SR - SCA Laws

[Martin, Brian]

	SCA laws? LAWS??!! Who needs laws? Do away with them, I say!!
Anarchy is the only solution!! Total anarchy where the only people with
real power are the landed nobility!! Yes!! That is the answer to all of
our problems: total rule by the territorial barons!!! Bwaa haa haaa!!!!
	
	Pendamaniac

	(Too much coffee, not enough to do...)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Brent & Susan Rachel [SMTP:hbrache at texas.net]
> Sent:	Monday, July 20, 1998 4:04 PM
> To:	southern at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject:	Re: SR - SCA Laws
> 
> 
> 
> Dennis and Dory Grace wrote:
> 
> > Salut Cozyns,
> >
> > Lyonel aisai.
> > I've always wondered about this and about the so-called Republic of
> the
> > East.  How can their laws require this when Corpora specifically
> invests
> > within the Crown the right to legislate at the kingdom level?
> >
> 
> As for the East, their Curia MUST be consulted, but not necessarily
> heeded..,
> HOWEVER, the King that bucks the "suggestions" of Curia runs the risk
> of getting
> vvveeerrrryyy little support for his measures.
> 
> It is actually the exact same for the Middle.  The Crown of the Middle
> is
> empowered to change statute "only after obtainingsage cousel from the
> Curia
> Regis...."  So even the Middle Crown is not BOUND, save in matters of
> finance
> and making mundane contracts in the name of the Kingdom (when the
> curia MUST be
> heeded.., no surprise since the decisions for both actually rest in
> the hands of
> Seneschal(e) and Exchequer.., who are in Curia.)
> 
> Now maybe I'm a geek, but I think the Middle's laws are QUITE well
> organized. Of
> course, I have last year's edition which might be the result of a
> major rewrite
> since Daniel lived there.  I personally think that Ansteorra's laws a
> very
> poorly organized, by comparison.
> 
> What makes the Curia systems work is the pressure they bring to bear
> on the
> Crowns.., all quite period, mind you.  That means that for a Curia
> (type affair)
> to work for us WE must be willing to insist that it works.., insist
> that the
> Coronet heed the "sage cousel" of his council.
> 
> As for the signing of the first set of Principality Laws.  Hmmm.  The
> initial
> set of laws will be "complete" as a result of the the official polling
> to
> determine the success or failure of the whole shebang.  As such, it
> will be the
> BoD/SCA Sen/Kingdom Sen who will be laying the Laws down on the desk
> for initial
> signature.  I think that it would be a VERY difficult and embarrasing
> thing for
> the 1st Coronet to do, NOT to accept them as is.
> 
> Kazimir
> 
> 
> 
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