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In the name of preserving the young republic, the consuls agreed, ironically, that they would need to look outwards and appoint a junior member of one of the Occident's royal families to serve as a permanent designated dictator, believing that a non-partisan dictator would serve the republic's best interests. After an extensive search, the consuls selected a junior member of the [[House de Weluta]], [[Neill I, Grand Duke in Lucrecia|Archduke Niall of Urcea]] to serve as Lucrecia's permanent designated dictator. This necessitated the creation of royal titles, which, to ensure commitments to republicanism and so as to placate their suzerain, would be purely ceremonial and not replace the consuls as Lucrecia's joint heads of state. The [[first Velucian dictatorship]] from 1685 until 1686 proved to be a tremendous success, with both main political factions eventually settling down and ceasing hostilities soon thereafter. | In the name of preserving the young republic, the consuls agreed, ironically, that they would need to look outwards and appoint a junior member of one of the Occident's royal families to serve as a permanent designated dictator, believing that a non-partisan dictator would serve the republic's best interests. After an extensive search, the consuls selected a junior member of the [[House de Weluta]], [[Neill I, Grand Duke in Lucrecia|Archduke Niall of Urcea]] to serve as Lucrecia's permanent designated dictator. This necessitated the creation of royal titles, which, to ensure commitments to republicanism and so as to placate their suzerain, would be purely ceremonial and not replace the consuls as Lucrecia's joint heads of state. The [[first Velucian dictatorship]] from 1685 until 1686 proved to be a tremendous success, with both main political factions eventually settling down and ceasing hostilities soon thereafter. | ||
===Liberal reforms=== | |||
{{main|Lucrecian reforms of the 19th Century}} | |||
[[File:Elizabeth_Yates,_Mayor_of_Onehunga_(1894).jpg|thumb|150px|[[Inez Ocasio]], Lucrecia's first female Consul, elected on 15 March 1891.]] | |||
In the mid-19th Century, there were a few reforms that were enacted in an attempt to break the near-monopoly the Senate held in the legislature. For many centuries, the classical Emeritan system was in the form of an aristocratic republic where the nation's uppermost house, that being the Senate, was the most powerful legislative house. It was this aristocratic system that was in desperate need of some reforms to modernise and democratise the Republic. These reforms were pushed by politicians of the nascent [[Revolutionary Democratic Party]], which was the legal successor to the [[Countrymen Party]], which by the mid-1850s held a majority in the Senate as well as the Centuriate and Tributary assemblies. These reforms were relatively minor, but they were vital in separating the [[Centuriate Assembly]] and the [[Tributary Assembly]] from the long-held grip of the Senate. Under these reforms, the centurions were to be elected by the governorships of each of the provinces while the tributaries, who became the leaders of the Republic's municipal collectivities thanks to the reforms, were to be elected by mayors and other local leaders. These were the first major changes to the political institutions of Lucrecia during its long process of democratisation. The last aspect of these reforms, which would allow females to participate in politics, would not pass until 1890, the year before the election of [[Inez Ocasio]] as the first female Consul of Lucrecia. | |||
===Early 20th century=== | ===Early 20th century=== | ||