Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161030153351/@comment-26018514-20161101183059

Sentry 616 wrote: That doesn't make sense. No one should have more than one seat. I could see either of Ironwood's positions warranting a seat, but giving one person two seats is a slippery slope on the path to a dictatorship.

Automatically giving either the civilian or military representatives on a council is just stupid. That creates an inherent imbalance.

He either has one seat of his own and influence over someone else on the council, or he has the backing of two council members. I don't see how your idea makes any more sense.... a military man effectively telling the richest guy in his kingdom "F*** off man, I own 1 more council member than you"... effectively reduces their verbal sparring to discussing trading cards in a game... I'd like to think council members are more independent than that, and if they were that fickle, the rich guy would pull a Kaiba and own 3.

On the other hand, the other theory has precedent, though I do believe in at least some examples a proxy must take one of the 2 seats rather than 1 man holding both.