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Military Creation Act

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devised and proposed during the years leading up to the Clone Wars, the Military Creation Act was meant to allow the Old Republic to form a "grand army of the Republic" to put a stop to the growing secession movement. Never fully embraced by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, it was strongly opposed by the Senator from Palpatine's homeworld of Naboo, Padme' Amidala, who formed the Campaign Against Republic Militarization in an effort to find a peaceful resolution to the secession problem. When Senator Amidala was nearly assassinated upon arriving on Coruscant for the vote on the Act, Palpatine tried to stall the vote by calling for increased security measures. Many Senators believed Palpatine had overstepped his bounds in delaying the vote. However, when it was discovered that the Separatists had been secretly assembling a massive droid army on the planet Geonosis, some form of conflict became inevitable. Because the Old Republic would have been defenseless against the Separatists, the Act was passed when Jar Jar Binks - sitting for Senator Amidala while she was under the protection of Anakin Skywalker - proposed that Chancellor Palpatine be given emergency powers to deal with the Separatists.