The Ministry's Response

[Cracker 4570]

 

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To the Most Loyal Crown of Hanseti-Ruska, 

 

Blessings to you and yours in this difficult time.

 

We do not endeavor to strain you with legalese in this period of mourning, but Your most recent publication compels the Basrid Ministry to respond, and within this response, denote various discrepancies of law pervading your missive.

 

• A senators’ authority and assignment rests within the electorate. Senators are not beholden to the executive body of a province, but to the electorate. Any agent that holds executive prerogative has no power to recall the representatives that his electorate has chosen. (See: ORC 604.032)
• No power within the Holy Orenian Empire may compel an enlisted or commissioned soldier of the Imperial State Army to desert his post. (See: ORC 403)
• The clergy and the bourgeoisie, including those of Haeseni birth, are afforded the rights of travel throughout the Imperial State, and may not be compelled otherwise by provincial legislation. This includes civil servants in the employ of the Imperial State. (See: ORC 704.04, 706.02)
• The Secretary of War is the chief of the Empire’s militaries and security. No other authority may compel soldiers to abstain in any form of training or military operations otherwise (See: WO para. 1, sen. 2.) This is especially true when the Empire continues to be in a state of war against the rump state of Rubern.
• Absent a pretext of criminality, no imperial subject may be deprived of the property of which he is the legal owner. Therefore, the Crown of Haense may not seize the corporations of persons without such pretext. (See: ORC, Ad. 2, Gen. Principles of Law)

 

Recognizing the lack of legal ground of the clauses pertinent found in the proclamation Zwem unein fitsk, they exist null and void from their promulgation.

 

Understandably, your Kingdom grieves and we grieve with you. The death of the Queen-Mother is now the third act of assassination inflicted on the royal family in recent memory. These events stirred great turmoil in the heart of our imperial sovereign and have led us to the circumstance before us. We would see that turmoil undone in time and intend a process of healing, rather than that of escalation. The nature of shock at the death of a royal person led the imperial crown to behave in a manner contrary to the Exordium, and the realm, as noted in that, has been pained as a result. 

 

The ministry, as it is accountable for, will attend to any offenses inflicted by the Imperial State, with the Archchancellor's own person dispatched to treat in Reza within one month’s time. Any offenses and injuries to person or property inflicted by the crown are to be made redress by the ministry, who is made responsible to all actions of the imperial state. As a result, the Archchancellor and his government will seek due atonement and redress for the injuries of state inflicted or face the criminalities of such charges.

 

HIS IMPERIAL EXCELLENCY,

SIMON BASRID KCS

[Aidoro 464]

Demetrius would frown at the response “Ye couldn’t have waited?”

[ApplePieKathy 561]

Vivaca Rutledge sighs, shaking her head

 

[The King Of The Moon 7016]

Claude frowns at the response made during the funeral of the very woman the Imperial State stands accused of dishonouring.

Did the Archchancellor stand dotting ‘i’s and crossing ‘t’s in the presence of Queen Maya’s funeral pyre?

[John Ivory 4546]

The Duke of Helena finishes his preparations of the draft document with a dash before laying his pen aside. Thereafter in the same hall, he converses with his brother the Count of Pompourelia.

 

“A mediating part. Highly reasonable, and in concise terms, an appeal to the law which binds all of us.”

[argonian 14254]

A Haeseni carpetbagger in Helena sweats. 

[KosherZombie 1772]

Hugo releases a tired sigh at Novellen. Having just returned from the funeral of the beloved Queen-Mother, he reads over the final publication. “A very sad day. I hope the King, his cabinet, and those who listen to them recognize our good intentions. We’re in this together. The loss of the Queen-Mother is a loss to us all, and the steps we take now in her shadow and her memory, are steps we must take together.” 

[Somersetting 310]

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News of the Imperial response would reach Abram as he left the vigil, “Impressively ill timed”, he’d remark alongside the others.

 

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[TH3GHOSTWAFFL3 489]

Dietrich frowns. 'Now is not the time to be nitpicking legalities. What a clumsy response.'