Chapter 854 - 447: The Eloquence of the Republic
The next morning, as Ivita was being attended to by his servant, he listened to the envoy from Ambros recount the current situation. In the Aristocratic Commercial Republic, debate was of utmost importance.
Unlike other feudal states, the decision-making power in the Aristocratic Commercial Republic did not rest with a few individuals, but with the citizen assembly of over seventy thousand middle-class nobles.
Therefore, if one could win the sympathy of these seventy thousand commercial nobles through debate, it would be easy to secure the support of the nation.
Even the council of ten elders had to consider the decisions of the citizen assembly.
However, Ivita also learned that within the Aristocratic Commercial Republic, the so-called nobles represented a status with the right to participate in politics.
It was not about wealth and power.
Thus, the nobles of the great Aristocratic Commercial Republic were actually the nation’s middle class, not impoverished families nor the wealthiest capitalist class.
The nation’s major merchants were basically not nobles.
This realization made Ivita appreciate the country’s excellent system, as those who decided the fate of the nation were the class that contributed most to it.