Declaration of the People On the Status of Inalienable Rights

Political event

The Declaration of the People On the Status of Inalienable Rights was read in Montbay's Peasant's House of the Grey Parliament, calling for the official establishment of dual power with the crown, where the Parliament might act as a separate governing body over Montbay, disregarding the authority of the crown.

Despite its bold suggestions, the declaration was only read as a result of legislative quirk. Lacking the minimal minority threshold for official proposal in the House, it was instead read at a joint session of all three houses, endorsed by two nobles and four burgher representatives, which pushed it into viability. Immediately after the statement was read, there was a walk-out by most representatives, who returned later in the evening under the surveillance of the Crown Guard, and held a vote of dissolution, formally ending the session of parliament, removing all members from their posts, and issuing a date for re-election. Stripped of their diplomatic immunity, the minority who voted in support were tried and imprisoned, with the exception of one of the two nobles, who claimed he had voted for it to enable the crown to stamp out such traitors.   Elections followed one month later, with a radical subset of the peasantry calling them a sham, and rigged. The Declaration of 3215 persists as a motto for more revolutionary aspects of the nation, which still thrive underground.