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Why Does New York State Continue to Misstate the Citizenship Requirement for President?
The_Reader_David:
--- Quote from: Gefn on July 10, 2019, 05:32:43 am ---The weird thing is that today we see the Royals like movie stars. All those tabloids in the supermarket serve stories by the dozens on them. And what of course they are wearing.
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That's what the gradual evolution of the British (unwritten) constitution turned royalty into: celebrity harnessed for the purpose of supporting national unity. The Queen has a little power in the Commonwealth -- when she acts as Head of the Commonwealth she does not have to follow the advice of her government -- and in the event of a really evenly divided hung Parliament gets to decide which party is asked to form a government, but that's about it. Other than that, it's her and the rest of the Windsors looking good, doing symbolic things and being loved by the populace.
I've heard a defense of the modern British monarchy, that it allows British voters the freedom to ignore the personality of the prospective PM and focus on policy when voting, since, unlike for us Americans for whom the President is a focus of national unity, the PM is not a focus of national unity, and thus there is no urge to want a PM one likes.
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