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In UK the king has absolute power, its just that they don't exercise it because in a civilised country they would need to be guillotined afterwards.
by trasz4 3y ago
In UK the king has absolute power, its just that they don't exercise it because in a civilised country they would need to be guillotined afterwards.
- ChuckNorris89 3y agoThen it means he doesn't have that power. What kind of power is that which you can't exercise? If you can't exercise it, it means you don't have it.
- trasz4 3y agoHe can, he just doesn't want to. And if he did we'd probably have no insight into what even happened. The society doesn't even know kings' finances.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> He can, he just doesn't want to. And if he did we'd probably have no insight into what even happened Of course we do, the order would be ignored. (To whom would he even give the order?) English history is written in constitutional crises.
- trasz4 3y ago[citation needed]
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> [citation needed] Well, the death penalty was abolished in the U.K. in the 1990s, so there's that. More significant: habeus corpus, which goes back to somewhere between the Magna Carta and Interregnum. Even at its height, the Crown's power to unilaterally command executions was intentionally curtailed for centuries.
- onetimeusename 3y agoby this reasoning, I also have absolute power. I just choose not to exercise it because I would be ignored/arrested/guillotined afterwards.