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- From: Suze.Hammond@f56.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Suze Hammond)
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- Subject: Re: Fighting for Crown..Another question.
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 05:54:00 GMT
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- AN> From: nusbache@epas.utoronto.ca (Aryk Nusbacher)
- AN> Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
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- AN> Suggestion:
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- AN> How about a two-stream royalty in which one couple are chosen by
- AN> combat and the other ... by a majority vote of the non-fighting
- AN> peerage. They would share power between them, but each could have
- AN> it's own officers and bureaucracy. Fealty could still be sworn to the
- AN> corporate person of "the Crown" which would then encompass all four
- AN> sovereigns and consorts. They could be chosen at opposing points of
- AN> the year, thus eliminating the dangerous instability of the changeover
- AN> period...
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- AN> A little loopy in the morning
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- Not all that "loopy". This is very reminiscent of the late Roman Empire,
- where Augustus and Ceasar were seperated as two positions. (And with the
- East-west split, that meant the "body of the Emperor" consisted of four
- different men...) Unfortunately, it didn't work out very well...
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- (I think some of the early Germanic kingdoms did something similar ??)
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- Moreach
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- ... If some people think reality is a bitch, who am I to disagree?
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