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[Bill] Demesne Consolidation Act

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As this Bill would technically remove Demesnes (merging the existing Demesne Unions into Demesnes) this Bill needs to be proposed by the Emperor and receive 3/4 approval.
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IN THE FRENZY OF THE BOVIC EMPIRE
24 Grunil 1678

Mr. Eiiard Darkroot of Flaventia, on behalf of and for His Most Bovic Majesty, the Emperor, introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the National Security and Government Affairs for consideration
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A BILL

To abolish the custom of Demesne unions.

Be it enacted by the Representatives of the Bovic Empire in Frenzy assembled,

Section 1
This Bill may be referred to as the Demesne Consolidation Act.

Section 2
The Caprine Code of the Bovic Empire of the Natopian Nation shall be updated to reflect the removal of the system of Demesne unions, replacing those Demesne unions with single Demesnes.
Chapter XI - Demesnes

Section 1 - Definitions and Establishment

1. A Demesne is a region of the Empire which may be is actively governed by a local government.
2. A Demesne may be established by an addition to the Caprine Code.
3. Any special conditions pertaining to the existence or operation of a Demesne are defined in the Caprine Code.
4. A local government may be defined in the Caprine Code or otherwise by a consensus of the residents of a Demesne.
5. When a local government is established by local consensus, the structure of the Demesne's new government must be submitted to the Emperor for approval by assent.
6. If the Emperor rejects a Demesne's proposed government, the residents of that Demesne may petition the Frenzy directly for its approval by Resolution.
7. A local government shall operate in accordance with all applicable laws of the Caprine Code.

Section 2 - Reserved Powers for Demesnes

1. Where individually permitted by the Caprine Code, the head of the local government of a Demesne may conduct foreign affairs with another sovereign state, provided that: permission to do so has been granted in advance by the Emperor; there is no conflict with any foreign policy of the Empire; and any resultant treaty or other agreement does not conflict with any of the Empire's existing treaties or other agreements.
2. Such treaties and agreements must be capable of being adopted solely as a local law in the Demesne and may be subject to final approval of the Frenzy.
3. Demesnes may organize their own land into subdivisions.
4. Demesnes may petition the Frenzy to claim oversea colonies or expand into adjacent land.
5. Demesnes may petition the Frenzy to add inactive Demesnes to themselves.
6. In the event of the ultimate dissolution or destruction of the Natopian Empire, State and Government, all Demesnes may exist as sovereign and independent states on the land that they control on the date of Natopia's dissolution. Any Demesne Unions remain attached to each other in this circumstance.
7. No Demesne, or part of a Demesne, or Demesne Union, may unilaterally leave the Empire.

Section 3 - List of Demesnes

1. The Demesnes of the Empire are: Alrodey, Arboria, Elijah's Rest, Florian Free State, Klaasiya, Mar Sara, Neridia, New Alexandria, New Aquitane, Normark Proper, Opaeghia, Saint Andre, Sororiya, Tas Neemia, Thalassa, Transegale, Massat, Universalis, the Two Martyrs, and Ziegeland.
a. Arboria (including: Arboria, New Aquitane, Transegale, Universalis)
b. Dos Gardenias (including: Florian Free State, Neridia, New Alexandria, Saint Andre, Thalassa)
c. Flaventia (including: Alrodey, Sororiya, Tas Neemia, Ziegeland)
d. Klaasiya
e. Mar Sara-Asara (including Mar Sara, The Two Martyrs)
f. West Tapfer (including: Opaeghia, Massat)
g. Normark (including: Elijah's Rest and Normark Proper)


