>Lucas: "She's a queen..."
>OK
>Lucas: "...and she's elected..."
>That...doesn't make sense
>Lucas: "...and the office has term limits."
>So why isn't she called president or something? How exactly is she royal?
>Lucas: "....Because she's a queen."
That homie doesn't know about elective monarchy.
OP BTFO
A historically illiterate redditor wrote this shit
Or what said
>elected monarch with term limits who doesn't come from a noble family
Explain how this is any different from a president or prime minister
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_monarchy
90 percent of that article is [citation needed]
you think wikipedia made up the fact that the hre had electors?
>doesn't address the question
If a commoner can be elected "monarch" for a predetermined time, how is this any different from a democratic republic?
Because she’s called a monarch.
why does it have to be? they presumably had a proper monarchy at some point and then they slowly democratized it while keeping the pomp and circumstance.
iirc they elected new little girl when the previous one got too old.
>they elected new little girl when the previous one got too old
ah, the dicaprio principle
Exactly. The virginity and budding youth is extremely important to the naboo people.
That's who they want. They also want the dresses and meadows and nice waterfalls, unicorns etc
So they elect 13 year old girls as queens. Makes perfect sense
Maybe they had royalty previously, and decided to keep the office due to tradition when making a switch to some sort of parliamentary democracy, oligarchy whatever.
It doesn't really matter. These things can be done in whatever way you desire. We could have the same here in contemporary time, if people liked monarchs enough.
Most of it is in any way window dressing. Its obvious the Queen didn't do important policy decisions in naboo, but was a figurehead with executive powers, with a strong cabinet of retainers and advisors handling most matters.
As a figurehead, she's good. Illicits feelings of empathy, virginity, noble soul etc. like having Greta thunberg as president.
It appears the naboo people value that more highly than electing old fox dyed in the wool politicians to lead them
>Illicits feelings of empathy, virginity, noble soul etc.
Elicits, illicit is a term for illegal.
Naboo had a senator (who represented like two dozen small sectors of the galaxy, not just Naboo, Naboo simply happened to be where the current Senator was from), namely Palpatine. Amidala was a figurehead monarch, entirely different office. She was permitted to speak to the Galactic Senate, but that's no different from, say, King Charles or another foreign diplomat addressing US Congress.
I am esl, forgive me
Amidala had authority over the planet. She could sign over control to the trade federation.
Hey man I hope you are taking the revelation that you are moronic okay. It's freeing trust me. Also fantasy queen in space fairy tale.
>who doesnt come from noble family
is this true?
seems to make little sense why a little girl would be elected queen if she wasnt of noble birth
the Vatican has elected monarchs
OP in absolute shambles.
>leia is a princess and her mother is also royal, she's a queen but of a totally unrelated monarchy
this is just dumb storytelling
First draft filmmaking
you can shut up now
>Some monarchies are not hereditary. In an elective monarchy, monarchs are elected or appointed by some body (an electoral college) for life or a defined period. Four elective monarchies exist today: Cambodia, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates are 20th-century creations, while one (the papacy) is ancient.
Elective monarchy is unironically a based form of government.
>She's a Queen, an unelected Governor
911 happens
>I love democracy
>she's elected not like those Taliban
and Leia was a princess because she was the (adopted)daughter of Senator Organa
George Lucas was surrounded by yesmen
She was adopted by king of Alderan.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Senator_Organa
His adopted daughter, Princess Leia Organa, later Leia Organa Solo, was his successor in the Imperial Senate
>Born Bail Prestor of Alderaan, the adventurous Bail wed Breha Organa—his homeworld’s monarch—forsaking his familial legacy to be with her.
Literally from your own link, you mongoloid.
Senator's wife is the queen of Alderaan, anon. I think since it's a galactic republic, royal terms are reserved for planetary rule and parliamentary terms are for intergalactic ruling bodies.
you got to admit tho the whole thing is moronic
Isn't Star Trek functionally a military junta?
>b-but in star trek...
SHIT Trek is shit too. Only spacekino is Lewis' Space Trilogy (too based to get an adaptation).
Found the christcuck
Filtered.
i thought she was the queen of naboo and representative of naboo to the galactic senate
>At age twelve, Naberrie participated in the Legislative Youth Program, in which she met a slightly older boy named Palo Jemabie. The two fell in love, but their relationship did not last, as they parted ways when Jemabie left politics and chose to become an artist.[7] At the same age, she started a two-year mandate as supervisor of Theed, the capital city of Naboo.[6]
>Palo Jemabie created a poster for Amidala's coronation.
>Two years later, Padmé Naberrie began her campaign to become the next Queen of Naboo. She campaigned herself as "Candidate Amidala," with anonymity being customary for candidates and monarchs. She portrayed herself as the calm and composed candidate. Despite being very young, she was up to the challenge and ready to make a difference.
wow! this is moronic!
That's fan fiction tier shit not from the movies. You're moving goalposts
>She portrayed herself as the calm and composed candidate. Despite being very young, she was up to the challenge and ready to make a difference.
>Underaged candidate gets elected by pure honesty and merit
Old "canon" did it better when Amidala was literally bankrolled as controlled opposition by Palpatine and his Black Rock tier sith master.
Nabooans elected 14 year old girls to be the ruler of the whole fricking planet. I think they were supposed to be morons with a moronic system of government. No wonder Sheev wanted to reform the whole government. #TeamSheev
This. Lucas accidentally made me root for the bad guy because of how moronic his lore building was. I didn't want the rebels to win. I didn't want the jedi to win. They were clearly all power hungry and evil people who did things only when it was convenient for them. Sadly, the disney sequels even supported this with a broken republic that had no idea how to rule itself.
Roman Republic was kind of like this. Consuls had tons of power.
Elective monarchies are a historic form of government, going back to ancient Greece. In the ancient Roman Kingdom kings were elected by a Roman assembly.
To be fair, back then, the average person didn't understand the intricacies of politics because the average person wasn't a nerd who argued about politics on the internet all day like today. Zoomers cant comprehend a world where politics was viewed as boring and all politicians were seen as scumbags.
God you are a moron.
Thanks for the riveting rebuttal zoomer. Must suck wasting your precious time defending polticians who wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.
using the innocence of a child to guide politics is an interesting idea but really a bad one irl
She's cute that's why