Proposition of new Department/Class

[Bartholomew Henzelli]

I am proposing a Comparitive Politics class for Lavalon Academy.

I have studied a lot of things pertaining to politics and love debating whatever point happens to be losing in the debate. (My government teacher hates me for it, but I bring him a plate of waffles the first monday of every month. )

The classes would be as follows:

• Comparitive Politics 100--History of Laval Politics (I'll need someone to fill me in on the finer points of the Sovereign Principality and the Republics up to the acquisition of the SSNG)
  
• CP 200--Introduction to Modern Lavalon (This one will be a while because of the new constitution and everything else)
  
• CP 201--Comparitive Politics of Natopia (Nate, you'll have to give me some info on this)
  
• CP 202--Comparitive Politics of the SSNG (I got this one covered. )
  
• CP 203--Comparitive Politics of Selected Members of the International Association
  
• CP 300--Comparitive Politics Independent Study (Basically, for the third "year" course, students will outline their own micronation and explain how it will work, how the political schematic will operate, etc.)
  

The following are required to pass in order to get your degree in Comparitive Politics:

• CP 100
  
• CP 200
  
• CP 201 or 202 or 203
  
• CP 300
  

The vast majority of course work will involve the constitution (the "ideal") and the constitutionality (the "reality") of each country.
The final "exam" will be the construction ("passage") of five to ten laws in the student's micronation and a short essay on the constitutionality of the laws. Basically, the student has to justify each of the laws and show how they are constitutional. The law could be completely and totally unconstitutional, but as long as the student can effectively justify its passage, the student will pass that part of the exam.

[Xon]

Wow Henzelli, you're showing signs of being an ol' Lavalonian codger. As much as you yourself have contributed to Lavalonian history and culture, you could probably teach the class. You could use my history--a citizen's perspective--as the textbook.

I'll need someone to fill me in on the finer points of the Sovereign Principality and the Republics up to the acquisition of the SSNG

[admin]

woot! a class about Natopia in a foreign state!!!

a hitory, broken down into time periods, is available here:
free.hostdepartment.com/n/natopia/about1.html1.html

Also check out the Republic Library:
chancellornate.proboards20.com/index.cgi?board=library

Let me know of anything else u want to know.

[Bartholomew Henzelli]

I'll start putting together my syllabi for each of the courses based on the info you guys linked me to.
Oh, Xon, if you could, could you write me a little synopsis of what you believe the old republics to have been? Like, if I were to write one on the SSNG (being completely and brutally honest with myself) I would write something like this:

The SSNG was formed to operate as a free and open democracy, refusing to mirror the closed circles of the former Warsaw Pact and Comintern. However, this rapidly changed under the pressures of Kollina and Henzelli over the Central Committee. They were so bent on vesting as much power into themselves as possible that they eventually alienated the Central Committee all together and began running the show.
However, in a state run by "democracy", the democratic aspects are never far behind. Following Kollina's exile of the nation, the Central Committee presented exorbitant pressure over Henzelli until his will was broken and he agreed to rewrite the constitution, vesting greater power in a diversified political schematic while at the same time recognizing the influences of the Central Committee.
In all, the Kollina Era was true to form of the old Communist world. However, with the advent of Henzelli's reforms and the vesting of power in the Central Committee, the democratic reformation of the country shows promise and true constitutionality.

I know it's a bit wordy, but it's short and it provides a sense of what was supposed to happen and gives us a glimpse at what really happened.

[timjr]

I think the first several pages of A History of Lavalon are synoptical enough to be--perhaps stripped down a bit--part of syllabus for your class.

[Bartholomew Henzelli]

Yeah. hehe....I re-read it last night and thought "Oops....I just basically asked him to rewrite that part."
My bad.

[Jonathan Christophé]

Henzelli, once you have the course material complete, I will be more then willing to add this class to the university.

[Xon]

Sign me up as a student.

[Bartholomew Henzelli]

I hate to break it to you guys.....but my computer crashed the other night as I was doing a cleansweep and other stuff to clean out the useless files etc. and trying to uninstall everything I don't use anymore, and well, I must have pointed it to the wrong thing becuase I had to reboot the entire harddrive. EVERYTHING has been lost that I didn't have backed up (which wasn't much).
I'll be working over the weekend to get the course material back together, and hopefully, I'll have everything submitted by next Saturday.
I have to go to court on this upcoming Thursday (13) for a minor traffic violation...*cough*thirty over speed limit*cough**cough*, so I won't get much done that day. But I hope to have it all put back together by Saturday the 15.