Chapter 103: Congregation for the Imagined

After the Order of the Tenth Kingdom has been duly constituted and gained prominence while the membership grew through the years, the Commission on Appointments had decided to admit into its presence a learned Society of its own, and grant such other titles that may be bestowed upon by the effect of the same power vested into the several Appointments granted by the Articles of the Commission.

However, while a majority of the Delegates have agreed that a learned Society is an important organ to help advice the Commission on several issues that may require future attention, the opposing Delegates have passionately argued that only a Monarch can institute a chivalric Order and grant such titles of nobility.

The legislative bill in question was calling for the creation of the Congregation for the Imagined, to be known as CI Order, whose mandate includes the authority to issue patents in direct connection to the Commission itself, following the absolute delegation of the Appointments granted to the level of the Commission, expressly and impliedly, by the same provisions of the Parochial Concerns in the said constituting Articles.

The Bill has gained enough controversy that further divided the Commission's Delegates and ultimately defined a changing dynamics on how the Appointments are to be interpreted in the future. The proponents have bitterly fought with liberal argumentation upholding the powers that can be generally viewed from the letters of the provisions of the Articles, and advocated for the same Articles to be interpreted enough to help it function properly so as to benefit from its practical application, as well as the laws of reason to reign over the laws of this perfectly conceived union.

The piece of legislation eventually passed by the narrowest of margins, and so the Congregation for the Imagined has been instituted, at last, by the main effect of the law "to assist and advise the Commission on Appointments with all subjects pertaining to the learned opinion, thoughts, powers, prevention, enlightenment, and all other matters pertaining to the Imagined, Imagination, and clear Visions."

As the first Members of the Congregation has been ordained by the Rector of the Commission as the law prescribes, the opposing Delegates, brutely led by the representation of the Tenth Kingdom, has asked the extension of the powers of the Commission to rule on the judicial question and write an opinion on the controversy.

The Judicial and Bar Council heard the case and issued a ruling in a per curiam (by the court itself) decision that the law creating the Congregation for the Imagined was not inconsistent with the provisions of the Articles of the Commission by saying that "the Appointments granted to Parochial Concerns and the Commission itself are of the same substance and efficacy, and that the authority of the Kingdoms, including the Royal Prerogative which is the main contention in this conflict, that gives the major effect to the constituted union with all other dominions, also accrue to the same powers vested to the Commission, in all material respects, insofar as the Commission's desire to establish an order of nobility to help it in governing the parochial parts of its Commission of mandates."

Taking all matters into consideration, after the case was eventually decided, the Congregation for the Imagined is very much mandated to see through the circumstances surrounding the governance aspects of the accruing Appointments in order to avert a disastrous civil unrest that no politician seem to notice. All the risks have been clearly identified, it was abundantly noted prominently in the discussion of public opinion, and no other sensitive responsible citizen who have been following the news closely could never deny.

The Press is one of those responsible citizens who have been working very hard to expose a simmering attempt to start a revolution and divide the Commission on Appointments purely on political and selfish ends. The quarrel of the Tenth and the South were very obvious; it is very real, and it is destined to be, according to the attribution made to the stars within the night sky.

Maybe it was, indeed, prophesied from the very beginning. The Astrologers were perfectly capable of reading the constellations, after all.

And perhaps, it was also a call for blood, a thirst for the flesh, driven by hate as the Vampires would know?

Whatever it is, one thing is for sure, the Spindle of Hate is very real and very capable. Seemingly forgotten by the distractions of the news, the Spindle will make a comeback in its own perfect timing.

Somewhere out there, it is not the stars which are plotting a disaster. This does not always happen in a fiction of sorts. Evil is always the culprit in the competing circumstances, and the eternal truth that may be gathered from this dynamics can never be contradicted.

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