Edict of Reform

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Edict of Reform, 1854

11th of Harren’s Folly, 1854

 

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EDICT OF REFORM, 1854

An edict to reform the Imperial Diet, repealing and replacing the Edict of Furnestock (1837) with a new structure to award proper representation to the Estates Imperial, as well as the re-establishment of the powers afforded to this body. 

 

The Imperial Diet shall henceforth be united into a single legislative body, called only the Imperial Diet. They serve at the pleasure of the Imperial Crown, and may be summoned or dissolved at will. The Imperial Diet shall function as a deliberative body of representatives and legislators of all recognized Estates Imperial, designed to advise and inform government policy and Crown initiatives.

 

 

SECTION I. DIET COMPOSITION

 

The composition of the Imperial Diet shall be as follows;

• Two Permanent Imperial Crown Representatives

  • His Imperial Excellency, the Archchancellor of the Holy Oren Empire

  • His Excellency, the Vice Chancellor of the Holy Oren Empire

• Three Senators appointed by the Imperial Crown  

  • Three Right Honorable Imperial Senators shall be appointed to serve in the Imperial Diet at the pleasure of the Crown as representatives to the throne

• Three Imperial Senators representing the wishes and concerns of Adriatic Court 

  • Three Right Honorable Imperial Senators of the Adriatic Court of Peers shall be seated in the Imperial Diet as representatives of Imperial Nobility per diet term

• Seven Right Honorable Imperial Senators representing the wishes and concerns of the Common Folk

  • Seven Right Honorable Imperial Senators of common birth, gentry, or are non-title holding members of nobility shall be selected and raised to the Imperial diet by the masses

 

SECTION II. ACCESSION TO POSITION 

 

The processes in which a member shall be seated in the Imperial Diet shall be as follows;

• The Archchancellor and Vice Chancellor, as the designated officers of the Emperor of the Holy Oren Empire. Both shall hold their positions and responsibilities in the Diet in perpetuity and shall be summoned to serve with each Diet term 

• The Adriatic Court shall select Grandees to the Diet through machinations of their own design in accordance with Imperial Law and the Edict of Reform(1854)

• No peer of the Adriatic Court may serve consecutive terms as a Grandee, but may serve alternating terms

• All seven Senators shall be selected to serve at-large, or through created crown electoral constituencies, with the allocation of Senatorial seats per constituency being dependent on said designations population

• Crown Appointed Senators to the Imperial Diet, serving at the pleasure of the Crown, may come from all classes, creed, and background

          

SECTION III. FUNCTIONS, STANDARDS, POWERS 

Powers, standards, & responsibilities of the Diet and its seated members, as granted to this body by Imperial Edicts, shall be as follows;

• His Imperial Excellency, the Archchancellor, shall serve as the leader of the Diet and shall introduce Crown directives and legislation for discussion and debate

• His Imperial Excellency, Vice Chancellor of the Holy Oren Empire, shall serve as the designated presiding officer of the Imperial Diet, directing discussion, upholding standards, and keeping record of all matters related to the Diet session

• There shall be fourteen voting members of the Imperial Diet, with Vice-Chancellor serving as the fifteenth tie-breaking vote should such a circumstance arise

•  Representatives of the Adriatic Court shall be stylized as the Right Honorable Imperial Grandee

• Representatives of the Common Folk and Imperial Crown Appointment shall be stylized as the Right Honorable Imperial Senator

• Each consistently voting member of the Imperial Diet shall be entrusted with the right to introduce a legislation, debate, and vote on matters within the purview of the chamber

•  The Imperial Diet shall be entrusted with the power of the purse and is responsible for the appropriation and dispensement of Imperial Treasury funds towards Diet and Crown directives

•  The Imperial Diet shall be entrusted with the power to amend the Oren Revised Code pertaining to all laws criminal, civil and spiritual

• Imperial Military Commissions shall be made forfeit upon summons to the Imperial Diet

•  The Imperial Diet shall be entrusted to create, alter, or dissolve Imperial electoral constituencies representative of the Imperial population for census and electoral purposes within the purview of the Edict of Reform(1854) and the Oren Revised Code

• Upon the creation of each constituency, the right to select a Senator shall be granted and the number of Senators at large shall decrease by the number of seats reallocated

• The Imperial Diet shall hear and petitions from the public that pertain to the responsibilities of the chamber

• Beyond the responsibilities as described within the Oren Revised Code and the Edict of Reform(1854), the Imperial Diet is entrusted to serve as advisors to the Crown in regards to matters military, diplomacy, and other matters in which itself cannot legislate 

Upon summons to the Imperial Diet, a member's positions held prior to summons are automatically considered forfeit or inactive. Should a member fail to announce resignation or abdication from all aforementioned positions, he is forbidden from taking his seat and it will be considered vacant. A member may be an untitled member of a noble family, but if he ascends to a peerage, his position is automatically resigned and considered vacant.

 

SECTION IV. ELECTIONS, APPOINTMENT & CONSTITUENCIES

 

In order to ensure proper representation of the Estates Imperial & the citizenry, a member of the Diet shall be seated through the following processes;

• Imperial Electoral Constituencies as created either by the Edict of Reform(1854) or by order of the Imperial Diet, shall be based around a corresponding municipality that has proven it matches the administrative and population requirements to achieve such designation

•  Imperial Electoral Constituencies are granted the ability to raise Senators to the Imperial Diet through their own process in accordance with the Oren Revised Code and the power of the Edict of Reform(1854)

• The Edict of Reform(1854) orders the creation of the The Imperial Electoral Constituency of Providence, with the right to select and seat three Senators in the Imperial Diet

• The Edict of Reform(1854) orders the creation of the The Imperial Electoral Constituency of Ebonwood, with the right to select and seat one Senator in the Imperial Diet

• The Edict of Reform(1854) orders the creation of an at-large district, with the right to select and seat three Senators in the Imperial Diet

 

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IN NOMINE DEI,

HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, Philip III, Holy Orenian Emperor, forever August, King of Renatus, Curon, Kaedrin, Salvus, and Seventis, Grand Duke of Ves, Helena, Novellen, Furnestock and Lorraine, Baron of Renzfeld, Protector of the Heartlanders, Orenian Highlanders, and Farfolk, etcetera

 

HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY, Anastasia I, Holy Orenian Empress, forever August, Queen of Renatus, Curon, Kaedrin, Salvus, and Seventis, Grand Duchess of Ves, Helena, Novellen, Furnestock and Lorraine, Baroness of Renzfeld, Protector of the Heartlanders, Orenian Highlanders, and Farfolk, etcetera