Parliamentary Monarchists

The Parliamentary Monarchists are a political faction within the government of the Third Imperium. The Parliamentary Monarchists represent a middle path between more traditional Conservative Monarchists and the Moot's Republican Faction.

Description (Specifications)

Members of the Moot Monarchist Bloc are unified in their opposition to turning the Imperium into a type of Imperial Republic in which the traditional Hereditary Monarchy would notionally be replaced by either an Elected Monarch or an Elected Oligarchy acting as a type of Executive Council as Imperial Head of State. Not only does the Monarchist Movement want rule by a hereditary monarch, but it also wants the ruling Emperor or Empress to be entitled to rule for life.

Governmental Reforms

Within the Moot Monarchist Bloc of the Imperial Moot is a minority faction of more moderate and somewhat progressive conservative members who wish to retain the monarchy as is, but who nevertheless have some common cause with certain factions of the Imperial Republicans who wish to expand the Powers of the Moot by granting it expanded legislative and/or veto powers, rather than merely acting as a deliberative and advisory body to the Emperor. Under this proposed system the Emperor would still retain veto power over bills passed by the Moot, however. Some also support granting the Moot more of a say in who would be granted titles within the system of Imperial Nobility and the revoking of noble status, especially regarding Archdukes and the appointment of Sector Dukes. These members of the Monarchist Movement are known as Parliamentary Monarchists. As a faction, Parliamentary Monarchists have adherents within both the Moot Monarchist Bloc of the Imperial Moot and the Imperial Monarchist Movement as a whole.

Additionally, there is a more liberal wing of the Parliamentary Monarchists who in addition to expanding the Moot's lawmaking powers also desire to vest executive authority in a Council of Ministers headed by a Chancellor of the Moot with expanded powers acting as "First" or "Prime Minister". Liberal Parliamentary Monarchists have at times found opportunities to form common causes with the Life-Term Elected Monarch sub-faction of the Imperial Republican Movement.

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History & Background (Dossier)

The Imperial Monarchist Movement looks back to the founding of the Third Imperium and the form of its establishment by Cleon I. The establishment of the extraordinary expedient of the "Right of Assassination" to deal with the problem of Cleon III as well as the later failure of a clear succession of both the Lentuli and Zhunastu family lines during the antebellum period led to the subsequent precedent of the choice of Non-dynastic Emperors by Moot ratification or confirmation of claimants as a standard practice in the period leading up to the events of the Imperial Civil War. The turmoil of this period and its sense that anyone of sufficient noble standing and ambition could potentially seize the throne with the right connections in the Moot or in the military led many to long for the days of the founding of the Imperium and the dignity to be found in its established precedents and laws of inheritance as to who had the right to wield "imperium" and ascend the Iridium Throne.

The Imperial Monarchist Movement in general and the associated Moot Monarchist Bloc within the modern Imperial Moot recalls the turmoil of the period of the Non-dynastic Emperors and the reestablishment of order and stability by the current dynasty, the Alkhalikois, and thus finds itself in opposition to the Imperial Republican Faction of the Moot which seeks to abolish the Hereditary Monarchy and transform the Imperium into an Interstellar Imperial Republic, strongly opposing the sub-faction of the bloc that wishes to create a limited-term Monarch or an elected "executive council" oligarchy in place of the hereditary monarch.

During the reign of Emperor Strephon, the Imperial Monarchist Movement in general supports the Alkhalikoi family dynasty.

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