Ounce of Prevention - OOC Response

[Faith Organa]

Note I did say what was being thought.

But as someone and I myself have said multiple times. This is a game. The charter serves as a guideline for the operation or game rules. There needs to be change. Like the leader should never have sole control of the military That's why they need to appoint an interim,.

Someone with position to veto the leader. PM Counselor. Chancellor. Whatever title.

 

[Writer]

That is what the power of Senate is for, they would be able to act as one body to overrule the Chancellor, Chief of State - or whatever title people go with. I mean, then again - if you're speaking on a canon basis, Chancellor held the power and could only be told no by the Contingency Orders.

Examples of these Orders - from canon:

• Order 4: "In the event of the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) being incapacitated, overall GAR command shall fall to the vice chair of the Senate until a successor is appointed or alternative authority identified as outlined in Section 6 (iv)."[1]
• Order 5: "In the event of the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) being declared unfit to issue orders, as defined in Section 6 (ii), the Chief of the Defense Staff shall assume GAR command and form a strategic cell of senior officers (see page 1173, para 4) until a successor is appointed or alternative authority identified."[1]
• Order 37: Capture of a single wanted individual through the mass arrest and threatened execution of a civilian population. Follow-up directives include scenarios for body disposal of civilian casualties and suppression of communications.
• Order 65: "In the event of either (i) a majority in the Senate declaring the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) to be unfit to issue orders, or (ii) the Security Council declaring him or her to be unfit to issue orders, and an authenticated order being received by the GAR, commanders shall be authorized to detain the Supreme Commander, with lethal force if necessary, and command of the GAR shall fall to the acting Chancellor until a successor is appointed or alternative authority identified as outlined in Section 6 (iv)."[1]
• Order 66: "In the event of Jedi officers acting against the interests of the Republic, and after receiving specific orders verified as coming directly from the Supreme Commander (Chancellor), GAR commanders will remove those officers by lethal force, and command of the GAR will revert to the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) until a new command structure is established."[1]

So, you're still handing power to one person by entrusting a Chancellor. Plus - if I recall, all the Councils were abolished.

 

[Writer]

If you want to see a true restructure of the system where checks and balances are made and powers aren't handed to one individual - see below. A three tier system - regardless of a Chief of State being the top tier individual, you still have an individual acting over the military for all it's affairs. There were individual Councils (Which we once had in the Senate) And had specific duties and authority and could not be surpassed by just anyone without obviously - proper story behind it.

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Powers​

The Senate was the legislative and executive power of the New Republic. It also had limited judicial authority, presumably for high-profile plaintiffs or cases too controversial for the Court of Justice. Such cases included trying Senators for treason, crimes against civilization and presumably corruption and treason of the Chief of State.
Each senator was limited to introducing one bill per year, with a straight up-down vote required to get the bill out of committee and to the Senate as a whole.[5]
HoloNet channel 11 was reserved strictly for use by the New Republic Senate.

Composition​

The Senate was headed by the Chief of State alongside the Chair of the Senate. It mainly consisted of representativeassemblymen. Primary members were represented in the Senate by a governor-delegate, or Senator. Each Senator has a single vote, regardless of the population represented. Affiliate members were represented on Coruscant by a Legate, who could speak in general sessions of the Senate, but not vote on official Senate business (to avoid dual representation) or serve in the Senate's various working bodies. In 19 ABY, there were nearly 1000 senators, with each representing 50-200 worlds.[5]

As a body with a large and potentially unlimited membership, the Senate-in-whole was an almost impossibly unwieldy structure for getting work done. Consequently, most of the real governance was performed by the Senate's councils, committees, and commissions. The daily business of the Senate proper was primarily speech-making and public debate. When the Senate met as a committee of the whole, it was sometimes referred to as the New Republic Assembly. Councils were appointed bodies with autonomous decision-making and appropriation authority over some segment of government operations outside the Senate proper (for example, the Defense Council, which oversaw the New Republic Defense Force). The most populous and powerful members of the New Republic were disproportionately represented on the Senate's councils. Committees were elected bodies with the authority to administer various aspects of Senate operations, including the general budget. They were semi-autonomous; in the event of a unanimous committee vote, the approval of the Senate-in-whole was not required (however, the Senate-in-whole could override a less-than-unanimous committee decision with a three-to-five majority). Commissions were voluntary bodies with an advisory capacity only. They could prepare reports on issues of concern for presentation to the Chief of State, to the Minister of State, to the Supreme Commander, or to the general membership; schedule and conduct hearings; and contract for independent research.

The senior members of the Senate were seated at the lower levels, with the newer and less powerful senators seated in the upper tiers