"So! I call for Cloture for this proposed law. "

Passes!

"So, I call for a vote for this first part of our proposed law of magic, which does, if nothing else, recognize the great things that our Savior-Archmage has done for Cheliax."

In favor. She's not sure how she'd come down if she hadn't traded favors here, but she did, so. 

Has the archmage shown the slightest sign of wanting the title? But sure, why not.

Against, she already said why.

In favor, he’s hitched to Coeliaris one way or another other.

For! She wants to be a Spell Lord!

In favor on the basis of Estella’s recommendation, but Estella better have a good reason she explains later.

If she understood right, the Spell Lord is supposed to stop powerful wizards from being able to hurt people just because they're powerful wizards, and they have to be a wizard themself or the powerful wizards would just kill them. In favor. 

She doesn’t know anything about magic, but it doesn’t sound like it will bother her or any of hers… abstain.

From a selfish perspective she probably ought to be in favor but she doesn’t want to get in the habit of voting for laws on self interest instead of what’s right. Abstain.

She is of course very grateful to the Archmage. In favor.

In favor.  The wizards need to be kept in line somehow, especially now that the Archmages closed the Worldwound so they won't be sent off there anymore.  And it's not like anyone's been presenting a better idea.

He would really prefer there be less attention given to investigating what wizards are doing. Against.

Most of those do seem like things that ought to be regulated, and the Spell Lord model has been tested in Absalom without disaster. In favor.

Abstain, she doesn’t have a strong feeling either way. 

He'd rather not have important people deciding moment-to-moment law be rich powerful spellcasters. Against.

Sure, it's much easier to run a prison for mages if you have a single mage to negotiate with. In Favor.

For. 

Can't the archmage already do this? Well, making it clear he can is fine. For.

Wizards are so annoying. They should just obey the same laws as everyone else instead of wanting their own obnoxious titles and rules. Against.

In favor. He does wonder what they'll do with the position if Elie doesn't accept it, but they'd probably end up with something like this anyway.

In a country that has sane, and somewhat morality aware Wizards, this would be overkill. It is also unclear who will take up the office and be credible in it, if the Archmage doesn't. A single spellord sets pretty harsh requirements on both legal competence and magic competence, to avoid getting humiliated and avoid driving the countrys magic regulation into chaos.

On the other hand, this is Cheliax.

In favor.

Against.

It's barely a law at all, just a delegation of poorly defined authority with poorly defined goals to someone unknown. This is not how to Lawful. And she is unconvinced having a Spell Lord would have helped the badgers as long as the lich didn't make then his personal problem.

A Good wizard should have helped regardless of having a government office, but the Good wizards around here don't think badgers are people, so.