automatically barred from judging
     it.

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-06
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1Hvjlm-0008Hb-CT@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-13
fate_mid: <466F4532.3070002@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5002
submit_date: 2007-06-03
submit_mid: <20070603191527.GH2843@fysh.org>
title: power law quorum

Amend rule 879 to read:

      The quorum for an Agoran decision is NEV^0.55, rounded up, where
      NEV is the number of eligible voters with a positive voting
      limit on that decision.

[Smoothly varying quorum proportion, no need for multiple formulae.  A
power law roughly matches the way attendance levels tend to go in
committees.]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-06
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1Hvjlm-0008Hb-CT@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-06-13
fate_mid: <466F4532.3070002@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5003
submit_date: 2007-06-03
submit_mid: <20070603191731.GI2843@fysh.org>
title: more mutability for VCs

Change the Power of rule 2126 to 2.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-06
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1Hvjlm-0008Hb-CT@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-13
fate_mid: <466F4532.3070002@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5004
submit_date: 2007-06-04
submit_mid: <20070604091225.GA20090@fysh.org>
title: clean up activity duplicates

If rule 2130 contains any duplicate paragraphs, amend it by deleting
each instance other than the first of each duplicate paragraph.

[The unexpected belated passage of proposals 4966-4967 means that it
now seems likely that we'll get two instances of each taking effect.]

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2007-06-06
fate_mid: <3fc761710706060852x79b0fd1aldcbf5cda0283e599@mail.gmail.com>
proposer: root
submit_date: 2007-06-06
submit_mid: <3fc761710706060846j7d15ca0dy8485fcab39c49630@mail.gmail.com>
title: Power to the Paragraphs

Replace paragraph (d) of Rule 1023 (Common Definitions) with this
text:

    (d) The term "paragraph" shall mean a subset of text determined
        as follows:

        (1) Each bulleted section is a unit of text.

        (2) Any remaining text is divided into units at blank lines.

        (3) Units are considered in an ordered tree hierarchy.  The
            root is empty, any unbulleted units are its children,
            and the bulleted units following an unbulleted unit are
            its descendants (with nested bullets corresponding to
            nested levels of the tree). If the text consists only of
            bulleted units, then the top-most level comprise the
            root's immediate children.

        (4) A "paragraph" identified by partial quotation is
            determined by the minimum sub-tree containing the
            entirety of that quotation.

        (5) A "paragraph" identified by an ordinal n is determined
            by the nth unbulleted unit and its descendants.

        (6) A "paragraph" identified by bulleted section labels is
            determined by the sub-tree arrived at by traversal from
            the root, using the specified series of labels.

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-09
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1Hx0RD-0003Tc-6T@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-18
fate_mid: <46760282.1040805@socal.rr.com>
proposer: root
seq_number: 5005
submit_date: 2007-06-06
submit_mid: <3fc761710706060852x79b0fd1aldcbf5cda0283e599@mail.gmail.com>
title: Power to the Paragraphs 1.1

Replace paragraph (d) of Rule 1023 (Common Definitions) with this
text:

    (d) The term "paragraph" shall mean a subset of text determined
        as follows:

        (1) Each bulleted or enumerated (hereafter simply
            "bulleted") section is a unit of text.

        (2) Any remaining text is divided into units at blank lines.

        (3) Each unit of a document has a level as follows.  All
            unbulleted units have level 1.  Each bulleted unit has
            level n+2, where n is the number of bulleted units it is
            nested inside.

        (4) A barrier between two units is a unit appearing between
            those units which has level no greater than that of the
            unit appearing first.

        (5) The units of a document form an ordered tree, with the
            hierarchy determined as follows.  The root is an empty
            unit with level zero, which nominally appears at the
            beginning of the document.  One unit is a descendant of
            another unit if it appears after the latter, has
            strictly greater level, and is not separated from the
            latter by a barrier.  The tree's ordering follows the
            order of the units in the document.

        (6) A "paragraph" identified by partial quotation is
            determined by the minimum sub-tree containing the
            entirety of that quotation.

        (7) A "paragraph" identified by an ordinal n is determined
            by the nth unbulleted unit and its descendants.

        (8) A "paragraph" identified by enumerated section labels is
            determined by the sub-tree arrived at by traversal from
            the root, using the specified series of labels.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-09
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1Hx0RD-0003Tc-6T@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-18
fate_mid: <46760282.1040805@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5006
submit_date: 2007-06-09
submit_mid: <20070609092752.GB23637@fysh.org>
title: discretionary annotations only

Vacate all orders requiring the rulekeepor to annotate rules.

Repeal rule 789.

Amend rule 1681 by deleting the text ", and must also include any
annotations to the rule required by order".

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-09
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1Hx0RD-0003Tc-6T@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-18
fate_mid: <46760282.1040805@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5007
submit_date: 2007-06-09
submit_mid: <20070609092752.GB23637@fysh.org>
title: generalise naturalhood

Enact a Power=2 rule with title "Personhood" and text:

      "First-class person" means a person of a biological nature.

      "First-class player" means a player who is a first-class person.

[Logically this rule should first define "person".  In the present
form it leaves the meaning implicit, as it currently is.]

Amend rule 1728 by replacing each instance of the words "players who
are natural persons" with "first-class players".

Amend rule 1950 by replacing the text "natural person" with
"first-class person".

Amend rule 869 by replacing the text "never been a natural person"
with "never been a first-class person".

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-09
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1Hx0RD-0003Tc-6T@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-18
fate_mid: <46760282.1040805@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5008
submit_date: 2007-06-09
submit_mid: <20070609092752.GB23637@fysh.org>
title: allow exceptions to definitions

Amend rule 754 by adding after item (4) the item:

      (5) Any term may be granted a different meaning from its
          standard meaning by means of a qualification or a specific
          redefinition applying to a particular communication or set
          of communications.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-09
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1Hx0RD-0003Tc-6T@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-18
fate_mid: <46760282.1040805@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5009
submit_date: 2007-06-09
submit_mid: <20070609092752.GB23637@fysh.org>
title: enforce agreements

Amend rule 1742 by deleting the sentence

      If a Civil CFJ is called by anyone who is not party to that
      agreement, then it lacks standing and shall be dismissed.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-13
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HyH6d-0006dp-6n@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-24
fate_mid: <467BA6EE.5020608@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Levi
seq_number: 5010
submit_date: 2007-06-12
submit_mid: <466DF4D9.2090204@optusnet.com.au>
title: <none>

In rule 106 replace the following text


      A Proposal with an Adoption Index of 1 is Ordinary.

with

      A Proposal with an Adoption Index of less than 2 is Ordinary.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-13
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HyH6d-0006dp-6n@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-24
fate_mid: <467BA6EE.5020608@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5011
submit_date: 2007-06-12
submit_mid: <20070612090212.GC30429@fysh.org>
title: define registration

Amend rule 869 by replacing the text:

      A person who is not currently registered as a player and is not
      prohibited from registering is permitted to register.

      A person registers or deregisters by announcement.

      Whenever a person registers, e becomes a player.

      Whenever a player deregisters or is deregistered, e ceases to be
      a player and is prohibited from registering for the next thirty
      days.

with:

      Each entity at any time either is or is not a player.  The verb
      "to be registered" means to become a player, and the verb "to be
      deregistered" means to cease to be a player.  Where the verb "to
      register" or "to deregister" is used without an explicit direct
      object, the action is implicitly reflexive.  The adjective
      "registered", or its fuller form "registered as a player",
      describes those who are players.

      A person is permitted to register or deregister unless
      specifically prohibited. A person registers or deregisters by
      announcement.

      Whenever a player is deregistered, e is prohibited from
      registering for the next thirty days.

[We have previously had arguments that one could become a player
without being registered, and suchlike.  This defines all the
terminology to avoid such confusion.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-13
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HyH6d-0006dp-6n@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-24
fate_mid: <467BA6EE.5020608@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5012
submit_date: 2007-06-12
submit_mid: <20070612090212.GC30429@fysh.org>
title: execution of timing orders

Amend rule 1794 by replacing "executed by any person" with "executed by
any person by announcement".

[The mechanism to execute timing orders was not specified.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-13
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HyH6d-0006dp-6n@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-24
fate_mid: <467BA6EE.5020608@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5013
submit_date: 2007-06-12
submit_mid: <20070612090212.GC30429@fysh.org>
title: no compulsion

Repeal rules 1509 and 1830.

