The Policies of King Chobres III
Once in power, King Chobres III of the League of People began creating a large amount of legislation and great new attempts to enforce it. The nobility had largely been instituted by him, and therefore were largely on his side- the intellectuals were willing to tolerate him for the moment. This gave him an opening for a large number of ideas indulging his authoritarian bent.
First was the People's Law. Not wanting the League of People to get mixed up with the League of Peoples, Chobres mandated the death penalty for any who got them confused (although intellectuals and nobility could apply for a pardon, and usually got it). This law was, to his anger, commonly known jokingly as "The People's Law" (He tried to change it to the People Law, but without sucess). He considered changing the name, but decided that would mean the indignity of a King bending his will to mere commoners.
Whilst waging a constant battle to enforce this policy, Chobres worked in his spare time on a side-project. A new dating system was introduced- from that time onward, years were to be marked on the number of years before and after the introduction of the League of People (NOT, as he kept insisting, the League of Peoples). This made the year of the new law 7 A.U.
Of the misselanious policies, the final one was the Governor's Act. This was considered less of a burden then the People's Law, but was still despised- it mandated that Claredites could only be governed by Ebrites, and vica-versa. In order to persuade the nobility to accept this, reforms were undertaken which overall weakened royal power.
It was this which finally led the intellectuals to depose him in 12 AU. For a start, they exercised their powers through control of the King- weakening him weakened them. Second, this was a new structure and they wished to assert their right to depose monarchs in case it went away. Third, it had nearly been 18 years (which in Ebrite culture at least was considered the amount of time a generation took), and in their view they could not afford to wait any longer.