Starting Positions:
The FCNY (1)
The NCR (-1)
Anglo-Canadian Factions (0)
French-Canadian Factions (-2)
Northern Mexican Factions (2)
Mexican Revivalists (-3)
Western Minor American Factions (0)
Southern Minor American Factions (0)
[X] Plan To Form A More Perfect Union v1.67 Dream Drop Disco
-[X] Steps On the Road: The body will accept a slower track to membership featuring escalating levels of involvement, with things like mutual defense agreements coming earlier and common diplomatic policies coming later. The resulting state will take much more time to be viable. +1 with all American factions, Anglo-Canadians, and Northern Mexicans; +0 with French-Canadians and Mexican Revivalists.
-[X] Web of Association: While the decisions will be made by the above central council, non-state actors can seek association status and gain guaranteed audiences with said council and permanent representatives to deliver petitions for them. Adds a layer of complication, but this status is still up to the Council, so no states are going to be angry about it. +1 with Canadian factions, western and southern American factions, and northern Mexicans; +0 with NCR, FCNY, and Mexican Revivalists.
-[X] Cloture: Nobody wants to enact the liberum veto, but you have several attending factions who are concerned with being swallowed up in the tide of voices. Filibustering and the legislative measures that enabled it are a dirty memory for Americans, but there are ways to guarantee that minority voices are heard and respected that avoid some of the pitfalls. Institutes a supermajority requirement to close debate and move to a vote, with that requirement declining with each attempt at doing so in a session until a simple majority is required. +1 with Canadian factions and the Mexican Revivalists.
-[X] United Post Office: While the body itself will need to thresh out the details, you could establish as a part of its charter that it will create a postal service operating in all member states (associated groups as practical). This is a significant project to commit the body to undertaking, and with your own commitments, you can't be sure that you'll be able to help in a significant capacity if it needs support, but it is valuable and broadly popular, and could realistically be done in the early stages of things. +1 with all factions.
-[X] Multilingualism: The body would doubtlessly vote to set its own language of business, and by simple majority, that language would doubtlessly be English, but you have an opportunity to reach out and accommodate the more...skittish...of your participants, here -- at the cost of a tripled administrative workload and the dire need for a large mass of translators. +1 with all Mexicans and French-Canadians.
-[X] Mexican Autonomy: Agree to recognize the Mexican Revivalists' formal organization's current or future membership as beyond the body's scope, and grant them a non-voting representative with the right to address the voting council at any time, along with the right to petition for entrance to the body at a later date by simple majority. +3 with Mexican Revivalists and guarantees that they at least attend, but locks them out from joining the body proper right now and enforces a hands-off policy for their territory.
-[X] Southern Strategy: The Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico are becoming areas of increasing international interest in recent years, and the various people down there have virtually zero interest in any of that. Making a policy of not accepting the membership of any states found by the people in those regions to be inappropriately under foreign influence would be quite the draw to southern factions, but it would set a confrontational tone with Brazil and their bloc, given their newly-announced interest in the mouth of the Mississippi. +1 with southern American factions, the Mexican Revivalists, and the Northern Mexicans.
-[X] Lifeline of the West: The NCR, despite presently being in the flush of victory, is also feeling uncomfortably exposed, at the moment. It wants the body to commit to a project of reopening an infrastructure link across the Rockies, so that aid can reach them overland. Fortunately, Burns has just cleared out the largest concentration of bandits along the I-70, so this simplifies the question tremendously. Still, this is a big project. Without the FCNY's assistance, finding the funding for this is probably going to be the body's first big hurdle to clear. +3 with NCR.
-[X] Truth and Reconciliation Commission: An idea lifted from pre-Collapse Canada intended to examine the impacts of their residential schools for First Nations children, you plan to adopt it on a far grander scale. Make, as part of this body's charter, a commission with the aim of documenting the history and lasting impacts of the Collapse in humanitarian terms, and then making recommendations to the body as to how it should inform their formal decisions -- such as whom to favor in terms of who is the legitimate controller of a given patch of land. Broadly popular, but the NCR is going to see this as a slight against them. +1 with all Canadian, minor American, and northern Mexican factions. -1 with NCR.
-[X] Military Exchange: Various minor factions are interested in building up their militaries, now that Victoria (and California) are no longer factors opposing that. The CFC, having just crushed Victoria in two consecutive force-on-force contests, has significant cachet in military matters. Announce that members of this body will have the opportunity to send officer candidates to CFC military schools. This will give them the insights they desire and expand your own influence, although every spot in your academies is precious, at the moment, and if you're handing them out to others, you'll need to push harder for access to foreign academies than you were already going to have to. +2 with all minor American factions, all Canadian factions, and the northern Mexicans.
Ending Positions:
The FCNY (3)
The NCR (3)
Anglo-Canadian Factions (7)
French-Canadian Factions (5)
Northern Mexican Factions (10)
Mexican Revivalists (4)
Western Minor American Factions (6)
Southern Minor American Factions (7)