[Orders to Compel don't actually achieve anything: they impose an
obligation that the target already has.  The second paragraph of R1830
is on a different subject: it is trivially circumvented, and we don't
seem to be suffering as a result, so it too appears to be unnecessary.]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-13
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HyH6d-0006dp-6n@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-24
fate_mid: <467BA6EE.5020608@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5014
submit_date: 2007-06-12
submit_mid: <20070612090212.GC30429@fysh.org>
title: no private messages

Amend rule 478 by deleting the sentence

                      A player performs an action "by private message"
      to some player by sending an appropriate private message to the
      specified player.

[This definition is not used anywhere.]

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-13
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HyH6d-0006dp-6n@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-24
fate_mid: <467BA6EE.5020608@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5015
submit_date: 2007-06-12
submit_mid: <20070612090212.GC30429@fysh.org>
title: CFJ by announcement

Amend rule 991 by replacing "by submitting a Call for Judgement (CFJ)
to the Clerk of the Courts" with "by publishing a Call for Judgement
(CFJ)".

Amend rule 897 by deleting the paragraph that begins "The Clerk of the
Courts shall publish".

[We are in practice always calling for judgement by announcement.
Might as well make that official and remove the CotC's redundant
obligation to publish.]

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-13
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HyH6d-0006dp-6n@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-24
fate_mid: <467BA6EE.5020608@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5016
submit_date: 2007-06-12
submit_mid: <20070612090212.GC30429@fysh.org>
title: report Agoran Contracts

Amend rule 2109 by replacing the paragraph:

      The CotC is required to keep track of all Agoran Contracts.

with:

      The CotC's monthly report includes all Agoran Contracts.

[Our lone Agoran Contract is presently invisible.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-13
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HyH6d-0006dp-6n@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-24
fate_mid: <467BA6EE.5020608@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5017
submit_date: 2007-06-12
submit_mid: <20070612090212.GC30429@fysh.org>
title: simplify Judicial Orders

Repeal rule 1803.

Amend rule 1794 by appending to item (c) the sentence "A Judicial
Oredr is executed by announcement.".

[We don't need the complex execution mechanism: announcement will do
fine. The second paragraph of rule 1803 is vacuous, as it merely
describes a particular application of the Motion mechanism.]

Amend rule 1564 by replacing each instance of "Judicial or Sentencing
Order" with "Judicial Order".

Amend rule 1804 by replacing each instance of "Judicial Order or
Sentencing Order" with "Judicial Order".

[Sentencing Orders are a subclass of Judicial Orders.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-13
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HyH6d-0006dp-6n@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-24
fate_mid: <467BA6EE.5020608@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5018
submit_date: 2007-06-12
submit_mid: <20070612090212.GC30429@fysh.org>
title: simplify legislative orders

Repeal rule 1891.

[Sections (a) and (b) are implicit in the definition of legislative
orders in R1794.  Section (c) just seems pointless.]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-16
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HzXm3-0007Tz-5F@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-25
fate_mid: <467FCAA6.9050306@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 5021
submit_date: 2007-06-13
submit_mid: <466F80F7.1000203@socal.rr.com>
title: Mother, May I?

Create a rule titled "Mother, May I?" with Power 3 and this text:

      The following terms are defined.  These definitions MUST be used
      when a rule includes a term in all caps, and SHOULD be used when
      a rule includes a term otherwise.  Earlier definitions take
      precedence over later ones.  If a rule specifies one or more
      players in connection with a term, then the term applies only to
      the specified player(s).

        1. CANNOT, IMPOSSIBLE, INEFFECTIVE, INVALID:  Attempts to
           perform the described action are unsuccessful.

        2. MUST NOT, MAY NOT, SHALL NOT, ILLEGAL, PROHIBITED:
           Performing the described action violates the rule in
           question.

        3. SHOULD NOT, DISCOURAGED, DEPRECATED:  Before performing the
           described action, the full implications of performing it
           should be understood and carefully weighed.

        4. CAN X ONLY IF Y:  Equivalent to "CANNOT X unless Y".  Similar
           for (MUST, MAY, SHALL, SHOULD) X ONLY IF Y.

        5. MUST, SHALL, REQUIRED, MANDATORY:  Failing to perform the
           described action violates the rule in question.

        6. SHOULD, ENCOURAGED, RECOMMENDED:  Before failing to perform
           the described action, the full implications of failing to
           perform it should be understood and carefully weighed.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-16
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HzXm3-0007Tz-5F@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-25
fate_mid: <467FCAA6.9050306@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 5022
submit_date: 2007-06-13
submit_mid: <466F810E.3010403@socal.rr.com>
title: Limited Partnerships, take fifteen

Amend Rule 2144 (Limited Partnerships) to read:

      A partnership's basis is the set containing its natural-person
      members, plus each member of the basis of each of its
      non-natural-person members.

      A partnership is prohibited from registering if its basis is
      the same as that of another registered partnership.

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-16
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HzXm3-0007Tz-5F@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-25
fate_mid: <467FCAA6.9050306@socal.rr.com>
proposer: BobTHJ
seq_number: 5023
submit_date: 2007-06-13
submit_mid: <56732cfd0706131147q1048b003q9fe3d6c683092a23@mail.gmail.com>
title: Fixing the Ambassador

Amend R2148 by replacing the words "as described above" with "as described
in R2147 Protectorates".

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-16
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HzXm3-0007Tz-5F@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-25
fate_mid: <467FCAA6.9050306@socal.rr.com>
proposer: BobTHJ
seq_number: 5024
submit_date: 2007-06-13
submit_mid: <56732cfd0706131153hed16db6j358b084c259490c1@mail.gmail.com>
title: No Contracts

R2109 Agoran Contracts is repealed.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2007-06-14
fate_mid: <56732cfd0706140930o20cab8edo62fd0325cf9e28ec@mail.gmail.com>
proposer: BobTHJ
submit_date: 2007-06-13
submit_mid: <56732cfd0706131153hed16db6j358b084c259490c1@mail.gmail.com>
title: No Applications

R1626 Applications is repealed.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-16
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HzXm3-0007Tz-5F@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-25
fate_mid: <467FCAA6.9050306@socal.rr.com>
proposer: BobTHJ
seq_number: 5025
submit_date: 2007-06-14
submit_mid: <56732cfd0706140930o20cab8edo62fd0325cf9e28ec@mail.gmail.com>
title: No Applications II

R1365 is amended to read:
{
A player may submit a Concurring or Dissenting opinion for a given CFJ
trial or appeals decision with 1 Support. The opinion must reference the CFJ
in question and clearly indicate that it is an opinion to be appended to
that CFJ. The opinion should be accompanied by reasons or arguments. The
Clerk of the Courts shall append any properly submitted opinion to the CFJ
in question, along with a list of the Player who submitted  that opinion and
the player(s) who supported it.
}

Repeal R1626 Applications

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-16
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1HzXm3-0007Tz-5F@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-25
fate_mid: <467FCAA6.9050306@socal.rr.com>
proposer: BobTHJ
seq_number: 5026
submit_date: 2007-06-14
submit_mid: <56732cfd0706140938l3e5af2dsa7e35bac3a8e97dd@mail.gmail.com>
title: Power to the Partnerships

Amend R1728 Dependant Actions by removing all occurrences of the phrase "who
are natural persons"

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-20
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I0oRS-0008SL-5m@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-28
fate_mid: <468344E0.8000602@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5027
submit_date: 2007-06-18
submit_mid: <20070618152329.GN19115@fysh.org>
title: revocation of speling errors

Amend rule 2129 by replacing the word "revokation" with "revocation".

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-20
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I0oRS-0008SL-5m@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-28
fate_mid: <468344E0.8000602@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5028
submit_date: 2007-06-18
submit_mid: <20070618153406.GO19115@fysh.org>
title: complete generalisation of agreements

Amend rule 1742 by replacing the word "Player" with "person".

[Matching P4987's generalisation of the first paragraph.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-20
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I0oRS-0008SL-5m@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-28
fate_mid: <468344E0.8000602@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 5029
submit_date: 2007-06-18
submit_mid: <4676CA7B.5050708@socal.rr.com>
title: Minor Order fixes

Amend Rule 1006 (Offices) by replacing "than the player who executed"
with "then the player who executed".

Amend Rule 1793 (Orders) by replacing "executed by a player" with
"executed by an entity".

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ai: 1
coauthors: Rule 1789
dist_date: 2007-06-20
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I0oRS-0008SL-5m@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-28
fate_mid: <468344E0.8000602@socal.rr.com>
proposer: root
seq_number: 5030
submit_date: 2007-06-19
submit_mid: <3fc761710706182151x3807f077q59e0ac4a8d24a3ef@mail.gmail.com>
title: Recantus Cygneus

Dear Agora,

I'm writing this Cantus Cygneus because I've had it.  I'm fed up.  I
have all the majesty and grace of a swan, and I'm tired of being
treated as the ugly duckling around here.

