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  Chapter 232 The House of Commons and the House of Lords, the Cabinet and the Prince

Weiman carefully looked through the two options provided by Jack, and after reading them, he sighed.

Whether it is the prince's autocracy or the parliamentary system, there are two prerequisites.

The first is the Poseidon Supervisory Office established directly by the imperial central government. The Supervisory Office will set up branches in major provinces to monitor the real situation in various places.

The second is that all land belongs to the empire, and any transaction of land use rights must be reported to the Land Supervision Bureau established by the empire, and citizens enjoy the right to use the land.

Under these two premises, there is no need to consider princely autocracy at all.

The so-called prince's monopoly means that Jack grants the North to one of his descendants, who becomes the Poseidon branch family of the Northern Province, also known as the Poseidon Prince's Family.

The prince has administrative power and basic legislative power in the northern provinces.

There are six ministries under it to assist in the management of the northern provinces. All officials are appointed by the prince, who has the power to appoint personnel.

The administrative power and military autonomy of the nobility were abolished, all lands became the property of the empire, titles were abolished, and nobility had the same obligations and responsibilities as citizens and were bound by the law.

This completely became a one-man show for the prince, which was no different from the current feudal system in Westeros, but Jack was only given the title of prince, and none of the lower titles were given.

Therefore, Weiman absolutely cannot accept this kind of system, otherwise they would rather make a final desperate fight.

But another parliamentary system made Wyman Manderly think seriously.

Under the parliamentary system, Jack still enfeoffed princes, but the princes only had executive power and not basic legislative power.

At the same time, the House of Lords and the House of Representatives were established, as well as the Poseidon Committee.

The House of Lords and the House of Representatives have basic legislative powers and can legislate based on imperial laws and in light of local actual conditions.

The provincial Poseidon Committee has the power to transfer personnel. It is composed of citizen representatives from across the province and members of the Poseidon Party directly under the Imperial Central Committee, a total of 12 people, 7 from the Empire and 6 citizen representatives.

The provincial Poseidon Committee consists of three levels of similarly structured branches, namely district, city and town levels, while the village level is directly under the charge of the subordinate town level.

The House of Lords consists of 18 people in total, 9 of whom are directly delegated from the Empire, and the remaining nine are composed of new nobles and citizens.

Among them, the new nobility occupied 8 positions and the representative of the House of Representatives occupied 1 position.

New nobility refers to people who have made significant contributions to some aspect of the empire and can be conferred the title of imperial nobility.

The new nobility still has five titles: duke, marquis, earl, viscount, and baron. Each title is further divided into five levels, for a total of twenty-five levels of title system.

The new nobles and their families enjoyed some non-illegal social rights, and also received common-line subsidies from the province every year.

Earls and above can be inherited for three generations, and the title will be automatically downgraded by one level each time. Viscounts and barons do not have hereditary rights.

The House of Representatives was composed of citizen representatives from each of the newly established small regions.

The Northern Province is divided into 56 districts, each with 2-3 parliamentary seats, elected by local voting.

Members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords are elected every three years and may not be re-elected more than four times. The term of office of members of the House of Lords who are directly delegated from the Empire is fixed at eight years.

When a member of the House of Representatives drafts a bill or decree, it will first be voted on in the House of Representatives.

After two-thirds of the people pass it, the bill or decree will be sent to the House of Lords, which will vote again.

If more than two-thirds of the people agree, the bill or decree will be sent to the prince's desk and will be implemented after the prince signs and seals it.

The decrees proposed by the prince will bypass the House of Lords and go directly to the House of Representatives. As long as more than half of the members agree, they can be sent directly to the cabinet for implementation.

The House of Representatives and the House of Lords are collectively called the Parliament. In addition, there is a cabinet independent of the Parliament.

The cabinet is mainly responsible to the prince and has several departments under it, such as the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Civil Engineering and Construction, etc.

Once the prince agrees to a decree or bill, it will be sent to the cabinet for execution.

After many twists and turns, the power structure of the entire North became extremely complicated, but it maintained a certain balance among the four forces of civilians, new nobles, princes, and the empire.

However, it seems that the Empire will have a great say. Not only does it have a committee responsible for mobilizing cabinet officials, but it also occupies half of the seats in the Senate.

Time passed by minute by minute, and after the last person handed his or her ticket to the on-site clerk, the counting began.

There is a large blackboard in the conference center. Every time a selection ticket is opened, the staff clerk will display the contents of the ticket.

The final result was as everyone expected. There was only one vote in favor of the prince's autocracy, and the rest were all in favor of the parliamentary system.

As for who cast the vote for Prince's Autocracy, although it was an anonymous vote, everyone knew that the vote must have come from the old maester of the Mormont family.

This old guy has never been quiet since Lyanna became the Duke, jumping around all day long.

After the vote was over, people started to talk, but Jack didn't rush to suppress it. Instead, he let them discuss it for half an hour.

It was not until half an hour later that Jack knocked on the table and the scene returned to silence.

(End of this chapter)