Talk:1985 Organic Law
The government soon adopted a 66-article "Organic Law" which served as a sort of constitution. While the much-derided "OrgLaw" gave the King a veto over every aspect of government, it set out election procedures and the workings of the Cosâ, and was a good base on which to build a viable democracy, as proven by the fact it lasted 3 years.
Matáiwoson, R. Ben, author; Gödefrïeu Válcadac’h, editor. Àr Päts, 2003 Comprehensive Edition. Preßeu Støtanneu with this new edition being put together by Oraclâ Press: Abbavilla, Atatürk, and Fiôvâ Province, RT. 2003 and 31 May 2020. .pdf Online. p. 24
XXV. A New Democracy. 5-7.1985.
The Talossan people spoke on several issues in the election of April, 1985. Referenda in the election called upon the Government to do two things: 66% of the voters demanded independence for Iceland (a Talossan colony since mid-1983), and the Government complied on the 1st of June. Also demanded by 60% of the voters was the printing in Støtanneu of a regular column, in the Talossan language. This began on the 10th of May.
The first act approved by the new Metáiriâ Government was a new 66-article "Organic Law," a constitutionish document designed to supplement the absolutist 1979 Constitution. Discussion of this project in the press began a month earlier. ("[The King is] taking democracy seriously. Oh my God," commented Støtanneu on 10 April.) It was in force from 10 May 1985 and (with many amendments) governed elections and parliamentary procedure for three years; the Organic Law, complicated, confusing and poorly-written by the King, nonetheless hung on as the official basis of government until 1988. The document was blatantly undemocratic. The Organic Law contained a nondescript preamble, a set of "General Principles" defining Talossan symbols and nationality (example: "Every nation no matter how small has the right under God to self-government. Talossa is a nation, tracing her history back in time seven thousand years, and is therefore rightfully thrusting her standards and emblems into the face of the world"), the rôle of the King ("He holds the Throne by Divine Fiat. His power is supreme and the Constitution and Organic Law, and any subsequent laws... hold sway only by His gracious suffrance." [sic]), the parliament, legislation, and a bill of rights (with holes in it to protect--who else?--the King). The Organic Law was approved by all parties in the Cosâ except the DDP, nwhich voted against it.
The National Lanugage, since 26 December 1984 officially "the first official language of the RT," was given prominence in the Organic Law. Article VII of the document, signed by Prime Minister Metáiriâ, read: "Talossan, as the national language, shall be the first official State language for all purposes. English is accepted as a second auxiliary language. All documents prepared by the Government of the Kingdom of Talossa must be in English and Talossan. In case of a discrepancy in the translation the Talossan shall be authoritative. No person shall be discriminated against for not knowing the Talossan language."
R. Ben Madison, A History of the Kingdom of Talossa, Vol. I, 1994 / 2021 Comprehensive Edition ONLINE, p. 176
The infamous first "Organic Law" (1985-1988) contained a few words in Talossan. The name of the state was declared to be ("in the national language") "An Regipäts Talossán." The terms "Cosă," "Senäts," "Seneşál," "Penúfeu" (Deputy PM). "Tuisac'h," and "Ziu" are found in it. The words "Cosa" and "Senäts" predate the document, however, by at least four or five months.
Corpus Scriptionum Talossanarum, p. 112
The King's last official act in Alabama was to call upon the Parliament
to amend the Organic Law to allow direct democratic elections for the Senäts. The King at first planned to run for the Cosâ in the next election on a platform of making the Senäts democratic, but decided instead to hold the two elections simultaneously. The King announced that he wanted elections "as early as August." On 16 July the King returned to Talossa and informed Metáiriâ of his plans; TNN stated that the King was in a "very generous and freedom- loving
mood" following his Canadian vacation.
R. Ben Madison, A History of the Kingdom of Talossa, Vol. I, 1994 / 2021 Comprehensive Edition ONLINE, p. 178
On 5th August 1985, South Territory, at the far south end of the Kingdom,
assumed self-government as the Province of Pórt Maxhestic (Majestic Harbour, abbreviated P.M.; don't confuse this with "PM" which is the abbreviation for Prime Minister!) The new province was firmly under the leadership of Grand General Secretary (Premier) Ián U. Metáiriâ and Governor-General Riestâ Pànetâ, both members of the Nationalist Party. It was the first Province to become self-governing, or "confederate"; Vuode was being groomed for self-government by December. The Organic Law provided for "union provinces" (without selfgovernment) and "confederate provinces" (whose domestic affairs were run by
locally-elected legislatures).
