tlb wrote:(snippage)
In Crown of Slaves (chapter 41), Du Havel is talking about forming a constitutional monarchy like Great Britain's (which does not have a written constitution). In Torch of Freedom (chapter 14), there is mention that the constitution allows every ex-slave the right to emigrate.
As a guess, I would expect that Torch does have a written one because a new found state cannot rely on precedent.
Fox2! wrote:Doesn't Her Mousyness have the expressed constitutional power to summarily execute or exile one person each year? I remember she threatened any body who protested her naming Hugh to the "Ministry of the Posterior" when she joined the mass pilgrimage to Manticore when Anton and Victor went there after they stopped at Haven on their escape from Mesa.
That was part of the discussion I mentioned in Crown of Slaves; she objected to having the power to order an execution, so they settled on the power of banishment instead. But that discussion was before the state was established. Do you know if there is a written constitution? I do not have anything to automatically search after Mission of Honor.