Game of Thrones: Overlord of the Deep Sea

Chapter 232 The House of Representatives and the House of Lords, the Cabinet and the Prince

Weiman carefully browsed the two options provided by Jack. After reading them, Weiman sighed.

Whether it is the monarchy or the parliamentary system, there are two premises.

The first is the Poseidon Oversight Council established directly by the central government of the empire. The Oversight Council will set up branches in each major province to be responsible for monitoring the actual situation in each place.

The second is that all land belongs to the empire. Any transaction of land use rights must be reported to the Land Supervision Bureau established by the empire. Citizens have the right to use land.

Under these two premises, there is no need to consider the prince's autocratic system at all.

The so-called prince's exclusive power means that Jack entrusts the Northern Territory to one of his heirs, who becomes the Poseidon Branch Family in the Northern Province, also known as the Prince Poseidon Family.

The prince has administrative power and basic legislative power in the northern province.

There are six ministries under it to assist in the management of the northern province. All officials are appointed by the prince, who has the power to appoint personnel.

The administrative power and military autonomy of the nobility were abolished, all land was owned by the empire, titles were abolished, and they had the same obligations and responsibilities as citizens, and were bound by law.

This completely became the prince's decision, and was no different from the current enfeoffment system in Westeros. However, Jack was only granted the title of prince, and the major titles below were gone.

Therefore, this kind of system is absolutely unacceptable to Weiman, otherwise they would rather make a last-ditch effort.

But another parliamentary system made Wyman Mandler think seriously.

Under the parliamentary system, Jack still entrusts himself to the prince, but the prince only has executive power and no basic legislative power.

A House of Lords and a House of Representatives were also established, as well as a Poseidon Council.

The House of Lords and the House of Representatives have basic legislative powers and can legislate according to the Imperial Act and in combination with local actual conditions.

The provincial Poseidon Committee has the power to mobilize personnel. It is composed of citizen representatives from the province and members of the Poseidon Party directly affiliated to the Empire Central Committee. There are 12 people in total, 7 from the Empire, and 6 citizen representatives.

The provincial Poseidon Committee has three levels of branches with the same structure, namely district level, city level and town level. Those at the village level are directly responsible for the affiliated town level.

There are a total of 18 members in the House of Lords, 9 of whom are directly devolved from the empire, and the remaining nine are composed of new nobles and citizens.

Among them, new nobles occupy 8 positions and representatives of the House of Representatives occupy 1 position.

New nobles refer to people who have made significant contributions to certain aspects of the empire and can be named imperial nobles.

The new nobility still has five titles: duke, marquis, uncle, son and male. Each title is further subdivided into five levels, for a total of 25 levels of title system.

The new nobles and their families enjoy some non-illegal social rights, and at the same time receive joint subsidies from the province every year.Earls and above can be hereditary for three generations, and the title is automatically downgraded by one level for each generation. Viscounts and barons have no hereditary rights.

The House of Representatives is composed of citizen representatives from each newly established small area.

The Northern Province is divided into 56 districts. Each district has parliamentary seats ranging from 2 to 3 people, which are elected by local regional votes.

Members of the House of Representatives and the House of Lords are elected every three years and may not be re-elected more than four times, with members of the House of Lords devolved directly from the Empire serving for a fixed period of eight years.

When a member of the House of Representatives drafts a bill or decree, the bill or decree will first be voted on in the House of Representatives.

After two-thirds of the people pass it, the bill or decree will be sent to the House of Lords, who will vote again.

After more than two-thirds of the people agree, the bill or decree will be sent to the prince's desk, and it can be implemented after the prince signs it.

The decree proposed by the prince will bypass the House of Lords and go directly to the House of Representatives. Only if more than half of the people agree, it can be sent directly to the cabinet for implementation.

The House of Representatives and the House of Lords are collectively known as the National Assembly, and in addition there is a cabinet independent of the National Assembly.

The cabinet is mainly responsible for the prince and consists of multiple departments, such as the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Provincial Defense, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Civil Engineering and Construction, etc.

After the prince agrees to a certain decree or bill, the decree or bill will be sent to the cabinet for implementation.

After twists and turns, the power structure of the entire northern territory has become extremely complicated, but it maintains a certain balance among the four forces of the common people, new nobles, princes, and the empire.

However, it seems that the empire has a large say. Not only does it have a committee responsible for mobilizing cabinet officials, but it also occupies half of the seats in the Senate.

Time passed by, and after the last person handed his ticket to the on-site clerk, the counting began.

There is a large blackboard in the conference center. Every time a selection ticket is opened, the clerk will display the content on the ticket.

The final result was as expected by everyone. There was only one vote in favor of the prince's autocracy, and the rest were all votes in favor of the parliamentary system.

As for who voted for Prince Despotism, although the vote was anonymous, everyone knew that this vote must come from the old bachelor of the Mormont family.

This old boy hasn't stopped since Lyanna became a duke, jumping up and down all day long.

After the voting ended, everyone started talking. Jack did not rush to suppress it, but let them discuss it for half an hour.

It wasn't until half an hour later that Jack knocked on the table and the scene became quiet again.

(End of this chapter)