Our own medieval America site (or group of html files) would be nice
It's better to start off small, though. And AH.com has plenty of options for archiving timelines and info on them.
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Our own medieval America site (or group of html files) would be nice
Did you mean that the Supreme Court selects people to fill empty Court seats by drawing from the pool of churchmen in the Senate?And in an important compromise with the Supreme Court, vacancies in the Supreme Court would no longer be filled by the President. Instead the Supreme Court would select and vote on replacements for the Senate and the President would agree to pass any candidates that passed by his desk.
I made a post like this a while backCuba could have communism used to justify feudalism, with the "people" as the serfs in the sugar cane fields, and a cult based on Castro and Che Guevara overthrowing the demon king Batista. But the real Castro family died out and the new rulers just use it to keep the status quo.
I'm thinking about making a post about Cuba. I believe that other posters on this project wrote how Cuba's position, resources, and natural wealth would make it a powerful nation after the fall of civilization. The country would probably be ruled by the descendants of party members and an offshoot of the Catholic Chruch syncretized with communist ideology (something like the People's Chruch or the Order of Saint Marx). The ruling class would occasionally council with each other at the Popular Assembly to discuss trade disputes, land distribution, and the election of the next Castrós to rule the People's Republic (a bit like how Caesar became Csar and Kaiser). Of course, the nation is communist in name only with an ever-present slave trade, religious inquisitions, and the Politburo ruling as feudal lords.
Did you mean that the Supreme Court selects people to fill empty Court seats by drawing from the pool of churchmen in the Senate?
Are the District Supervisors picked from local candidates? Because if they are picked from local candidates and then they personally pick all staff members below them, that could make for a fairly self-contained local-church structure. And then these self-contained units contribute Senators who are formally subordinate to them, or at least expected to stand up for their interests in the national arena-- and it's these people that then become Court members. The Court may, under the current structure, wax and wane in relevance over time-- sometimes the Court gets to draw on several Senators who have served for a long time and now have their own opinions on how national-scale affairs should go, but maybe sometimes it's forced to elevate less experienced or indepedendent-minded people. And in the latter situation Non-Denom may be more like a confederation of mostly autocephalous churches, something more like Eastern Orthodoxy.
And are dissenting opinions still a thing, can a subgroup of the Justices submit a reasoned opinion explaining their case even if it's the majority opinion that becomes part of church canon? Because then, with contrary arguments at least around and free to be voiced (would the opinion of a Justice ever be considered as irredeemable heresy?) different church subunits can really take inspiration from different and new doctrinal viewpoints in addition to local tradition.
I think the Electoral College and the House of Representatives are too similar in composition-- how are you supposed to explain to someone of high standing (merchant, soldier, noble) that they belong in one and not the other, and how do you make sure that they don't take it as some kind of insult to be in one but not the other? I think there should be some more ironclad criterion that distinguishes the College from the House, or else dual membership will make them blend into the same institution. Maybe the Electors are all blood relatives up to a certain generation of previous Presidents, allowing for the periodic emergence of dynasties (but if the election goes to the House, they can displace the dynasty by electing whoever they want). I'm imagining something like the House of Saud, where being a prince of the family puts you in a separate tier politically and the succession can pass laterally instead of vertically between them.
Honestly idk how many people can vote, that seems like pretty much anyone can vote. I think we need more discussion.70% seems rather high - shouldn't it be like colonial America, and only be open to Christian property owners*?
*With the obvious change that black people (or just about any ethnic group for that matter) and women can vote
I'd think rates of outright property ownership are bound to go down in a neo-medieval neo-feudal society as compared to a proto-capitalist land like colonial America.Colonial America seemed to have 70% of adult males as qualified voters. So making sure that landowning men and women of good standing can vote probably means 60-70% of the population can vote?
Considering that most of the USA's land is outside of the deep south, most farmers can vote.
Thats probably true, probably closer to 30-40%I'd think rates of outright property ownership are bound to go down in a neo-medieval neo-feudal society as compared to a proto-capitalist land like colonial America.
If the President picks the Electors as people he trusts, a few hundred seems like too many for him to know/trust to agree with his preferences for the succession. If he is the one picking Electors he'd probably try to pick as few as he can get away with, a hundred or so (around the same number of Cardinals trusted to elect the Pope). If the number of Electors is too large and membership is non-hereditary then appointing them all becomes a big task and the resulting institution may demand more of its own powersSo the House of Representatives and the Electoral College are supposed to be similar. Except that the House of Representatives is always having meetings and the Electoral College only meets when the President dies. If you died relatively young and President reigned for a while, then you might never use your electoral college vote.
The James River hosted plenty of tobacco plantations in the early colonial era, but to get more votes compared to New England they may be more lax with the property requirements. Meanwhile New England is too worried about which urban guilds could be partisans of which great family to consider expanding the franchise too much.Considering that most of the USA's land is outside of the deep south, most farmers can vote.
I intended the College of Electors to be a separate body/institutation from the president, where the gentry could choose the president.It's possible that voting rights on a local level vary widely, in accordance with local charters. There may be certain federal property minimums, though. The House would at the very least demand the power to design taxes or veto Presidential suggestions on that; it may also pass symbolic resolutions like urging the President to declare war on whoever.
If the President picks the Electors as people he trusts, a few hundred seems like too many for him to know/trust to agree with his preferences for the succession. If he is the one picking Electors he'd probably try to pick as few as he can get away with, a hundred or so (around the same number of Cardinals trusted to elect the Pope). If the number of Electors is too large and membership is non-hereditary then appointing them all becomes a big task and the resulting institution may demand more of its own powers
Would also be fun if some Electors were picked secretly, to keep them safe from assassination and such
The James River hosted plenty of tobacco plantations in the early colonial era, but to get more votes compared to New England they may be more lax with the property requirements. Meanwhile New England is too worried about which urban guilds could be partisans of which great family to consider expanding the franchise too much.
Thats probably true, probably closer to 30-40%
Still 300k to 300? voters for the House of Representatives vs 5-600 electors in the Electoral College
The Electors could be chosen by the state legislatures, as it is currently. But that leads to another issue-- if Boston sends Electors to the College, isn't that like saying that the Boston city government is the real State of Massachusetts and not the autonomous state based in Hartford? To keep all the legal claims in order, the Electors may have to be decoupled from the states-- every one of the effective subunits of governments (counties, municipalities) sends Electors, varying with population.I intended the College of Electors to be a separate body/institutation from the president, where the gentry could choose the president.