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The second Diet of Canterlot requires nobles, and even the Royal family to act within the bounds of the common law.”
“Uh... How'd a weight loss plan do that?” Applejack asked.
“This Diet was a constitutional meeting, headed by the Princess, several centuries ago. Equestria was in transit from a feudal model to a more imperial one, with a bureaucracy taking over administrative and executive duties from the old noble families. Some of them saw it coming and managed to gain control of the ministries, and expanding them to provide jobs for their families and hangers-on.
“The bureaucracy was adding a lot of dead weight, you had departments which existed only on paper and in the accounts of the Exchequer, and Department heads who never actually set hoof inside their offices. Celestia used the Diet to push through reforms to make it more merit based, and root out the special privileges of the nobility that had allowed it to happen. To make it solid, she bound the Royal family to abide by the accords, and forced the lesser nobles to follow suit or be shamed.”
Pinkie summed up. “So the government was overweight, and the Princess put it on a Diet?”
“More or less...” Twilight giggled. “You were right Applejack, it was a weight loss plan.”
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