Section 4 - Demesne Unions Compacts

1. The Demesnes of the Empire may form unions compacts or agreements with each other for geographic, dynastic, political, and/or cultural convenience. The government of each Demesne must consent to the formation of a union compact or agreement with another Demesne. United demesnes are recognized in the Caprine Code as Demesne Unions.
2. Arboria, Transegale, New Aquitane and Universalis are united as the Demesne Union known as The Principality of Arboria.
3. Ziegeland, Tas Neemia, Sororiya, and Alrodey are united as the Demesne Union known as the Dynastic Incarnation of the Lands of Flaventia.
4. Klaasiya is a single Demesne known as the Confederate States of Klaasiya.
5. Mar Sara, and Two Martyrs are united as the Demesne Union known as the Mar Sara-Mar-Asara Cooperative.
6. Thalassa, St. Andre, New Alexandria, the Free Florian State, and Neridia are united as the Demesne Union known as Most Serene Union of Dos Gardenias.
7. Massat and Opaeghia are united as the Demesne Union known as the West Tapfer Federation.
8. Normark Proper, Elijah's Rest are united as the Demesne Union known as the Kingdom of Normark. The Throne of the Kingdom of Normark is vested in the Patriarch/Matriarch of the House of Ayreon-Kalirion.


Section 5 - Emergency Government for Demesnes

1. In the event of the total collapse of a Demesne's government, the Imperial Chancellery will have the responsibility to maintain law and order within that Demesne until such as time as the local population reasserts its right to self-govern.
2. In the event of the total collapse of a Demesne Union's government, the Imperial Chancellery will have the right to submit for approval of the Frenzy a new arrangement, if it has the support of the demesne's residents, that may separate the demesnes in the Union into an alternate or different arrangement, be it a new Union, separation into different individual demesnes, or integration into another existing demesne union.
3. Any change, excluding for reasons under 4. of this Section, in the geographic, dynastic, political, or cultural status of a Demesne undertaken by the Frenzy shall require the consent of that Demesne's Leader Government. Should it be refused within one Natopian year, such change shall still be applicable provided it receives a 2/3rd majority in the Frenzy and the consent of the Emperor. Otherwise, if no notice of refused consent is given within this period, the status change shall be considered consented to by that Demesne's Leader.
4. A Demesne cannot be removed from the Caprine Code except by a bill proposed by the Emperor receiving 3/4 approval of the Frenzy.


Section 6 - The Most Serene Union of Demesnes Dos Gardenias

1. The demesnial governments of Neridia, Thalassa, New Alexandria, and St. Andre are Dos Gardenias is forever vested jointly and permanently in the House of Eadric.
2. Any change to the government or demesnal status of the Most Serene Union of Demesnes Dos Gardenias must meet the consent of the Prince or Princess of the Most Serene Union.

Section 7 - The Viceroyalty of the Two Martyrs

1. The Viceroyalty of the Two Martyrs is governed under a constitution that the Nobles of the Two Martyrs shall write and adopt. Until then, the Patriarch of the House of Ayreon-Kalirion rules the demesne by absolute decree. The eternal Lords of the Viceroyalty of the Two Martyrs are Saints Elijah the Blessed and Asara the Cursebreaker.
2. All persons inhabiting the Viceroyalty of the Two Martyrs shall be granted Natopian citizenship upon declaration to, and subject to approval by, the Imperial Chancellery.
3. No legal limits may be placed on inward Tapferite migration to the Viceroyalty of the Two Martyrs. Incentive schemes may be authorised by the Imperial Chancellery to encourage this.
4. The right to conduct whaling operations from the Viceroyalty of the Two Martyrs is invested in the Saint Andre Trading Company (SATCo) as sole proprietor of the operation in perpetuity.