I've been around since 1998 -- 9 years! -- but how often do I get
noticed?  Twice in my whole life I've been invoked, and one of those
times was a full two years before I hatched, so you can't really say
that it counts!  Let's face it, around here I'm appreciated about as
much as one of those plastic things that 6-packs come in.

Don't even get me started on my amendment count.  There too I've been
woefully neglected.  In my 9 years, I've been amended a whopping 3
times -- on average, once every three years.  The birthday rule has
been amended 18 times!  That's more than the number of birthdays Agora
has had!  Sure, everyone loves a good birthday party, but nobody wants
to talk about boring legal things with Latin titles.  Oh, I know that
I've at least got an annotation -- take that, birthday rule! -- but it
wasn't even a real case, just some arbitrary hypothetical question
that somebody or other wanted an answer to.  It's not as though it
will ever matter.

If you still don't understand what I'm on about, just take a look at
my power.  I'm Power-1, a mere rookie.  I always have been, and
apparently I always will be; how can I get promoted when nobody ever
notices me?  I'm a big, important, and old rule.  I should be telling
the other rules when to jump.  In reality, even the Ambassador has
more power than me, and e just started this month.  I'm not even
allowed to swim in the town fountain!  This sort of treatment is just
unacceptable.

And so I'm leaving.  Retired, repealed, gone to the big ruleset in the
sky: call it what you will.  At the time this proposal is adopted, I
will be gone.  Perhaps someday, when Agora is finally ready for a rule
of my quality, I will be back.

Until then,
Rule 1789
"Cantus Cygneus"

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-20
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I0oRS-0008SL-5m@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-28
fate_mid: <468344E0.8000602@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5031
submit_date: 2007-06-19
submit_mid: <20070619094053.GB660@fysh.org>
title: clean up VC recordkeepor

Amend rule 2126 by deleting the sentence "The Promotor is the
recordkeepor of VCs.".

[The concept of "recordkeepor" is no longer defined in the rules.  The
Assessor is obliged to keep track of VCs, by virtue of eir reporting
requirement in rule 2137.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-20
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I0oRS-0008SL-5m@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-28
fate_mid: <468344E0.8000602@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5032
submit_date: 2007-06-19
submit_mid: <20070619095751.GC660@fysh.org>
title: recanting in a huff

Award the Patent Title of "Left in a Huff" to Andre, in recognition of
eir Cantus Cygneus in 1999.

Award the Patent Title of "Left in a Huff" to Kelly, in recognition of
eir Cantus Cygneus in 1999.

Award the Patent Title of "Left in a Huff" to Kelly, in recognition of
eir Cantus Cygneus in 2001.

Award the Patent Title of "Left in a Huff" to Goethe, in recognition
of eir Cantus Cygneus in 2006.

[Converts all uses of Cantus Cygneus to the Patent Title that has already
been used for those who left in a huff before rule 1789 was instituted.]

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-20
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I0oRS-0008SL-5m@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-28
fate_mid: <468344E0.8000602@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5033
submit_date: 2007-06-19
submit_mid: <20070619102259.GE660@fysh.org>
title: honorless degrees

Repeal rule 2092.

[We've had this rule for two years and never awarded an honorary
degree.  It's deadweight.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-20
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I0oRS-0008SL-5m@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-28
fate_mid: <468344E0.8000602@socal.rr.com>
proposer: root
seq_number: 5034
submit_date: 2007-06-19
submit_mid: <3fc761710706191313m77c92411ifabf930d9efb4b3a@mail.gmail.com>
title: Agoran Protectorate

Create a rule titled "Agoran Protectorate", reading:

     Agora hereby submits to Agora as its benevolent protector.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-20
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I0oRS-0008SL-5m@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-28
fate_mid: <468344E0.8000602@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5035
submit_date: 2007-06-19
submit_mid: <20070619201501.GA32114@fysh.org>
title: wider advertising

Amend rule 2135 by appending the paragraph

      The Herald is encouraged to also advertise Agora in other suitable
      locations.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-20
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I0oRS-0008SL-5m@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-28
fate_mid: <468344E0.8000602@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5036
submit_date: 2007-06-19
submit_mid: <20070619201501.GA32114@fysh.org>
title: refactor the Herald

Amend rule 649 by adding after "set out in the Rules." the sentence

      The Herald's report shall include a list of each Patent Title
      that at least one person Bears, with a list of which persons
      Bear it.

Amend rule 1377 to read

      The Herald is an office; its holder is responsible for keeping
      track of marks of honour and shame relating to Agora.

[Moves the PT reporting requirement into the PT rule.  Incidentally
removes the "Threat" item, which we're not using, from rule 1377.
Also gives a more accurate overall description of the Herald.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: GreyKnight
dist_date: 2007-06-20
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I0oRS-0008SL-5m@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-28
fate_mid: <468344E0.8000602@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5037
submit_date: 2007-06-19
submit_mid: <20070619201501.GA32114@fysh.org>
title: Agoran arms in a rule

GreyKnight, having devised the blazon contained within this proposal,
is a coauthor of this proposal.

Enact a rule titled "Agoran Arms" with text

      The escutcheon of Agora is defined by the following blazon:
      Tierced palewise sable, argent, and sable, charged with a quill
      and an axe in saltire, proper, and in the chief a capital letter
      A, gules.

[The blazon was given by proposal 4898, but not put in a rule, so that
proposal is probably ineffective in creating a lasting definition.
This proposal corrects the term "coat of arms" from P4898 to
"escutcheon"; the escutcheon (shield) is all that the blazon defines,
but a coat of arms would also include a helmet, crest, supporters, and
possibly other elements.  We don't have a full coat of arms for Agora
yet.]

[A rendering of the escutcheon defined by this blazon is at
<http://greyfire.org/picture_library/agora.png>.]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-20
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I0oRS-0008SL-5m@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-28
fate_mid: <468344E0.8000602@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5038
submit_date: 2007-06-19
submit_mid: <20070619201501.GA32114@fysh.org>
title: definitions are defaults

Amend rule 754 by replacing each instance of "shall be interpreted as
having" with "by default has" and replacing "as shall its" with "as do
its".

[Allows for local redefinition, so that (for example) Agoran law can
interpret B Nomic's rules according to B Nomic norms, if given a
suitable mediating document that specifies the interpretational rules
to be used. Also rewording to Platonically specify what the meaning of
words is, rather than Pragmatically commanding how to interpret
documents.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-20
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I0oRS-0008SL-5m@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-28
fate_mid: <468344E0.8000602@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5039
submit_date: 2007-06-19
submit_mid: <20070619201501.GA32114@fysh.org>
title: pragmatic deregistration of limited partnerships

Amend rule 2144 by appending the paragraph

      If a registered partnership has the same basis as another
      registered partnership, it can be deregistered by any player by
      announcement.

[Proposal 5022 curiously drops the restriction (present in the
original rule 214) on registered partnerships changing basis to match
another registered partnership, opening a loophole.  This proposal
revives the restriction.  This version matches the pragmatic procedure
of the final paragraph of rule 869 (which applies to players that
cease to be persons), avoiding the problems of automatic unnotified
deregistration that occur with the original version of rule 2144.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-20
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I0oRS-0008SL-5m@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-28
fate_mid: <468344E0.8000602@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5040
submit_date: 2007-06-19
submit_mid: <20070619201501.GA32114@fysh.org>
title: separate Civil CFJ procedure

Amend rule 1742 by replacing the text

      A CFJ that alleges that a specific person (the Defendant) has
      broken an agreement is a Civil CFJ, for which the Caller is the
      Plaintiff.  A CFJ that is not a Civil CFJ is a General CFJ.

with

      A CFJ that alleges that a specific person (the defendant) has
      broken an agreement is a Civil CFJ, for which the caller is the
      plaintiff.

      The defendant of a Civil CFJ is automatically barred from
      judging it.  The plaintiff may bar one other player when e
      submits the CFJ, but is not otherwise at that time permitted or
      able to bar any players from judging the CFJ, any rule to the
      contrary notwithstanding.  The defendant may bar one other
      player from judging, any time before the CFJ is assigned to a
      judge.

      Any evidence or arguments, published or submitted to the CotC by
      the defendant of a Civil CFJ with the clear intent of being part
      of a defense, any time before the CFJ is assigned to a judge,
      will become part of the material of that CFJ.

