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From the assembly's tribes came the [[Estates of Urcea]], groupings of people with not only an important impact on [[Culture of Urcea|Urcean culture]], but also groupings that had a profound impact on the development of the Constitution of Urcea and the general political climate of early Urcea. Due to the continued growth of the realm and the need for administrative assistance, Emperor Adrian II, first [[Emperor of the Levantines]] from [[Urcea]], decided to call for a new assembly to replace the lapsed ancient institution, creating the system of [[Great Landsmeet|Great Landsmeets]], which would directly represent the fifty [[Estates of Urcea|Estates]]. The Landsmeet would remain in place following the [[Golden Bull of 1098]] and the creation of Urcea as a Kingdom. The Great Landsmeet would subsequently be called often during the two centuries of its existence, solving legal disputes put before them by the King, administering newly acquired territories on behalf of the King, and serving as something like the Kingdom's highest arbitration court (besides that of the [[Apostolic King of Urcea|Apostolic King]] himself). | From the assembly's tribes came the [[Estates of Urcea]], groupings of people with not only an important impact on [[Culture of Urcea|Urcean culture]], but also groupings that had a profound impact on the development of the Constitution of Urcea and the general political climate of early Urcea. Due to the continued growth of the realm and the need for administrative assistance, Emperor Adrian II, first [[Emperor of the Levantines]] from [[Urcea]], decided to call for a new assembly to replace the lapsed ancient institution, creating the system of [[Great Landsmeet|Great Landsmeets]], which would directly represent the fifty [[Estates of Urcea|Estates]]. The Landsmeet would remain in place following the [[Golden Bull of 1098]] and the creation of Urcea as a Kingdom. The Great Landsmeet would subsequently be called often during the two centuries of its existence, solving legal disputes put before them by the King, administering newly acquired territories on behalf of the King, and serving as something like the Kingdom's highest arbitration court (besides that of the [[Apostolic King of Urcea|Apostolic King]] himself). | ||
==Constitutional theory== | |||
The fundamental underlying of the Constitution of Urcea is the concept of shared sovereignty, by which sovereignty originates from the King but is fully shared in by the people. Although the institutions of democratic governance predate even the establishment of the kingdom with the [[Golden Bull of 1098]], the philosophical basis of the rights and public participation are that of a free grant of the [[Apostolic King of Urcea]]. This model comes to its summit in the [[Great Bull of 1814]]. This grant, viewed by scholars and lawyers as irrevocable, is not, in the words of [[P.G.W. Gelema]], "a one time dispensation of Royal rights but a continued generation of access to participation of popular will in the machinery of government". Consequently, some scholars have gone as far as to say that the Apostolic King in his person ''is'' the Constitution, although this formula is not widely used. Despite the centrality of the King within the Constitution, the [[Culture_of_Urcea#Politics_and_statecraft|self-conception of government]] has developed as a result of the shared sovereignty model. Despite the origins of the Julian Throne as one of an innumerable amount of monarchies based on feudal estate rights within the [[Holy Levantine Empire]], it evolved into a model absorbing earlier concepts of both [[Great Levantia]] and the [[Gaelic people]]. The King is viewed as the father of the nation in the sense of actual kinship, best displayed by his role at the head of the [[Estates of Urcea]], which is the evolution of both Gaelic and [[Latinic people|Latinic]] views on tribal relationships. While sovereign in himself, the King's responsibilities to the Kingdom are modeled on the responsibility of magistrates of Great Levantia, placing the King in the role of an office holder. | |||
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