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Comparing tiny countries at the edge of Europe and the edge of the world with the the US as super-power is a weakness. Every country has adopted American Repub
by InTheArena 3y ago
Comparing tiny countries at the edge of Europe and the edge of the world with the the US as super-power is a weakness.
Every country has adopted American Republicanism with a clearly defined and written constitution that has some form of separation of powers. None of these, for example, allow the PM to act as an absolute dictator without some form of emergency. The difference is simply in whether the president has an independent mandate from the parliament or not.
- blibble 3y ago> Every country has adopted American Republicanism with a clearly defined and written constitution that has some form of separation of powers. the UK has none of this and its current system of government predates the US
- InTheArena 3y agoThe modern UK state has superficial resemblances - primarily in a shiny ceremonies with colonial era Britain,
- blibble 3y agothe franchise widened and there have been some minor tweaks (e.g. devolution), but the fundamental system has remained essentially unchanged since the Civil War
- hash872 3y agoThe UK, Israel, Canada, and New Zealand all don't have written constitutions. 'None of these, for example, allow the PM to act as an absolute dictator' is not an example of the separation of powers, that's not what that phrase means at all
- int_19h 3y agoCanada may not have a singular written document called "constitution", but it has the Constitution Act, the Canada Act, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, so I'd argue that it's still mostly written.