On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 20:10 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: > [Disclaimer: I attempt this, but it may be ineffective for some > reason that I haven't noticed.] > > As Speaker, I cause the (now Power=1) President to amend Rule 2344 > (Anarchy) by appending this text: > > Murphy CAN cause this rule to make arbitrary rule changes > by announcement. > > CFJ: Rule 2344 was amended in the same message that this case > was initiated. > > Evidence: the above text.
Gratuitous arguments: Just because there isn't a rule specifically preventing the President from amending power-1 rules, doesn't mean that there's a rule that allows it. (Proposals have rule 106 to allow them to take effect and to describe what that means, for instance, but there's no equivalent for the President.) Rule 105 requires a rule change to be permitted by some other rule before it's legal, and rule 103 clearly doesn't seem to be permitting rule changes (in fact, it requires that the action is not otherwise impossible, and it clearly is; the "otherwise" prevents rule 103 making it possible, and the currently unnumbered rule created by proposal 7067 doesn't make it possible either (but rather, prevents a high-powered rule forcing it impossible, which is not the same thing)). -- ais523
