[CLARKED] The Edited Whole Hopper Act

[Miestră Schivă, UrN]

here's multiple recent examples of things that "sound fun" but are unnecessary and/or overcomplicated (Seneschal elections, the CRL itself,

Senescal elections are only unnecessary if you think the basic principle that the Cosă chooses the Seneschál, not the King, is wrong.

The CRL is useful, valuable, and not too complicated, and I'll stand on that as an election plank if you want.

[Sir Lüc]

Senescal elections are only unnecessary if you think the basic principle that the Cosă chooses the Seneschál, not the King, is wrong.

Well that's patently untrue since we don't have Seneschal elections, and yet the Cosă does choose the Seneschal via a petition, with the King doing little more than counting signatures.

[Miestră Schivă, UrN]

The petition is a "short-cut" to the Seneschal elections, which would never have happened if we hadn't forced the election procedure in over the top of the King just picking whoever he thought best.

I'm actually kind of offended by the attitude that the constitutional changes I've spent several Cosas implementing are a burdensome waste of time.

[Sir Lüc]

That's not what I meant and you know it. (Just like quabbling about past constitutional change was not the point of my initial writeup, so you quoting the little bit at the end instead of focusing on the broader point - that cumbersome systems are bad and off-putting - is interesting.)

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

A simpler system is usually going to be better.

A reading system would also democratize the process a little more -- the CRL committee now usually acts like the committees in the American Congress' legislative houses, where they're perceived as being "in charge" of what gets a vote and their opinions on the merits of the bill count for more.  We should resist the tendency to accumulate power at the top of our government.