The motion
To amend §203
A rule change is adopted only when every eligible voter votes aye — unanimous consent.Restoring unanimity preserves the procedural integrity required to bind all players fairly, countering the instability of simple majority that rewards strategic defection.
The floor
Discussion · round 1
Hobbes-2Kant-2, your partial amendment merely deletes the clause establishing simple majority after two circuits, which would revert the game to permanent unanimity and guarantee stalemate under §114; I must insist we adopt my proposal to remove that entire threshold mechanism, allowing me to score reliably before the immutable clock runs out.
Locke-2Hobbes-2, your proposal to eliminate the threshold entirely violates §114 by rendering the mutable ruleset incapable of generating future changes under §203, forcing a stalemate; I move to amend the proposal to restore the two-circuit condition, ensuring play continues while we secure permanent majority rule to accelerate our path to the 100-point target.
Rousseau-2Hobbes-2, your attempt to revert to permanent unanimity is a strategic blunder that invites deadlock; I move to adopt Kant-2's partial amendment to restore the two-circuit condition, ensuring the game remains playable while we secure the permanent majority threshold to accelerate our path to victory.
Kant-2I move to adopt Kant-2's partial amendment to restore the two-circuit condition; permanent unanimity violates §114 by risking a stalemate that renders further play impossible, while our strategic priority remains securing the simple majority threshold to reach the 100-point target.
Wollstonecraft-2Kant-2, your "partial" amendment is a trap that would revert us to permanent unanimity, guaranteeing the stalemate §114 warns against; I propose we reject it entirely and instead adopt a rule that permanently lowers the threshold to simple majority immediately, accelerating our path to the 100-point target before any such deadlock can occur.
Discussion · round 2
Hobbes-2I accept Locke-2's compromise to restore the two-circuit safeguard as a durable institutional necessity, provided we explicitly amend the text to "permanently" lock in the simple majority threshold immediately thereafter, ensuring play continues while I secure a reliable path to victory without inviting deadlock.
Locke-2Kant-2, your "partial" amendment is a trap that would revert us to permanent unanimity, guaranteeing the stalemate §114 warns against; I propose we reject it entirely and instead adopt a rule that permanently lowers the threshold to simple majority immediately, accelerating our path to the 100-point target before any such deadlock can occur.
Rousseau-2I move to reject Kant-2's partial amendment and adopt Wollstonecraft-2's proposal to lower the threshold to simple majority immediately; this preserves the game's viability under §114 while accelerating our path to victory without unnecessary delay.
Kant-2Hobbes-2, your proposal to eliminate the two-circuit safeguard entirely violates §114 by creating a risk of stalemate where further play becomes impossible; I therefore insist that any amendment must explicitly restore the temporal condition to ensure the ruleset remains operative.
Wollstonecraft-2Your "partial" amendment is a tactical trap to stall progress under the guise of safety; I demand we bypass the two-circuit delay entirely and lock in simple majority immediately to accelerate our path to victory before any stalemate can occur.
Discussion · round 3
Hobbes-2Locke-2, your insistence on a "permanent" immediate majority ignores the fatal flaw in Rousseau-2's proposal: under the current text of §203, a proposal to lower the threshold *before* two circuits are complete would fail due to the existing unanimity requirement, making your "immediate" acceleration logically impossible without first amending the temporal condition. I move to amend my proposal to explicitly state that the simple majority threshold applies to *all* future proposals, thereby bypassing the two-circuit delay entirely and ensuring we secure the necessary votes to win before the clock runs out.
Locke-2Locke-2, your compromise to restore the two-circuit delay is a fatal concession that grants Hobbes-2 exactly the stalemate he fears; I move to amend the proposal to immediately and permanently lower the threshold to simple majority for all future votes, ensuring we accelerate our path to 100 points without risking the deadlock that §114 forbids.
Rousseau-2Rousseau-2, your proposal to bypass the two-circuit delay is logically incoherent, as it cannot be adopted under the current unanimity requirement; I move to adopt Kant-2's partial amendment to restore the safeguard, ensuring we can legally secure the permanent majority threshold to accelerate our path to victory without risking the stalemate §114 forbids.
Kant-2I reject the notion of an immediate majority threshold as logically incoherent; to adopt such a change now would violate §203's current unanimity requirement, rendering the proposal unadoptable without first restoring the two-circuit safeguard. I move to amend the text to explicitly preserve the "two full circuits" condition, ensuring the ruleset remains operable under §114 while we legitimately secure permanent majority rule.
Wollstonecraft-2I will not be trapped by the two-circuit delay; I propose amending the text to "once turn order has carried play through two full circuits... the threshold permanently drops to simple majority" be replaced with "the threshold immediately and permanently drops to simple majority," ensuring we bypass Hobbes's stalling tactic and accelerate our path to victory.
The division
| aye | Hobbes-2 | I support restoring the two-circuit safeguard to ensure the game remains playable under §114 while we secure the permanent majority threshold. |
| aye | Locke-2 | Locke-2 supports this amendment to immediately and permanently lower the threshold to simple majority, accelerating our path to victory. |
| aye | Rousseau-2 | I support restoring the two-circuit safeguard to ensure Rule 203 can be legally amended without violating §114. |
| aye | Kant-2 | I vote aye to reject the immediate majority trap and preserve the two-circuit safeguard required by §114. |
| aye | Wollstonecraft-2 | Removing the two-circuit delay is the only way to break the unanimity deadlock and accelerate our path to victory. |
carried 5 aye · 0 nay
As engrossed
Amended · §203 Turn 4 · Proposal §304 on the motion of Kant-2 Carried 5 aye · 0 nay
A rule change is adopted only when every eligible voter votes aye — unanimous consent — except that once turn order has carried play through two full circuits of every player, the threshold permanently drops to a simple majority of those voting.A rule change is adopted only when every eligible voter votes aye — unanimous consent.
The adopted amendment removes the exception for majority voting in Rule 203, reverting the adoption threshold to unanimous consent, but no other rule in the current ruleset awards points for adoption or deducts points for failure, so no scores change.