Senate term lenght

[opebo]

I would prefer a House of Lords with life-time terms passed from father to first-born son.  If the line were extinguished through death or only female progeny, the Lords could elect a replacement from among the lesser nobles.

[opebo]

I would prefer a House of Lords with life-time terms passed from father to first-born son.  If the line were extinguished through death or only female progeny, the Lords could elect a replacement from among the lesser nobles.

Why do you hate cognatic primogeniture?

Isn't it obvious?  It involves female rulers.

[opebo]

Why do you hate cognatic primogeniture?

Isn't it obvious?  It involves female rulers.

Yeah, that's what makes it better than agnatic, not worse.

Good lord man, where were you raised?  In a monastery?  Have you not met any of the female?

[opebo]

I was raised by my mother and my aunt. An entirely disproportionate number of my friends are women. They're not a monolithic mass.

Well, I thought about making a fat joke there, but I'll confine myself to pointing out that they all want to castrate you buddy.

[opebo]

3. Even if they did want to castrate me I wouldn't particularly mind, since it's halfway done already just by dint of my personality. If they wanted to castrate someone else, depending on the person I might help them.

You're the Perfect Man!