When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 583 Constitutional Convention (Part and )
"If you sleep with me tonight, I will pass your bill, how about it?" Sitting on Horn's lap, Melia stroked Horn's ear with her slender hand.

Putting down the petition in his hand, Horn turned his head and said, "Don't make a fuss. Catherine saw the hair on my shoulders last time."

"She can see it if she sees it. She can't guess it." Meliati smiled and hugged Horn's neck, preventing him from reading the petition. She whispered in his ear, "You've read it all, haven't you? We've discussed it all."

"No, it's important to make those representatives feel a little bit involved."

For these representatives of public opinion, Horn did not intend to set up a representative institution such as two houses in one step, but rather a council of advisers similar to the British Privy Council.

Give civilians a voice and stimulate their awareness of political participation, otherwise they will always be just people from a certain village instead of people from Qianhe Valley.

When the representatives of the people return and bring their experiences back to the local areas, even if the constitutional convention is just a formality, it will bring about significant changes to the local areas.

"Do you think those representatives can mobilize local support for you after they return? The peasants are numerous, but too weak." Meliati stood up straight, and her face, which had been smiling sweetly, now sneered. "You have the Holy One, so the future is definitely yours, but that future will probably be fifty years from now."

Looking at Meliati who had matured by a dozen years in an instant, Horn was helpless. It seemed that there was one Meliati sitting on him, but there were actually two people sitting on him.

Sometimes she is a spoiled little witch, and sometimes she is a cold-blooded grand duchess, but what remains unchanged is that both of them are sinister.

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

Although the face of the Grand Duchess was cold, whether out of inertia or something else, she still held Horn tightly and said, "From what I can see from your heart, the intensity of this morning is enough. We need to lower the temperature. We have to put it aside for the afternoon and talk about something else."

"Is the temperature going to drop already?" Horn stroked Meliati's cat-like back. "It seems that the constitutional convention will end much faster than we thought."

As the saying goes, big things should be discussed in small meetings. Horn and Meliati had discussed many contents of the draft constitution long ago.

Horn actually knew that Article 1 of his charter would definitely not be passed because there were too many people who made their living around the crown.

The nobles, landlords of all sizes, and armed peasants all hoped to have a king. If the monarch was removed rashly, it would easily lead to the situation of "If the lord is gone, why should I pay taxes?" and "If the lord is gone, then the law is gone too, so I'm going to rob."

Those who can support Horn are the farmers and workers who make up 90% of the population of the Thousand Valley.

But they are too weak, and most fatally, they are indifferent to politics and tend to accept everything.

Another group of potential supporters are ordinary citizens, shopkeepers, craftsmen and small merchants, but the problem is that they all depend on guilds and big merchants.

Those big businessmen and master craftsmen all relied on the nobles to do business, because the nobles were rich, resources were concentrated, and it was convenient to do business.

Thus, the only cards Horn had in his hand were the people's support in Langsander County, his powerful military force, and the merit of defeating Prince Condé.

With these three cards, he will definitely have a place in the future leadership of Qianhe Valley, but it will not be so easy to promote his theory of contract.

But he couldn't help but mention it because the officers and monks of the Salvation Army had an urgent idealistic plea for it.

This is the sequelae of the fanatical propaganda during the war. We must slowly cool down the situation, let them face the reality, and stop trying to build a paradise on earth in three to five years.

As for Meliati, the nobles and knights within it tried to restore the Thousand Valleys to the days of the Thousand Valleys Kingdom when the Kush family ruled.

Retro is not what Meliati wants, but she needs the support of the nobles.

So these two people must work together to play a double act, using their unknown underground relationship and the pressure from their opponents to complete internal changes.

Even the outcome of the dispute over the source of sovereignty, with Horn and Meliati each taking a step back, had been written.

After three rounds of heating and cooling down, both sides were exhausted and asked Catherine to come out as a peacemaker.

Then the final result is:

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

This is actually to blur the part about the power granted by people to the king, but retain the part about the contract between the king and the people. This compromise can temporarily calm the debate, but it can also sow the seeds that will affect the future.

"Are you ready to talk this afternoon?"

"Let's talk about the issue of divinely elected monarchy." Horn opened the Draft Charter. "Otherwise, with the existing Nobility Law, there is really no reasonable way for you to become an absolute prince."

Horn is ready to give the position of secular lord of the Thousand Valley to Meliati.

The essence of this behavior is to improve the dangerous external environment of Qianhe Valley.

In a society where rulers are generally aristocrats, the bloodline of the Three Kings of Meliati is obviously stronger than that of a certain Honey River Commoner.

At least in the future, when the Pope launches the Holy Army, there will be fewer knights willing to volunteer for the holy war.

The Thousand River Valley is still very weak at present, and the aristocratic tradition is very strong. If they want a period of peaceful development, they can only elect Meliati as the monarch for the time being.

But this involves a problem, that is, title inheritance.

The Thousand Valleys War was an attempt to expel the king from this place without any legitimate claim.

If Meliati wants to legally obtain the position of Lord of the Thousand Valley through the noble law, there are generally three options:

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

Second, the church appointed her as the lord.

Third, according to the Basic Law, they are elected by the nobles.

Originally, if the title of King of Thousand Valley was still in the hands of the Kush family, there would be no need to do all this and it could just be inherited directly.

The problem is that the title had been offered to King Leia, who in turn handed actual control to the church.

After Meliati expelled the first two, Horn's authorization to replace the church was obviously not widely recognized by the outside society.

Then we can only rely on Article 3 of the Basic Law to elect them.

The elective monarchy is not a special system in today's empire.

In fact, the emperor of the Holy El Empire was elected by elections, but the elections were only by priests, monks and great nobles.

Even the Kingdom of Norn has an elective system. After the previous king dies, the three hundred princes vote together to elect another king.

Sometimes the Norns would even elect foreigners as their Kings, but this would obviously lead to internal disunity and infighting, and problems such as inability to govern.

So a Norn lord pushed for succession laws, writing into law that "foreigners, aliens, or animals are not allowed to participate in the election of the monarch."

Gaining the support and approval of local nobles is one of the ways for aristocratic society to accept the deprivation of titles.

However, the election of Meliati's monarch will involve the votes and supervision of the Salvation Army monks, and cannot be limited to the votes of the nobles.

This is also the source of the "divine" in "divinely elected monarchy".

"Ding Ding Ding-"

Horn looked up at the clock, held Meliati's hips and put her down: "It's time, we have to go, Your Excellency the Despot."

Wearing an iron mask and a bright red toga, the stern and cruel Duke Hermash appeared before him again: "Please go first, Your Excellency the Patriarch."

(End of this chapter)