Ed Murphy wrote: > An Oligarch may refuse a proposal by announcement. A refused > proposal ceases to be a proposal.
Nice try, but I don't think this will work at Power=1. Rule 106 at Power=3 calls for a proposal to be adopted if the vote on it is favourable, which I think your "ceases to be a proposal" provision would conflict with. There are, to be sure, several other ways that a Power=1 rule can grant emperorhood. Move on half a sentence in R106 and you find "unless other rules prevent it from taking effect", so you could win with "A refused proposal cannot take effect even if adopted.". You could also have had "The voting period of a refused proposal is 106 years.". I was just thinking (a few hours ago) that a good legislative project at this point would be to restructure and upmutate parts of the proposal system to prevent such abuses. The objective would be that all the machinery for adopting Democratic proposals would be at Power=3, with strictly limited scope for interference by Power=1 rules. -zefram
