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The Queen is the disabled root user of the constitution. The government are the sudoers. She doesn’t get to ‘vet’ laws in any meaningful way. She rubber-stamps
by Angostura 6y ago
The Queen is the disabled root user of the constitution. The government are the sudoers.
She doesn’t get to ‘vet’ laws in any meaningful way. She rubber-stamps them. The fact that the armed forces swear an oath of loyalty to the Queen is simply because she is head of state.
Nothing in your comment actually demonstrates politicality.
- lambada 6y agoIf you had read the article the parent comment linked you would know she does actually get some say in how some laws are drafted. She doesn’t, practically, have a veto once both houses of parliament have approved the law but she is sometimes consulted by the government on laws it is drafting to submit to parliament and she does make suggestions that are sometimes incorporated
- icegreentea2 6y agoThe link OP posted is talking about a different process ("Queen's Consent") from the publicly known rubber stamping process ("royal assent"). Queen's Consent happens before parliament votes, and details on what actions occurred (other than the number that were screened) are not known. The lack of knowledge, combined with the pattern of laws she has screened provide the space for making the inference that the Queen may have actively lobbied or modified laws for some purpose. What the purpose is (actively politically, or merely "self-serving") is unknown.
- rangibaby 6y agoThe crown is just a rubber stamp, until it’s not, like in the Australian constitutional crisis
- blackshaw 6y agoLink for the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional...
- MichaelMoser123 6y agobut she can't actually use her root privileges too much, like start/stop too many processes (or say anything about brexit)