REMEDY FOR THE PEOPLE ACT OF 2005
First Reading: May 24, 2005

1. Other than through the procedure prescribed by the constitution, laws of the United States of America may be decided upon by the government of the United States of America as well.

2. Laws decided upon by the government of the United States of America may deviate from the provisions of the constitution as long as they do not affect the institutions of the National Assembly and the Judicial System as such. The constitutional rights of the President shall remain intact.

3. Laws decided upon by the government of the United States of America shall be issued by the PrimeMinister and announced in the Government Law Gazette. They shall take effect on the day following the announcement, unless they prescribe a different date. Laws decided upon by the government of the United States of America shall not be required to follow the proper passage of legislation.

4. Contracts of the United States of America with foreign states which affect matters of United States of America legislation shall not require the approval of the bodies concerned with legislation. The government of the United States of America shall issue the prescriptions required for the execution of such contracts.

5. This law shall take effect with the day of its announcement. It shall become invalid on September 28, 2005 or earlier, if the present United States government is succeeded by a different one.

6. The defintion of the United States Government shall mean the Prime Minster and the ministers appointed.

This shall be allowed a second reading.

I believe this bill shows excellent merit and I ask that it be fowarded to the Third Reading and then to a proper vote.

Mr. Speaker,

This bill's merits, its aims are overdone. It is a near total capitulation of legislative authority to the prime minister. The prime minister, without any action of the parliament, may issue decrees that may deviate from the constitution as long as they do not affect the parliament or the courts or the presidency. The only way for parliament to reign in a rogue prime minister would be, presumably, to pass a law in conflict with the government's decree.

I see no reason to delegate such extensive and far reaching powers to the prime minister; the parliamentary system is meant to be slow and painstaking so as to provide quality laws. It is meant to rise above the passions of the moment and to reach a calm and reasonable middle ground. It is the quality of laws and how they affect the people that matters, not the quantity.

I yield.