The Importance of the Symbolic Monarch

The idea was the emperor had sovereignty, as long as he was acting out mardi perly and going out into the chaos. And then the job of the emperor was to act out mardock. That's what gave him sovereignty. So the reason that he was the centre around which people organized themselves wasn't because he was when he was being a proper emperor. Wasn't because there was something superspecial about him,. Like with the kennedy dynasties and that sort of thing....