Does Coruscant have a Senator?

Greetings!

Since Coruscant is the Capital of the Republic and most of the New Republic, I would assume that the Supreme Chancellor/Chief of State would fill that role. But then again I really have no clue.

So, does Coruscant have a Senator like Naboo or alderaan? Or does the CoS fill that spot? or since their are so many poltical figures on Coruscant that their is no need for one?

thanks,

-Jabba out

 

i would imagine that it would be treated much like washington d.c.

it would only have a local government to coordinate service, but with its intergalactic nature, it would not need representation in the senate.

 

Very interesting question, I had never thought of it.

I think that Coruscant SHOULD have a Senator, it would make no sense if they didn't...

 

I don't think a planet with that much influence and population would have no reperesentation. The District was created as the capital out of nothing way after the nation was founded, while Coruscant predates the Republic. The Coruscant system is also a sector (a sector being an equivalent to state/province), so it would seem likely that Coruscant had a senator.

It could be that the Republic wanted to be founded on a neutral setting (assuming its similar to a federal system), so the powers of the galactic government would not step on the "toes" of the sector's powers. Perhaps just a the political borough is neutral to the laws of Coruscant.

If the government is a unitary system, then the preceding paragraph wouldn't matter. I tend to agree with the former.

 

I'm not sure the DC analogy fits. DC is a city and representatives and senators represent states, not individual cities. Individual cities may be a district for a state from which a national representative for that state may come from. But national representatives and senators do not represent only cities.

 

we must think on a galactic scale. if coruscant were to pass a law forbidding quarren from coming in to the system, that would cause an intergalactic incident similar to the u.s. almost forbidding castro from coming to address the u.n.

the u.n. analogy does not really work well as the senate is the governing body of the galaxy. the u.n. is merely a place to voice intergalactic ideas. if we were to think of each city on our planet as a planet in star wars, and every country as a system, then the system coruscant lies in (empress teta?) should have a senator.

however, any politician worth their salt would want the seat of the senate to be neutral. coruscant itself may have, at some point, been declared a district of the republic. the fact that they have their own security forces (shadows of the empire) seems to shed some light on this.

i stick with my original statement. coruscant would have no senator.

 

Of course it has a senator---it certainly had a "moff" under the Empire---it's just that no one todate has ever thought of including one in one of their books.

 

I wonder why the Senator of Coruscant never seemed to chair any Committees in the NR, then? (surely they'd be of noticeable importance)

 

a moff is more akin to a governor than a senator.

 

I would think that the Supreme Chancellor represents Coruscant, or maybe one of his aides.

 

i would suppose that Coruscant has a senator, however perhaps, in order to keep things from being coruscant-dominated, that senator might not get to chair certain committees or initiate bills or whatnot. or perhaps if they do not have a senator, the government bureaucracy has a way to make sure that the views of coruscant's residents are represented to the senate. (much in the same way that in the US, the District of Columbia has a non-voting rep in Congress). hopefully though, they have a senator.

 

The Galactic Republic seems to be a parliamentary based government (as in, the head of government is elected by parliamentarians from among their number, rather than being directly elected from the population of the galaxy, ala US President). Therefore, it would stand to reason that there is a Coruscant Senator (or at least the sector).

For a real world example, the British PM is a member of a single electorate (don't know which one), also the Australian PM is a member for a Sydney electorate named Bennelong.