by Duke Matthus » Sat Nov 21, 2009 4:39 pm
Laws: (Also includes treaties)
Basically, as was stated before the main laws that the Imperial government will deal with is International. However it will require a majority vote in the Upper house and a Majority vote in the Lower House for any law to pass. Starts with a debate that shall go one week, and then one the weekend we vote.
To pass a law the Lower House would go first and if passed, it would then go to the Upper House. Since the Upper Hosue are the parties in control of the nations, they get more say in it and thus keeps the spirit of the game alive by having the main parties in each nation still control its fate.
To take a law down, a debate must go for one week expalining why it should be changed or why it should be taklen down. Then a vote starts on the weekend. As the same as before, it goes through the Lower House and then the Upper Hosue.
In both cases, the Prime Minister and the Emperor sign at the end of the vote, making it done. They can not veto the vote, it is just a way to show that the law is done and that it is now on or off.
The next part I think we all agree we should talk about is the Military.
Now there has been some concern over how this would work, and I am personally open to all proposal. However the best solution that I have come up with is the following:
The Empire has one Military. It is controled techincally by the Emperor, him being the commander-in-chief, but the Lord Grand Field Marshal is the true commander of the military. He is choosen from the VEHHG Partys and approved by the General Assembly. Their character serves for life or until his retirement. He is incharge of making sure that all the numbers are up to date on the nations military and that they are propoerly supplied. In times of War, he can either be the only one to post military orders unless the monarch issues one himself, which would require all of the VEHHG parties agreeing to in OOC before the Emperor could give such an order IC, or he can delegate to other Generals, such as the Chief of the Imperial General Staff for each nation, the commanding General that is under the Field Marshal in rank. Howqever all military matters must go through him.
The member States would be responsible for maintianing the military in that nation. For the colonies, it would be up to the colonies themselves to maintian their militarys, with the Imperial Government overseeing them to make sure everything runs smoothly. They would have to make sure that if any laws are passed in the Empire on military that they be followed.
War is declared by the same way a law is, and at the end it is signed by the Prime Minister and the Emperor.
Long Live the Empire!!!!
And while we are at it, "Hail the Holy Britannian Empire!!!!!"