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Neither are government cabinets, ambassadors or generals.

• hannofcart 3y ago
  Assuming that you're taking about liberal democracies, ambassadors and generals don't pass laws that the rest of us have to abide by. The government cabinet has some more democratic legitimacy in so far as that they generally comprise of elected representatives. So your statement is a non-sequitur.
  • growse 3y ago
    In the UK, there's no requirement that the cabinet is formed of elected representatives. Government ministers are often Lords. Besides, even if the defense secretary is an MP, he wasn't elected on a platform of national security by the population. So if there's a non sequitur anywhere, it's in application of any democratic legitimacy to the job of holding a significant cabinet post by winning the votes of a few ten thousand people for commons seat.
    • hannofcart 3y ago
      Sure, but the UK cabinet draws its power from the fact that it explicitly has support of a majority of the directly elected members of Parliament. When it's established that they don't, they end up getting ousted (as happens with no confidence motions).
  • hef19898 3y ago
    The Commission doesn't pass laws neither... No idea why don't bother to read the wikipedia articles for all of 5 minutes before repeating objectively false things.
  • eigenket 3y ago
    > Assuming that you're taking about liberal democracies, ambassadors and generals don't pass laws that the rest of us have to abide by. Thats fine because the EU commission also doesn't pass laws. It proposes them and the EU parliament & comittee pass them.