On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> R106 says that Proposals can and do
> make changes in general and provide a mechanism (just as the president can
> take actions in general by way of a different mechanism)
Gratuitous: CFJ 2213 is highly relevant. I misremembered the
precedent as stating that making rule changes is not an "action", but
in fact it's the exact opposite. :)
However, I still disagree: Rule 103 (or 2326) does not allow the
President to take arbitrary actions, in the sense of "any gamestate
change that can be written as one". Even without Presidential Power,
that includes control over any number of gamestate quantities; the
President was supposed to be a virtual player, not a god. R103
explicitly does not make POSSIBLE any otherwise IMPOSSIBLE action:
The Speaker CAN, by announcement, cause the President to take
actions that are not otherwise IMPOSSIBLE, except for
deregistration.
Arguably this still applies because Rule 2326 makes it POSSIBLE for
the President to take arbitrary actions in general:
A first-class Player CAN cause the President to take actions
Without Objection, or with Agoran Consent.
but, as above, I think the implication is "actions that the President CAN take".
