The Martial Unity

"All in favor of the proposed motion?" Guildmaster Bradt looked around the Guild Forum.

A few members of the Shionel Merchant Guild raised their hands, while most did not.

"All against the proposed motion?"

This time, most members of the Shionel Merchant Guild raised their arms tall and straight.

Guildmaster Bradt nodded. "The motion is firmly rejected by the forum with a majority of seventy-eight votes against twenty, with a voter turnout of ninety-eight votes out of a hundred. Are there any objections to this outcome?"

He was greeted by silence before he proceeded with the meeting.

"Then the motion to instate amendment C-16 into the constitution is hereby firmly rejected," He paused for a second, before continuing. "With the power vested me in as the Guildmaster of the Shionel Merchant Guild, I hereby choose to exercise my veto authority and my decision vote for the instation of amendment C-16."

the Shionel Merchant Guild, where the one-hundred cabinet

proponents of the amendment in an open moderated caucus, and an unmoderated caucus, both of which were forms of discourse that occurred in legislative bodies such as the Shionel Merchant Guild. Once extensive discussion and debate surrounding

be passed. Guildmaster Bradt's policy

guildmaster fully exert the veto authority and the decision vote that undid the outcome of the votes and returned

could be used a limited number of times and excluded matters such as the electoral process. It was also limited to being used only once

quite precious to the Guildmaster and was generally reserved for their most important and significant policy matters. No one had expected that Guildmaster Bradt would

never expressed any support for this kind of policy change in the past, he had not engaged in even a shred of political lobbying or campaigning to gather support from the constituents of the Guild

willing to go as far as to use his decision vote to overrule the votes of basically

the support of these same constituents and voters when the next election came around. These were the checks and balances that every guildmaster faced

through excellent lobbying and campaigning. He was powerful, and extremely

he had diverged from that pattern and straightforwardly used both his privileges at once. The many cabinet merchants of the Shionel Merchant Guild could not help but be extremely surprised about this turn

minutes," Chairman Deacon loudly declared with a stern expression,

glanced at him, nodding, before