Escape Clause

The Escape Clause is an alternative legal safety valve built within the Representational Reforms of the Regency.

Description (Specifications)

Worlds with repressive governments were offered two options: either a referendum on government liberalization, or "foot voting" rights for its population. Under the latter stipulation all Regency citizens received the right of freedom of movement through non-military portions of the Regency.

History & Background (Dossier)

If a world did not issue a referendum, or it sabotaged the process, it faced the possibility of losing a major portion of its population through emigration to more liberal worlds. Many dictatorships (most notably the former high population world of Attee/Tobia (Trojan Reaches ) discounted the power of this clause, and suffered severely as a result. Where governments refused to liberalize through a normal process, the escape clause became a useful stick to beat these governments into making major changes.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This article is missing content for one or more detailed sections. Additional details are required to complete the article. You can help the Traveller Wiki by expanding it.

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• EXTERNAL LINK: Gray Matter by Peter Gray
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science