Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2522 The First Plenary Meeting of the New Severton Conference

Xia Duo estimated that not many lords would propose motions in this first meeting, and it was mainly the stage of the grand arcanists, and the outline sent in advance should be a topic drawn up by Badigal himself.

This is also one of the speaker's powers - to call a meeting at any time.

Although the Grand Arcanist can initiate motions at will, the rules for convening meetings are different from the previous period of the Arcane Federation. They can no longer convene meetings at any time, but only once a month. If you miss the current month, you can only wait for the next month.

In addition, the meeting will be divided into two forms: plenary meeting or member meeting. The member meeting will be held at least once a month, while the plenary meeting will be held every six months.

Issues that are not agreed at the council meeting need to be put to the plenary meeting for the lords to vote, and the result has a higher priority than the council meeting.

Of course, the first meeting like now is of course a plenary meeting in which everyone will participate.

Xia Duo roughly flipped through the outline of the agenda proposed by Badigal, which mentioned the topic of this meeting—of course it was temporarily drafted by Badigal, if others want to add it, just submit it before the meeting—

The first one is about the definition of the rights of the lords. The new covenant has the expression "you can do what is not prohibited by the law" for the rights of the lords, but in reality it is impossible to do so, or everyone knows that rights also have boundaries.

Moreover, the Sevington Covenant is a principled document, and it is impossible to make any regulations in detail. The impact of time needs to be considered, and specific issues need to be analyzed in many cases.

For example, in the past, Netheril prohibited anyone from mass-producing undead creatures. This can also be regarded as a kind of right, but obviously it cannot be granted to anyone.

For another example, regarding slaves, Netheril used to be able to use dwarf slaves, but later the Seven Towers liberated the dwarves in the name of the Sevington Council and prohibited the use of dwarf slaves.

But other slaves are not prohibited. In this case, it is completely legal to use orcs or even human and elf slaves.

But this does not guarantee the need to make restrictions in the future. If this part of the content is written in the Sevington Covenant, is it possible that the covenant will be rebuilt every few years?

This is a principled legal document, similar to the constitution, how could it be so imprecise and amend it casually!

Therefore, it is necessary to form some secondary legal documents under the Sevington Covenant to explain in detail the issues that are not covered or not in-depth in the Sevington Covenant.

Especially now that the new order has just been established, it is even more necessary to confirm the past taboos, prohibitions, and other behaviors that need to be restricted under the new order.

It is not difficult to understand that Badigal made determining the boundaries of the lord's rights the first issue. Even if Badigal did not put this issue first, Xiaduo himself would raise it.

With the first issue of defining the rights of the lord, the second issue can be a logical discussion on how to authorize the lower-level administrative agencies of the parliament.

For the time being, Badigal put forward a few suggestions. One is that as a permanent body of the Severton Parliament when it is not in session, its daily work is to investigate and study the issues submitted to the meeting for reference by members.

At the same time, it is also necessary to conduct research on the current situation of Netheril, try to actively find problems, submit them to the speaker, and then discuss them in the parliament.

Not all councilors or lords have the interest or ability to initiate motions. If they operate at will based on personal feelings or likes and dislikes, it would be a waste of such an awareness system.

The last one is to accept folk suggestions. After all, not all spellcasters are lords, but their right to speak also needs to be respected.

Even among the larger number of ordinary people, there may not be no people of insight, so there is also a need for such a channel to accept the voices of these people.

Of course, this is just the function of the sub-parliamentary body as a permanent body when the parliament is not in session, as well as the real administrative function, that is, the function of managing the country.

Although this management power is very narrow, it still exists, and one of the most important powers is the review of the application for the status of the pioneer and the review of the promotion of the pioneer to the lord.

Shadou generally agrees with Badigal's proposals for empowering lower-level institutions of the parliament, but there are also some content that he thought of, but Badigal did not mention.

For example, diplomatic issues, including diplomatic principles, specific institutions, candidates, etc., many of these issues are worth putting on the table for public discussion!

For Xiaduo, he is more concerned about the extent of the independent diplomatic rights of the territory, and Netheril has many permanent personnel in the Northland Alliance. At present, almost all of those people are from the Seven Towers.

It was okay to do this in the past, but if you continue to do it in the future, it will definitely not be conducive to internal unity. Then how to arrange these expatriates, whether or not the Seven Towers are dominant, at least need to discuss it first to determine a principle.

In fact, these two major issues that Badigal has temporarily proposed, as well as the diplomatic issues that Xia Duo needs to supplement, and even those issues that others may supplement, all belong to all the powers of the new system under the new order over the old system in the past , inheritance and redefinition of obligations.

Although two major issues have only been separated for the time being, Xia Duo estimates that these two issues alone will be enough for the new parliament to discuss for a long time, and it is estimated that they will not be able to finish the discussion within a one-month meeting period.

Of course, everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as the front is started well, the back will be much smoother.

As for the remaining topics, most of them are more specific issues, such as the establishment of diplomatic relations between Imaskar in the east and Calimshan in the south with Netheril.

There is also the issue of the placement of personnel inside the three planes of Tianshui, and the protection of the three livable planes that are heading towards the bright side.

Of course, there is also the issue of the sustainable development initiative that Xia Duo has been paying attention to. Based on previous negotiations, this initiative was proposed by the Seven Towers. The restricted exploitation and utilization of non-renewable resources is not only something that can be used as the base of the floating city mountain peak.

There is also the mining and utilization of precious metals including mithril, fine gold, gold, and silver. Even on this issue, Seven Towers wants to take the opportunity to expand its powers and add a resource evaluation agency to the permanent agencies under the parliament. Planning regulates the extraction and flow of resources within Netheril.

Generally speaking, although the permanent institutions under the parliament will be supervised by the parliament, in the process of negotiating the new covenant, everyone actually acquiesces that this belongs to the sphere of influence of the Seven Towers, and other people can participate in it or supervise it from the outside. The dominance should be placed in the hands of Seven Towers.

In the words of the new covenant, the permanent institutions under the parliament are responsible to the parliament, but they are directly led by the speaker. No matter how many permanent institutions are added, members can object, but once they are passed by the parliament, they cannot Institutions intervene directly.

Of course, correspondingly, the Seven Towers should not regard the permanent institutions under the Parliament as their own reservations, and refuse people outside the Seven Towers to join.

(End of this chapter)