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Anyone can stand for election. They do not need to be backed by a political party or minor faction, but it helps. There are three major parties, Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians. Corporations generally do | Anyone can stand for election. They do not need to be backed by a political party or minor faction, but it helps. There are three major parties, Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians. Corporations generally do | ||
push (and fund) their chosen candidates or parties as do other special interest groups | push (and fund) their chosen candidates or parties as do other special interest groups | ||
Congress persons spend their days representing their constituency. They can also hold other office as part of government – for example chairing committees etc. They are not allowed to have corporate interests that might conflict with their political roles (though quite often | |||
some hide them via their friends, spouses etc, and not all get found out) | |||
Congress | Every Federation system has representation in Congress but generally a Congressman represents multiple systems, except a few (like Sol) that have more than on Congressional representative, based loosely on historic population. Phenomenal growth in the outer systems has meant that they have | ||
little representation in Congress and there is frequent discussion about | |||
creating many new Congressmen to address this balance, but the various power | |||
blocks realise it will change the balance of power away from the core systems, | |||
the very people who would have to vote it through - so many agree it is unlikely to happen in the near future. | |||
Federal law is based on an agreed Constitution. People have | |||
rights and freedoms, enshrined by this agreement. A great many things are illegal, like slavery, cloning and certain narcotics. Local 'State' law prohibits trafficking to a greater or lesser degree. Things like ship-based weapons, personal weapons, other milder drugs and alcohol are banned in some systems. | |||
Federal law is | Federal law is controlled by the Mars government, and the sheer size of the Federation makes it very hard for a System to have any influence on changing it. | ||
''- Governments and politics in Elite Dangerous <ref>[https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=225156 Governments and politics in Elite Dangerous] by Michael Brookes</ref>'' | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||