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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2282904" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>Very in interesting stuff Dave, thanks.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; I see the Elector system did indeed develop as a restriction on the initially democrat form of choosing a ruler among the Franks &amp; other Germans.&nbsp; IMC we currently have an absolute monarch of a decentralised feudal realm, the problem with this setup is that while the Overking's power is theoretically unlimited, any time he tries to raise taxes the realms can point to their charters of incorporation to deny him.&nbsp; And taking military action against such a domain would be difficult because the other domains would see it as a threat to their own charters.&nbsp; So I can see a future monarch potentially wanting to create some kind of Imperial Council that could pass measures by majority vote, as a means to centralise power and extract more taxes from the domains by an appeal to majoritarian democratic legitimacy, something like how things developed in England after the Norman conquest.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 2282904, member: 463"] Very in interesting stuff Dave, thanks. :) I see the Elector system did indeed develop as a restriction on the initially democrat form of choosing a ruler among the Franks & other Germans. IMC we currently have an absolute monarch of a decentralised feudal realm, the problem with this setup is that while the Overking's power is theoretically unlimited, any time he tries to raise taxes the realms can point to their charters of incorporation to deny him. And taking military action against such a domain would be difficult because the other domains would see it as a threat to their own charters. So I can see a future monarch potentially wanting to create some kind of Imperial Council that could pass measures by majority vote, as a means to centralise power and extract more taxes from the domains by an appeal to majoritarian democratic legitimacy, something like how things developed in England after the Norman conquest. [/QUOTE]

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