In favor, obviously.

No. Power to the commons, perhaps, but there are limits.

No, if it's not going to inconvenience Cotonnet it will just give money to idiots who don't know how to work any more complicated system. He'll join, though.

In favor. It'd be a problem if the rabble control it, of course, but the nobles on the committee can hold it hostage against that; he'll make sure to talk to whoever it is to ensure that doesn't slip by them.

Against. They'll do something to cripple Cheliax's finances, that's for sure.

In favor. If it damns him, well, it might save his people.

No. Oriol and Oriol is a fine place to start, but to start on something that doesn't need to be done.

You don't become a successfull businessman without seizing every possible advantage. In favor.

Yes. It won't pass and they'll stop it from ruining the country if it did, but the closer the vote is the more support they'll have for kicking out the rabble.

Against. It will perhaps generate some good ideas, but it will waste the floor's time with a lot of rubbish.

No. It's anarchic as well as stupid.

Yes. Why would anyone not vote for this?

For! Shake things up, bring on the crazy ideas, there'll be an angle.

This is why you never give the rabble a say, they try to do shit like this. Against.

A committee to make rules for the convention? Sounds more like a committee to pull Mephistophelean tricks on the convention to him. Against.

What did the clever Cicerone call it? 'Anti-competitive'? This seems like that, sort of, maybe. No.

If this was actually a terrible idea the Archduchess would have said something, she's sounded decent this past week and he heard mostly good things from down city way. Most of these nobles are selfish gits anyway. Yes.

In favor. Nobody's ever put random people in charge of a country before, think of all the original research he could do!

Why are they wasting even more time on arguments nobody cares about? She doesn't even care enough about this nonsense to have an opinion, abstain.

Against. Come the fuck on, guys.

Against - allowing this stupid popular ruin is why disempowering the nobles is such a bad idea.

Fails 234 - 249.

Damn, that was close. He'd've probably voted for it if he thought it might make a difference either way.

If he's slightly smug, well, who wouldn't be slightly smug having voted down the bill? Defend that result, radicals, why don't you.

The crisis of the avariciously deranged attempting to take over the rules, averted; the crisis of insufficient rules, still pending.

Lluïsa is however relieved. If she had had to sit on a committee full of the Avaricious Elected, her only recourse against their insane proposals would be denouncing the committee tomorrow on the floor as concerned only with personal enrichment and not rules.

Which is now slander. Maybe Lluïsa is more important than them but probably not; the Archmage's pro-nobility finger on the scale is not for her. Lluïsa incandescently hates the slander law, its proponents, the President, and likely some other things as well. But silently and undetectably.