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- From: DEW@ECLX.PSU.EDU (Baron Dur al-Jabar)
- Subject: Re: Non fighting royalty
- In-Reply-To: ds4p+@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 31 Dec 92 21:53:15 GMT
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- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 22:20:35 GMT
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- In <sfEzVfK00WB=4FiM4S@andrew.cmu.edu> ds4p+@andrew.cmu.edu writes:
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- #> Joyous greetings of the New Year, good gentles!
- #>
- #> Arval offers insightful comments that reshape the question of
- #> (ways to get) non-fighting royalty:
- #>
- #> > Why do people want to change the method of reaching the throne? Because,
- #> > as William has observed in another thread, an enormous amount of practical
- #> > and symbolic power is concentrated in the Crown. Giving more people a path
- #> > to that focus of power is one way to make the system fairer, but no matter
- #> > how the Crown is chosen, very few people are ever going to reach that
- #> > office. There is another solution to the problem: Distribute the power to
- #> > more people. If the Crown were less powerful and less important, then the
- #> > question of how we choose the Crown would be correspondingly less
- #> > important.
-
- But you don't have to be king to get things done...just ask the king to do
- something.
-
- Something about the phrases "I beg a boon", and "If it is a right and
- proper thing, and within my power, then ye shall have it" is an great way to
- go about enacting business in a monarchy...
-
- (Yours for more effective monarchs) Salam,
-
- Dur
-
- Dale E. Walter |Dur of Hidden Mountain
- dew@ecl.psu.edu |Orluk Oasis on the War Road (of Aethelmarc)
-
- "I'm the Baron! Ya gotta loath me!"
-