Twelve Titans

**Twelve Titans,**formally **The Learned Twelve Titans**, and more informally known as **Titans** or **TT** is a New West Indian statesman and jurist. He is most famous for creating the Judicial Branch of the New West Indies, and serving as the High Court's first Chief Justice. He was later succeeded by Karteria.

Twelve Titans is a member of the Travelling Region, a group of nomadic nations that travel to every single region of the NS Multiverse. Twelve Titans has served in Parliamentary and Judicial offices across NationStates before his arrival to the New West Indies.

Having arrived in the early Summer of 2019 in the New West Indies, Twelve Titans sought an active Parliament and quickly started drafting one of the most iconic but also longest pieces of legislation of the Indies' Legal Corpus: GAR#21: Establishment of a Judicial System. The Act sought to create an independent judiciary and gained a lot of traction. Nevertheless, its technical difficulties and an inactive General Assembly significantly slowed its progress down.

In July, amid a motion of no confidence against then-President Roussillon, Twelve Titans positioned himself in support, calling for the President's impeachment. Twelve Titans was not in favour of punishing the sitting President, but sought to free the seat for a more active officer. After the Motion of no Confidence he sponsored slimly passed in the Assembly, Twelve Titans announced he would run for the office of President.

The campaign was brutal with much controversy, and by the time the polls closed, Twelve Titans lost the election to a previous President, Thyostega. Twelve Titans continued drafting their judicial proposal, being part of the Progressive Party, and eventually co-authored GAR#19: Increasing Impeachment Fairness and Reducing Constitutional Confusion, their first resolution.

In November the Judicial Proposal finally made it to the floor and was plebiscited. Soon after, Twelve Titans ran to become the Region's first Chief Justice in a special election for a shortened term. Facing the Esteemed Volirum and Blankenheim, Twelve Titans won the election with 14 votes out of 21, exactly 2/3rds of the vote.

In their first term in office, Twelve Titans created a series of Court dispatches and numerous filings, and established criminal procedure. Twelve Titans presided over 6 criminal cases; four misdemeanours and two felonies. He however never presided over a State or Civil case.

## General Assembly Career

### **Legislation**

Twelve Titans' first post in the Region was about seeking an active legislative branch, and upon discovering the General Assembly, he actively participated in debating, amendments, and indeed drafting.

To this day Twelve Titans has authored or co-authored Four successful General Assembly Resolutions. His first resolution, GAR#19: Increasing Impeachment Fairness and Reducing Constitutional Confusion, was written with Reno Sheriffs Department and regulated Impeachment proceedings. Impeachment is a topic Twelve Titans is personally linked to, having supported and been criticised for supporting the Impeachment of President Roussillon. The Resolution successfully passed with 88.89% of the vote on October 11th, 2019.

Twelve Titans' second resolution, the first he started drafting, is widely considered the Magnum Opus of his Early Legislative Career. GAR#21/CA#11: Establishment of a Judicial System is the resolution that formally established the High Court and New West Indians Judicial System. The resolution transferred judicial powers from the Executive Branch to the High Court. It remains to this day one of the pieces of legislation that took the longest to draft, with a drafting period that lasted over 4 months, as a result of the changes being radical, the work necessary being plentiful, the bill being highly technical, and the General Assembly having been inactive creating a backlog in votes. On November 18, 2019, the bill passed with a unanimous vote from the General Assembly.

In December, Twelve Titans passed his third bill, that he had also begun drafting earlier: GAR#23: Establishment of the Office of the President pro Tempore . The bill created the Office of the President pro Tempore, partially as a response for the perceived excessive dependence of the General Assembly on its President's activity. The President Pro Tempore, elected on the same ticket as the President, could take over Presidential duties when the President was inactive, conserving the Assembly's momentum. The bill passed unanimously on December 13, 2019, becoming both the last bill of Reno's first term, and the last bill of the year 2019.

His last bill to date, GAR#32: "Clarifying Judicial Powers, Constitutional Protections, and Court Procedures" , was passe don March 1st 2020. The bill amends GAR#21 and modified some procedures, such as summary suppressions. It also established stricter conflict of interest rules. GAR#32 is often perceived as an upgrade to GAR#21. The bill was passed unanimously.

In addition to authoring 4 bills, Twelve Titans sponsored three General Assembly Resolutions. The Motion of No Confidence Against Roussillon, that impeached President Roussillon, GAR#24: Commending Honourable Acts that created Medals and Titles, and GAR#31: Delegacy Reform that changed the way the Delegate reflects the will of the NWI Citizenry when casting their WA Vote.

## References

1. ↑ Motion of No Confidence Against Roussillon.