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'''Cananachan Republicanism''' is a | '''Cananachan Republicanism''', formally called '''Quaternalism''' or '''Quaternal Republicanism''', is a branch of republican political theory promoted by [[Callac Cananach]]. Quaternalism was and remains the foundational ideology behind the [[Faneria|Republic of the Fhainn]], though the interpretation of its core tenets has varied over the history of the Fhainnin republic. Several other countries broadly fall under the umbrella of Quaternalism, though most of these interpret it as a localized variation of their own design, which is encouraged due to the nationalist bent of Quaternalist theory. | ||
==Origins== | |||
==The Four Theses== | ==The Four Theses== | ||
The Four Theses form the foundational tenets of Quaternalism, and are a distilled form of Callac Cananach's most important writings. Cananach's Theses originally numbered several hundred detailed points, but the Four are the most central to the ideology and outline the most defining differences between Quaternalism and traditional democratic and republican theory. | |||
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* Thesis One: Structure of Government. The four primary functions of the state are: to tax and spend; to create law; to manage the public good; and to self-audit. A government should therefore have four branches, one for each primary role - Fiscal, Legislative, Administrative, and Corrective. | |||
* Thesis Two: [[Public Good|The Public Good/Welfare]]. The ultimate purpose of a government is to benefit the country as a whole. A government should therefore not be centered on a monarch or any institution other than itself. In addition, a government should work to ensure the rights of the people - primarily the right to freedom of thought and the right to fair and safe work. | |||
* Thesis Three: Source of Sovereignty. ''Flaitheas'' (Sovereignty) comes from {{wp|Civil society|the People}}, who entrust power to the State. The People collectively hold all power in theory, and have both collective and individual rights. Collectively, the People hold the right to choose members of the State, and individually have rights to live, abstain from religious obligation, obtain fair and safe work of their choice, and own property free of unpaid seizure, among other rights considered to follow naturally from those. The State solely has the right to raise military forces, collect taxes for public administration, and write and apply the law, among other duties of state. | |||
*Thesis Four: Liberation. A republican and democratic government liberates the People in several ways: from Social Tyranny (through full equality under the law) , Religious Tyranny (through secularism and laicism), Foreign Tyranny (Through nationalism), and 'Life-Tyranny' (a Fhasen term roughly meaning self-actualization or the pursuit of happiness). A government should therefore treat all citizens equally in criminal and civil law, remove religious expression from government institutions and publicly-owned utilities, maintain a strong military, and seek economic and technological excellence. | |||
The Theses establish traditions of a four-branched national government, irreligiosity within public life, a strong emphasis on militant liberation, and the role of the State as an avatar of populist sentiment. They also loosely provide the basis for the tendency towards futuristic and modernist movements present in Quaternalist states, as well as more loosely relating to universal military service and the voting and local government systems . | |||
==Core Canon Works== | |||
==Secondary Thinkers and Developments== | |||
====Guy==== | |||
====John MacRenyth==== | |||
====Melvyn Kalma==== | |||
====Cillac Batais==== | |||
====Gwyn Feawyr==== | |||
====Cian Walaerin==== | |||
Primary tenets of Cananachist republican thought (established in primary work): - unitary republican government, not federal or aristocratic - four branches of government (exec, legisl, budget, audit/judicial) - secular goverment/anticlericalism secondary tenets (specific to Faneria, established via policy and other works): - focus on infrastructure, sciences and education/technologism or technocracy (both classical experts and modern technophilia themes)/futurism - counter-equatorialism, (esp. gaelic and sometimes coscivian nationalism) - semi-autarky - citizenship by attainment, not birth associated themes (not codified as part of Cananachist theory but related to the Fhainnin Republican movement in general or practiced by Fhainnin gov't to some degree: antiseparatism, authoritarian democracy, mixed economy, reformism, audit state, infrastructure state, perpetual revolutionary spirit any gov't that meets all three primary is Cananachist, any that meets 'republican' and 'secular' is a felow-traveller movement that can 'claim' Cananachist affiliation - federal states not a huge issue @Nolis @Kir (edited) | |||