      When a Civil CFJ is submitted, the Clerk of the Courts shall as
      soon as possible send a copy of the CFJ to the defendant and
      inform the defendant that e has one week to publish a defense
      and/or bar a Player from judging. The CotC is prohibited from
      assigning a Trial Judge to a Civil CFJ until one week has passed
      since e notified the defendant of this, and is not obliged to
      assign a Trial Judge during this time, any rule to the contrary
      notwithstanding.  Starting from one week after the CotC has
      notified the defendant, the CotC is obliged to assign a Trial
      Judge as soon as possible, and this assignment shall in all
      other respects be governed by the usual rules for assignment of
      judges.

Amend rule 897 by deleting the text

      When a Civil CFJ is submitted, the Clerk of the Courts shall
      publish the text of the CFJ and send a copy of the CFJ to the
      Defendant's registered e-mail address, if any, and inform the
      Defendant that e has one week to publish a defense and/or bar a
      Player from judging as described below.

      The CotC will not assign a Civil CFJ to a judge until one week
      has passed since after a publication.  During this time, any
      evidence or arguments, published or submitted to the CotC by the
      Defendant with the clear intent of being part of a defense, will
      become part of the material of that CFJ.

and deleting the text

      The defendant of a Civil CFJ is automatically barred from judging
      it. The Plaintiff may bar one other Player when e submits the CFJ.
      The Defendant may bar one other Player from judging any time before
      the CFJ is assigned to a judge.

and replacing the text

      When submitting a general CFJ, the Caller may Bar up to three
      Players from Judging that CFJ.

with

      When submitting a CFJ, the caller may bar up to three players
      from judging that CFJ.

Retitle rule 897 to "Barring Players from Judgement".

Amend rule 1868 by deleting the paragraph

      Other rules may explicitly delay the timing requirement of
      making assignments, for example with respect to providing the
      Defendant with response time in a Civil CFJ.

[This moves all of the Civil CFJ procedure out of the rules governing
ordinary CFJs.  It can then all be segregated into the "Contract Law"
category.  The term "general CFJ" is abolished, as it is not really
useful.  Incidentally, all that's left in rule 897 (if proposal 5015
passed first) is barring, which is all that was in that rule
originally.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-20
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I0oRS-0008SL-5m@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-06-28
fate_mid: <468344E0.8000602@socal.rr.com>
proposer: BobTHJ
seq_number: 5041
submit_date: 2007-06-19
submit_mid: <56732cfd0706191513h333d89a2j775ca968b52bddad@mail.gmail.com>
title: Preserve the Partnerships

Amend R2145 by appending the paragraph:
{{
Agora recognizes an agreement that implicitly or explicitly assigns its
rights, obligations, and responsibilities onto the parties of that agreement
to be a non-natural person.
}}

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-23
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I256w-0006H6-2h@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-01
fate_mid: <4687698B.4060906@socal.rr.com>
proposer: comex
seq_number: 5042
submit_date: 2007-06-20
submit_mid: <200706201051.06057.comexk@gmail.com>
title: <none>

Whereas Rule 955 is titled "Determining the Will of Agora", and
whereas Agora has decided to adopt this proposal and have it take effect,

Agora hereby registers as a player of Agora.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
fate: withdrawn
fate_date: 2007-06-21
fate_mid: <3fc761710706202128n247c55d0n3bf264ef53452146@mail.gmail.com>
proposer: root
submit_date: 2007-06-20
submit_mid: <3fc761710706201221p1e6aa792u654dedfc75858bdb@mail.gmail.com>
title: Fix Support for Democracy

Amend Rule 1950 by replacing the text reading:

     At the end of the voting period of an Agoran decision, the first
     N ballots submitted by each entity on that decision (where N is
     the entity's voting limit on the decision at the start of the
     voting period) remain valid; all other ballots submitted on that
     decision are invalid.

with the text:

     At the end of the voting period of an Agoran decision, the first
     N ballots submitted by each entity on that decision (where N is
     the entity's voting limit at the decision's ballot allotment time)
     remain valid; all other ballots submitted on that decision are
     invalid.

     The ballot allotment time of a proposal of which the chamber
     changes during the proposal's voting period is the time of
     the last such change.  The ballot allotment time of any other
     decision is the start of the voting period.

["Support Democracy" changes a proposal's AI and chamber
during the voting period, but the voting limits used are from the
start of the voting period, when the proposal was still Ordinary.]

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-23
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I256w-0006H6-2h@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-01
fate_mid: <4687698B.4060906@socal.rr.com>
proposer: root
seq_number: 5043
submit_date: 2007-06-20
submit_mid: <3fc761710706201221p1e6aa792u654dedfc75858bdb@mail.gmail.com>
title: Better Support for Democracy

Amend Rule 2142 by replacing the phrase "3 Supporters" with
"2 Supporters".

[Base quorum is 5, and the number of players needed to
democratize a proposal should be a simple majority of that.]

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-23
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I256w-0006H6-2h@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-01
fate_mid: <4687698B.4060906@socal.rr.com>
proposer: root
seq_number: 5044
submit_date: 2007-06-20
submit_mid: <3fc761710706201221p1e6aa792u654dedfc75858bdb@mail.gmail.com>
title: Actual Support for Democracy

Increase the power of Rule 2142 to 2, and amend it by
replacing the text "1.1" with "2".

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-23
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I256w-0006H6-2h@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-01
fate_mid: <4687698B.4060906@socal.rr.com>
proposer: BobTHJ
seq_number: 5045
submit_date: 2007-06-20
submit_mid: <56732cfd0706201355w6f44f8fdgefd21db893cdf3b4@mail.gmail.com>
title: Not Without Consent

If R2144 contains the following text remove it:
{{
If a registered partnership has the same basis as another
    registered partnership, it can be deregistered by any player by
    announcement.
}}
Then append the following text to R2144:
{{
If a registered partnership has the same basis as another
    registered partnership, it can be deregistered by any player with
Agoran Consent.
}}

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-23
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I256w-0006H6-2h@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-01
fate_mid: <4687698B.4060906@socal.rr.com>
proposer: comex
seq_number: 5046
submit_date: 2007-06-21
submit_mid: <200706202254.23690.comexk@gmail.com>
title: A Suffusion of Yellow

   Replace all numbers in the ruleset with the phrase
   "A Suffusion of Yellow".

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-23
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I256w-0006H6-2h@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-01
fate_mid: <4687698B.4060906@socal.rr.com>
proposer: root
seq_number: 5047
submit_date: 2007-06-21
submit_mid: <3fc761710706202128n247c55d0n3bf264ef53452146@mail.gmail.com>
title: Fix Support for Democracy 1.1

Amend Rule 1950 by replacing the text reading:

    At the end of the voting period of an Agoran decision, the first
    N ballots submitted by each entity on that decision (where N is
    the entity's voting limit on the decision at the start of the
    voting period) remain valid; all other ballots submitted on that
    decision are invalid.

with the text:

    At the end of the voting period of an Agoran decision, the first
    N ballots submitted by each entity on that decision (where N is
    the entity's voting limit at the decision's ballot allotment
    time) remain valid; all other ballots submitted on that decision
    are invalid.

    The ballot allotment time of a proposal that becomes or ceases to
    be ordinary during the proposal's voting period is the time of
    the last such change.  The ballot allotment time of any other
    decision is the start of the voting period.

["Support Democracy" changes a proposal's AI and chamber
during the voting period, but the voting limits used are from the
start of the voting period, when the proposal was still Ordinary.]

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-23
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I256w-0006H6-2h@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-01
fate_mid: <4687698B.4060906@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5048
submit_date: 2007-06-22
submit_mid: <20070622102011.GA23368@fysh.org>
title: renumeration

Amend rule 2136 by replacing "is eir score" with "is eir score, and is
always a non-negative integer".

[It is otherwise unclear what the domain of scores is.]

Amend rule 1023 by deleting the item

      (a) The term "number" shall mean "real number".

[Each instance of "number" in the ruleset either is discussing a value
that is inherently a natural number or is explicitly qualified as
"rational" or some other subset of the real numbers.]

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-23
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I256w-0006H6-2h@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-01
fate_mid: <4687698B.4060906@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5049
submit_date: 2007-06-22
submit_mid: <20070622102011.GA23368@fysh.org>
title: simplify veto

Amend rule 2019 to read

      The Speaker may veto an Ordinary Proposal in its voting period
      by announcement.  Quorum for a vetoed proposal is positive
      infinity, other rules governing quorum notwithstanding.

      The Speaker may rubberstamp an Ordinary Proposal in its voting
      period by announcement.  Quorum for a rubberstamped proposal is
      three, other rules governing quorum notwithstanding.

