Okay, now it looks like I’m going against the professor. This isn’t even a political opinion, it’s a grammatical one. 

Yeah but I’m right, right?

Fine. Wanting laws to use words properly, instead of making changes just because the original word reminds people of political enemies, counts as a political opinion. 

A less Asmodean person might point out that it's a bit perverse to make a big fuss about disapproving of people for defending their own cities against surprise invasions from foreign soldiers bent on rape and murder, or indeed to reward those soldiers for the rape and murder, which was really most of what happened, as there wasn't exactly much of an organized military engagement in either Corentyn or Ostenso.

To say that would be to suggest that she expects the audience to care more about good and evil than about sucking up to their latest masters, though, and she knows her countrymen better than that. Let's all heap meaningless honors our conquerors, why not.

... It is definitely a proposal. It would bring the crown money. But do they need more people with lifetime privileges marching around, even if they were to be wizards?

Anonymously, for obvious reasons:

"Besides providing funding, how does this law help make Cheliax a better country? I wholeheartedly believe that their heightened intelligence and significant wisdom makes Wizards good rulers, but the proposed titles do not even grant them anything to rule! I can see the point as honorary pronouncements, but their value in status goes down if anywizard can just purchase one."

The King-In-Irons strides up to the podium. "It gets Cheliax more wizards! Foreign wizards will want to come so that they can buy the rank of count and take precedence over barons in all the parades that Her Majesty's government will no doubt be hosting, in which all the nobles who feel like it parade in order of precedence." It is really hard to tell how ironic he's being. "Then these foreign wizards will kill monsters and craft magic items, two activities which the state would quite like to occur here instead of in Absalom."

"Really, though, let us be honest, here: The state needs money. To solve this, the committee has therefore decided to sell the rights of the nobility without the territory of the nobility to powerful wizards. While I personally consider trying to buy power gauche, I suspect some wizards will take the convention up on its offer, and this will provide the state with money. There seem to be no reasonable arguments against it - besides, of course, Delegate Mont's nomenclatural one - that don't amount to 'a handful of arrogant noblemen are unhappy because they want to be special, and giving more people rights makes them less special.'" His staff will arrange nonlethal duels outside of convention hours.

No, the problem is that a lot of the "rights" of the nobility are the "right" to hurt innocent people and get away with it! But of course Delegate Ibarra is in favor of powerful wizards being able to hurt whoever they want and never ever get what they deserve.

...do the titles come with rights?

There are currently legally not actually any rights of the nobility, not that she really wants to get into that argument here and now.

And yet, if Victòria chased another delegate through the convention hall with a sword for insulting her, she'd hang for it.

Maybe, just maybe, the proper thing for a country to do is not have a ‘the rights of nobility’ at all. Give rights to everyone, or no one, it’s not complicated.

Yes, the wrong answer is often uncomplicated.

Safe Roads is going to gently introduce some obvious rights of the nobility but they can word them to not apply to Metatitles anyway; they'll be about what a lord can do in his own territory.

If the metatitles bill goes back to committee… Fernando has thought of modification that will act as a bribe for nobility to vote for it.  And it will indirectly associate metatitled wizards with territory!

"Noble and Great Delegates! None of us are here without goals. I run a school for wizards. I would like Cheliax to be like the Cheliax of the past, the Great Cheliax before hell got its claws in it, the Cheliax many of you remember. A state that does not have wizard universities is a state that is weakened. Education should be voluntary, but it is certainly sad when clever urchins spend their time distributing filthy pamplets rather than learn to cast [Ant Haul] and work as laborers."

"Cheliax used to have powerful wizards that spent their wealth here. Many of them have left- and this might bring them back. The state has need of money, and this will put coins in the pockets of our Noble Queen. Men enjoy titles- look at what adventurers will do for them, and this will grant them to them for a fixed sum of money- speak to the Abadarans of the benefit of fixed prices. It is frequently difficult to know what a wizard might accomplish, and putting the imprimatur of the state on the capabilities of specific wizards would be beneficial."

"In all- this is something that this convention can create, for free, to be able to sell.  It is rare to be able to create money with no effort, and we should take the opportunity." 

"I call for cloture on this proposal."

Passes.

It's going to be a lot harder to stop the schools if there's enough money to pay for them. Against.

This is part of her secret plan to get two votes in the Senate. For!

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

(Abstain.)

They shouldn't make it even easier for powerful wizards to just go around hurting whoever they want. Against.

This proposal seems to fundamentally misunderstand the concept of nobility. Against.

The point of nobility is to be useful. For.

Mask guy's insults were funnier yesterday but sure, Conradí'll vote for this. 

For. She said she would.

Against, of course.