crewdude48 wrote:fallsfromtrees wrote:The point is that Honor's old seat - the Earldom had already been passed to Honor's cousin Devon. Her Duchy was a new one, and by textev, the constitution does not new Lords to be seated until after a general election. So how did Honor skate past this constitutional requirement? Note that this is not an option of the House of Lords - they can vote to exclude a member for sufficient reason, but that isn't the case here. They can't even vote to exclude the new Lords (from San Martin, e.g.) until after a new election, and the attempt to do so at that time would have triggered a major constitutional crisis. The High Ridge government was working around the constitutional requirement for a general election at least every 5 years by using the state of emergency declared at the start of the First Haven War. The state of emergency allows the delay of elections until the state of emergency is over. No general election, no new Lords.
I think that the "after the next general election" thing was specific to the SM lords.
Okay. Then, given the weakness of the Centrist position in the Lords, had Elizabeth not been packing the Lords with new appointees. Surely there had been enough people who had distinguished themselves during the war for her to have stacked 15-20 known Centrists into the Lords, which would have made the situation there much more secure.
