Talk:Supreme Chancellor
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Source for Fillorean? From the date, I assume the Tales of the Jedi comics, but which one exactly? 59.167.63.94 06:15, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- He's from Coruscant and the Core Worlds by WoC. --Imp 06:19, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Existance of Title
- The New Essential Chronology clearly has Supreme Chancellors back as far as 15,000 BBY, so clearly President of the Senate is merely an alternate title. QuentinGeorge 08:16, 24 Oct 2005 (UTC)
- Not necessarily. President of the Senate may have been the symbolic Head of State, while Supreme Chancellor may have been the executive Head of Government. That is extemely common in parliamentary systems on Earth, so why not with the parliamentary system of the Galactic Republic? -- SFH 14:20, 24 Oct 2005 (UTC)
- The thing is, the Vice Chancellor is the Chair of the Senate, which is basically equivalent to a President of the Senate in our world. The fact that the titles say "of the Senate" at least implies the guy is IN the Senate. QuentinGeorge 20:29, 24 Oct 2005 (UTC)
- That's why I said not necessarily. We don't know everything about the early days of the Old Republic, and most of our material is from in-universe sources that was "re-evaluated" by Emperor Palpatine, so it's unreliable or suspect at best. I theorize that President and Chancellor were separate, but President was mreged with Supreme Chancellor, which was the "actual" Chair of the Senate, while the Vice Chair ran the Senate when the Supreme Chancellor was absent. -- SFH 21:31, 24 Oct 2005 (UTC)
- I don't know. I think that needlessly muddles things there. The Chancellor chairs the Senate. It seems simpler to just assume that's what President of the Senate refers to. Regardless, the title won't appear in any future EU so I doubt we'll see any real official word on it. QuentinGeorge 11:21, 27 Oct 2005 (UTC)
- It says Chancellor is an echo of chancellor hitler, but in our country (UK) we have the chancellor of the exchequer so it isn't an evil word
- I don't know. I think that needlessly muddles things there. The Chancellor chairs the Senate. It seems simpler to just assume that's what President of the Senate refers to. Regardless, the title won't appear in any future EU so I doubt we'll see any real official word on it. QuentinGeorge 11:21, 27 Oct 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Jedi Chancellors
Jedi Masters functioned as the Chancellors of the Republic during the New Sith Wars? That didn't violate Jedi principles of never to rule? And God, I can only imagine how comical it would have appeared if one of those...Dagobans had given a State of the Republic Address in that time. -- SFH 21:43, 25 Oct 2005 (UTC)
- That didn't violate Jedi principles of never to rule Sidrona Diath served as Supreme Chancellor centuries before and the Jedi in ROTS were going to suspend the Senate and rule the Republic alone, so I don't see any indication they saw benevolent autocratic rule as against Jedi principles. (At least if they thought the situation warranted it). QuentinGeorge 11:19, 27 Oct 2005 (UTC)
