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> avoided introducing an elected President as it was seen as introducing a new and destabilising power base that would eventually lead to a constitutional crisi
by firstOrder 13y ago
> avoided introducing an elected President as it was seen as introducing a new and destabilising power base that would eventually lead to a constitutional crisis.
Sure you just have a representative of the Monarch who boots elected prime ministers when she becomes displeased with them, like axing the, of course, Labor PM in 1975.
When Charles I disbanded parliament, ultimately he found his own head chopped off. Australia's Liberals are lucky the modern Labor party is so milquetoast.
- jacques_chester 13y agoThe Queen has no direct input into Australian affairs and the dismissal of Whitlam, which was found to be Constitutional, led immediately to new elections. Nothing had to be shut down and the whole matter was settled peacefully within a few weeks. In the USA certain constitutional crises betwixt Presidents and Congress have led to civil war. I'm just going to say that Australia is still in front on this one.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> In the USA certain constitutional crises betwixt Presidents and Congress have led to civil war The US has only had one civil war, and it wasn't a result of a Constitutional crisis between the President and the Congress.
- jacques_chester 13y agoI'm sorry, you're right, it was a constitutional crisis born of a policy dispute.