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Line 8: While Elisabeth never had cause to feel the Act's sting, the Captains-General that followed her had cause to curse the Home Defense Act as a crippling obstacle to their authority. <ref name=HMTFWL-40/> Much like the vaguely worded [[Resolution 288]], the Home Defense Act was often stretched to its limits with no clear details of what level of threat of attack was required to invoke it, the only requirement being the principality that sought to invoke it had to muster a voting majority in Parliament to state a threat. For those internal enemies of House Marik, the Act was a useful tool to hamstring Captains-General with whose policies they disagreed. Virtual every principality invoked the Act at least once, but most notably Dame [[Catherine Humphreys]] of the [[Duchy of Andurien]] declared in [[3014]] she would automatically invoke the act upon any call from the Captain-General for her troops to stage offensive operations, doing so for her entire reign.<ref name=FMFWL-8/> <ref name=HHM-41/> <ref name=HHM-96/> While Elisabeth never had cause to feel the Act's sting, the Captains-General that followed her had cause to curse the Home Defense Act as a crippling obstacle to their authority. <ref name=HMTFWL-40/> Much like the vaguely worded [[Resolution 288]], the Home Defense Act was often stretched to its limits with no clear details of what level of threat of attack was required to invoke it, the only requirement being the principality that sought to invoke it had to muster a voting majority in Parliament to state a threat. For those internal enemies of House Marik, the Act was a useful tool to hamstring Captains-General with whose policies they disagreed. Virtual every principality invoked the Act at least once, but most notably Dame [[Catherine Humphreys]] of the [[Duchy of Andurien]] declared in [[3014]] she would automatically invoke the act upon any call from the Captain-General for her troops to stage offensive operations, doing so for her entire reign.<ref name=FMFWL-8/> <ref name=HHM-41/> <ref name=HHM-96/> − While being the principality who most used the act, the secessionist Duchy of Andurien also led to the Act finally being repealed. With the [[Andurien Secession]] and an assassin's bomb serving as the trigger for [[Duncan Marik]] succession to the role of Captain-General and the ill-fate war against the Duchy, relations between Duncan and the Parliament were poor with a increasing threat of civil unrest among those provinces still in the League. With the shock reappearance of [[Thomas Marik]] in late [[3035]], Parliament greeting his miraculous reappearance with joy, allowing Thomas to push through the [[Addendum to the Incorporation]], which he wrote and had passed with little objection in [[3037]]. The Addendum gave him the power to bypass the formality of seeking approval from the League's provincial governments except in matters deemed "culturally significant" to a particular region. However, Clause 9 of the Addendum states that "the Captain-General can veto any law that interferes with the will of the Captain-General while Resolution 288 is in effect." One of his first acts was to repeal the Home Defense Act, allowing a unified focus in the FWLM to defeat the Andurien forces, later serving as one of the cornerstones of his restructuring of the League military. <ref name=FMFWL-10>''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 10 "Crisis and Renaissance"</ref> <ref name=HHM-96/> + While being the principality who most used the act, the secessionist Duchy of Andurien also led to the Act finally being repealed. With the [[Andurien Secession]] and an assassin's bomb serving as the trigger for [[Duncan Marik]] succession to the role of Captain-General and the ill-fate war against the Duchy, relations between Duncan and the Parliament were poor with a increasing threat of civil unrest among those provinces still in the League. With the shock reappearance of [[Thomas Marik]] in late [[3035]], Parliament greeting his miraculous reappearance with joy, allowing the Thomas to push through the [[Addendum to the Incorporation]], which he wrote and had passed with little objection in [[3037]]. The Addendum gave him the power to bypass the formality of seeking approval from the League's provincial governments except in matters deemed "culturally significant" to a particular region. However, Clause 9 of the Addendum states that "the Captain-General can veto any law that interferes with the will of the Captain-General while Resolution 288 is in effect." One of his first acts was to repeal the Home Defense Act, allowing a unified focus in the FLWM to defeat the Andurien forces, later serving as one of the cornerstones of his restructuring of the League military. <ref name=FMFWL-10>''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 10 "Crisis and Renaissance"</ref> <ref name=HHM-96/> − ==References== ==References== <references /> <references />
