Game of Thrones: Lord of the Deep - Chapter 234

c232 House of Representatives and House of Lords, Cabinet and Prince

Weiman carefully browsed the two options provided by Jack, and after reading them, he sighed.

Whether it is the prince’s autocracy or the parliamentary system, there are two prerequisites.

The first is the Poseidon Supervisory Council directly established by the central government of the empire. The Supervisory Council will set up branches in major provinces to monitor the real situation in various places.

The second is that all land belongs to the empire, and any transaction of land use rights must be reported to the Land Supervision Bureau established by the empire, and citizens enjoy the right to use the land.

Under these two prerequisites, the prince’s autocracy does not need to be considered at all.

The so-called prince’s autocracy means that Jack will grant the North to one of his descendants, and become the Poseidon branch family of the North Province, also known as the Poseidon Prince Family.

The prince has administrative power and basic legislative power in the North Province.

There are six departments to assist in the management of the North Province. All officials are appointed by the prince, and the prince has the right to appoint personnel.

The administrative power and military autonomy of the nobles are abolished, all land belongs to the empire, the title is abolished, and they have the same obligations and responsibilities as citizens and are subject to legal constraints.

This is completely a one-man show for the prince, which is no different from the current feudal system in Westeros, but Jack only enfeoffed the prince, and the lower titles were gone.

So Wyman absolutely cannot accept this system, otherwise they would rather make a final desperate struggle.

The other parliamentary system made Wyman Manderly think seriously.

Under the parliamentary system, Jack still enfeoffed the prince, but the prince only had administrative power, not basic legislative power.

At the same time, the House of Lords and the House of Representatives, as well as the Poseidon Committee, were established.

The House of Lords and the House of Representatives have basic legislative power and can legislate based on the Imperial Act and local actual conditions.

The provincial Poseidon Committee has the right to transfer personnel. It is composed of citizen representatives from the province and members of the Poseidon Party directly under the Imperial Central Government, a total of 12 people, 7 from the Empire and 6 from citizen representatives.

The provincial Poseidon Committee has three levels of branches with the same structure, namely district, city and town levels, and the village level is directly under the jurisdiction of the affiliated town level.

There are 18 people in the House of Lords, 9 of whom are directly delegated by the Empire, and the remaining 9 are composed of new nobles and citizens.

Among them, the new nobles occupy 8 positions, and the representatives of the House of Representatives occupy 1 position.

The new nobles refer to people who have made significant contributions to a certain aspect of the Empire and can be named as imperial nobles.

The new nobles still have five titles: Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, and Baron. Each title is further divided into five levels, with a total of 25 levels of titles.

The new nobles and their families enjoy some non-illegal social rights and interests, and at the same time, they receive a common line subsidy issued by the province every year.

The earl and above can be inherited for three generations, and the title will automatically decrease by one level every generation. Viscounts and barons have no hereditary rights.

The House of Representatives is composed of citizen representatives from each newly established small area.

The Northern Province is divided into 56 districts, each with 2-3 parliamentary seats, which are voted by local areas.

The members of the House of Representatives and the House of Lords are elected every three years, and the number of re-elections cannot exceed four times. The term of office of the members of the House of Lords directly delegated by the Empire is fixed at eight years.

When a member of the House of Representatives drafts a bill or decree, the bill or decree will first be voted on in the House of Representatives.

After two-thirds of the people pass it, the bill or decree will be sent to the Senate, and the Senate will vote again.

Similarly, after more than two-thirds of the people agree, the bill or decree will be sent to the prince’s desk, and it can be implemented after the prince signs and seals it.

The decree proposed by the prince will bypass the Senate and go directly to the House of Representatives. As long as more than half of the people agree, it can be sent directly to the cabinet for implementation.

The House of Representatives and the Senate are collectively called the National Assembly. In addition, there is a cabinet independent of the National Assembly.

The cabinet is mainly responsible for the prince and has multiple departments, such as the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Civil Engineering, etc.

After the prince agrees to a decree or bill, the decree or bill will be sent to the cabinet for implementation.

After many twists and turns, the power structure of the entire North has become extremely complicated, but it has maintained a certain balance between the four forces of civilians, new nobles, princes, and the empire.

However, it seems that the empire has a lot of say. It not only has a committee responsible for mobilizing cabinet officials, but also occupies half of the seats in the Senate.

Time passed by minute by minute, and after the last person handed his vote to the on-site clerk, the counting began.

There is a large blackboard in the conference center. Every time a selection ballot is opened, the work clerk will display the content on the ballot.

The final result was within everyone’s expectations. There was only one vote in favor of the prince’s autocracy, and the rest were all votes in favor of the parliamentary system.

As for who voted for the prince’s autocracy, although it was an anonymous vote, everyone knew that the vote must have come from the old maester of the Mormont family.

This old guy has never stopped since Lyanna became the Duke, jumping up and down all day long.

After the voting was over, the discussion among the crowd began to sound. Jack did not rush to suppress it, but let them discuss for half an hour.

It was not until half an hour later that Jack knocked on the table and the scene returned to silence.