re: Question on the Star Wars PT

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hat would've happened if the Queen refused to call for a vote of no confidence

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He go to a back up plan

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Palpatine lost the election?

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Pretty sure at this point that was never going to be in doubt. Maybe his backup plan could be an assassination of the current one.

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Then, in Attack of the Clones, he manufactures a conflict between the Republic and the Separatists as an excuse to be granted emergency powers and legalize the creation of a military force. What does he do if he is never granted emergency powers? Does he serve out his term and go away or create some other, more serious conflict?

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He is playing both sides. If they refuse, he just keeps decimating the Republic with the separatists until there is no reason left to not vote for emergency powers. Without the Clone Army, the Republic is destroyed and he can just take over from the other side.

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Then, in Revenge of the Sith, when they Jedi find out that Palpatine is a Sith lord, they immediately go to his office to try to kill him. First off, is it a crime to be a Sith lord? Do they have evidence to link him to any actual crimes such as treason against the Republic? What if the Jedi had simply stood back and not done anything about Palpatine? Why not go to the Senate first and ask Palpatine to give up his emergency powers now that the war is over?

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They didn't go to the Senate because he had control of all the courts. They also went to arrest him, not kill him.