[Discuss] A few Issues

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 16 Apr 2008 at 18:42, Marlon Dane wrote:

> Alright I accept that, however I think a Colony should also have the
> right to decide their own system of government. Look at the USA, they
> were British colonists but they _never_ had a Monarch.

They did indeed have a monarch: they were subject to the authority of the King 
of England. They did not have their own government. There were no elections 
of a president or a group of representatives to handle their own affairs. 
Remember the whole "No taxation without representation"?

The British did not set up the New World as a BattleMaster style colony. They 
were lands owing fealty to the british monarch. He ruled there as in England. 
They did not have their own government in any form.

Once the colonies seceded from the British Empire they set up their own 
government.

(I'm not a historical scholar, so some of this may be a bit inaccurate, but the 
general concept should be good enough.)

> A Colony
> originates from somewhere, true enough, but they become a separate
> entity and thus should have the right to decide what they want for
> themselves. And maybe they establish this Colony exactly because they
> dislike the current form of government of the parent nation.

That's not the concept for a colony in BattleMaster. In BattleMaster if you don't 
like the government then you secede, rebel, or go to a different realm. You 
don't use the authority and power of that government to create a new colony.


-- 
Rob

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