The Anarchy

**The Anarchy** was a period of two weeks between March 1st and March 15th of 2023 in which the Leader of The Republic, Joseph, was granted all the powers of both the Council of Co-Leaders and Council of Elders.

## Background

Over the months leading up to The Anarchy, Nate had often voiced concern over the lack of activity among elected officials. He claimed that the elected officials not voting was stagnating the clan's ability to change for the better. He even went as far as resigning from his position on the Council of Co-Leaders in hopes that Mike, who was elected to replace him would be able to enact change.

Over the course of the clan's history, vaguely defined factions managed to form. Chris, in particular, had a large number of supporters who often all voted very similarly. Chris was often in opposition to James, who in turn claimed that Chris and his faction of supporters were detrimental to The Republic. Together James and Nate did not have the support to out-vote what they deemed the "Chris-pact". They would formulate a plan along with Cantankerous, who had remained politically neutral for years, to in-act the change they wanted. These three formed "Operation Jar Jar" which would be put into motion in the weeks prior to The Anarchy.

## Temporary Executive Powers Act of 2023

The main objective of Operation Jar Jar was to grant the Leader executive powers to quickly make many changes to the constitution without the involvement of the CoCL, an idea proposed by Cantankerous. Cantankerous motioned for the Council of Elders on February 23, 2023. He motioned for a Class I Clan Wide Vote to pass the Temporary Executive Powers Act of 2023 (TEPA). The motion would be passed by the CoE with four votes for and no votes against after three days had passed. The only Elders who voted were the members of Operation Jar Jar and General Aurum.

The clan wide vote for TEPA would begin on the 27th of February. According to the Fair Voting Act thirteen members of the clan would have to vote on the matter within three days for it to be an eligible vote. This seemed like a difficult barrier as some of the most involved elections had between ten and fifteen votes. Surprisingly, many votes came in on the first day. Unexpected members who did not often participate in elections such as Baby Carl and My Guy (who may have never even spoken in the chat) voted in favor of passing the act. Fourteen clan members ended up voting in the clan wide vote and all of them voted in favor of passing.

## Anarchy

### The Great Council

Joseph took full control of all governance of the clan on March 1st 2023. On March 4th, he would put together what he deemed to be the Great Council to decide upon changes to the Constitution as the Executive Powers Act had intended. The Council was made up of Joseph himself, the Council of Co-Leaders and the Council of Elders. Joseph stipulated that every member of the Great Council would have equal voting power and every member of the council had the ability to put forth an amendment. The voting on each amendment would last a total of 24 hours and the votes will be tallied at the end. Only votes that were cast would count towards the total and a majority of votes in favor passes an amendment. All passed amendments would become binding at the end of the Great Council which could only be called by the Leader.