On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Ed Murphy <emurph...@socal.rr.com> wrote: >> So the Bill is a changeable Proposal to change the Law. >> And an Amendment is an unchangeable Proposal to change the Bill. > > This comes down on the anti- side. Neither a Bill nor an Amendment > can be changed once the process of voting on it begins.
The issue is whether a proposal is fundamentally mutable (like a contract) or immutable (like a message). In the former, there's nothing in the Agoran ruleset to prevent it from being changed once voting begins, regardless of whatever happens in the U.S. Congress. The process of voting is well laid out and defined in the rules and we don't need to use external precedent for it; the definition of a proposal, however, isn't.