Section 8 - Elijah's Rest

1. The demesnal government of Elijah's Rest is forever vested in the Holy Order of the Cult of Elijah.
2. Any change to the government or demesnal status of Elijah's Rest must meet the consent of the Pentheros.
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Re: [Bill] Demesne Consolidation Act

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Aud Laaland, Prime Minister of Normark, Representative:

"Lord Speaker, I move to strike "g. Normark (including: Elijah's Rest and Normark Proper)" from the list of demesnes in Section 3, conditional on the Frenzy's ratification of the Normark Treaty."
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Re: [Bill] Demesne Consolidation Act

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Eiiard Darkroot wrote:Mr Speaker

I do accept the conditional amendment as friendly and ask that further debate for this Bill wait until voting as concluded for the Frenzy Reorganization Bill and the Normark Treaty Ratification.
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Re: [Bill] Demesne Consolidation Act

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Amended, as the Normark Treaty has been ratified.
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IN THE FRENZY OF THE BOVIC EMPIRE
24 Grunil 1678

Mr. Eiiard Darkroot of Flaventia, on behalf of and for His Most Bovic Majesty, the Emperor, introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the National Security and Government Affairs for consideration
________________________

A BILL

To abolish the custom of Demesne unions.

Be it enacted by the Representatives of the Bovic Empire in Frenzy assembled,

Section 1
This Bill may be referred to as the Demesne Consolidation Act.

Section 2
The Caprine Code of the Bovic Empire of the Natopian Nation shall be updated to reflect the removal of the system of Demesne unions, replacing those Demesne unions with single Demesnes.
Chapter XI - Demesnes

Section 1 - Definitions and Establishment

1. A Demesne is a region of the Empire which may be is actively governed by a local government.
2. A Demesne may be established by an addition to the Caprine Code.
3. Any special conditions pertaining to the existence or operation of a Demesne are defined in the Caprine Code.
4. A local government may be defined in the Caprine Code or otherwise by a consensus of the residents of a Demesne.
5. When a local government is established by local consensus, the structure of the Demesne's new government must be submitted to the Emperor for approval by assent.
6. If the Emperor rejects a Demesne's proposed government, the residents of that Demesne may petition the Frenzy directly for its approval by Resolution.
7. A local government shall operate in accordance with all applicable laws of the Caprine Code.

Section 2 - Reserved Powers for Demesnes

1. Where individually permitted by the Caprine Code, the head of the local government of a Demesne may conduct foreign affairs with another sovereign state, provided that: permission to do so has been granted in advance by the Emperor; there is no conflict with any foreign policy of the Empire; and any resultant treaty or other agreement does not conflict with any of the Empire's existing treaties or other agreements.
2. Such treaties and agreements must be capable of being adopted solely as a local law in the Demesne and may be subject to final approval of the Frenzy.
3. Demesnes may organize their own land into subdivisions.
4. Demesnes may petition the Frenzy to claim oversea colonies or expand into adjacent land.
5. Demesnes may petition the Frenzy to add inactive Demesnes to themselves.
6. In the event of the ultimate dissolution or destruction of the Natopian Empire, State and Government, all Demesnes may exist as sovereign and independent states on the land that they control on the date of Natopia's dissolution. Any Demesne Unions remain attached to each other in this circumstance.
7. No Demesne, or part of a Demesne, or Demesne Union, may unilaterally leave the Empire.

Section 3 - List of Demesnes

1. The Demesnes of the Empire are: Alrodey, Arboria, Elijah's Rest, Florian Free State, Klaasiya, Mar Sara, Neridia, New Alexandria, New Aquitane, Normark Proper, Opaeghia, Saint Andre, Sororiya, Tas Neemia, Thalassa, Transegale, Massat, Universalis, the Two Martyrs, and Ziegeland.
a. Arboria (including: Arboria, New Aquitane, Transegale, Universalis)
b. Dos Gardenias (including: Florian Free State, Neridia, New Alexandria, Saint Andre, Thalassa)
c. Flaventia (including: Alrodey, Sororiya, Tas Neemia, Ziegeland)
d. Klaasiya
e. Mar Sara-Asara (including Mar Sara, The Two Martyrs)
f. West Tapfer (including: Opaeghia, Massat)


