@TheTrueKing, you’re right - it feels inconsistent - I’ll have to weigh whether I want the rule, or want to clarify the rule
@poison_mara makes a good point too - most Earthian monarchs have not enjoyed states of absolute monarchy where they were unhindered by any rules.
Some good examples today are, well all of them. But if you go back historically @poison_mara’s spartan example is a good one. Forgive my patchy and bias history - these rules are often based around two things
-
checks and balances protecting awesome rights
Like Habeus Corpus, latin for ‘You should have the body’, (first ref 12th century) nicely put in the 13th century Magna Carta -
‘No Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseized of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land.’
and still being used in the 1770s, e.g the case of black slave Somersett, who was ordered freed:
‘The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it’
- and as Mara says, maintaining the status quo
often meaning the balance of power between different groups of people (often ‘over’ people’)
For example our first English Revolution in the sixteen hundreds - when we cut off our monarch’s head and declared an English Republic called the Commonwealth - was in part down to a substantial part of the middle classes feeling that the monarch wasn’t protecting their rights.
A new status quo was ‘restored’ with the Restoration (yup, new monarch - we like status, and quos), this one had a heavy bent towards not persecuting people for their religion (. . so much) - and since England’s monarchs have had a duty to rmaintain the status quo or risk. . well. . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Breda
I’ll look at the Erisian law again - it is actually causing me some headaches down the line. But I’ve been assuming so far that if a dual monarch system existed there would be a rule or two to stop that system from being undermined by the monarchs themselves