R. Ben Madison, A History of the Kingdom of Talossa, Vol. I, 1994 / 2021 Comprehensive Edition ONLINE, p. 183
On 4th November the status of the 40,000 American "natives" in Talossa
was defined by the Eighth Amendment to the Organic Law, which named the voting citizens "First Class Citizens" and the Americans "Second Class Citizens" (later called Cestoûrs) in a system which Frédéric Corïu referred to
affectionately as "apartheid."
R. Ben Madison, A History of the Kingdom of Talossa, Vol. I, 1994 / 2021 Comprehensive Edition ONLINE, p. 188
by being appointed as the
new Governor General of Vuode Province. This was a brilliant move on the part of Lauriéir. The post of Governor General had been written into the Ninth Amendment to the Organic Law in December, 1985. The Governor General, a Federal appointee, could veto any law passed by a provincial parliament--a guard against any province passing laws repugnant to the laws of the country, and a provision put in place mostly to stop Dan Lauriéir from working his will upon Vuode in early 1986. Now, the tables were turned. Robert Madison was Premier of Vuode, and the Province now found itself powerless to oppose any of the "dictates" of the Federal
Government.
R. Ben Madison, A History of the Kingdom of Talossa, Vol. I, 1994 / 2021 Comprehensive Edition ONLINE, p. 226
The Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader jointly approved a bill
enacting "Vote by Post" as the nation's parliamentary system, a majr revision of the 1985 Organic Law. After the next election, each party would obtain a certain number of seats in a 200-seat Cosâ, proportional to its share of the vote. This would involve many more citizens in actively governing the country, since the seats would actually be occupied by voting citizens. The system would be tested after the next election, which turned out to be muh
sooner than anyone had expected.
R. Ben Madison, A History of the Kingdom of Talossa, Vol. I, 1994 / 2021 Comprehensive Edition ONLINE, p. 231
The
Constituziun opens with a pompous preamble written by the King, which received surprisingly little criticism. Based partly on the 1985 Organic Law, the Preamble (written in Talossan and English) declares: "Every nation no matter how small has the right to self-government. We affirm that by our existence. And we have chosen to publicly affirm our existence by this document. We state with neither equivocation nor flinching that the Talossan people are a nation, and that the Kingdom of Talossa is the state of that nation. We trace our history back to distant, different times, and today we mark another milestone in the rightful thrusting of our standards and emblems into the face of an unprepared world. We, the Talossans who have prepared, signed and sworn to uphold this document, hereby pledge before history that our responsibilities to our country are no less a sacred trust than those of other people to theirs. We shall uphold them. Talossa is a
nation. This we swear!"
R. Ben Madison, A History of the Kingdom of Talossa, Vol. I, 1994 / 2021 Comprehensive Edition ONLINE, p. 259-260
New Constitution
BEING OFFERED
KRI reports that he will write a new constitution for the Kingdom, and then petition the nation's le- aders to support and adopt it. This new constituti- on will replace the flawed "Organic Low" and the "1979 Constitution", both of which put ultimate and supreme political power into the hands of the King. The new one would reportedly restrict the King's power to an accessory role on newly-forined "Supr- eme Court" of three members, and he would maintain the ability to nominate prospective PM's for parli- amentary approval. He reports that he would have no other power, and that "King of Inlosss" would be an "exclusively ceremonial post." However, obvious- ly still wanting political involvement, he says: the King could also be "Politician Ben", leader of the PC party, and claims this means no "conflict of 1 interest" because a weak King couldn't effect the W s of "Politician Ben." Says SP J: "The claim 1 that there would be no conflict of interest, and that a Talossen political leader could also be a monarch without this conflict, remains to be proven t since in practice now, 'Politician Ben' is certain- ly strengthened by 'King Robert 1. The TNPS pro- posal is: King Robert I should remain Talossa's monarch, but should NOT be involved in politics.
TNN #128 1 october 1986, in R. Ben Madison, A History of the Kingdom of Talossa, Vol. I, 1994 / 2021 Comprehensive Edition ONLINE, p. 203