[Makes the veto work in all cases, in the same manner in which
rubberstamping works.  Removes the provision about vetoed proposals
going back into the proposal pool, because under the present system it
is easy to repropose with a different AI.]

Retitle rule 2019 to "Speaker's Veto and Rubber Stamp".

[Describe both halves of the rule.]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-27
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I3LmJ-0004Pk-6c@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-05
fate_mid: <468C9C10.4010904@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Levi
seq_number: 5050
submit_date: 2007-06-25
submit_mid: <467F1DC4.1050707@optusnet.com.au>
title: Still supporting democracy

Repeal rule 2142

Modify Rule 106 by replacing the following text:

     The adoption index of a proposal is an integral multiple of 0.1,
     with a default and minimum value of 1.0.  Before the Promotor
     distributes a proposal, its proposer may modify its adoption
     index by announcement.  A Proposal with an Adoption Index of
     less than 2 is Ordinary.  All other Proposals are Democratic.

with:

     The adoption index of a proposal is an integral multiple of 0.1,
     with a default and minimum value of 1.0.  Before the Promotor
     distributes a proposal, its proposer may modify its adoption
     index by announcement.

     A Proposal with an Adoption Index of less than 2 at the time it
     is distributed is initially Ordinary. All other Proposals are
     Democratic.

     An Ordinary proposal may be made Democratic by any player during
     its voting period With 3 Supporters.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-27
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I3LmJ-0004Pk-6c@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-05
fate_mid: <468C9C10.4010904@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5051
submit_date: 2007-06-25
submit_mid: <20070625125807.GF9929@fysh.org>
title: discretionary appeal board assignment

Amend rule 911 by deleting the word "randomly".

[Leaving appellate judge assignments to the CotC's discretion, matching
rule 1868 for trial judges.]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-27
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I3LmJ-0004Pk-6c@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-05
fate_mid: <468C9C10.4010904@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5052
submit_date: 2007-06-25
submit_mid: <20070625135605.GH9929@fysh.org>
title: per-week proposal VCs

Amend rule 2126 by replacing the text "When an Ordinary proposal is
adopted," with "When an Ordinary proposal is adopted and its proposer
is not the proposer of any Ordinary proposal previously adopted in the
same week,".

[End the multiple rewards for multiple proposals.  Matches the way
voting power operates.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-27
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I3LmJ-0004Pk-6c@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-05
fate_mid: <468C9C10.4010904@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 5053
submit_date: 2007-06-25
submit_mid: <467FCBC2.6060508@socal.rr.com>
title: Mother, May I with Power 1?

Create a rule titled "Mother, May I?" with this text:

      The following terms are defined.  These definitions are used
      when a rule includes a term in all caps, and SHOULD be used when
      a rule includes a term otherwise.  Earlier definitions take
      precedence over later ones.  If a rule specifies one or more
      players in connection with a term, then the term applies only to
      the specified player(s).

        1. CANNOT, IMPOSSIBLE, INEFFECTIVE, INVALID:  Attempts to
           perform the described action are unsuccessful.

        2. MUST NOT, MAY NOT, SHALL NOT, ILLEGAL, PROHIBITED:
           Performing the described action violates the rule in
           question.

        3. SHOULD NOT, DISCOURAGED, DEPRECATED:  Before performing the
           described action, the full implications of performing it
           should be understood and carefully weighed.

        4. CAN X ONLY IF Y:  Equivalent to "CANNOT X unless Y".  Similar
           for (MUST, MAY, SHALL, SHOULD) X ONLY IF Y.

        5. MUST, SHALL, REQUIRED, MANDATORY:  Failing to perform the
           described action violates the rule in question.

        6. SHOULD, ENCOURAGED, RECOMMENDED:  Before failing to perform
           the described action, the full implications of failing to
           perform it should be understood and carefully weighed.

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-27
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I3LmJ-0004Pk-6c@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-05
fate_mid: <468C9C10.4010904@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 5054
submit_date: 2007-06-25
submit_mid: <467FCBC2.6060508@socal.rr.com>
title: Mother, May I with Power 2?

Change the Power of the rule "Mother, May I?" to 2.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-27
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I3LmJ-0004Pk-6c@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-05
fate_mid: <468C9C10.4010904@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 5055
submit_date: 2007-06-25
submit_mid: <467FCBC2.6060508@socal.rr.com>
title: Mother, May I with Power 3?

Change the Power of the rule "Mother, May I?" to 3.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-27
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I3LmJ-0004Pk-6c@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-05
fate_mid: <468C9C10.4010904@socal.rr.com>
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 5056
submit_date: 2007-06-26
submit_mid: <4680905C.7050904@socal.rr.com>
title: Disinterested Proposals

[This was our old solution to racking up bonuses for otherwise
uncontroversial fix proposals.]

Create a rule titled "Disinterested Proposals" with this text:

      A proposal is disinterested if it is labeled as such by its
      author at the time of submission.  A proposal should be
      disinterested if and only if its effects are limited to
      correcting errors and/or ambiguities.

      The author and co-author(s) of a disinterested proposal
      do not receive any rewards for its adoption, rules to the
      contrary notwithstanding.

Amend Rule 2126 (Voting Credits) by replacing "When an Ordinary proposal
is adopted" with "When an Ordinary Interested proposal is adopted".

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-27
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I3LmJ-0004Pk-6c@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-05
fate_mid: <468C9C10.4010904@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
proposer: root
seq_number: 5057
submit_date: 2007-06-26
submit_mid: <3fc761710706261402h40778710ub578e2fc3ddc8ba0@mail.gmail.com>
title: Clarify Final Judgement upon Appeal

Amend Rule 1447 by replacing the text reading:

     When a Judgement is overturned:

       a) If a majority of the Appellate Judges Judge REVERSE, then the
          CFJ shall be treated as if it were Judged normally, with the
          Judgement being that which a majority of the Appellate Judges
          agree on.

       b) If a majority of the Appellate Judges Judge REASSIGN, then the
          original Judgement is ignored, the original Judge is recused,
          and the Clerk of the Courts shall reassign the CFJ to a new
          Judge in the same fashion as it was originally assigned.
          The new Judge cannot make the same Judgement as the original
          Judge for the same reason.

       c) If a majority of the Appellate Judges Judge REMAND, then
          the original Judgement shall be ignored, and the Clerk of
          the Courts shall reassign the CFJ to the original Judge as
          if it were being originally assigned. The Judge may not make
          the same Judgement for the same reason.

       d) If none of the above is true, then the CFJ shall be
          reassigned as described above.

     As soon as possible after all members of a Board of Appeals have
     submitted eir Judgement, the Clerk of the Courts shall announce
     that this has happened.

with:

     When a Judgement is overturned:

       a) If a majority of the Appellate Judges Judge REVERSE, then the
          CFJ shall be treated as if it were Judged normally, with the
          Judgement being that which a majority of the Appellate Judges
          agree on.

       b) If a majority of the Appellate Judges Judge REMAND, then
          the original Judgement shall be ignored, and the Clerk of
          the Courts shall reassign the CFJ to the original Judge as
          if it were being originally assigned. The Judge may not make
          the same Judgement for the same reason.

       c) Otherwise, the original Judgement is ignored, the original
          Judge is recused, and the Clerk of the Courts shall reassign
          the CFJ to a new Judge in the same fashion as it was
          originally assigned. The new Judge cannot make the same
          Judgement as the original Judge for the same reason.

     A Board of Appeals is not considered to have returned a Judgement
     until all of its members have submitted eir Judgements.  As soon
     as possible after this happened, the Clerk of the Courts shall
     announce the Board's decision.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-27
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I3LmJ-0004Pk-6c@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-05
fate_mid: <468C9C10.4010904@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5058
submit_date: 2007-06-27
submit_mid: <20070627000110.GC9675@fysh.org>
title: disinterest interaction fix

Amend rule 2126 by replacing the text

      When an Ordinary Interested proposal is adopted and its proposer
      is not the proposer of any Ordinary proposal previously adopted
      in the same week,

with

      When an Ordinary Interested proposal is adopted and its proposer
      is not the proposer of any Ordinary Interested proposal
      previously adopted in the same week,

[This is an essential fix if both "per-week proposal VCs" and
"Disinterested Proposals" are adopted.  In any other situation it has
no effect.]

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ai: 2
coauthors: Goethe
dist_date: 2007-06-30
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I4cRi-0000d4-7l@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-09
fate_mid: <e711ad7e2426c.2426ce711ad7e@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5059
submit_date: 2007-06-28
submit_mid: <20070628161558.GI21381@fysh.org>
title: simple elections for office

Goethe, having written the entire text that follows, is a coauthor of
this proposal.

