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<center><big>'''Repeal "Fair Sentencing Act"'''</big></center>
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<center> A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution </center>
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| Repeal
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| #180
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'''Description:'''<br>
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UN Resolution #180: Fair Sentencing Act (Category: The Furtherment of Democracy; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
 
UN Resolution #180: Fair Sentencing Act (Category: The Furtherment of Democracy; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
  
'''Argument:'''<br>
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'''Argument''':
The United Nations,
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The United Nations,<br>
 
<b>AFFIRMING</b> that due to different circumstances different criminals may warrant different sentences for the same crime and such each case should be judged individually, and;
 
<b>AFFIRMING</b> that due to different circumstances different criminals may warrant different sentences for the same crime and such each case should be judged individually, and;
  

Latest revision as of 08:39, 11 January 2007

FAILED: Repeal "Fair Sentencing Act"

Category: Repeal
Proposed By: Imperfectia
Repeals: Fair Sentencing Act
Status: Failed
Adopted:
Votes For: 5517
Votes Against: 5157

Description:

UN Resolution #180: Fair Sentencing Act (Category: The Furtherment of Democracy; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument:

The United Nations,
AFFIRMING that due to different circumstances different criminals may warrant different sentences for the same crime and such each case should be judged individually, and;


COMMENDING UN#180 in its attempts to encourage member states to provide oversight to their judicial systems to examine trial and sentencing practices, however;


CONCERNED that the second article gives nations the license to use capital punishment too freely;


CONCERNED that individual states may use capital punishment for ANY offense they so choose including, but not limited to shoplifting, illegal drug possession, trespassing, and adultery;


BELIEVING that an internationally recognized standard practice regarding the use of capital punishment is in every member nation’s best interest in order to keep the peace;


HEREBY repeals UN #180, “Fair Sentencing Act”

Votes For: 5,517
Votes Against: 5,157