Chapter 583 Constituent Assembly (Part 1 and 2)
"How about you sleep with me at night, and I will pass your bill?" Sitting on Horn's lap, Meliati stroked it with her delicate hands Horn's ears.
Putting down the petition in his hand, Horn turned his head and said, "Don't make trouble, Catherine even saw the hair on my shoulders last time."
"Just see it when you see it. She can't guess it." Meliati hugged Huo with a smile. En's neck, not letting him read the petition, breathed softly in his ear and said, "Didn't you read it all? We have already discussed it."
"No, we have to It’s important to give those representatives some sense of involvement.”
For these representatives of public opinion, Horn is not prepared to create a representative body such as two chambers in one step, but an advisory council like the British Privy Council.
Give civilians a voice channel and stimulate their awareness of political participation. Otherwise, they will always be people from a certain village instead of Qianhe River Valley.
When the public opinion representatives returned and brought their knowledge back to the local area, even if the Constituent Assembly was just pretending, it would have made a big difference to the local area.
"Do you think those public opinion representatives can encourage local governments to support you after they return? There are many farmers, but they are too weak." Meliyati straightened up, and her smiling face now turned into a sneer, "You Those who have holy relatives will not It must be yours, but that future is estimated to be fifty years later."
Looking at Meliati, who suddenly matured into a teenager, Horn felt helpless. He seemed to be sitting on his back. One Meliati, but two people were seated.
Sometimes she is a delicate little witch, and sometimes she is a cold and indifferent Grand Duchess, but what remains the same is that both of them are scheming.
"How intense was this morning?" Horn did not continue to argue on this issue, but turned back to the Constituent Assembly.
Although the face of the Grand Duchess was cold, she didn't know whether it was inertia or something else, but she still held Horn tightly: "Judging from my heart, the intensity in the morning was enough, and it needs to be cooled down. I have to put it aside in the afternoon." Nothing else.”
“It’s time to surrender. Are you warm?" Horn stroked Meliati's cat-like back, "It seems that the Constituent Assembly will end much sooner than we thought."
As the saying goes, this is a small meeting. Horn and Meliaty had discussed many aspects of the draft constitution long ago.
Horn actually knew that Article 1 of his charter would 100% not be passed because there were too many people eating around the crown.
Nobles, large and small landowners, and armed peasants all long for a king. Removing the monarch rashly can easily lead to "the lords are gone, why should I pay taxes?" "the lords are gone, so the law will not be No, I’m going to rob” situation.
Those who can support Horn are the farmers and labor groups who account for 90% of the population of the Thousand River Valley.
But their power is too weak, and the most fatal thing is that they are indifferent to politics and quite resigned.
There are also some potential supporters who are small citizens, shopkeepers, craftsmen and small businessmen, but the problem is that they all rely on guilds and big businessmen to survive.
Those big businessmen and master craftsmen relied on the nobles to do business, because the nobles had money and concentrated resources, making it easy to do business.
In this way, the only cards in Horn's hand are the public support of Langsand County, his strong military power and his contribution to defeating Prince Condai.
With these three cards, he will definitely have a place in the future Qianhe River Valley Talkers, but it is not that simple to implement his contract theory.
But he had to mention it, because the officers and monks of the Salvation Army had urgent idealistic pleas for this.
This is the sequelae of the fanatical propaganda during the war. The temperature must be slowly cooled down so that they can recognize the reality and stop trying to build a kingdom of heaven on earth in three to five years.
As for Meliati, the nobles and knights within are trying to restore the Thousand River Valley to the period when the Thousand River Valley Kingdom was ruled by the Kush family.
Retrograde is not what Meliaty wants, but she needs the nobles to support him.
So these two people must stand together and sing a double act, using their unknown underground relationship and the pressure of their opponents to complete internal changes.
Even the outcome of the dispute over the source of sovereignty, that is, the script for Horn and Meliaty to take a step back has been written.
After three times of heating and cooling, both parties were exhausted, so Catherine came out to be the peacemaker.
Then the final result is:
"The sovereignty of Qianhe River Valley originates from the absolute authority of the Holy Father. Both the nobility and the people are the living servants of the Holy Father. The authority of the nobility is based on serving the territory and protecting the people. , and the people express their obedience to the will of the Holy Father by recognizing the leadership of the nobles.”
This actually blurs the part of the human power of the king, but retains the part of the contract between the king and the people. This compromise can temporarily calm the debate, but it can plant seeds that will affect the future.
“Are you ready to say what you want to say this afternoon?”
"Let's talk about the issue of the sacred elective monarchy." Horn opened the "Draft Charter", "Otherwise, with the existing "Nobility Law", there is really no way for you to reasonably become an autocratic public."
Horn is going to give the position of secular lord of Qianhe Valley to Meliati.
The essence of this behavior is to improve the dangerous external environment of Qianhe River Valley.
In a society where rulers are generally nobles, the bloodline of the Three Kings of Meliati is obviously stronger than that of a certain Honey River commoner.
At least when the Pope launches a crusade in the future, there will be far fewer knights willing to fight.
The current Qianhe River Valley is still very weak, and the aristocratic tradition is also very strong. If you want a period of peaceful development, you can only elect Meliati as the monarch for the time being.
But this involves a problem, that is, title inheritance.
The Thousand River Valley War was to expel the king's rule here without any reasonable claim.
If Meliati wants to legally obtain the position of Lord of the Thousand River Valley through the Noble Law, she generally has three options:
First, the royal family or the royal family has already decided, and it is up to her. Be the lord of this Thousand River Valley.
Second, the church appointed her as this lord.
Third, according to the Basic Law, it is elected by the nobles.
Originally, if the title of King of the Thousand River Valley was still in the hands of the Kush family, there would be no need to do this, just inherit it directly.
But the problem is that this title has been dedicated to King Leia, who has given actual control to the church.
After Meliati expelled the first two, Horn's replacement of church authorization was obviously not widely recognized by the outside world.
Then the only choice is to rely on Article 3 of the Basic Law.
The monarchy electoral system is not a special system in today's empire.
In fact, the emperor of the Holy El Empire relies on elections, which are just elections of priests, monks and nobles.
Even the Norn Kingdom has a king-selecting system. After the last king-selected king dies, three hundred kings vote together to choose another king.
The Norns sometimes even elect foreigners to be the Norn kings, but this will obviously cause internal discord and inability to govern.
Therefore, a Norn hero advanced the inheritance law and wrote into the law that "foreigners, aliens, or animals are not allowed to participate in the election of the monarch."
Getting the support and recognition of the local nobles is one of the ways for the noble society to recognize the deprivation of titles.
It’s just that Meliati’s monarch election needs to be mixed with the voting and supervision of the Salvation Army monks, and it cannot be limited to the voting of the nobles.
This is also the source of the "sacred" in "sacred elective monarchy".
“Ding ding ding——”
Horn raised his head and glanced at the clock, held Meliati's butt and put her down: "It's time, we have to leave, Your Majesty the Despot."
Put on the iron mask and put it on In front of the bright red Toga is the cold and cruel Duke of Hemastone again: "Please come first, Your Excellency the Patriarch."
(End of this chapter)