The chancellor, but regardless of who the chancellor is, they are part of the council anyway, so they still choose the rules that are made. The council can vote on things, but if they can't make a decisions, the chancellor makes the final choice.
Most of the rules made sense and kept order and made people feel safe. Other ones were... ridiculous. And the worst part was that if you were over 18 and broke a law, it was immediately treated as a felony, and you were floated. ( Clarke swallows back the lump in her throat; the memory of watching her dad still felt surreal. but it's easy to hold herself in the present, instead of lingering on that awful memory. ) 'Floated' means that you were thrown out an airlock into space while you were still alive. The Ark was brutal that way.
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Most of the rules made sense and kept order and made people feel safe. Other ones were... ridiculous. And the worst part was that if you were over 18 and broke a law, it was immediately treated as a felony, and you were floated. ( Clarke swallows back the lump in her throat; the memory of watching her dad still felt surreal. but it's easy to hold herself in the present, instead of lingering on that awful memory. ) 'Floated' means that you were thrown out an airlock into space while you were still alive. The Ark was brutal that way.