EDICT OF TEMESCH, 1872

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EDICT OF TEMESCH 

ISSUED AND CONFIRMED BY HIS ROYAL MAJESTY, FREDERICK I IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1872

 

 

 

 

TO OUR MOST LOYAL SUBJECTS,

We, acting through our chosen representatives, have determined that we shall secure for ourselves and our posterity the fruits of harmonious true democracy for all our subjects and enact the blessings of liberty throughout this land. We proclaim that the Instruments of Government should reside with the people and firmly establish the structure necessary for such a dream to be born.

We desire peace across Our Realm for all time and are deeply conscious of the high ideals controlling our relationship, and we have determined to preserve our birthright and existence while trusting in the justice and faith placed in the Crown by our subjects who have maintained it. We desire to occupy an honored place in a new regnal framework striving for the banishment of tyranny and oppression. We recognize to that end that all our subjects have the right to live in peace, free from fear and want. Free from the division which plagued the former Imperial project. The laws of political morality are universal, and obedience to such laws is incumbent upon all who would sustain in perpetuity their loyalty to the sovereign.

This reformed Kingdom of Oren is a sacred trust. An intimate and unbreakable bond between Our Majesty and that of the people. Our authority derived from GOD may only be maintained through the people. We rule insofar as men follow. Thus, the benefits We enjoy must be shared amongst all our loyal subjects despite any inconvenience to our person. We reject and revoke all constitutions, laws, ordinances, and rescripts in conflict herewith.

We pledge our national honor to accomplish these high ideals and purposes with all our resources and the power we possess.

 

 

 

ARTICLE I, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

 

In accordance with the Nenzing Proclamation, the authority given by GOD to govern the People must be reconciled with the need of Government to govern with consent and consultation of the People themselves. However, the divisions of Class have consistently plagued the citizenry, which has shown through each successive legislature's composition. As a consequence, the Edict of Reform, Edict of Petra, and all documents or decrees related to the structure of Government are revoked by the Crown. The entrenched traditions of the Imperial Diet are abolished in favor of an enlightened and more responsible Government.

 

A Government is founded and responsible to the people. There is only one penultimate route. Established forthwith is one Unitary Government with no division between the Nobility and Gentry. There shall be one unified chamber vested with the right to regulate relevant affairs of the State. The nomenclature of the chamber itself is confirmed as "The General Assembly of Oren," or shorthand as "Estates-General." As a tool of direct consultation, this General Assembly shall not hold elections and be an open and free legislature devoid of representation: all propertied citizens shall be welcome to propose and vote on the business of State. Sitting members of the chamber are to be referred to as "Burgesses" and singularly as "Burgess" and shall be presided over by a Lord Speaker and Leader of the Assembly, both elected by majority amongst their peers.

 

Convocation of the General Assembly shall occur once per annum, emergency notwithstanding; called to order at the beginning of each successive year. Regular procedure shall begin as the chamber is led in a reaffirmation of loyalty to the Crown, followed by a State of Affairs surmising the most expedient contemporary measures. Each legislative Act passed into Law must first be proposed by a sitting member and seconded thereafter. After debate on the subject, a final vote will decide the outcome of the proposal. Finally, all legislation passed through the General Assembly must be given assent by the Crown. Furthermore, all legal documentation given assent prior is grandfathered into the current system.

 

 

 

ARTICLE II, THE OFFICES OF STATE

 

The Executive Government shall be established in conjunction with the nation's legislature and be drawn hereafter from sitting members of the chamber upon resignation or removal, present members notwithstanding. Government is formed by the Lord Chancellor upon appointment by His Majesty, the King. This preeminent body comprises the State Bureaucracy and is referred to as the "Privy Council of Oren" or "Privy" shorthand, while Councilors themselves are to be referred to as "Officers of State." Each is designated according to the charge of the Office and confirmed below:

 

I. Vice-Chancellor, Deputy to the Lord Chancellor,

II. Lord Privy Seal, the Seal of the Chancellery

III. Inquisitor-General, charged with jurisprudence,

IV. Lord Whisperer, charged with intelligence,

V. Lord Commissioner, charged with diplomacy,

VI. Lord Registrar, charged with civil statistics,

VII. The Chief of War, charged with the command of the Legion,

VIII. Lord Treasurer, charged with the State Treasury,

IV. Lord Vicegerent, charged with the management of the Crown's territories.

 

 

 

ARTICLE III, PROVINCES AND TERRITORIES

 

By virtue of the Edict of Petra, the Imperial Circles are reformed in nomenclature and purpose. The following changes are thereby refined according to the will of the Crown. Regions of the State will now be divided upon two primary bases according to density and cultural significance. 

