Chapter 588 Constituent Assembly (Central)
What are the definitions, obligations and rights of territorial citizens? Permanent lease?
Venise and Abaz looked at each other and saw surprise in each other's eyes.
Within the empire, there has always been only a vague concept of "what a citizen is" and "their rights and obligations."
This is a prominent manifestation of the unwritten law criticized by Al scholars. Among other things, it facilitates the small operations of notaries, judges and lawyers.
Even this is a civilized world west of the Longmian Mountains!
The Norn Lords in the east even treated their subjects as livestock, often sending knights to forcibly capture a group of subjects and sell them to soldiers and slave traders.
This resulted in Norns accounting for nearly half of the empire's mercenary market and demon hunter group.
And this small Qianhe River Valley actually tried to legally determine the identity of its citizens?
Lufei blinked, and there was a lot of surprise in her eyes.
After being told by Venise just now, she was really a little afraid that the Constituent Assembly would discuss some obscene topics or quarrel over a honeycomb. She didn't expect that it would be such a high-end law.
She immediately took out a pen and paper, ready to start recording.
"According to Article 1 of the Holy Charter, the power of the lord comes from the dual recognition of the subjects and the Holy Father, so we must determine what the subjects are, which leads to what the subjects have and what they bear.
Yesterday, we passed the definition of territorial citizens, that is, residents who were born or have lived in Qianhe River Valley for a long time, and who are loyal to the country and abide by the constitution and national laws are the territorial citizens of Qianhe River Valley.
The most basic rights of the people of the territory are the rights granted to them by the Holy Father as believers - life and freedom, which are not allowed to be illegally violated.
The form of public farming obviously violated this standard, but the direct abolition of public farming violated the rights of the lords who were also loyal citizens, so the two highnesses proposed the "Bill for Granting Permanent Tenancy to Public Farming".
The human rights of the territorial residents and the permanent leasehold rights of farmers in public registers are thus bound, entering today's issue. ”
The officiant read out loud today's agenda and opening remarks.
"Both Your Highnesses have doubts about this, so I hope that the representatives can answer them and provide reasonable suggestions to their two distinguished Highnesses."
For the three Ayr youths, although the term "perpetual leasehold" is niche, it is not unheard of.
In the southern region of France, this model has already been implemented in the estates of some great nobles.
The so-called permanent lease right is to divide the land into ownership and use rights.
Once the two parties signed a permanent lease treaty, the lord was not allowed to deprive the land, nor was it allowed to increase the land rent at will unless the public farmer gave up.
However, it was impossible for the local lords, including the mountain knights who had made achievements in the war and eager to obtain the plain county manor, to accept the abolition of the public farming system.
Because public book farmers are personal attachments and fixed assets to a certain extent.
Some public farmers worked as laborers in the city, and the lords forced their allotments to other public farmers.
The public farmers who farmed in their hometowns had to pay more land rent because they planted more land. The public farmers who worked as laborers still had to pay the land rent to the lord for their share of the land, even though they were in the city.
Scrape a piece of land twice.
Otherwise, the lord could use the Fugitive Slave Act to forcibly deprive the public farmer of all his property and even his life.
Depriving these benefits would mean a sharp decrease in income for the nobles and lords. The representatives on the right lowered their heads to discuss countermeasures.
In this newly formed Council, their goal was not to convince the other two seats, but to convince the one sitting on the throne.
Whoever can convince the two His Highnesses on the throne will win. This is the consensus they have reached these days.
The victory or defeat of the three representatives in the debate may not necessarily translate into the victory or defeat of the bill. The two vote-makers are the ones who legislate.
Therefore, they must consider the interests and goals of the two Wan Piao Ye at the same time and compromise for this.
With a cough, a noble representative on the right seat stood up: "Your Highnesses, you see, the lives of the subjects cannot be taken away casually. I agree, but haven't they already used their freedom?
Your Excellency the Despot, Your Excellency the Patriarch, the territory is mine. Without this land, they will starve to death. They have no extra freedom. That is because they trade their freedom for their lives! ”
"Exactly."
"Well said."