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Primary tenets of Cananachist republican thought (established in primary work): - unitary republican government, not federal or aristocratic - four branches of government (exec, legisl, budget, audit/judicial) - secular goverment/anticlericalism secondary tenets (specific to Faneria, established via policy and other works): - focus on infrastructure, sciences and education/technologism or technocracy (both classical experts and modern technophilia themes)/futurism - counter-equatorialism, (esp. gaelic and sometimes coscivian nationalism) - semi-autarky - citizenship by attainment, not birth associated themes (not codified as part of Cananachist theory but related to the Fhainnin Republican movement in general or practiced by Fhainnin gov't to some degree: antiseparatism, authoritarian democracy, mixed economy, reformism, audit state, infrastructure state, perpetual revolutionary spirit any gov't that meets all three primary is Cananachist, any that meets 'republican' and 'secular' is a felow-traveller movement that can 'claim' Cananachist affiliation - federal states not a huge issue @Nolis @Kir (edited) | |||
is a variant of republican political theory designed as the founding ideology of the [[Fhainnin Popular Republic]] and its successor state, the [[Faneria|Republic of the Fhainn]] by its namesake, [[Callac Cananach]]. In formal use, it is sometimes referred to as '''Gaelic State Theory''' or more commonly as '''Quaternal Republicanism'''. According to Cananach, Quaternal Republicanism is a liberal nationalist ideology designed to integrate radical anti-monarchism, perpetual revolution, and national revitalization theory; in practice, it is considered a stable form of authoritarian democracy, typically following liberal or pseudo-liberal principles. | |||
The basis of the ideology comes from the Fiannrian [[Pan-Gaelic Theory|Pan-Gaelic]] movement, early [[Restarkism]], anti-clerical and anti-monarchic sentiment, and the republican tradition of [[Fiannria]] and other neighboring states. Many of its specifics are designed for Faneria in particular; at its heart, Cananachists accept any four-branched unitary republic as a Cananachan government, as well as republics in general as fellow-travellers. It incorporates some socialist elements while rejecting socialist economic theory. Cananachan Republicanism specifies unitary republicanism due to the failures of Federalist republican movements to cohesively resist monarchial power prior to and during the [[Fhainnin Civil War]], as well as to combat regional separatism in [[Culriocha]] and [[Lyukquar]] after the revolution and through the first half of the 20th Century, as well as the relative ease of creating unitary states in underdeveloped regions compared to a strong federal system. Several of its details are intentionally designed to distinguish it from the Latin legal tradition, which is attractive in peripheral parts of the [[Occident|Occidental]] world. | |||
==The Four Theses== | |||
The tenets of Cananachan Republicanism are organized into a set of overarching points called the Four Theses. 'Sovereignty' outlines the basis of political authority and the rights and duties of the People and State, 'Governance' outlines a model for a four-branched unitary republic, and 'Nationalism' and 'Modernism' encapsulate the spirit of the ideology. Originally, there were three Theses, with 'Sovereignty' being expanded dramatically as Cananach rewrote his original works and 'Governance' being added later. | |||
====The People==== | ====The People==== | ||
The People are defined as any group with a sense of collective consciousness, but is noted to be most often based on {{wp|Ethnonationalism|shared culture}} rather than {{wp|Civic nationalism|pluralism}}. However, it specifies that tolerance of minority citizens is of equal importance to the treatment of citizens from a nation's majority, in contrast to historic governments in [[Faneria]]. | The People are defined as any group with a sense of collective consciousness, but is noted to be most often based on {{wp|Ethnonationalism|shared culture}} rather than {{wp|Civic nationalism|pluralism}}. However, it specifies that tolerance of minority citizens is of equal importance to the treatment of citizens from a nation's majority, in contrast to historic governments in [[Faneria]]. | ||