The Scandinvans
21-03-2008, 04:27
Imperial News Network:
“Earlier this week, on Tuesday, the High Imperial Court made an extremely controversial ruling in regards to a ancient law in one of the outlying provinces of the Glorious Empire of the Scandinvans.
To give some history before the actual case details are released the laws themselves stem from around two hundred and forty years ago when the old Valgardian Empire moved into the western forests of Vonoka. Very quickly after the conquest many thousands of Valgardians and Scandinvans moved into the region to cultivate the fertile land, to help them cultivate the new land the two groups brought slaves and enslaved the remaining native Vonokas. In the subsequent years, after the province had attained a large enough population to become a province of the Empire, the settlers included in their charter laws that did not allow people who were not of the original ethnic groups of the Empire, Valgardians and Scadnivnans, to vote and also set aside the right of the province to regulate their access to public facilities, vote, and where the various non-Scandinvan ethnic groups could live.
In regards to the actual ruling of the court case the High Imperial Court ruled against the plaintiffs, a group of non-Scandinvans living in Vonoka, and declared that since the provincial charter was, by right, the document which could, by Imperial law, maintain those who were not Scandinvans to vote, over the sale of internal properties, and access to public facilities which received a lion’s share of their finances from the local governments.
While, the High Imperial Court maintained that though de jure segregation should not be implemented in any manner it decided that the national government could not infringe on the rights of the provinces to maintain the charters that they had been accepted fully into the Scandivian Empire with.
Though currently plans have begun to be laid down for protest by minority groups to have the Emperor or another branch of the Imperial government overturn the ruling it is extremely unlikely to happen as the Emperor Ingolf has never used his power to overturn the court yet and the Parliament is made up of staunch supporters of the established system of government who believe in the principle of judicial review.
Lady Erida out.”
“Earlier this week, on Tuesday, the High Imperial Court made an extremely controversial ruling in regards to a ancient law in one of the outlying provinces of the Glorious Empire of the Scandinvans.
To give some history before the actual case details are released the laws themselves stem from around two hundred and forty years ago when the old Valgardian Empire moved into the western forests of Vonoka. Very quickly after the conquest many thousands of Valgardians and Scandinvans moved into the region to cultivate the fertile land, to help them cultivate the new land the two groups brought slaves and enslaved the remaining native Vonokas. In the subsequent years, after the province had attained a large enough population to become a province of the Empire, the settlers included in their charter laws that did not allow people who were not of the original ethnic groups of the Empire, Valgardians and Scadnivnans, to vote and also set aside the right of the province to regulate their access to public facilities, vote, and where the various non-Scandinvan ethnic groups could live.
In regards to the actual ruling of the court case the High Imperial Court ruled against the plaintiffs, a group of non-Scandinvans living in Vonoka, and declared that since the provincial charter was, by right, the document which could, by Imperial law, maintain those who were not Scandinvans to vote, over the sale of internal properties, and access to public facilities which received a lion’s share of their finances from the local governments.
While, the High Imperial Court maintained that though de jure segregation should not be implemented in any manner it decided that the national government could not infringe on the rights of the provinces to maintain the charters that they had been accepted fully into the Scandivian Empire with.
Though currently plans have begun to be laid down for protest by minority groups to have the Emperor or another branch of the Imperial government overturn the ruling it is extremely unlikely to happen as the Emperor Ingolf has never used his power to overturn the court yet and the Parliament is made up of staunch supporters of the established system of government who believe in the principle of judicial review.
Lady Erida out.”