On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:08 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/18/2014 2:37 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:25 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> "Democracy is the worst system of government ever invented - apart from >> all the others." >> >> Winston Churchill >> > > So why didn't he revolt against his own country's unelected sovereigns? > > > Because they were simply symbolic and didn't have any political power. > Yet they had the symbolic power of tradition, which Churchill appreciated > and used. >
People keep saying that, but the reality seems to be that the Queen retains some quite important powers, she just choses not to use them: http://royalcentral.co.uk/blogs/explanation/what-are-the-queens-powers-22069 Even worse perhaps is the House of Lords: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords They have inherited positions, religious positions and, again, some quite real powers. Telmo. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
