"If there's nothing else, then I call a vote."

She's sort of tempted to abstain, there are some good things about the law (sweet gods, sentencing someone to murder a baby?), but even if there are some good things about it she's still against it overall.

"Against."

"Still for."

"In favor."

"Aye."

"For." Uncomfortably.

“For.”

"For."

"And myself in favor as well. Seven to one, it passes. I'll bring it to the floor tomorrow. It's about time someone proposes something to go in the constitution, and not just the interim law."

Blink blink. "—Wait, what's the difference?"

Enric nods. He also isn’t sure what that is. 

"How it works in the few places which have constitutions, is that the constitution is short and sets generalities, but ones which can't be broken by ordinary law. The legislature or crown can change the law, and write very detailed proposals like the Code Cyprian, which is hundreds of pages. But if they pass a law that violates the constitution, the constitution means that law is void, judges or something like that determine this and declare it, and then it must be repealed or amended before they can enforce it."

"So if something's really important it should be part of the Constitution rather than just a regular law?"

"If it's very important and we're very sure we won't want to change it. Because that's the other half, is that it's much harder - not necessarily possible - to change a constitution. The proposal to have a new convention in forty years will be in the constitution, because otherwise it wouldn't be allowed to change it. Changing a law is an argument; changing a constitution, so far, is either a massive vote across the entire populace of Galt where they approve it four to one, or else probably a war."

Well, in that case she's definitely against the Lastwall punishment law, if they won't even be able to fix it for forty years.

She nods.

And so she'll speak against it on the floor and that will help it pass. Thank you for your service, Victòria.

"Well, with that consultation and then the discussion, this has taken a while. Shall we adjourn for the day?"

"Me and Korva and Delegate Soler have Family soon, adjourning now sounds good."

"Alright, see you tomorrow. Adjourned."

And a bit after the scribes put their pens away:

"Oh, I'll have that meeting place ready tomorrow afternoon. I'm thinking I'll call it the Kortos Tavern."

"Could you also give us directions to it? I don't know if I could find it from just the name, if the name is new."

Sure, she has some cross streets, it's further away than Cafe Isarn but not by that much.

"I'm arranging the sale today and the sign will be ready and out by lunch tomorrow." The old sign is going in the basement in case the proprietor wants to abandon it the minute the convention ends and he buys it back.

"Thanks, I'll try and spread the word around." (She's totally expecting Delegate Bainilus will have someone listening to their discussions, but as rich nobles who could be spying on them go, she's probably one of the least bad options.)

She mostly won't, but largely because she doesn't trust the prospective new Lord Mayor at all not to execute people on pretenses, or not to try to arrest her or her listeners for failing to report..

"I appreciate it."

"Thank you from me as well. Should I be getting the word about Kortos out to... the commons?" 

"It wouldn't hurt, especially for those who can't read; I'll be putting up some flyers near the hall and the palace rooms where people are staying."

"All right. We can all invite some people for tomorrow, then."