Government hierarchy of the Star Empire of Manticore

While rereading the entire Honorverse series, I can't help but wonder
about what sort of legislative/executive/judicial hierarchy will come
into existence once Silesia and Talbott are fully integrated into the
Star Kingdom.

It seems to me that the most likely option is a model similar to that
practiced by the UK Commonwealth - each individual star system will
have its own local legislature, executive and judiciary, modeled on
whatever principles of government the Star Kingdom permits them to have
(i.e. no dictatorships), with the added wrinkle that each of them will
hold separate elections to send MPs to the Manticoran Parliament,
accept the Manticoran monarch as head of state and will have branches
of the Manticoran judiciary present on each planet, almost like a
federation (i.e. USA).

It also brings up questions about the type of 'local' government that
the three planets of the Manticore system have - do they all rely on
the Manticoran Parliament and the government within that Parliament, or
do each of them have their own legislatures and executives as well?

What about the creation of aristocracies in Silesia and Talbott? "The
Shadow of Saganami" outlines various rich, influential persons and
families who would almost certainly receive peerages of some type when
Manticore takes formal control, if only to get them to impart that
money into building up the local economy to make them richer. Will
these new peers, many of them likely to be distrustful of Manticoran
imperialism, end up forming a new Opposition bloc to make the
Government's life interesting?

Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
> The British Empire never had MPs elected to the UK parliament. All
> courts were indeed the Monarch's Courts (no state/federal split) with
> the judges of the Privy Council at the top.

I know. That's why I suggested that such a thing would be a wrinkle,
and would result in a form of government that resembles a federation
and NOT the UK commonwealth.

>
> The SKM constitution can't work if the 'outies' can send MPs to the
> Manticoran Parliament because of transit times and elections not being
> held on fixed dates. Instead of the whole thing being over in six
> weeks, the more remote planets will only have just heard that an
> election is to take place. Further, the central worlds are not going to
> vote to be swamped by the high population 'outies' in deciding how to
> spend the budget.

Agreed. On the Infodump site DW does say that the Manticoran
Constitution mandates that the PM call general elections only at times
when the MPs being elected have a chance to conduct an effective
campaign. If direct Parliamentary representation does appear then this
rule will probably be the foundation of election planning for member
systems that do not enjoy direct Junction access.

>
> I note that all the five planets of the SKM have planetary assemblies
> (mentioned for San Martin in WoH and for Gryphon in "What Price
> Dreams?")
> so the foundation is there for a functional split with the 'outies'
> only
> being able to vote for the SKM parliament when resident within the
> central
> system.

I haven't read that story yet, so I didn't know that. Does the story
elaborate on what type of executive the assemblies practice oversight
on? Given Gryphon's distrust of aristocrats I would expect that the
planetary government is most likely one with a strong elective
component.

>
> Again the SKM Commons isn't going to vote itself a future headache and
> the Silesian plutocrats will not be allowed to tilt the business
> playing field in their own favour as they used to do.

True. It seems to me though that something like what I suggested is
going to happen if the Crown begins forming an aristocracy. Personal
feelings on Beth's part aside, if she wants new peers from Silesia and
Talbott she's going to have to choose people with the wealth and the
influence to fit their role, and I doubt she can get away with
cherry-picking them.