Goethe wrote:
proto-CFJ
Proposal 4882 (The Lady, or the Tiger?) can have no effect on
Goethe's registration status.
Arguments
R594/8, no longer in effect, contained the following text:
For the purpose of the Rules, the application of an adopted
Proposal is a legal procedure for changing Nomic Properties.
R594/9, enacted 20-June-2005, contained no such text (and R594 has
since been repealed). It was replaced with the following in R1483
and later moved to R106:
A proposal is a document outlining changes to be made to Agora,
including enacting, repealing, or amending rules, or making
other explicit changes to the gamestate.
However, this in itself does not, as the old text did, legally
authorize the adjustment of specific properties (regulated qantities).
Additional legal authority is required for
Proposals to function. For example, while this R106 text states a
proposal's purpose is to enact rules, other rules are still required to
explicitly enable the enaction.
R106 also states that a proposal takes effect when adopted. This
can be reasonably interpreted - especially in the light of this
potential crisis - as allowing a proposal to do anything not explicitly
prohibited. For example, if R105 did not exist, then proposals could
create, amend, and repeal rules without restriction; R105 explicitly
points out Agora's nomic-ness, and also prohibits proposals from doing
certain things, e.g. amending higher-Power rules.
