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by Mange
2004-03-30 01:00pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: What Exactly Was The Old Republic?
Replies: 25
Views: 2096

Actually, this is close to how the kings in Sweden was elected by the Swedish nobility before Gustav Vasa transformed the Swedish state into what could be a called an autocratic system (around 1522) and decided that the office of the king would be inheritable, starting with his own sons. Because of...
by Mange
2004-03-30 03:53am
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: What Exactly Was The Old Republic?
Replies: 25
Views: 2096

Padme believes in democracy and thought it was the hottest thing till she got a jedi 'guardian'. She comes from a democracy, albiet a rather strange one in that they call the premier 'Queen/King'. I always interpreted that to mean that elected leaders had to come from a nobility upperclass, hence t...