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the experience that time & affairs give, and especially since the King & this council must form only one body & without it, he cannot dispose of important matters of the State, and it is called the great council of his Royle Majesty, giving it sovereign authority, as the King, or Viceroy desires, to dispose of peace & war, finances, subsidies, confirm, or invalidate the alliances, or to make new ones, elect the Judges, remove them & punish them if they are delinquent in their duties, and even the King & Viceroy if they attempt to stir up, or innovate, some matter in the State, or not doing what should have been ordered by them.[1] In short, all sovereign power is given to them unless it is in the interests of the Provinces,[2] in which case the Council of States has a deliberative vote to grant, refuse, or modify it. All these venerable Senators are dressed in a robe of crimson velvet spotted with gold embroidery with fleurons, with a hat of the same color, also covered with embroidery bearing a gold & white silk cord; the slippers are of the same fabric & color, their cassock is of white satin. As for their maintenance, the public |
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1. The duties of this body sound much like the U.S. Senate.
2. The Kingdom of Antangil practiced "States Rights". |