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History
Foundation
The Kingdom of Burdette is the successor of two colonies founded by Isiah Burdette, named Bocker and Hocker. Bocker belonged to the Republic of Yu-Xia and was founded on 3 August 2020, and Hocker belonged to the Grand Kingdom of Matachewan and was founded around 30 July. Isaiah Burdette eventually notified both leaders that he was starting the Kingdom of Burdette and needed the land, so he would thus be dissolving both colonies. Bocker dissolved on 25 November, and Hocker officially dissolved on 2 December. The Kingdom of Burdette was founded on 3 December 2020 by Isaiah David after he released a declaration of Independence from America and made it public. It was founded as a constitutional monarchy because Isaiah Burdette had analyzed what he believed to be the most successful micronations, and thought most of them were constitutional monarchies. He also thought constitutional monarchies come with more stability and would last longer.
Constitutional convention
The first constitutional convention was held on 4 December 2020 with the constitution being inspired by Matachewan's constitution. The main author of the constitution was Isaiah Burdette with him taking a lot of advice from Tau. The deadline set for the constitution to be finished was 1 January 2021. The constitution would make for a constitutional monarchy by giving the King the majority of the power along with creating a parliament that would handle the legislative issues and a court that would handle judiciary issues. Since it was decided that Burdette was going to be a constitutional monarchy. Isaiah also decided that they must give strong rights to citizens to keep them from being oppressed.
This is the format that was used:
- Preamble
- Section I: The Monarchy
- Section II: The Royal Parliament
- Section III: The Royal Court
- Section IV: The Prime Minister
- Section V: Emergency powers
- Section VI: Administrative Divisions
- Section VII: Rights of Citizens
- Section VIII: Nobility
The constitution ended up being fully written on 2 January 2021 only a day after the original goal.
First Parliament election
Isaiah Burdette announced on 8 December 2020 that the first parliament elections would take place on 14 December 2020. He also announced that there would be six seats open for election. Soon after he announced this citizens began to announce their candidacy; however, only six citizens announced their candidacy for parliament. On 14 December 2020, every candidate who ran was given a seat. The party that gained the most seats was the Patriotic Front for Burdettian Unity, gaining two. The Fatherland Movement, Freedom Alliance, and Royalist Front all gained a single seat, with the final seat given to an independent who was not affiliated with any party but supported the military. The winners of the election are:
- David Augustus
- Nathan Jiang
- Frau May
- Moustapha Hoteit
- Addison O'Halloran
- Alojzije Franjević
This parliament mostly acted as an advisory council until the constitution was ratified. That constitution gave parliament official powers.
Following the 1st Royal Parliament elections, sign-ups opened for the speaker of parliament on 16 December 2020 and gave members of parliament 24 hours to announce their candidacy. In those 24 hours, three members of parliament announced they would be running. Voting began on 17 December 2020 at 1:27 PM CST and ended at 2:00 PM CST once every member of parliament had voted. May won the election with 4 votes beating Addison O'Halloran's 2 votes.
The candidates were the following:
- May Cambridge
- David Augustus
- Addison O'Halloran