 

Provinces shall be distinguished as a region of the State which contains within it a numerically significant population or distinct subnational culture. Each standing province will be managed by a Governor, a Crown magistrate mandated for each designated Province of the Realm. Said representative shall govern on behalf of the Crown in the interest of the locality. He shall maintain His Majesty’s Law and maintain order within his charge.

 

Territories are defined conversely to prior terminology and are to be understood as designations that denote largely unpopulated areas within the Realm that are directly held as Crown land, largely administered by the Lord Vicegerent. Territories require no Governor to steward them nor staff to maintain the region. Such regions are remote and wild in designation, lands claimed, or uncolonized borderlands.

 

 

 

ARTICLE IV, DISTRIBUTION OF POWERS

 

The authority and powers granted to the General Assembly are as stated below, in these affairs all may be drafted by Writ, or Bill of Law, and subsequently passed as Legislative Act pending assent of the Crown:

 

I. Matters of Law; regarded as criminal or civil statutes as enforced by the State Inquisition.

II. Matters of Purse; budget statutes, Taxation, Banking, Currency, all opportunities for appropriation of monetary valuables, etc.

III. Matters of Measurement, concerning the regulation of weight, dimension, volume, and mass.

IV. Matters of Ownership, concerning the regulation of technological discovery, invention, property, and resources.

V. Matters of Identity, concerning issues of citizenship, immigration, naturalization, and renunciation.

VI. Matters of Reform, regarding any public institution of the Realm and its function.

 

Any power unlisted within this document shall consequently be considered as domains exclusive to the authority of the Crown and thus, unavailable for legislation amendment notwithstanding. Furthermore, the General Assembly may declare public resolutions, summon members of the Privy Council for public review, and petition His Majesty should any deliberation become deadlocked.

 

Thus, in addition to these treatises of prohibition, what shall be required of the chamber is the regular election of a Lord Usher, whose responsibility it must be to protect the chamber's sanctity and maintain its constructs of faith as centered in the capital.

 

 

 

ARTICLE V, PROHIBITIONS

 

The limitations of the General Assembly are stated as follows:

 

I. The General Assembly may not regulate any matter pertaining to external diplomacy or establish treatise or alliance.

II. The General Assembly may not regulate any matters relating to Defense, not the Legion, nor their Auxiliary units.

III. The General Assembly may not regulate any matters of the Crown nor dictate upon the affairs of the Monarchy or the Royal Household.

IV. The General Assembly may not endorse, sponsor, or indulge, any Political Association without the assent of His Majesty, the King.

 

The Assembly is the deliberate and regulatory heart of His Majesty's Realm; it shall contain the direct democratic spirit of His people. It shall be the State and the place where generations shall be reared and raised into His Government to lead the Realm forward into the future. Through the chamber, the People's voice shall be made manifest. Nevertheless, it is a voice that must always be Patriotic in nature.

 

IN NOMINE DEI,

HIS ROYAL MAJESTY, Frederick I, King of Oren, forever August, King of Renatus, Curon, Kaedrin, Salvus, and Seventis, Grand Duke of Ves, Duke of Helena, Novellen, Sunholdt, Furnestock, Petra, Oltremont, South Arentania, and Lorraine, Count of Mardon, Baron of Renzfeld, Protector of the Heartlanders and Farfolk, etcetera

 

HER ROYAL MAJESTY, Vivienne of Savoy, Queen-Consort of Oren, forever August, Queen of Renatus, Curon, Kaedrin, Salvus, and Seventis, Grand Duchess of Ves, Duchess of Helena, Novellen, Sunholdt, Furnestock, Petra, Oltremont, South Arentania, and Lorraine, Countess of Mardon, Baroness of Renzfeld, Protector of the Heartlanders and Farfolk, etcetera

 

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