Amend Rule 1006 (Offices) to read:

      The Rules may designate positions to be offices.  No office may
      be held by more than one player.  Each office that would
      otherwise not be held by any player shall be held by the
      Speaker, unless it is not possible for the Speaker to hold that
      office.

      The holder of an office may be referred to by the name of the
      office.

      If the duty of an office is to maintain certain information, then
      the officer shall publish that information at least once a month,
      or as soon as possible after a substantial change occurs in the
      information or the officer receives a request for the information.
      A weekly report shall be sufficient to satisfy these last two
      requirements.

      If an Officer or the Speaker fails to satisfy a Timing Order to
      perform a certain official duty, than the player who executed the
      order may perform the duty as if e were the officer.

Create the following Rule entitled "Replacing Officers", Power 2:

      Any Player may make an active Player (hereafter the nominee) the
      holder of an office, thus removing any previous holder from the
      office, with Agoran Consent, provided:
      (a) that office has not changed hands with this method in the
          previous 30 days, and
      (b) the potential officer consents to hold the office after the
          announcement of intent is made.

      If intent to achieve consent for a nominee is announced as above,
      then any other active player may be nominated for the position with
      eir own consent by announcement, during the minimum waiting period
      between intent and action defined for Agoran Consent.

      If, at the end of this period, there is more than one consenting
      nominee, then the attempt to achieve Agoran Consent fails, and
      the IADoP shall initiate an Agoran Decision to determine the new
      office holder, meanwhile no further attempt to achieve Agoran Consent
      for the change shall be valid.  The valid options for the decision
      are the nominees, quorum is a minimum of three and the number of active
      players, eligible voters are the active players, and the vote collector
      is the IADoP.  In the notice resolving the decision, the IADoP
      will select one nominee from the set of nominees which each received
      the largest number of  votes; this chosen nominee becomes the
      officeholder upon the posting of the valid notice.

      If no attempt to achieve Agoran Consent for changing the holder
      of a particular office is announced in a given quarter, then the
      IADoP shall make at least one such attempt to change the
      officeholder in the following quarter, and make the change if
      consent is achieved.  This requirement is waived if another
      player changes the officeholder in this way during the following
      quarter.

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-30
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I4cRi-0000d4-7l@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-09
fate_mid: <e711ad7e2426c.2426ce711ad7e@socal.rr.com>
interest: 0
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5060
submit_date: 2007-06-29
submit_mid: <20070629141239.GD14122@fysh.org>
title: repeal vague winning

Repeal rule 2128.

[Never used, and now we have rule 2136 providing a better generic
winning mechanism.]

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-06-30
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I4cRi-0000d4-7l@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-09
fate_mid: <e711ad7e2426c.2426ce711ad7e@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5061
submit_date: 2007-06-30
submit_mid: <20070630091445.GA6855@fysh.org>
title: explicate personhood

Change the power of rule 2145 to 2.

Amend rule 2145 to read

      A binding agreement governed by the rules which devolves its
      legal obligations onto a subset of its parties, numbering at
      least two, collectively, is a partnership.  The members of a
      partnership are those parties onto whom the partnership's legal
      obligations are collectively devolved.  A partnership's identity
      and partnershiphood are not disrupted by changes to its
      membership provided that it continues to meet the definition of
      a partnership.

      A partnership's basis is the set consisting of the union of the
      set of its non-partnership members with the bases of each of its
      partnership members.  Where circularity occurs in this
      definition, it is resolved by using the minimum basis sets that
      provide consistency.

      A partnership whose basis contains at least two persons is a
      person.

[Explicate how a partnership qualifies as a person.  Incorporate (in
clarified form) the definition of "basis" from rule 2144, because it
fits nicely here and is useful in restricting which partnerships
qualify as persons.]

Amend rule 2144 by deleting the paragraph which begins "A
partnership's basis".

["Basis" is now defined in rule 2145.  Rule 2144 is left with only
regulation, not definition.]

Amend rule 2150 by inserting at the beginning the paragraphs

      A person is an entity that has the general capacity to be the
      subject of rights and obligations under the rules.  An entity is
      a person if and only if it is defined to be so by rules with
      power 2 or greater.

      Any biological organism that is capable of communicating by
      email in English is a person.

[Explicit definition of natural personhood.  Close the door on
judicial arguments for novel types of personhood: it's a matter for
legislation, now, not jurisprudence.  Power restriction puts this
rather important matter out of reach of the easier scams and likely
accidents.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-07-04
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I5t79-0002Sf-4Y@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-11
fate_mid: <e6cdbbd023f2e.23f2ee6cdbbd0@socal.rr.com>
interest: 0
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5062
submit_date: 2007-07-01
submit_mid: <20070701221657.GF6855@fysh.org>
title: real scores

Amend rule 2136 by replacing the text "is eir score" with "is eir
score, which is always a real number, and scores are not categorically
prevented from being any particular real number".

[This will be overridden if "algebraic scores", "rational scores", or
"integer scores" is adopted.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-07-04
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I5t79-0002Sf-4Y@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-11
fate_mid: <e6cdbbd023f2e.23f2ee6cdbbd0@socal.rr.com>
interest: 0
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5063
submit_date: 2007-07-01
submit_mid: <20070701221657.GF6855@fysh.org>
title: algebraic scores

Amend rule 2136 by replacing the text from "is eir score" up to but
not including the next "." with "is eir score, which is always an
algebraic real number, and scores are not categorically prevented from
being any particular algebraic real number".

[If this is adopted, it overrides "real scores".  It will be
overridden if "rational scores" or "integer scores" is adopted.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-07-04
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I5t79-0002Sf-4Y@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-11
fate_mid: <e6cdbbd023f2e.23f2ee6cdbbd0@socal.rr.com>
interest: 0
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5064
submit_date: 2007-07-01
submit_mid: <20070701221657.GF6855@fysh.org>
title: rational scores

Amend rule 2136 by replacing the text from "is eir score" up to but
not including the next "." with "is eir score, which is always a
rational number, and scores are not categorically prevented from being
any particular rational number".

[If this is adopted, it overrides "real scores" and "algebraic
scores".  It will be overridden if "integer scores" is adopted.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-07-04
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I5t79-0002Sf-4Y@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-11
fate_mid: <e6cdbbd023f2e.23f2ee6cdbbd0@socal.rr.com>
interest: 0
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5065
submit_date: 2007-07-01
submit_mid: <20070701221657.GF6855@fysh.org>
title: integer scores

Amend rule 2136 by replacing the text from "is eir score" up to but
not including the next "." with "is eir score, which is always an
integer".

[If this is adopted, it overrides "real scores", "algebraic scores",
and "rational scores".]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-07-04
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I5t79-0002Sf-4Y@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-11
fate_mid: <e6cdbbd023f2e.23f2ee6cdbbd0@socal.rr.com>
interest: 0
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5066
submit_date: 2007-07-02
submit_mid: <20070702162928.GH842@fysh.org>
title: drop Stare Decisis report

Amend rule 889 by deleting the text

      The CotC's Monthly Report shall include the Stare Decisis, which
      is a list of past CFJs.  The following information shall be
      included for each CFJ:

        (i) its statement;
       (ii) the date on which it was called;
      (iii) its outcome (if any) on Judgement; and
       (iv) its outcome (if any) on Appeal.

      Whenever a CFJ is made, the CotC shall add it to the list.  E
      may, at eir discretion, add earlier CFJs.  E may Without
      Objection remove any CFJ e deems no longer relevant from the
      list.

[We're not in practice using the Stare Decisis report, and it was
never a really useful form of the information anyway.  Its purpose is
better served by annotations in the FLR.  Dropping the report does not
drop the *principle* of stare decisis, of course, which is enshrined
in rule 217.]

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-07-04
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I5t79-0002Sf-4Y@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-07-11
fate_mid: <e6cdbbd023f2e.23f2ee6cdbbd0@socal.rr.com>
interest: 0
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5067
submit_date: 2007-07-03
submit_mid: <20070703101257.GE10897@fysh.org>
title: upmutate Agoran Consent

Change the power of rule 2124 to 2.

[This should match the power of Dependent Actions.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-07-04
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I5t79-0002Sf-4Y@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-11
fate_mid: <e6cdbbd023f2e.23f2ee6cdbbd0@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5068
submit_date: 2007-07-03
submit_mid: <20070703221736.GB28085@fysh.org>
title: public judicial process

Amend rule 591 to read

      The judge of a CFJ judges it by publishing eir judgement, along
      with any arguments, evidence, or other material that e considers
      relevant.

