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 can have no effect on Goethe's registration status.Arguments R594/8, no longer in effect, contained the following text: For the purpose of the Rules, the application of an adopted Proposal is a legal procedure for changing Nomic Properties. R594/9, enacted 20-June-2005, contained no such text (and R594 has since been repealed).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, legallyauthorize 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.