Section 4 - Demesne Unions Compacts

1. The Demesnes of the Empire may form unions compacts or agreements with each other for geographic, dynastic, political, and/or cultural convenience. The government of each Demesne must consent to the formation of a union compact or agreement with another Demesne. United demesnes are recognized in the Caprine Code as Demesne Unions.
2. Arboria, Transegale, New Aquitane and Universalis are united as the Demesne Union known as The Principality of Arboria.
3. Ziegeland, Tas Neemia, Sororiya, and Alrodey are united as the Demesne Union known as the Dynastic Incarnation of the Lands of Flaventia.
4. Klaasiya is a single Demesne known as the Confederate States of Klaasiya.
5. Mar Sara, and Two Martyrs are united as the Demesne Union known as the Mar Sara-Mar-Asara Cooperative.
6. Thalassa, St. Andre, New Alexandria, the Free Florian State, and Neridia are united as the Demesne Union known as Most Serene Union of Dos Gardenias.
7. Massat and Opaeghia are united as the Demesne Union known as the West Tapfer Federation.
8. Normark Proper, Elijah's Rest are united as the Demesne Union known as the Kingdom of Normark. The Throne of the Kingdom of Normark is vested in the Patriarch/Matriarch of the House of Ayreon-Kalirion.


Section 5 - Emergency Government for Demesnes

1. In the event of the total collapse of a Demesne's government, the Imperial Chancellery will have the responsibility to maintain law and order within that Demesne until such as time as the local population reasserts its right to self-govern.
2. In the event of the total collapse of a Demesne Union's government, the Imperial Chancellery will have the right to submit for approval of the Frenzy a new arrangement, if it has the support of the demesne's residents, that may separate the demesnes in the Union into an alternate or different arrangement, be it a new Union, separation into different individual demesnes, or integration into another existing demesne union.
3. Any change, excluding for reasons under 4. of this Section, in the geographic, dynastic, political, or cultural status of a Demesne undertaken by the Frenzy shall require the consent of that Demesne's Leader Government. Should it be refused within one Natopian year, such change shall still be applicable provided it receives a 2/3rd majority in the Frenzy and the consent of the Emperor. Otherwise, if no notice of refused consent is given within this period, the status change shall be considered consented to by that Demesne's Leader.
4. A Demesne cannot be removed from the Caprine Code except by a bill proposed by the Emperor receiving 3/4 approval of the Frenzy.


Section 6 - The Most Serene Union of Demesnes Dos Gardenias

1. The demesnial governments of Neridia, Thalassa, New Alexandria, and St. Andre are Dos Gardenias is forever vested jointly and permanently in the House of Eadric.
2. Any change to the government or demesnal status of the Most Serene Union of Demesnes Dos Gardenias must meet the consent of the Prince or Princess of the Most Serene Union.

Section 7 - The Viceroyalty of the Two Martyrs

1. The Viceroyalty of the Two Martyrs is governed under a constitution that the Nobles of the Two Martyrs shall write and adopt. Until then, the Patriarch of the House of Ayreon-Kalirion rules the demesne by absolute decree. The eternal Lords of the Viceroyalty of the Two Martyrs are Saints Elijah the Blessed and Asara the Cursebreaker.
2. All persons inhabiting the Viceroyalty of the Two Martyrs shall be granted Natopian citizenship upon declaration to, and subject to approval by, the Imperial Chancellery.
3. No legal limits may be placed on inward Tapferite migration to the Viceroyalty of the Two Martyrs. Incentive schemes may be authorised by the Imperial Chancellery to encourage this.
4. The right to conduct whaling operations from the Viceroyalty of the Two Martyrs is invested in the Saint Andre Trading Company (SATCo) as sole proprietor of the operation in perpetuity.

Section 8 - Elijah's Rest

1. The demesnal government of Elijah's Rest is forever vested in the Holy Order of the Cult of Elijah.
2. Any change to the government or demesnal status of Elijah's Rest must meet the consent of the Pentheros.
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Mr. Speaker, I move to vote.

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Eiiard Darkroot seconds and votes Aye
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Oyakawa Seiji: Aye
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This has passed.
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