Comment Re:This will never go through (Score 1) 327
in britain, the queen owns my ass. though in practice because of our civil war (yes we had one, and guess what its was before yours too!) she cant actually do very much with it.
It wasn't really all too much because of the civil war, more because of an increase in the electorate, but the Queen still does have some indirect power over us, such as she still chooses the Prime Minister. Although now she automatically chooses the leader of the party in majority, in the past Monarchs didn't, such as when William IV dissolved Lord Melbourne's governement in 1835 and chose Peel's to be Prime Minister.
That was the last time, it happened because after the 1832 reform act, the Tories couldn't secure a majority. Although, it was close with Lord Halifax.
It wasn't really all too much because of the civil war, more because of an increase in the electorate, but the Queen still does have some indirect power over us, such as she still chooses the Prime Minister. Although now she automatically chooses the leader of the party in majority, in the past Monarchs didn't, such as when William IV dissolved Lord Melbourne's governement in 1835 and chose Peel's to be Prime Minister.
That was the last time, it happened because after the 1832 reform act, the Tories couldn't secure a majority. Although, it was close with Lord Halifax.
