Re: The Wars of the Roses

[John Cowan <cowan>]

Andrew Ferreir yscrifef:

> Workable.  Now, how does the Federation avoid becoming a Union, and
> evolve into a constitutional monarchy?  Where are the *Magnae Cartae of
> the Federal Kingdoms.  Who writes them, who signs them? 

The pressure of having two Monarchs, and the tension between (Cambria and
England have most in common religiously and legally, but separate
hierarchies) and (England and Scotland have the same monarch but different
religion and laws).

I think that constitutional monarchy has already arrived in England and
Kemr at least by 1805.  Scotland is still theoretically closer to absolutism,
but in practice an absolute King can't be absolute unless he's close to the
scene of the action, and the King of Scotland (though Scots as can be,
by descent) spends most of his time in London.

> A Catholic monarchy becomes the head of a established Protestant church in
> part of his hegemony?!  Cuius regio, eius religio.

Ouch!  Forgot that minor point.  Hmmmm..... time to reconsider something.

> You mentioned in a previous letter a reference to Nixon being a
> second-hand cardealer in California, did I detect a reference to the works
> of Harry Turtledove, an author I have been following since I read his
> novel "A Agent of Byzantium"?

You do, by George.

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John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.