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> It's beyond my comprehension why humans still keep these hereditary regimes, constitutional or absolutist, alive 7 of the Top 10 democracies are constitution
by throw0101a 6y ago
> It's beyond my comprehension why humans still keep these hereditary regimes, constitutional or absolutist, alive
7 of the Top 10 democracies are constitutional monarchies:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#By_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#By_country
As a Canadian, I have no particular issue about getting rid of the monarchy, but anyone pushing for that will have to demonstrate that the new system will keep us in the Top 5 (or at least 10).
- MattGaiser 6y agoAt least in Canada, it will cause a constitutional crisis as all provinces would need to agree.
- mclightning 6y agoDemocracy? you know, the one that's already in place. Royal families has no direct influence on the democracy of these countries. Correlation doesn't mean Causation.
- throw0101a 6y agoCanada is already democratic: we regularly vote in municipal, provincial, and federal elections. What exactly would be improved by removing the Crown?
- mclightning 6y agoYour mind seems to be stuck on a tautology. Those things you list are a part of democracy, not a result of retaining a royal family. Stephen Fry once uttered that very line about democratic countries/monarch countries...as a parody/irony of sort. Then a lot of people take it as a rational argumentative statement, and repeat it everywhere. It is only an irony of the world we live in. It is in no way related to the actual workings of the democracy.