      For a trial judge, a judgement is exactly one of the following:
      TRUE, FALSE, or DISMISSED.

Amend rule 1826 to read

      A motion is a formal request made by a player to the judge of a
      CFJ.  A motion is made by announcement, which must clearly
      identify the CFJ to which the motion applies.

      The judge of a CFJ must either grant or deny each motion that
      applies to that CFJ within five days of it being made.  If a
      judge fails to grant or deny an applicable motion within five
      days of it being made, the Clerk of the Courts shall recuse the
      judge and assign a new one.  If a motion is made after a case
      has been judged, and the original judge of that case is not
      active or is not a player, then the Clerk of the Courts shall
      assign a new judge.

      A judge grants or denies a motion by publishing eir
      determination, along with any arguments, evidence, or other
      material that e considers relevant.  The effect of granting a
      motion depends on its nature, but generally amounts to requiring
      the judge to perform as requested by the motion.  A denied
      motion has no further effect.

Amend rule 1805 by replacing the text

      Appellate Orders are executed by being sent to the Clerk of the
      Courts by the Lead Judge of a Board of Appeals, but do not take
      effect until their publication by the Clerk of the Courts.

with

      Appellate Orders are executed by being published by the Lead
      Judge of a Board of Appeals.

[Makes everything in the judicial process work by announcement,
instead of indirectly via the CotC.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-07-04
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I5t79-0002Sf-4Y@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-11
fate_mid: <e6cdbbd023f2e.23f2ee6cdbbd0@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5069
submit_date: 2007-07-03
submit_mid: <20070703221736.GB28085@fysh.org>
title: simplify judge selection

Amend rule 1868 to read

      Whenever a CFJ that has not been judged has no trial judge
      assigned, the Clerk of the Courts shall as soon as possible
      assign an eligible judge to it by announcement.  The assigned
      judge remains its trial judge until recused.

      Every active player is eligible to be assigned as a trial judge
      unless made ineligible by the rules.  Entities other than active
      players are always ineligible.

      If the Clerk of the Courts errs in good faith by assigning an
      ineligible judge then the assignment stands.  In this case, the
      Clerk of the Courts may recuse the judge by announcement
      accompanied by a description of eir error.

Repeal rules 698 and 2133.

[Puts the important bits of the three rules into one shorter rule.
Leaves out the crud, in particular R698's elaborate procedure for
situations that are much better handled by the new form of R1871.]

Amend rule 1871 by replacing the text "all open CFJs without a Trial
Judge" with "all CFJs awaiting trial judge assignment".

[The definition of "open CFJ" from R1868 was too restrictive.  This
does better without any special terminology.]

Amend rule 1826 by replacing the text "after a case is closed" with
"after a case has been judged".

[The term "closed CFJ" has also gone away.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-07-04
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I5t79-0002Sf-4Y@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-11
fate_mid: <e6cdbbd023f2e.23f2ee6cdbbd0@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5070
submit_date: 2007-07-03
submit_mid: <20070703221736.GB28085@fysh.org>
title: speaker as an office

Retitle rule 402 to "Office of Speaker" and amend it to read

      The speaker is an office.

      If an active player who is not the speaker has won the game
      within the past week, e may become the speaker, thus removing
      any previous speaker from the office, by announcement, unless
      someone else has become speaker within the preceding 90 days.
      If the legality of an attempted installation of this type is not
      challenged within a week, then it is effective even if later
      found to be illegal.

      A speaker who became speaker within the preceding 90 days cannot
      be replaced by Agoran Consent if e is one of those whose
      objections are counted in the Agoran Consent procedure.

[Making the speaker an office means we can make use of officer
defaults elsewhere, such as the IADoP reporting the officeholder.
Change installation by "any player" to self-installation to prevent
someone becoming speaker involuntarily.  More explication of the
restrictions on replacing a speaker.  Drop the "inattentive speaker"
bit because the speakership is no longer a critical administrative
office.]

Amend rule 1006 by replacing the text "an Officer or the Speaker" with
"an officer".

[With the speaker being an officer, this is now redundant.]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-07-07
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I79mZ-0000eE-5H@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-07-14
fate_mid: <44B7F304.3030505@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5071
submit_date: 2007-07-04
submit_mid: <20070704225908.GA11710@fysh.org>
title: judicial power realignment

Change the power of rule 217 to 2.

[R217 is the only judicial rule with a power of 3, which makes no
sense.  It started out at power=1, and this proposal brings it down to
the level of R991 "Invoking Judgement".  All other judicial rules have
power=1; some upmutation might be appropriate.]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-07-07
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I79mZ-0000eE-5H@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-07-14
fate_mid: <44B7F304.3030505@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5072
submit_date: 2007-07-05
submit_mid: <20070705202649.GD3056@fysh.org>
title: judicial power realignment 2

Change the power of rule 1503 to 2.

[A judicial-related rule with stupidly high power.  There's no reason
for this to have higher power than the judicial rules.]

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-07-07
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I79mZ-0000eE-5H@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-07-14
fate_mid: <44B7F304.3030505@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5073
submit_date: 2007-07-07
submit_mid: <20070707100118.GB12108@fysh.org>
title: protectorate procedure

Enact a power=2 rule titled "Protective Decrees" with text

      A protective decree is an act of Agora the intended effect of
      which is to make explicit changes to the state of a protectorate
      nomic.  The changes may include enacting, repealing, or amending
      rules of the protectorate, changing the set of players of the
      protectorate, or any other instantaneous changes to the
      protectorate's gamestate.

      Where permitted by other rules, an instrument with power 2 or
      greater generally can, as part of its effect, initiate a
      protective decree.  The initiating instrument must specify the
      target protectorate and the changes to be made to it.  Any
      ambiguity in the specification of a protective decree causes it
      to be void and without effect.  This is the only mechanism by
      which a protective decree can be initiated.

      As soon as possible after a protective decree has been
      initiated, the ambassador shall proclaim it to the target nomic,
      in whatever forum is most suitable for this purpose.  The decree
      takes effect upon this proclamation.

      Protective decrees should be initiated only for the purpose of
      assisting the protectorate in its growth and enabling its
      longevity.  Protective decrees should always be benevolent.

      All players are prohibited from falsely claiming, to any nomic,
      that a document is a protective decree.

[A protective decree has features of a proposal (in its effects on a
protectorate) and features of a rule change (in the way it is
initiated in Agora).  The specific procedure removes all the ambiguity
about whether a nomic qualifies as a protectorate, and Peekee's issue
about not knowing the procedure.  It also avoids the need for lots of
legislation on the receiving end: a prospective protectorate can
easily reference the complete procedure.  The final paragraph gives
protectorates some assurance that a purported protective decree is the
real thing.]

[Suggested wording for a protectorate's ruleset: "Any protective
decree of Agora that targets this nomic takes effect as specified by
the rules of Agora.".]

Amend rule 2147 to read

      Whereas Agora, being the superpower of nomics, has an inherent
      responsibility to lead the nomic world; and whereas Agora
      desires to encourage growth and promotion of the nomic
      community, be it hereby known that Agora shall serve as
      benevolent protector to any nomic which requests such status
      (hereafter referred to as the protectorate).

      In order to become a protectorate, a nomic must specify in its
      ruleset that it submits to Agora as its benevolent protector.
      It must also have rules or other gamestate arranged such that
      any protective decree proclaimed by the ambassador will take
      full effect upon proclamation.  For this purpose, the nomic may
      specify the forum in which proclamation is to be made, provided
      that it is reasonably possible for the ambassador to use the
      specified forum.  Any restriction whatsoever on the content of a
      protective decree disqualifies the nomic from being a
      protectorate.

      If the criteria specified in the preceding paragraph are met,
      the ambassador may make the nomic a protectorate with Agoran
      Consent.  If a protectorate ever does not meet these criteria,
      it ceases to be a protectorate.  The ambassador shall check
      every month whether each protectorate continues to meet the
      criteria, and shall announce whenever a protectorate has ceased
      to be a protectorate.

      The ambassador's report shall include a list of all
      protectorates, with contact details for each, and for each the
      forum in which it is most appropriate to proclaim protective
      decrees that target that protectorate.

[Greater explication and clarity on the criteria for a protectorate.
No longer assumes that changes to the protectorate's "ruleset" are
sufficient: protective decrees are plenipotent.  Does not allow
obstructive limitations on the capacity to affect the protectorate.
Require consent to gain protectorate status, to avoid abuses.
Reporting requirements moved into this rule.]

Amend rule 2148 to read

      The ambassador is an office, responsible for relations with
      foreign nomics.

