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The duties and responsibilities of the Monarch (an Mhonarc) Charter (Cairt)
Topic Started: Nov 4 2014, 02:28 AM (85 Views)
Nuada
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The duties and responsibilities of the Monarch (an Mhonarc).

I have been thinking about having a law regarding the monarch and so I have set out something for discussion. We had a constitution in the past, but I am reluctant to write a new constitution at this stage and hope we can just pass laws and then sometime in the future we can put some of them together into a constitution.

The kingdom of Ireland shall have a monarch (an Mhonarc) who shall have a nation in the Kingdom of Ireland region.

The Monarch (an Mhonarc) shall be either the Ard-Ri (High King) or the Ard-Banriona (High Queen).
The Monarch is the head of the region
The Monarch is the head of the executive
The Monarch is the head of the legislative
The Monarch is the head of the judiciary
The Monarch is the head of the military
The Monarch is the ceremonial head of the region

The Monarch must have the confidence of the people of the Kingdom of Ireland as expressed through the Dáil Éireann (Irish Assembly).

The duties and responsibilities of the Monarch (an Mhonarc) shall be:
To treat all citizens equally and fairly;
To welcome all new members to the region;
To encourage members to be involved in the activities of the region;
To encourage citizens to abide by the rules of the forum.

Failure of the Monarch to carry out their role, duties or responsibilities shall permit the citizens of the Kingdom of Ireland to put pressure on the Monarch to carry them out, or to replace the Monarch with a new person.

Please can people give their comments?
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Leandro

The Monarch's duties and responsibilities and the role that the Dáil Éireann has in making sure that these duties and responsibilities are attended to sounds good to me. It makes the Monarch accountable, which helps to keep things running smoothly at the regional level.

One thing I'm not so sure on is the amount of power the Monarch has outside of their duties and responsibilities. Since the charter also says that the Monarch is the head of the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary, and there is nothing to state what being the head of each of these institutions means, what powers does the Monarch have relating to these different institutions? Is it just that the Monarch is the ceremonial head of each institution and these bodies will be left accountable to the citizens of the Kingdom through elections? Can they exercise more power within these institutions that what is written here? Or does it depend on which institution we're discussing? (i.e. the Monarch can appoint judges, but the Dáil Éireann is elected by the citizens).

Head of the region and head of the military, there's no problems that I can see regarding the monarch's role. Once we get to discussing the role of the Dáil Éireann, there'll be more to say here.

I think this proposal is a good starting point to build from and move forward. The duties and responsibilities the Monarch has are reasonable, and once the part about their role as heads of each of the different institutions is established, we'll have a good charter outlining the Monarch's role as head of the Kingdom.
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I thought that the only way to make laws in the UK was by passing an Act of Parliament, but it appears the queen still has the power to make laws by issuing royal charters, as was done with press regulation recently. In the USA the President still has this royal power because he can issue Presidential Decrees. I suppose there is great reluctance to do this on a grand scale because the Weimer Republic used them a lot as did Hitler. We will need to make a law on how laws are made, royal charter, act of parliament, executive regulation.

In early monarchies the monarch was responsible for justice and people could have their cases heard by the monarch. People could also get justice from other bodies and when making the laws regarding how people get justice both methods will need to be included. It seems that the person requesting justice decided on which court to go to - baron’s court, county court, royal court.

Under the old constitution we elected a Taoiseach, who appointed the other members of the executive and I expect that we will go back to this at some stage, but for now I am looking for a more simple solution, that we can develop as needed as we go alone.

At the moment I see the Dáil Éireann as the Assembly of all citizens in the region with no elections. I expect in time there will be elections as we had under the old constitution. I have also been thinking about the advisory role of the Dáil Éireann and ensuring this is included when royal charters are being proposed (as we are doing now). This would need to be included when appointing judges and members of the executive.

Perhaps the duties and responsibilities need to include specific things regarding the government –
“ensure that the region is governed efficiently
ensure that the government of the region is inclusive”

Then if someone believes that the region is being governed badly that is grounds to remove the monarch. If someone feels excluded then that is also grounds to remove the monarch.
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McEntire

This conversation should probably be revisited at this point. I agree we need a leader of the region, and I agree with what Nuada proposes.
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