Chapter 225: A Native Product from Rome: The Senate
After the reform, Zhuge Liang was appointed as the head of the Red Lotus Church, a title borrowed from the Eastern Mahayana religion, who was responsible for controlling the armed forces within the sect and was directly responsible to Kangning. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
At the same time, several branches at the same level as the Red Lotus Hall are also in the process of being formed, and the reason why they are called branches is because Corning has planned to set up an organization with regular decision-making and management functions.
After consulting with Lord Acton, the deputy director of the Great Library, Corning decided to import a souvenir from the Roman Empire: the Senate.
During the Roman Empire and the Republic, the Senate was a deliberative body for a long time, and even for a certain period of time, actually performed the legislative function. However, Corning's purpose in setting up the Senate was not to bind the vision of the twenty-first century to the cage of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
So he greatly weakened the power of the Senate.
First, it emphasizes that the Senate does not have legislative power, which is held by a specialized jurisprudence subordinate to the Senate. The Senate only has the right to deliberate, the right of veto. At the same time, the head of the Senate, de facto head Corning, had the final veto power, exempt from the power of legislative deliberation.
Second, the essence of the Senate is that it is a powerful body that is huge in form and has very little active component in fact, but it is the highest authority within the Church. His functions are equivalent to those of the Chinese scholars in the Northern Song Dynasty. But its power to propose, including but not limited to legislative power, is in the hands of various professional committees.
Thirdly, the composition of the Senate is rare, and it can even be said that it is unprecedented to adopt a quadricameral system.
The House of Lords, commonly known as the Joint Council of Chiefs. The scale is small, and it is controlled by various branches, including functional institutions, local branches, and the actual owners of educational assets. It has the right to review, question and veto the proposals of the other three chambers.
The Left House, commonly known as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is responsible for the security planning of the congregation and the Bun Gang Firm, and has the right to transfer troops and make proposals.
The Right House, commonly known as the Three Levels and Four People's Meetings. The Estates-General here are not the same as the Estates-General of the French, in fact they consist of three bodies connected in series, including the Inner Law Hall, the Professional Review Committee, and the Council of the Four Peoples.
The name of the Inner Law Hall is borrowed from the secret sect, but the actual function is close to that of the Imperial Historical Observatory, with the right to question and impeach. Impeachment is not limited to all public officials in the church, including but not limited to the dean.
The professional review committee is a committee that conducts professional review of the proposals of various professional committees, and was designed to allow him to exercise the power of the six subjects, but because the candidates are too professional and have a close connection with relevant professionals that cannot be severed, so that for a long time after its establishment, it has become the mouthpiece of the professional committee in the right house, the science popularization of the Four People's Conference and the Inner Law Hall.
The Four People's Meeting, a parliamentary body that was decided to be established when Kangning left Shandong, includes but is not limited to the four basic common people of Shinong, industry and commerce. Exercise the right to supervise, question, make proposals, and other rights.
The powers of these three bodies have been reduced in turn, and they have combined to exercise inspection and supervision functions. The staff of the Inner Dharma Hall are appointed by the head and dean of the church, Kang Ning, the professional review committee is nominated by the Grand Library, and the Grand Library provides advisory advice, and the Four Peoples Council is elected internally and appointed by the dean. The head of the hall is also the chairman of the right house.
The House of Commons, which is mainly composed of professional committees and independent members, is a non-fully independent parliamentary structure, and it lacks independence because most of its personnel are part-time leaders in the professional profession, and it lacks the oversight mechanism that Corning will need most in the future. Candidates are nominated by a professional review committee or appointed directly by the dean.
The Senate as a whole, in addition to several functional units of a governmental nature that have been established or are planned to be established, also directly subordinate to several special institutions.
The big library, the external signboard is a single tree building - the name is because there is only a big tree on the left side of the door, originally transplanted a tree on the right side, but did not feed, and later some good people said that the homonym of the name is reading, just in line with the connotation of the big library, said to be named after it. As the largest database of reincarnations, it records most of the knowledge known in the Ninety-Six plane, and gathers and will soon gather more great sages and powerful people from the past and present.
The large library also included two cavalry companies and an infantry battalion. They work together to ensure that the important personnel inside are evacuated urgently in the event of a surprise attack.
At the same time, next to him was another special institution of the Senate, the Cheka.
The name of the Cheka is borrowed from the powerful institutions founded by Dzerzhinsky during the October Revolution in Russia. The aim is to eradicate and stop sabotage and sabotage throughout the country, to bring their activists to court, and to conduct preliminary investigations and pre-trials. But here, too, his capabilities have been weakened, and he has been given anti-corruption and auditing functions, more like a large Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Given Corning's vision of a business nation, anti-corruption efforts have become extremely important, so it is inevitable that the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) should be replaced with a strong name like the Cheka. As for the anti-merchantable elements that already exist or are about to emerge, they are dealt with by a special agency.
It is MI7 led by Liu Taozhi. Even the other traversers were within his reconnaissance range.
Both the Cheka and MI7 have their own armed forces, of which MI7 has more than one, but both are quite secretive.
As for the various halls with government functions and the various rudders of local government functions, they are naturally subordinate organs of the Senate. It's just that the main halls are still under construction, and the rudder is still an old organizational form. The former needs to gradually keep up with the government departments and strive to establish an advantage over the Ming Dynasty in terms of system construction, while the latter needs to be on par with the Senate and make a simplified version of the local units with more comprehensive functions set up by the personnel sent by the Central General Hall.
Of course, the Senate also has its drawbacks, such as part of the composition has essentially constituted the administrative department, if the country is established in the future, it will inevitably need to be abolished and improved, but Corning now needs professionals to better play their talents, so they must be provided with sufficient conditions to display their talents, including the right to speak.
Therefore, the House of Commons, which is composed of professional committees, is currently the most favored institution in the entire Senate. At present, a large-scale foreign war is not yet possible, and the improvement and manufacture of weapons is the top priority, and although the supervision power needs to lay a good foundation and create a good atmosphere in the early stage of development, most of the reincarnated people can manage themselves, and it is related to the future life and death of human beings, so there will generally be no chaos. As for the indigenous people, the task of shaping good habits is more of a work of educating the mouth.
The education mouth is a functional department that will be established after the national defense and military industry mouth, and Kangning has a bad taste for it, Huangliantang.