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[X] Plan And Lawmaking for All
-[X] [UH] +1 PW - Minor lawmaking
-[X] [LH] 4 PW - Minor lawmaking (+1 Temp Happiness)
-[X] [Assembly] 2 PW - Broad (+1 Happiness, Min. Consciousness from EducationIncreased by 1)
-[X] [Press] 2 PW - Free press (-1 Temp Happiness, Min. Consciousness fromEducation Increased by 1, Academic Freedom Provides Half Consciousness to Innovation)
 
[X] Plan And Lawmaking for All
-[X] [UH] +1 PW - Minor lawmaking
-[X] [LH] 4 PW - Minor lawmaking (+1 Temp Happiness)
-[X] [Assembly] 2 PW - Broad (+1 Happiness, Min. Consciousness from Education Increased by 1)
-[X] [Press] 2 PW - Free press (-1 Temp Happiness, Min.Consciousness from Education Increased by 1, Academic Freedom Provides Half Consciousness to Innovation)
 
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How though?

All I'm seeing in the Action list is:

Construct Academy - 2 PW: -1 SoL, -1 Innovation, +1 Academy, requires available Academy Slot

And we are already capped at 4/4 academy slots. Unless research slots are their own actions?

Number of research slots is, with your current tech, Education/3 + 2, +1 an extra 1 from a status. Invest in Education and more slots will open up.
 
They retained the power of the purse till 1911, and it literally took a constitutional crisis to pry it away from them.
There are good reasons why I am suspicious of this.
If given any significant power (which, unless we want to play a declining power, we are almost certainly going to do), whether equal or unequal, our Upper and Lower Houses are going to disagree to the point of gridlock. When it happens, we'll need to do another constitutional convention to resolve the issue. Hoping that we can avoid it by waiting 25-50 years seems much more expensive than dealing with it when the time comes.
 
Also, we have open slot for another military academy.
Adhoc vote count started by liberty90 on May 21, 2018 at 7:11 PM, finished with 576 posts and 66 votes.

Adhoc vote count started by liberty90 on May 21, 2018 at 11:23 PM, finished with 679 posts and 86 votes.
 
How though?

All I'm seeing in the Action list is:

Construct Academy - 2 PW: -1 SoL, -1 Innovation, +1 Academy, requires available Academy Slot

And we are already capped at 4/4 academy slots. Unless research slots are their own actions?
Number of research slots is, with your current tech, Education/3 + 2, +1 an extra 1 from a status. Invest in Education and more slots will open up.

We also have a free mil academy slot iirc? And we get those from...I think a much slower progression based on army score, and then academic freedom gave us a mil slot in addition to the general one, though without filling it.
Also, reading thru arguments I'm no longer sure I prefer the plan I voted for... So I think I'll switch to abstaining:
[X] Abstain
 
The UH and LH not having an solid invisible barrier that needs a blowtorch to destroy 25 years from now due to working at different levels and developing an us vs them social chasm.

Greater stability for later changes.

Less time over the 25 years desperately dealing with our internal politics.

More gradual change let us focus on stat build up with less pushing from internal issues.

We potentially don't heavily wreck our land through the turtle path.

That's all I got.

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Citation needed on 'greater stability'. I'd argue that increased representation leaves us less susceptible to revolutionary pressures, and therefore more stable overall.

We can't currently focus on stat buildup due to being hamstrung by lack of PW. I'd love to be able to start pushing for things like espionage upgrades and education in the main turns, but we're always superseded by other issues, and lack the PW to do other things bar sort out the fires that appear every turn and minimal industrialisation. Moving to a constitutional monarchy, (which has worked wonderfully for the Sketch and Kielmyr I might add, as well as the British in OTL) directly mitigates this problem and allows us to grow at a faster pace.

Increased representation of the people and the various factions, and improving their ability to create laws actually alleviates many of the internal issues that we've been facing. Allowing the factions to have lawmaking abilities decreases our reliance on constitutional conventions to push through needed reforms.

Putting the brakes on our growth to not pollute will get Nokly exiled at best, as per AN. We can manage this pollution and avoid wrecking our lands like the sketch have, but a certain amount is unavoidable in the age of industry, and all factions will be pushing for it, requiring heavy PW investment to stop, which is untenable in Absolutism.


Us not having out Economy fall apart and personally being the reason why our allies economies also didn't fall apart despite the economic downturn being ???!!!

Your reply is completely irrelevant to what I was asking. That had nothing to do with the UH and LH both being at minor lawmaking. Think before you write.

Well if you want to play with a handicap you don't have to have a modern democracy, but autocracies are straight up less efficient than democracies in this system.
 
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Number of research slots is, with your current tech, Education/3 + 2, +1 an extra 1 from a status. Invest in Education and more slots will open up.
So will the Special status of refugee influx last until the next main turn?

4PW for 2 conciousness and enough Edu for another slot plus +2 Inno sounds like a pretty good bargain now that we wipe away our current stack.
 
We also have a free mil academy slot iirc? And we get those from...I think a much slower progression based on army score, and then academic freedom gave us a mil slot in addition to the general one, though without filling it.
Also, reading thru arguments I'm no longer sure I prefer the plan I voted for... So I think I'll switch to abstaining:
[X] Abstain

The mil academy slot can be filled either as a standard academy, or during peacetime you may get the option to invest army points into it instead.
 
We should fill that millitary achademy ASAP and put it on millitary engineering.

If we can use the army to DTI each round and use IC for IC growth it would be HUGE.

I also think we should attmept to be as high innovation at the end of this war as posible . Tech theft through invasion is likely based on innovation
 
The US is pretty shit at democracy though.
:V
The UK gave women over 30 the right to vote and run for office in 1918, and they had to meet minimum property requirements.
It only got extended to all women over 21 in 1928.
Switzerland gave women the right to vote federally in 1971. Portugal only gave full rights in 1976. France in 1944.

People don't really grok how recently the unrestricted franchise is in a lot of Western nations.
 
[X] Plan And Lawmaking for All
-[X] [UH] +1 PW - Minor lawmaking
-[X] [LH] 4 PW - Minor lawmaking (+1 Temp Happiness)
-[X] [Assembly] 2 PW - Broad (+1 Happiness, Min. Consciousness from EducationIncreased by 1)
-[X] [Press] 2 PW - Free press (-1 Temp Happiness, Min. Consciousness fromEducation Increased by 1, Academic Freedom Provides Half Consciousness to Innovation)

This is the best plan I can see. The Commons will be ecstatic at being involved, and the UH will be at least pleased that their de facto power changes to de jure.

Free press is a killer option. I like it.
 
Well if you want to play with a handicap you don't have to have a modern democracy, but autocracies are straight up less efficient than democracies in this system.
And with that, thoughts on monarchy dies ._.

[X] Plan And Lawmaking for All

Wish we knew that earlier so we would not have had these debates >3>

I do stand by that they should be equal and not too far though.
 
Your reply is completely irrelevant to what I was asking. That had nothing to do with the UH and LH both being at minor lawmaking. Think before you write.
No.
Yes. We can bring up the Lower House to power of the purse next ConCon to equalise the powers, while getting the benefits of constitutional monarchy and the increased PW per turn that it grants us. As it stands, we get it out of the way now, so we can push further reforms in the future.
That train was you talking about giving them the power of purse, not just minor law making.
 
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