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The Constitution of the Nation of Telikos

Contents 1 Legislature 1.1 Qualifications 1.2 Powers of the Legislature 2 Voting Process 2.1 Standard Voting Procedure 2.1.1 Voting Information 2.1.2 The Procedure 2.2 Voting Percentages 3 Immigration 3.1 Qualifications for Citizenship 3.2 Immigration Manager 3.2.1 Immigration Manager Powers 3.3 Citizenship Procedure 3.3.1 Immigration Voting Procedure 4 Amendments 4.1 Amendment Procedure 4.2 List of Amendments

Legislature

Qualifications

• All citizens are automatically part of the legislature.
• All citizens have exactly one vote in all legislature voting issues.

Powers of the Legislature

• The Legislature votes to recognize other micronations.
• The Legislature votes on Telikos' admittance to any multi-micronational organizations.
• The Legislature votes to accept major diplomatic treaties with other micronations.
• The Legislature votes to merge the Nation of Telikos with any other nation.
• The Legislature votes to repeal any of the votes it is capable of concluding.
• The Legislature votes on any other issue that is not explicitly mentioned in this constution that is restricted to a particular position. These issues shall be known "Normal Bills."

Voting Process

Standard Voting Procedure

Voting Information

• All standard votes last between 48 and 72 standard hours.
• All standard votes must end at 10 PM EST.
• Any YEA/NAY/ABSTAIN vote or someting that can be reasonalby infered as one of the choices listed is a valid vote.
• If a subject was voted on before in 14 days time, it can not be voted again until 14 days time has passed.

The Procedure

• Any Telikon citizen presents a valid vote to the legislature or city voting board.
• All valid voters cast their valid votes, including descriptions and arguments of why they voted as they did as they see fit.
• Any citizen may change their vote at any time before the vote ends.
• When the vote is completed, the votes are counted and the bill is decided as passed or failed.
  • If it passed, it is either put in effect immediately or carried out as the bill specifies.
  • If it fails, then there is no change in the Nation of Telikos.

Voting Percentages

• The number of valid votes (excluding abstain votes) is considered “100%” when calculating if a vote passes or fails.
  • Amendments: 50% + 1/2
  • Normal Bill: 50% + 1/2
  • Immigration: 60% + 2/5
  • Appointment or Election of Positions: Plurality

Immigration

Qualifications for Citizenship

• At this time, any person may apply the Nation of Telikos.
• A person is defined as a sentient being.

Immigration Manager

• Immigration shall be managed by an Immigration Manager.
• The Immigration Manager shall be elected bimonthly on the 11th day of the month.
• The first Immigration Manager shall be Bill Dusch.

Immigration Manager Powers

• The Immigration Manager shall have the following Powers:
  • Creation and maintainance of Immigration/Emmigration Form
  • Moderatorship of Immigration Forum
  • Tabulation of Immigration and Emmigration Forms
  • Preliminary Acceptance/Rejection of Citizenship

Citizenship Procedure

• Once a person has filled out the immigration form, the Immigration Manager shall preliminarily accept or reject the applicant.
• If preliminarily accepted, the Immigration Manager shall post the form into the Legislature.
• The Legislature will follow Immigration Voting Procedure to decide whether to accept the applicant into the nation.
• At the end of the voting period, if the vote passes, the applicant becomes a citizen of the Nation of Telikos.

Immigration Voting Procedure

• Immigration Voting Procedure is the same as Standard Voting Procedure with an exception.
• If at least 75% of all citizens of Telikos vote on the Immigration Application, the Application is accepted or rejected immediately.
• If this requirement is not furfilled, Standard Voting Procedure applies.

Amendments

Amendment Procedure

• The Legislature may pass amendments to this document using standard voting procedure.
• Once this document has received one amendment, at least one original copy must be stored at all times and never be modified for historic use.
• Once an amendment has been added to this document, it goes into effect immediately.

List of Amendments

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