Talk:Princess Celestia/@comment-5532318-20131004235210/@comment-18373892-20131007233117

OctaviaMelody1995, I think that a lot of it was given by Guildmaster Grovyle. Shining Armor is the Captain of her army. It is very possible that Princess Cadence answer to a higher power, in this case, Celestia.

 Basically, having someone being in charge for something, that doesn’t mean that there is no higher power behind.

 There is no election or assembly, so there is no democracy, and there is no aristocratic assembly or a aristocracy that commands Equestria instead of a monarchy, so the safe way here is to assume that this is a monarchy (although one monarchy that does have some nobles, as by Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli in his works ).

 That and the creator of the series told us that she was the higher power: http://comments.deviantart.com/4/1603670/1791456540

 With that in mind, in the 3 types of government, the leader (be it the President, the Chancellor, the leading aristocrat or the King/Emperor) usually is the higher power in military affairs. So the president (or other higher position) of someone’s country is higher than the country general’s (or any other position).

 The laws thing is more complicated. We saw no assembly (be it democratic or aristocratic), and in many of these assemblies it still passes to the leader. However this one is uncharted waters since we didn’t saw any law of assembly yet. But if there is no law, there is a good chance that the roles of laws are done by the ruler.