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156 GOVERNMENT OF THE LEGION CHAPTER 28
in the field, inspires them, and personally leads them on to
victory. It is a natural step from the Queen to her special
council, or “Concilium,” which would represent her visibly
and share her superintendence of all the other legionary
governing bodies.
The district councils will be essentially representative
bodies, the higher councils less so, by reason of the practical
impossibility of securing a full attendance at the regular
meetings of central councils representative of extensive areas.
Thus the titles of “Curia,” “Comitium,” “Regia,” and
“Senatus,” set forth the character and status of the respective
bodies and are appropriate to the areas served.
19. A higher council may combine with its own proper
functions the functions of a lower council. A Senatus, for
instance, may also act as a Curia. This combination of
functions can be advantageous for the following reasons:—
(a) Usually it will be the same persons who will be
concerned in the management both of the higher council in
question and of the district council. It would spare those
legionaries if one meeting could be made to serve the purpose
of two.
(b) But there is a more important consideration. The
normal representation of the higher council is drawn from a
large area, so that it may be found impossible to secure a full
attendance at the regular frequent meetings which it must
hold. As a result, a small group of earnest legionaries will be
found burdened with a heavy responsibility and a great
volume of work. Inevitably, much of the work will be
performed indifferently or left undone, with serious hurt to
the Legion.
The combination of the functions of such higher body with
those of the lower will ensure a large and constant attendance
of members. These will not only perform the duties proper to
the lower council, but will be interested and educated in the
work of the higher body. It then becomes possible to enlist
them in the all-important super visory, extension, and clerical
work of the higher body.
It may be objected that such an expedient amounts to
giving the government of a large area to a body which is