[Ansteorra] king of the east..please pass along

[Michael Smith]

Just for anyone who was wondering, I wasn't arguing for or against anything
in this case, just asking questions and stating things "the way I saw them."
:)  That being said, I wanted to ask Sir Burke a question (or series of
questions) based on what he states below.

How wold you define 50%?  Take the number of days between coronations and
divide by 2?  Attend 1/2 or more of the events on the "crown calendar"?
Participate in 2 of the 3 required activities per corpora?

Seriously, my only question was this:  What was the impetus that caused the
rule to be put in place in the first place?  My understanding was that this
rule was put in place essentially due to military individuals on the throne.
That's hearsay because I wasn't around then, so please correct me if I was
misinformed.  But if indeed that's the case and other indivuduals in the
past were denied their rank and estate, be it County or Duchy, due to
mundanely being caused to miss their requirements, why would an exception be
made now?  My question is academic rather than tied to this particular
incident.  The part of me that's met HRM Andreas and likes him wants him to
get his Duchy.  The part of me that thinks too much is curious about it from
an academic standpoint.

All the good powers that be in the universe willing, this will be a moot
subject.  Andreas will come back from active duty and will win another crown
and this subject will have been a tempest in a teapot.  We can all only hope
and pray that all of our people come back after this.

Morgan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Burke McCrory" <burkemc at cox.net>
To: <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] king of the east..please pass along


> At 05:24 PM 1/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >In a message dated 1/19/2003 3:35:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> >morgancain at earthlink.net writes:
> >
> > > I thought they resolved this issue when they addressed the Prince/Duke
> > Jafar
> > > question, a number of years ago.
> > >
> > >                                                     ---=
> > > Morgan
> > >
> >
> >      I believe that the rules are pretty clear on this issue.  It looks
> > to me like they are requesting an exception to the rule, and asking for
> > our help in convincing the BoD to grant them that exception.
> >
> >Robert
>
> I raised this issue with the BOD a few weeks ago because of this very
> instance.  The decision on Jafar was to posthumously award his Ducal rank,
> which required a waiving of the completion clause in Corpora.   It was not
> a decision on the completion clause itself.  We have seen the completion
> clause waived and upheld several times over the last 5 years on a case by
> case bases.  I think that given this circumstance that if a ruling
> Crown/Coronet were to be called up to active duty and had completed at
> least 50% of their reign then the rule should be waived.  But is they have
> not completed 50% of their reign as Crown/Coronet then the rule should be
> upheld as they have (through no fault of their own) not really served the
> Kingdom (Principality) or the populace.   Just my 2.8 cents worth.
>
> Burke
>
>
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