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The [[Apostolic King of Urcea]] serves as Head of State and is the unifying legal basis for the country as a whole and the National Government in particular. Legally speaking, the provinces owe their allegiance to him as King, as the provinces are ''constituent'' parts of the Kingdom itself. The King rules in the crownlands according to their individual tradition and precedents; in the [[Archduchy of Urceopolis|Urceopolis]] he rules as Archduke, in [[Harren]] as Grand Duke, in [[Canaery]] as Prince-Elector, and the autonomous states as Prince-Sovereign, though in practical terms and common parlance he is hailed as Apostolic King in all his realms. The Apostolic Kingdom, however, is not a confederate collection of holdings; many legal and administrative reforms implemented since the [[History of Urcea (1575-1798)|end of the 16th century]] has gradually integrated all of the Apostolic King's holdings into a single legal federal polity, which allows the Royal Courts jurisdiction over the entirety of the realm and the authority of the two Concilium to extend over the entire country.  

The Apostolic Kingdom is said to have a "dual-sovereignty" system, because the Apostolic King of Urcea is sovereign and is the central Constitutional organ by which the state functions, but the [[Concilium Daoni]] is sovereign insofar at is an expression of the people of Urcea and functionally holds supreme lawmaking authority within the Kingdom. Some observers have noted that the strength of Urcea's federalist system provides that the Kingdom should actually be referred to as "triple-sovereign", given the relationship between the federal and provincial governments. In this context, the Apostolic Kingdom is often referred to in some contexts as a "federal union", best summarized by [[P.G.W. Gelema]] as "the union...of the whole people with the Apostolic King, bonded to each other through the provinces which themselves are bound to the Kingdom in perpetual allegiance to both the Kingdom as legal entity and to the King as a man."

 

In terms of legal theory, the Kingdom is considered to be subject to the [[Holy Levantine Empire]], which is entirely coterminous with the person of the Apostolic King himself. Due to the position of the Apostolic King within the Constitution, his personal role as [[Emperor of the Levantines]] would potentially require the Urcean government's laws and statutes to be secondary to that of the [[Imperial Diet]], the terms of the [[Treaty of Corcra]] left the dictates of the Diet non-enforceable. Additionally, the Diet has not met since the early 1930s and was functionally dissolved with the Treaty of Corcra, making the distinction of Urcea's participation within the Empire purely nominal. The primary legacy of this participation is the nomenclature of the nation's army and titles of the Apostolic King; the [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal and Imperial Army]] reflects the King's status as [[Emperor of the Levantines]].