Greetings unto the esteemed peers of our mighty
Outlands, I bid you well!
It should come as no surprise that given the events
surrounding the removal of our past crowns and the recission of the award to
Duke Guy, there has been a great deal of discussion about the structure of our
peerages and our laws. As peers, it is our duty to advise the
crown and the kingdom how our rules and laws best serve our kingdom’s legal
needs and reflect its customs.
With that said, as we move past these sad events and try to
get back to the joy of our game, We feel it is time to build some
new protocols that will serve us in that next chapter.
We are a kingdom and a society that is becoming older, more
diverse in membership, more in touch by electronic communications and having
less time to dedicate to event travel. These are all considerations that we
need to embrace rather than fight. With that in mind, all the disciplines and
their peerages can extend their reach, make themselves more accessible and more
responsive to the membership when we communicate using all means including
online ones. As you know, our peerages are called on to serve many functions as
the backbone, the institutional memory, the leader of efforts and the exemplars
of our kingdom. We view our present proposals as helping all our peerages
better serve both the kingdom directly and its crowns.
What we wish to do is put more formality into kingdom law regarding how our
peerages operate. Both Corpora and Kingdom Law need to be flexible to the
different needs of the different peerage orders, so we propose a structure that
strikes a balance. Below is our proposed change to kingdom law.
Outlands Kingdom Law:
Renumber: X. COURT OF ROYAL PREROGATIVE to XI. COURT OF
ROYAL PREROGATIVE
Add:
X.
BESTOWED PEERAGES
A.
Companionship
Admission to a bestowed peerage order is at
the pleasure of the Crown after following the Consultation Procedures below.
B.
Governance
Each Bestowed Peerage Order is governed by
a Charter of that Peerage Order, which shall set forth the procedures for the
governance of that Order.
C.
Candidates
Recommendations for admission to an
Order may be directed to either the Order, as further defined in their
respective charter, or to the Crown. If to the Crown, the Crown shall always
have the right to submit candidates to the Order. All candidates, however
submitted, shall be considered by equivalent procedures as further defined in
the charter.
D.
Consultation
1.
Each Peerage Order shall report to the Crown
candidates to its Order, by procedures described in their respective Charters.
2.
When all procedures for reporting out candidates
have been satisfied, then the Corpora-granted requirement of Consultation with the
Crown has been exercised with regard to the candidates reported.
3.
“Consultation” need not result in any particular
action by Their Majesties.
This law change binds the orders into the structure of
kingdom law, but also gives the flexibility for each order to define its own
internal rules and methods. Should we enact these, each Order would be called
upon to draft its own charter. As you can see, what the charter should contain
is very lightly mentioned. This is by design. What the kingdom and crown would gain is:
1. Make more transparent what both the crown and orders do to be in line with
Corpora.
2. D.2 means to say the order has some sort of defined
method to – forgive the wording – process candidate consideration,
understanding that the order will tailor this to its own ways.
3. Encourage the orders to operate more autonomously. This
is to say, orders ‘exist’ and do their work even outside the presence of the
Crown.
None of this is to disparage how the kingdom has functioned to this point.
Neither is this to ‘close the barn door after the horse is out’.
I pray that you consider this among your order and return to me
with initial questions.
With our eyes fixed to the new horizon, I remain, in service to our Crown and
our mighty kingdom,
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