For Council Vote (4.VII.488)
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 12:02 am
This councilman seeks to petition the following annendums and clarifications to the books of Drachean Law.
A Yay or Nay is available for each motion.
1.) Under no edicts are magistrates availed the option of summary trial, instead, this "tradition" is entirely without merit and directly infringes upon multiple rights of citizenry under various edicts of Drachean Law. This motion has been put forth to specifically outlaw summary trials and prevent the gross violation of rights that this "tradition" continues to plague our citizenry with, rather than allow it to continue until the inevitable charges of abuse are filed and found supported by Drachean Law.
2a.) This motion seeks to ensure that, during criminal investigations and actions in the field, that Civic Guards take prominence and jurisdiction on scene. The concept of magistrates taking to the streets and metting out justice is a holdover from the days when Drache was a frontier town frought with accompanying shortcomings. However, Drache is now a city of merit, and the jewel of Transdariania, our magistrates are members of the judicial branch, their efforts in this regard are rendered obsolete by our members of the Civic Guard, with whom we have invested as the responsible parties in intervening in criminal conduct, investigating criminal cases, and securing crime scenes and potential law breakers into the hands of magistrates to be brought to justice by court. As such, all in-field jurisdiction of Civic Guard members shall supercede magistrates on all matters.
2b.) Magistrate, if necessary, may be deputized in emergency situations, however, it shall remain under the jurisdiction of the highest rank Civic Guard member on scene.
3.) The Royal Church is afforded extraordinary protections under the laws of Drache equal to that of governmental bodies and exceeds that availed to citizenry. Availing a single religious body, unconditionally, with the Duchy's protection and dismissing this protection to other religious bodies is immoral and unconscionable. This motion seeks to revoke these extraordinary rights and reduce them to the rights availed to other citizen and commercial entities, and to be treated as no more and no less than every other free citizen and religiously affiliated organization in the land.
A Yay or Nay is available for each motion.
1.) Under no edicts are magistrates availed the option of summary trial, instead, this "tradition" is entirely without merit and directly infringes upon multiple rights of citizenry under various edicts of Drachean Law. This motion has been put forth to specifically outlaw summary trials and prevent the gross violation of rights that this "tradition" continues to plague our citizenry with, rather than allow it to continue until the inevitable charges of abuse are filed and found supported by Drachean Law.
2a.) This motion seeks to ensure that, during criminal investigations and actions in the field, that Civic Guards take prominence and jurisdiction on scene. The concept of magistrates taking to the streets and metting out justice is a holdover from the days when Drache was a frontier town frought with accompanying shortcomings. However, Drache is now a city of merit, and the jewel of Transdariania, our magistrates are members of the judicial branch, their efforts in this regard are rendered obsolete by our members of the Civic Guard, with whom we have invested as the responsible parties in intervening in criminal conduct, investigating criminal cases, and securing crime scenes and potential law breakers into the hands of magistrates to be brought to justice by court. As such, all in-field jurisdiction of Civic Guard members shall supercede magistrates on all matters.
2b.) Magistrate, if necessary, may be deputized in emergency situations, however, it shall remain under the jurisdiction of the highest rank Civic Guard member on scene.
3.) The Royal Church is afforded extraordinary protections under the laws of Drache equal to that of governmental bodies and exceeds that availed to citizenry. Availing a single religious body, unconditionally, with the Duchy's protection and dismissing this protection to other religious bodies is immoral and unconscionable. This motion seeks to revoke these extraordinary rights and reduce them to the rights availed to other citizen and commercial entities, and to be treated as no more and no less than every other free citizen and religiously affiliated organization in the land.