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Suppose that there is a regency council of seven noblemen. If 6 of them sign off something, it's the same as a royal writ.

I had a post that included an element of this, but don't worry about that, this post is more about the general thing.

I just realized that if all seven come from different families, even if they aren't rivals with each other, how is anything going to get done if you need 6 of 7 to get anything done? In my other post, I hand waved it as "well, the agreed on something" but in the general case, wouldn't such a regency council be paralyzed into inaction by its design?
 
Suppose that there is a regency council of seven noblemen. If 6 of them sign off something, it's the same as a royal writ.

I had a post that included an element of this, but don't worry about that, this post is more about the general thing.

I just realized that if all seven come from different families, even if they aren't rivals with each other, how is anything going to get done if you need 6 of 7 to get anything done? In my other post, I hand waved it as "well, the agreed on something" but in the general case, wouldn't such a regency council be paralyzed into inaction by its design?

Regency councils are generally failures IMHO. Most pertinent example I can think of is the one formed by le Régent for Louis XV. It sorta sucked, and in Nancy Mitford's words "the nobility had ceased even to be good at governing. So the Regent dismissed them and settled down to govern as his father-in-law had done. And so, Louis XV became imprisoned in the terrible web spun by the terrible ancestor"
 
By the way, I'm assuming he case of no corrupt reagent or one who hates the dynasty of his monarch, even then I still see problems both in OTL and my example
 
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