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exactly Lo'oris Send a noteboard - 19/05/2011 08:06:43 AM
A system that relies on both leaders being competent. In a system where the defining criteria for achieving that position is that your parents were the previous rulers, or that you married the current ruler. Nothing in that system encourages competence at all.

And what happens if these two supreme but equally powerful authorities disagree? Paralysis on the Blightborder?


exactly.

In a country with a single monarch, if he's incompetent you risk going into chaos... if you have two monarchs who disagree strongly (and don't tell me it will never happen) you have a very bad civil war.
And this is just one random example on why this is a very stupid idea.
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Io iudico bene questo: che sia meglio essere impetuoso che respettivo, perché la fortuna è donna ed è necessario, volendola tenere sotto, batterla e urtarla.
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Do you realize aerocontrols - 15/05/2011 07:29:13 PM 2060 Views
If only... j-whitt987 - 15/05/2011 08:28:45 PM 1017 Views
How dare you assume a king outranks an Aes Sedai in his own kingdom and palace?! Joel - 16/05/2011 03:22:19 AM 829 Views
Or any woman for that matter. *NM* Stephen - 16/05/2011 01:00:55 PM 351 Views
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I'd be surprised. Fanatic-Templar - 18/05/2011 02:01:31 AM 758 Views
Re: I'd be surprised. Lo'oris - 18/05/2011 04:19:43 PM 682 Views
Not necessarily sleepinghour - 19/05/2011 12:33:24 AM 754 Views
That's an intrinsically flawed system though. Fanatic-Templar - 19/05/2011 05:03:59 AM 700 Views
exactly Lo'oris - 19/05/2011 08:06:43 AM 747 Views
Re: That's an intrinsically flawed system though. sleepinghour - 19/05/2011 09:10:33 AM 815 Views
Where does this come from... entyti - 16/05/2011 06:39:06 PM 810 Views
Re: Where does this come from... sleepinghour - 16/05/2011 06:53:55 PM 851 Views
Ah, I missed that part of the marriage bargain *NM* entyti - 16/05/2011 09:46:34 PM 328 Views
You're mistaken... DomA - 18/05/2011 02:49:51 PM 765 Views
Actually, if there is any truth to her Accepted test, he isn't THAT much in charge. Cannoli - 17/05/2011 02:51:12 AM 893 Views
Not necessarily... fionwe1987 - 17/05/2011 05:05:56 AM 738 Views
Re: Not necessarily... Kaldric - 17/05/2011 06:55:01 PM 667 Views
Ummm... that was exactly my point. fionwe1987 - 17/05/2011 11:34:46 PM 712 Views
My point... Kaldric - 18/05/2011 02:21:56 PM 752 Views
Of course the setting is malleable in TAR. fionwe1987 - 19/05/2011 04:21:50 PM 734 Views
What we know about the Malkieri customs from NS seems to supports this too Zeratul - 17/05/2011 10:32:20 AM 905 Views
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