      A foreign nomic may grant certain powers and privileges to
      Agora's ambassador.  If so, the ambassador shall generally
      exercise such powers in such manner as e sees fit, subject to
      other rules and orders.

      All players are prohibited from falsely claiming, to any nomic,
      to be the ambassador.

[All the protectorate stuff has moved into R2147, so this is now
concerned only with general foreign relations.  Removed the AC
procedure to require the ambassador to act a particular way: this can
be done by legislative orders instead.  The specific exception for
direct ruleset changes is now covered by the anti-fraud provisions in
the rule on protective decrees.]

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-07-07
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I79mZ-0000eE-5H@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: rejected by inquoracy
fate_date: 2007-07-14
fate_mid: <44B7F304.3030505@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5074
submit_date: 2007-07-07
submit_mid: <20070707100118.GB12108@fysh.org>
title: fix judicial rights

Amend rule 101 by replacing the text

       iii. Every person has the right to invoke judgement, appeal a
            judgement, and to initiate an appeal on a sentencing or
            judicial order binding em.

with

       iii. Every person has the right to initiate a formal process to
            resolve matters of controversy, in the reasonable
            expectation that the controversy will thereby be resolved.
            Every person has the right to cause formal reconsideration
            of any judicial determination that e should be punished.

[More general language avoids tight interaction with any particular
form of judicial process.  Rights made more explicit and stronger.]

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ai: 1
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-07-11
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I8QRz-0007TY-4B@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-18
fate_mid: <469DCE06.5000101@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
proposer: Zefram
seq_number: 5075
submit_date: 2007-07-09
submit_mid: <20070709123418.GB10481@fysh.org>
title: MMIify truthfulness

Amend rule 2149 by replacing the text

      Players are prohibited from deliberately or recklessly making
      false statements in any public message.

with

      Players SHALL NOT deliberately or recklessly make false
      statements in any public message.

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ai: 3
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-07-11
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I8QRz-0007TY-4B@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-18
fate_mid: <469DCE06.5000101@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 5076
submit_date: 2007-07-09
submit_mid: <f836ed5d22130.22130f836ed5d@socal.rr.com>
title: Three-Tone Economics

Change the Power of Rule 2126 (Voting Credits) to 2, and amend it
to read:

      Voting Credits (VCs) are a measure of each player's ability to
      affect voting limits on ordinary proposals.  VCs CANNOT be
      affected except as described in this rule.

      When a player registers or deregisters, e loses all eir VCs.

      When one or more players win the game, each player's voting
      limit on ordinary proposals is reset to its default value.

      Each VC has a color (Gray if not otherwise specified).  If a
      player loses a color of VC that e does not possess, then e loses
      a VC of eir Party's color instead; if e has no VCs at all, then
      the loss is waived (you can't get blood from a turnip).

      VCs may be gained as follows:

        a) When an ordinary interested proposal is adopted, its
           proposer gains Red VCs equal to the integer portion of
           the proposal's adoption index (unless e gained VCs in
           this way earlier in the same week), and each co-author
           of the proposal gains one Red VC (unless e gained VCs
           in this way earlier in the same week).

        b) At the end of each month, for each office, the player (if
           any) who held that office for the majority of that month
           gains two Green VCs, unless the Speaker publicly announces
           within a week after the end of the month that the officer
           performed eir duties poorly or not at all.

        c) A player who submits a judgement during eir Deliberation
           Period gains one Blue VC.

      VCs may be lost as follows:

        a) When a proposal's voting index is less than half its
           adoption index, its proposer loses one Red VC.

        b) When an officer forfeits eir salary due to announcement by
           the Speaker, e loses one Green VC.

        c) A player whose judgement is overturned, or who is recused
           for failing to judge within eir Deliberation Period, loses
           one Blue VC.

      VCs may be spent as follows, by announcement (INVALID unless
      the color is specified).  All changes to voting limits are applied
      at the end of the week, in the order the VCs were spent, after
      which any fractional voting limits are rounded to the nearest
      integer (nearest odd integer if the fractional part is 0.5).

        a) A player may spend two VCs of different colors to increase
           another player's voting limit on ordinary proposals by one.

        b) A player may spend three VCs of different colors to increase
           eir own voting limit on ordinary proposals by one.

        c) A player may spend two VCs of different colors to decrease
           another player's voting limit on ordinary proposals by one
           (to a minimum of zero).

        d) A player may spend three VCs of different colors to decrease
           another player's voting limit on ordinary proposals by ten
           percent.

Create a rule titled "Parties" with this text:

      Each player's Party is the color of VC that e possesses the
      most of.  Ties are broken in favor of the color that comes
      first in alphabetical order.

Repeal Rule 2128 (Winning).

Amend Rule 2136 (Contests) to read:

      Points are a measure of a player's contentiousness.  The number
      of points possessed by a player is eir score.

      When a player registers or deregisters, eir score becomes zero.

      A contest is an agreement that identifies itself as such, and
      identifies exactly one party as its contestmaster; all other
      parties are its contestants.

      The Scorekeepor is an office; its holder is responsible for
      keeping track of scores and contests.  The Scorekeepor's report
      includes each player's score.

      A contestmaster may award a total of up to 10 points per week
      to one or more contestants as permitted by the contest, unless
      e was contestmaster of a different contest for at least 3 days
      of the previous week.

      A player with 100 or more points may win the game by announcing
      this fact.  Upon such an announcement, each player's score is
      set to zero.

If Proposal 5065 (integer scores) was adopted, then amend Rule 2136
by appending this text after the first paragraph:

      Each player's score is an integer.  Points can only be awarded
      in integer amounts.

Otherwise, if Proposal 5064 (rational scores) was adopted, then amend
Rule 2136 by appending this text after the first paragraph:

      Each player's score is a rational number.  Points can only be
      awarded in rational amounts.

Otherwise, if Proposal 5063 (algebraic scores) was adopted, then amend
Rule 2136 by appending this text after the first paragraph:

      Each player's score is an algebraic number.  Points can only be
      awarded in algebraic amounts.

Otherwise, if Proposal 5062 (real scores) was adopted, then amend Rule
2136 by appending this text after the first paragraph:

      Each player's score is a real number.  Points can only be awarded
      in real amounts.

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ai: 2
coauthors: <none>
dist_date: 2007-07-11
dist_mid: <uRkm8u-1I8QRz-0007TY-4B@bowl.fysh.org>
fate: adopted by voting
fate_date: 2007-07-18
fate_mid: <469DCE06.5000101@socal.rr.com>
interest: 1
proposer: Murphy
seq_number: 5077
submit_date: 2007-07-09
submit_mid: <e6cacb8326528.26528e6cacb83@socal.rr.com>
title: MMI in practice

Amend Rule 1586 (Definition and Continuity of Entities) to read:

      Two Rule-defined entities CANNOT have the same name or
      nickname.

      If the Rules defining an entity are repealed or amended
      such that they no longer define that entity, then that
      entity and its properties cease to exist.

      If the Rules defining an entity are amended such that they
      still define that entity but with different properties,
      then that entity and its properties continue to exist to
      whatever extent is possible under the new definitions.

[Would-be violations of the first paragraph are presumably treated
as rule conflicts, and resolved accordingly.]

Amend Rule 1023 (Common Definitions) by replacing each instance of
"shall mean" with "means".

Amend Rule 1769 (Holidays) by replacing this text:

      During a Holiday, no Proposal may be distributed by the
      Promotor, nor may any Call for Judgement, Judgement, notice of
      Appeal, Decision of Appeals Boards, or Opinion be published by
      the Clerk of the Courts; however, if any of the above do take
      place during the Holiday in violation of this Rule, this Rule
      does not deprive them of their usual effects.

with this text:

      During a Holiday, the Promotor SHALL NOT distribute any
      proposals, and the Clerk of the Courts SHALL NOT publish any
      Call for Judgement, Judgement, notice of Appeal, Decision of
      Appeals Boards, or Opinion.

Amend Rule 1607 (The Promotor) to read:

      The Promotor is an office; its holder is responsible for
      receiving and distributing proposals.

      The Promotor MAY distribute a proposal in the Proposal Pool at
      any time.  During each week, the Promotor SHALL distribute each
      proposal that has been in the Proposal Pool since the beginning
      of that week.

      The Promotor distributes a proposal by publishing it with the
      clear intent of distributing it.  When a proposal is distributed,
      it is removed from the Proposal Pool.  The distribution of a
      proposal initiates the Agoran decision of whether to adopt the
      proposal, as described elsewhere.

      When distributing a proposal, the Promotor SHALL specify the
      following:

        a) Its author (and co