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While Elisabeth never had cause to feel the Act's sting, the Captains-General that followed her had cause to curse the Home Defense Act as a crippling obstacle to their authority. <ref name=HMTFWL-40/> Much like the vaguely worded [[Resolution 288]], the Home Defense Act was often stretched to its limits with no clear details of what level of threat of attack was required to invoke it, the only requirement being the principality that sought to invoke it had to muster a voting majority in Parliament to state a threat. For those internal enemies of House Marik, the Act was a useful tool to hamstring Captains-General with whose policies they disagreed. Virtual every principality invoked the Act at least once, but most notably Dame [[Catherine Humphreys]] of the [[Duchy of Andurien]] declared in [[3014]] she would automatically invoke the act upon any call from the Captain-General for her troops to stage offensive operations, doing so for her entire reign.<ref name=FMFWL-8/> <ref name=HHM-41/> <ref name=HHM-96/> | While Elisabeth never had cause to feel the Act's sting, the Captains-General that followed her had cause to curse the Home Defense Act as a crippling obstacle to their authority. <ref name=HMTFWL-40/> Much like the vaguely worded [[Resolution 288]], the Home Defense Act was often stretched to its limits with no clear details of what level of threat of attack was required to invoke it, the only requirement being the principality that sought to invoke it had to muster a voting majority in Parliament to state a threat. For those internal enemies of House Marik, the Act was a useful tool to hamstring Captains-General with whose policies they disagreed. Virtual every principality invoked the Act at least once, but most notably Dame [[Catherine Humphreys]] of the [[Duchy of Andurien]] declared in [[3014]] she would automatically invoke the act upon any call from the Captain-General for her troops to stage offensive operations, doing so for her entire reign.<ref name=FMFWL-8/> <ref name=HHM-41/> <ref name=HHM-96/> | ||
| − | While being the principality who most used the act, the secessionist Duchy of Andurien also led to the Act finally being repealed. With the [[Andurien Secession]] and an assassin's bomb serving as the trigger for [[Duncan Marik]] succession to the role of Captain-General and the ill-fate war against the Duchy, relations between Duncan and the Parliament were poor with a increasing threat of civil unrest among those provinces still in the League. With the shock reappearance of [[Thomas Marik]] in late [[3035]], Parliament greeting his miraculous reappearance with joy, allowing Thomas to push through the [[Addendum to the Incorporation]], which he wrote and had passed with little objection in [[3037]]. The Addendum gave him the power to bypass the formality of seeking approval from the League's provincial governments except in matters deemed "culturally significant" to a particular region. However, Clause 9 of the Addendum states that "the Captain-General can veto any law that interferes with the will of the Captain-General while Resolution 288 is in effect." One of his first acts was to repeal the Home Defense Act, allowing a unified focus in the | + | While being the principality who most used the act, the secessionist Duchy of Andurien also led to the Act finally being repealed. With the [[Andurien Secession]] and an assassin's bomb serving as the trigger for [[Duncan Marik]] succession to the role of Captain-General and the ill-fate war against the Duchy, relations between Duncan and the Parliament were poor with a increasing threat of civil unrest among those provinces still in the League. With the shock reappearance of [[Thomas Marik]] in late [[3035]], Parliament greeting his miraculous reappearance with joy, allowing the Thomas to push through the [[Addendum to the Incorporation]], which he wrote and had passed with little objection in [[3037]]. The Addendum gave him the power to bypass the formality of seeking approval from the League's provincial governments except in matters deemed "culturally significant" to a particular region. However, Clause 9 of the Addendum states that "the Captain-General can veto any law that interferes with the will of the Captain-General while Resolution 288 is in effect." One of his first acts was to repeal the Home Defense Act, allowing a unified focus in the FLWM to defeat the Andurien forces, later serving as one of the cornerstones of his restructuring of the League military. <ref name=FMFWL-10>''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 10 "Crisis and Renaissance"</ref> <ref name=HHM-96/> |
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