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Constitutional Modernization and Accountability Amendment

Proposed by Common Ground in Rheinland

Bundesrat: 44.9% / 67% of all seats Bundestag: 41.1% / 67% of all seats

Package Overview (9 measures)

Failed
Created: March 24, 2010
Opened: March 24, 2010
Closed: May 23, 2010

Opening this package cost 60 PP.

What would change

Full constitution with changes marked

Current wording is shown as it was when voting began.

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Constitutional Modernization and Accountability Amendment: This amendment rebalances institutional powers to improve transparency, democratic accountability, and efficient governance. The current constitutional structure concentrates several key powers in ways that reduce oversight and limit adaptability. By redistributing nine specific powers, this reform ensures that decision-making authority aligns more closely with democratic legitimacy and functional responsibility. It strengthens checks and balances, prevents institutional overreach, and modernizes governance to reflect current political realities.
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Constitutional Modernization and Accountability Amendment: This amendment rebalances institutional powers to improve transparency, democratic accountability, and efficient governance. The current constitutional structure concentrates several key powers in ways that reduce oversight and limit adaptability. By redistributing nine specific powers, this reform ensures that decision-making authority aligns more closely with democratic legitimacy and functional responsibility. It strengthens checks and balances, prevents institutional overreach, and modernizes governance to reflect current political realities.
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Constitutional Modernization and Accountability Amendment: This amendment rebalances institutional powers to improve transparency, democratic accountability, and efficient governance. The current constitutional structure concentrates several key powers in ways that reduce oversight and limit adaptability. By redistributing nine specific powers, this reform ensures that decision-making authority aligns more closely with democratic legitimacy and functional responsibility. It strengthens checks and balances, prevents institutional overreach, and modernizes governance to reflect current political realities.
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Constitutional Modernization and Accountability Amendment: This amendment rebalances institutional powers to improve transparency, democratic accountability, and efficient governance. The current constitutional structure concentrates several key powers in ways that reduce oversight and limit adaptability. By redistributing nine specific powers, this reform ensures that decision-making authority aligns more closely with democratic legitimacy and functional responsibility. It strengthens checks and balances, prevents institutional overreach, and modernizes governance to reflect current political realities.
Regulate Businesses
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Constitutional Modernization and Accountability Amendment: This amendment rebalances institutional powers to improve transparency, democratic accountability, and efficient governance. The current constitutional structure concentrates several key powers in ways that reduce oversight and limit adaptability. By redistributing nine specific powers, this reform ensures that decision-making authority aligns more closely with democratic legitimacy and functional responsibility. It strengthens checks and balances, prevents institutional overreach, and modernizes governance to reflect current political realities.
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Constitutional Modernization and Accountability Amendment: This amendment rebalances institutional powers to improve transparency, democratic accountability, and efficient governance. The current constitutional structure concentrates several key powers in ways that reduce oversight and limit adaptability. By redistributing nine specific powers, this reform ensures that decision-making authority aligns more closely with democratic legitimacy and functional responsibility. It strengthens checks and balances, prevents institutional overreach, and modernizes governance to reflect current political realities.
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Constitutional Modernization and Accountability Amendment: This amendment rebalances institutional powers to improve transparency, democratic accountability, and efficient governance. The current constitutional structure concentrates several key powers in ways that reduce oversight and limit adaptability. By redistributing nine specific powers, this reform ensures that decision-making authority aligns more closely with democratic legitimacy and functional responsibility. It strengthens checks and balances, prevents institutional overreach, and modernizes governance to reflect current political realities.
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Constitutional Modernization and Accountability Amendment: This amendment rebalances institutional powers to improve transparency, democratic accountability, and efficient governance. The current constitutional structure concentrates several key powers in ways that reduce oversight and limit adaptability. By redistributing nine specific powers, this reform ensures that decision-making authority aligns more closely with democratic legitimacy and functional responsibility. It strengthens checks and balances, prevents institutional overreach, and modernizes governance to reflect current political realities.
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Constitutional Modernization and Accountability Amendment: This amendment rebalances institutional powers to improve transparency, democratic accountability, and efficient governance. The current constitutional structure concentrates several key powers in ways that reduce oversight and limit adaptability. By redistributing nine specific powers, this reform ensures that decision-making authority aligns more closely with democratic legitimacy and functional responsibility. It strengthens checks and balances, prevents institutional overreach, and modernizes governance to reflect current political realities.

Proposer's case

This amendment rebalances institutional powers to improve transparency, democratic accountability, and efficient governance. The current constitutional structure concentrates several key powers in ways that reduce oversight and limit adaptability.

By redistributing nine specific powers, this reform ensures that decision-making authority aligns more closely with democratic legitimacy and functional responsibility. It strengthens checks and balances, prevents institutional overreach, and modernizes governance to reflect current political realities.

Vote tally

Bundesrat

Failed
31Yes 15No 23Not voted 69 seats

For: 31 / 69 seats (44.9%) — needs 66.6%

Against: 15 · Abstained: 0 · Not voted: 23

Party Seats Vote
Common Ground Proposer 17 Yes
Liberal Center 7 Yes
Liberal Meritocratic Alliance 15 No
Socialist Rheinland 2 Yes
The Christian Democrats 5 Yes

Bundestag

Failed
267Yes 116No 267Not voted 650 seats

For: 267 / 650 seats (41.1%) — needs 66.6%

Against: 116 · Abstained: 0 · Not voted: 267

Party Seats Vote
Common Ground Proposer 134 Yes
Liberal Center 70 Yes
Liberal Meritocratic Alliance 116 No
Socialist Rheinland 15 Yes
The Christian Democrats 48 Yes

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