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At the same time as the Vicariates were demanding alterations to the constitutional reform of 1905, the New Century Republicans and Fhainnin Popular Party jointly began to set up electoral processes independent of the government's auspices, technically committing treason. The justification being that the government refused to actually set up an electoral system, the Republicans additionally formally demanded the creation of a popularly-elected senate with the sovereign power to levy taxes and control spending, which outraged the Royal Court and lead directly to the [[Throneswatch]] being ordered to kill Socialist and Republican ringleaders. | At the same time as the Vicariates were demanding alterations to the constitutional reform of 1905, the New Century Republicans and Fhainnin Popular Party jointly began to set up electoral processes independent of the government's auspices, technically committing treason. The justification being that the government refused to actually set up an electoral system, the Republicans additionally formally demanded the creation of a popularly-elected senate with the sovereign power to levy taxes and control spending, which outraged the Royal Court and lead directly to the [[Throneswatch]] being ordered to kill Socialist and Republican ringleaders. | ||
Founding fathers of the Revolution.... Cananach, that other federalist republican guy who died, Donnal Wynnys-Màrtainn (who bailed to the republicans as soon as he found out he was crowned in absentia)... I need a few others. | |||
I like to imagine Donnal left the capital when shit was going down, found out he was crowned and the royalist faction wasn't folding, and had to go right back to the now revolutionary-controlled capital and surrender himself | |||
and the actual last monarch, Antaine Lohr-Mártainn, basically sat it out on vacation and never went back to the country | |||