Common Legislature
| Common Legislature | |
|---|---|
  | |
| Headquarters | Shops City |
| Languages | English, Typhoonian, Freezestonian, Spanish |
| Membership | Shops Island |
| - leader |
Lavender (President, Head Legislator) Garrett Placid (Speaker of the House) |
| - members | Bureaucrats, Administrators and Representatives |
| Establishment | October 2, 2013 |
| - early times | 2010 |
| - official start | October 2, 2013 |
| Website | gov.shopsisland.si |
The Common Legislature is the main governing body of Shops Island, which replaced the Shops Island Council as Shops' official government.
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History[edit]
As Shops grew, so did its political system. Around later September 2013, the Shops Island Council was proving inefficient in keeping all government operations in check. After an almost unanimous vote in the Shops Island Council on September 29, 2013, the council decided to split the government part of the council off into a separate entity. On October 2, 2013, the Common Legislature was formed as a more efficient governing body, built and designed more like a senate or parliament. Construction of a new building and transferring all operations occurred for the next few weeks afterwards.
Operation[edit]
The Common Legislature works much like a council. Topics are proposed by one or more politicians to be introduced as law or a government initiative. The legislature reads the bill in session, and then discussion period is opened up to discuss the benefits and flaws of the bill, as well as to open up debate among opposing politicians. After discussion period, the bill is voted on by the legislature. If it passes, then it moves for the bureaucrats to approve or not. If the bureaucrats approve of the bill, it becomes law or an act of government. If unapproved, it is either tabled or sent back to the legislature to fix and restart the process. If the bill does not pass the legislature's vote at all, then it is scrapped.
Despite this debate and voting process, the Head Legislator, who is the president, can still make executive orders/vetoes which create new laws or nullify laws passed in the legislature, respectively. Presidential executive orders and vetoes can be overturned by the legislature with at least a ¾ vote.
Organization[edit]
Members[edit]
Bureaucrats[edit]
Speaker of the House[edit]
Administrators[edit]
Representatives[edit]
High[edit]
Low[edit]
Trivia[edit]
- Caseusopolis has its own distinct government also named the "Common Legislature", which was modeled off of Shops Island's.
