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."

sent ripples of shock across the Guild Forum. The current ongoing meeting was the legislative process of the Shionel Merchant Guild,

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

more than sixty percent of the votes of the Guild Forum in order to be

veto authority and the decision vote that undid the outcome of the

was also limited to being used only once per Guild Forum atop all of that to ensure that it couldn't be abused. Still, this particular

most important and significant policy matters. No one had expected that Guildmaster Bradt would use one

of policy change in the past, he had not engaged in even a shred of political lobbying or campaigning to gather

use his decision vote to overrule the votes of basically most of the Shionel merchant Guild for what was

upon and most guildmasters tended to avoid doing this as it would lose the support of these same constituents and voters when the next election came around. These were the checks and balances that every guildmaster faced to

won most political conflicts through excellent lobbying and campaigning. He was powerful, and extremely shrewd, and even without his authority, he

be extremely surprised about this turn of events, they could not help but wonder what exactly was going on. Clearly, something had

unmoderated caucus on the topic of Bill C-16 for a duration of ten minutes," Chairman Deacon loudly declared

at him, nodding, before turning back. "All