The surrounding nobles immediately began to advocate. Acknowledging that Gong Bo Nong's life could not be taken away casually was already a big concession in the eyes of the nobles.
Unfortunately, the representatives in the left seat did not think so, and soon Armand was elected.
Lu Feier in the auditorium blinked, where did this child come from? But her confused and amused expression soon subsided, because Armand spoke.
"Life is given by the Holy Father to the believers. They work for you, so you must protect the lives of the believers. This is not an extra gift, but what the believers deserve. How can you exchange your life freely?"
The noble's face froze. He thought for a long time but failed to reply. He just bowed his head and sat down amidst the boos from the left seat.
The opening two debates and rebuttals gave Lufer a lot of surprises. She looked at Venise with a stern expression proudly, as if to say, "How is it? Is it still vulgar language?"
Logically speaking, this debate is quite rigorous and reasonable.
There was no "Pete was killed by a human being, and Pete was a human being, so Pete was killed by Pete," which was common in rural courts in this era. Pitt was sentenced to hang and the case was closed.
With his quill flying, Lufei quickly abbreviated and summarized the dialogue and logic between the two parties on the paper.
At this time, the second round of confrontation has begun.
Seeing that they could not argue on basic rights, the representatives on the right began to try to challenge the right to permanent lease.
"So what if we give them permanent leasehold rights? Do they know how to farm? Public farmers only need to keep their heads down and work. We nobles have a lot to think about!"
Armand stood up and retorted: "Do you farm more, or do they farm more? Free armed farmers can farm well, why can't public farmers do the same?"
"The armed farmers are a branch of the nobles and a minority. Even if they are in chaos, they will not be able to affect the overall situation." Clowin jumped up and retorted, "It turns out that we can adjust according to the income of the fields. Harvest less in disaster years and more in good years. It becomes A fixed annual share is too rigid.”
"Fart!" Legion Commander Rudillo jumped on the table, pointed at Cloven's nose and cursed, "I am a public farmer who came from your territory. I also say 'harvest less in bad years and more in good years'. In good years, I will harvest more." You have collected too much. I have never seen you collect less during the disaster years.”
Count Sampoli sat there and complained: "The public farmer has damaged his field, and I will bear the consequences. Then who will make up for the income I lack from the land?"
"Then you can charge a fixed rent."
As the topic deepened, the representatives rolled up their sleeves, banged on the table, sweated profusely, and even took off their collars to fan themselves with constitutional documents.
In this chaotic scene, Rufei actually saw that the dwarves in the left and right seats were all drowsy, and the representatives in the middle seat were even secretly eating breakfast.
Listening to the noisy shouting, she stopped writing in embarrassment. There was nothing to record in such a chaotic scene.
She didn't even want to look at Venise's suppressed smile. It was quite deceptive at first, but suddenly changed in the middle.
"Order! Order!" Meliati's iron fist knocked on the table, and Horn snapped his fingers aside.
The escort executioners holding ax guns immediately grasped the ax guns and kept slamming the gun barrels on the ground. Amidst the uniform vibrations, the quarrels of many representatives gradually subsided.
"Ding——" the clear bell sounded, and Horn put down the wooden hammer, "Representative Armand in the left seat applied for a question and answer session with the representatives in the right seat. Do you accept it?"
The nobles and landowners on the right seat were stunned for a moment, and then they were overjoyed and raised their hands one after another: "Accept it, why not accept it?"
The so-called questioning and defense means sending one person as all representatives to persuade the other party, which is equivalent to one person challenging all the opposing representatives.
Of course, the advantage is that no one else is allowed to talk, and only two people are allowed to talk at a time, so there will be no more noisy situations like before.
If Dean Martin applied, they might have to consider it carefully. Why wouldn't this sixteen- or seventeen-year-old kid accept it?
The whispers of the representatives flowed into Rufeel's ears, and she gradually understood the meaning.
Turning his attention to Armand, who was walking to the center of the venue with a smile on his face, Ruphiel couldn't help but worry. Can this boy who is three years younger than himself be able to convince these nobles?
"Fellow representatives on the right bench, in my opinion, perpetual leasehold is good news for most of you."
Armand's first words made the nobles couldn't help but laugh.
(End of chapter)