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   From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <49FA1622.3CA412C7@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us>,   
   Tim Bruening   wrote:   
   >"Your Name"  found these unused words:   
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   >>   
   >>"Tim Bruening"  wrote in message   
   >>news:49F93B11.4CE710C1@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us...   
   >>>   
   >>> Luke Skywalker is the son of the former Queen of Naboo.  Does that make   
   >>> him the King of Naboo?   
   >>   
   >>No. It's not a hereditary title. The Naboo people elect their Queen and the   
   >>elected person only hold the title for a few years. Plus, by the time Luke   
   >>and Leia are born, Padme is no longer Queen anyway (she is instead the   
   >>Senator for Naboo).   
   >   
   >How do you elect a Queen?   
      
   Welllll, if they go on the old Germanic system,* the nation   
   (that is, the extended kinship) has a number of high-ranking   
   individuals who are qualified to be electors.  They, when   
   appropriate, gather together and elect a member of the royal   
   family.  This is gone into in fairly good detail in de Camp's   
   _Lest Darkness Fall,_ where King Thuidahad must be replaced,   
   his son Thiudegiskel is a front-runner in the election, and   
   Padway manages to get his candidate Urias in by some   
   twentieth-century campaign techniques.  Ballot-stuffing, no.   
   Lobbying and mudslinging, yes.   
      
   *This went on for quite a long while in the Holy Roman   
   Empire; you'll recall that Bach wrote six concerti as a sort   
   of employment application for the Elector of Brandenburg.   
      
   Dorothy J. Heydt   
   Vallejo, California   
   djheydt at hotmail dot com	   
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