When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

#587 - The Constitutional Convention (Part 1 and Part 2)

"How about you sleep with me tonight, and I'll get your bill passed?" Sitting on Horn's lap, Melia caressed Horn's ear with her slender hand.

Putting down the petition in his hand, Horn turned his head: "Stop it, Catherine saw the hair on my shoulder last time."

"So what if she saw it? She can't guess what happened." Melia hugged Horn's neck with a giggle, preventing him from looking at the petition, and breathed softly into his ear, "Haven't you seen it all? We've already discussed it."

"No, the representatives need to have a sense of participation, it's important."

Regarding these representatives, Horn was not prepared to create a bicameral or similar representative body in one step, but rather a consultative body like the British Privy Council.

Give the common people a channel to voice their opinions and stimulate their awareness of political participation, otherwise they will always just be someone from a certain village rather than someone from Thousand River Valley.

When the representatives return, when they bring their experiences back to their localities, even if the Constitutional Assembly is just putting on a show, it will still bring considerable changes to the localities.

"Do you think those representatives can instigate local support for you after they return? There are many farmers, but they are too weak." Melia straightened up, her previously charmingly laughing face now a sneer, "You have the Favored one, the future will definitely be yours, but that future is probably fifty years later."

Looking at Melia, who suddenly matured by more than ten years, Horn was helpless. It seemed like he had one Melia sitting on him, but there were two people sitting on him.

One moment she's a spoiled little witch, the next she's a cold Grand Duchess, but what remains the same is that both of them are old scheming.

"How was the intensity this morning?" Horn did not continue to argue on this issue, but turned back to the Constitutional Assembly.

Although the Grand Duchess's face was cold, she still hugged Horn, perhaps out of inertia or something: "Judging from the heartfelt opinions, the intensity this morning was enough, we need to cool down, and we need to put it aside this afternoon and talk about something else."

"It needs to be cooled down so soon?" Horn stroked Melia's cat-like back, "It seems that the Constitutional Assembly will end much faster than we thought."

As the saying goes, big things are discussed in small meetings. Horn and Melia had discussed many of the contents of this draft constitution long ago.

Horn actually knew that the first article of his charter would definitely not pass, because there were too many people who depended on the crown for a living.

Nobles, large and small landlords, and armed farmers all hoped for a king. Suddenly removing the monarch would easily lead to situations such as "The lord is gone, why should I pay taxes?" or "The lord is gone, then the law is gone, I'm going to rob."

What could support Horn was the farmer and worker group that accounted for 90% of the population of Thousand River Valley.

But their power was too weak, and most fatally, they were indifferent to politics, with a sense of resignation.

There were also some potential supporters, such as small citizens, shopkeepers, craftsmen and small merchants, but the problem was that they all depended on guilds and big merchants to live.

Those big merchants and master craftsmen relied on nobles to do business, because nobles had money, resources were concentrated, and business was easier to do.

As a result, the cards in Horn's hand were only the public support of his Langsand County, strong military strength, and the credit for defeating Prince Condé.

With these three cards, he would definitely have a place in the future Thousand River Valley, but it would not be so easy to implement his contract theory.

However, he had to mention it, because the officers and monks of the Salvation Army had an urgent idealistic request for it.

This was a sequelae of fanatical propaganda during the war, and it had to be cooled down slowly, so that they could recognize the reality and not try to build a heaven on earth in three to five years.

As for Melia, the internal nobles and knights were trying to restore the old ways, restoring Thousand River Valley to the Thousand River Valley Kingdom during the Kush family's rule.

return to the past was not what Melia wanted, but she needed the support of the nobles.

So these two had to stand together and sing a duet, 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 Melia to take a step back each, was written.

After raising and lowering the temperature three times, both sides were exhausted, and Catherine was asked to come out as a peacemaker.

Then the final result is:

"The sovereignty of Thousand River Valley comes from the absolute authority of the Holy Father, and the nobles and subjects are all servants of the Holy Father on earth. The authority of the nobles is based on their service to the territory and protection of the subjects, and the subjects express their obedience to the will of the Holy Father by recognizing the leadership of the nobles."

This is actually blurring the part of the divine right of kings, but retaining the part of the social contract.

This compromise can temporarily quell the dispute, but it can plant seeds that will affect the future.

"Are you ready for what to say this afternoon?"

"Let's talk about the issue of the Holy elective monarchy." Horn opened the "Draft Charter", "Otherwise, with the existing "Nobility Law", there is really no way for you to reasonably become a despotic Duke."

Horn was preparing to give the position of Thousand River Valley secular lord to Melia.

The essence of this behavior is to improve the harsh external environment of Thousand River Valley.

In a society where rulers are generally nobles, Melia's three kings' bloodline is obviously stronger than that of a certain Honey River commoner.

At least in the future, when the Pope launches the grass Crusade, there will be fewer knights who volunteer for the holy war.

The current Thousand River Valley is still very weak, and the noble tradition is also very strong. If you want a period of peaceful development, you can only elect Melia as monarch to temporarily hold on.

However, this involves a problem, that is, the inheritance of titles.

The Thousand River Valley War was waged without a reasonable claim, expelling the king's rule here.

If Melia wants to legally obtain the position of Thousand River Valley lord through the Nobility Law, there are generally three options:

First, the royal family or royal family has decided that she will be the Thousand River Valley lord.

Second, the church officially designated her as the lord.

Third, according to the basic law, it is elected by the nobles.

Originally, if the title of King of Thousand River Valley was still in the hands of the Kush family, there would be no need to do these things, just inherit it.

But the problem is that this title has been dedicated to King Leia, and King Leia has handed over the actual control to the church.

After Melia expelled the former two, Horn's authorization on behalf of the church was obviously not widely recognized by the external society.

Then there is only the third basic law to elect.

The monarch election system is not a special system in today's empire.

In fact, the Emperor of the Holy Air Empire is elected, but it is the election of priests, monks and great nobles.

Even the Kingdom of None is an electoral monarchy. After the death of the last elector, 300 great lords vote together to elect a king.

The Norns sometimes even elect foreigners to be the Norn king, but this obviously causes internal looseness and infighting, which makes it impossible to administer.

So a None powerful ruler promoted the inheritance law and wrote into the law that "foreigners, aliens or animals are not allowed to participate in the monarch election."

Gaining the support and recognition of the local nobles is one of the ways in which noble society recognizes the deprivation of titles.

However, in Melia's monarch election, the votes and supervision of the Salvation Army monks must be mixed in, and it cannot be limited to the votes of the nobles.

This is also the source of the " holy" in the "Holy Elective Monarchy".

"Ding ding ding——"

Horn looked up at the grandfather clock, supported Melia's buttocks, and put her down: "It's time, we have to go, your Excellency despotic Duke."

Putting on the iron mask and putting on the bright red toga, before him was the stern and cruel Duke of Hemasite again: "Please go first, Patriarch Your Excellency."