On 12/18/2014 11:58 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:08 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]
<mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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.
Bertrand Russell tried to resign his title when his older brother died so that he could
run for office in the House of Commons, because the House of Lords has no power.
Tradition can eliminate power as well as bestow it.
Brent
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