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Didn't totally follow that, but I guess it is an expression of disapproval towards the monarchy. Blah blah Ole King George III blah etc.

Still, as a mechanism for ensuring continuity in a time of constitutional change, having an otherwise powerless hereditary monarch has some advantages.

We have a Queen, and I vaguely remember being told in civics classes in high school that her role was to safeguard the constitution. I still wonder if she could play that role, for example by refusing to sign constitutional amendments into law unless they have been ratified by a referendum. The migh...

Having said which, here is something I was recently told by Prof. Matt Qvortrup, a constitutional expert who is also our "Philosophy Shorts" columnist in Philosophy Now. I may have the details wrong - any misunderstanding is down to me - but I think he said that one feature of the UK system is the d...

Do you mean like a Bill of Rights? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_rights The list on this page for Bills of Rights in different countries includes the 1689 Bill of Rights Act (England) and 1689 Claim of Right Act (Scotland) as well as the Human Rights Act of 1998, which incorporates the right...

Many historical philosophers had an interest in constitutions, and it's a longstanding aspect of political philosophy. For instance, Plato and Aristotle considered the relative advantages and disadvantages of different forms of government. Aristotle and his students allegedly wrote descriptions of m...

You are very welcome! I blush. Most of the hard work on the forum is done my AMod and iMod.

1. Please put at least a limit on how many THREAD topics people can post - perhaps per month. Way too many morons R starting self-obsessed threads. 2. What happened to the Environment topic suggestion - pull yer finger out! I think an environmental philosophy forum would be a good idea for a philos...

I suggest that you discontinue this forum if it's not being used or actively moderated. Agree, the forum is a total disgrace (which suggests the magazine might be as well). That's hilarious, Atla. You've made almost 3,000 posts on this forum despite it being a "total disgrace" and apparently (judgi...

Sorry I've not been around for a bit. Anyway, AMod and iMod and I all agree that a discussion area for the environment is a good idea - thanks - so we'll go ahead and set one up shortly. Yes... was going to delete your "dumb Americans" thread but I like that one post by Luxin in the thread so have h...

Hi Rick Any chance we could get a dedicated discussion area for the environment? Mankind is facing possibly its greatest challenge to date with its impact on the place we all call home. Discussion suggestions could include:- Population growth, Capitalist system and it's ethics\responsibility, Polit...

Nick_A wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 3:41 am

The chorus:

"A gun's like a woman, son, it's all how you hold her."

Sigmund! Git over here right now - Nick needs to hear from you.

yes, as an American ignoramous. i have noted via YT docs that your NI parlement has not conveined in like - how many years now? why not? i do not understand. NI parlement building is pretty! does it just stand there empty for the last decade? (i assume there are janitors to keep the building clean ...

Gaffo, I definitely think you should write your posting up as a full-length article and send it to The Guardian newspaper. They would almost certainly publish it and it shows greater insight and analysis than most of their Brexit coverage.

As Wikipedia has it, the human sex ratio in the Arabian Peninsula is within the normal/natural range at 1.05. The gender imbalance in the Arabian peninsula has absolutely nothing to do with infanticide. If you had taken seriously my previous advice to you of studying seriously, you would have known...

Hi guys Hope you like Issue 138. For those who haven't seen it yet, it has a theme of religion, secularism and society. It also has three articles relating if different ways to the pandemic. (One on Camus's famous novel "The Plague", one on Thoreau and social distancing, and Ray Tallis's column this...