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writes: "Wolf K" wrote | The whole point of my original comment about | turning grand estates into tourist traps was that | monarchy in Britain is an anachronism. | | Only if you think of monarchy as having a role in government. It | doesn't. Monarchy *is* government. Look it up. That's why British monarchy is anachronistic. Because the monarchy has endured but is not longer ruling. You're flipping it around backward: The English queen no longer has a governing role therefore monarchy is not a form of government! Quite a few other countries have a head of state who does not govern (though usually "advises" - a sort of "elder statesman" role): the German president, to give just one example. In a few cases, they are even monarchs - I think the Spanish one, for example, is similarly a "constitutional" monarchy. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Lucy Worsley takes tea in Jane Austen's Regency Bath. - TV "Choices" listing, RT 2017-5-27 |
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