factfinder

The US were formed on the principles of the French revolution (1789), the American Constitution based on the French Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789) is a proof thereof ,worshipping the idea of the Count Montesquieu (L´espritde loi 1748), and became a strong presidential republic,stronger than the French one itself , 1884 the statue of Liberty finally reched the New Continent from Le Havre ...
The constitutional system in the UK is in a striking contrast to all the constitutional principles of todays modern "law states" : while in the US both the President and the Supreme Court have the right of veto over the Congress laws and no Congressman can be a member of the government, in the UK in a sweet ignorance of all the constitutional separation of powers the Lord Chancellor is not only a key person of the government but also he is the Speaker of the House of Lords, and not only that - Montesquieu must be weeping in his grave because the Lord Chancellor is also the head of the Justice which means that all the three constitutional powers are in Britain concentrated in one person and in spite of that the UK is not only the state governed by the law but also the leading democracy in the world ....

vladward8

The devils last stand.

Brother Oz

The Lord Chancellor is not that powerful figure at all. You have to understand that in Britain, politics works on tradition, not the actual rules. For example, the Queen can, by law, veto any law, and declare war. But she couldn't actually do that. In the same way, while the Lord Chancellor is officially head of the legal system, he isn't really, it's run partly by the Law Lords, partly by him, partly by Jack Straw (the Justice Minister) but mostly by precedent and tradition. And the Speaker of the House of Lords has no power at all.
Lord Chancellor is one of the less powerful ministers, nothing like the Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Justice Minister, Health Minister, or anything like that.

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I have the honour to be... your obliged humble servant, Anthony Henley
- MPs reply to constituent, mid 1700s

Aegis

May I ask, what is your source for this information?

perdidochas

Let's see. The U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1787, two years before the French Revolution. Factfinder, you need to work harder to find facts. If anything, we inspired the French Revolution, not the other way around.

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

Kazikli Bey

Democracy is just a word, it has never really been defined into any true structure, which is why you can have america calling itself a democracy and Vietnam calling itself one as well, when both are on opposite sides of the political spectre

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Viv

You forgot to mention the Sun newspaper. The media really rules the roost.

Brother Oz

Good point. Even the Prime Minister bows to the might of Murdoch...
Or at least the old one did. It seems like Gordon Brown might actually stop Murdoch getting his hands on ITV! But we'll have to wait and see.

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... I am surprised at your insolence in writing to me at all. You know, as I know, that I bought this constituency... may God's curse light upon you and may it make your women as open and as free to the excise officers as your wives and daughters have always been to me while I have represented your scoundrel corporation.
I have the honour to be... your obliged humble servant, Anthony Henley
- MPs reply to constituent, mid 1700s

factfinder

I excuse myself, I will try to find better about facts next time ...

Judge Dredd

Democracy:
Immagine you're locked in a night-club filled with sinners, whores, and depraved things that rape pitbulls for fun.

And you're not allowed out untill you all vote on what you're going to do tonight.


So you vote television.



And everyone else, as far as the eye can see, votes to fuck you with switchblades.




Another democratic comparison:
You're taking an SAT score, it's a complicated math question, and there's only three answers.
You got your democrat answer, which is an even number
You got your republican answer, which is an odd number

You'd like to think it was the democrat, it's simple, probably estimated right, and gos right to the point.
But you know it's more likely the republican, complicated and unsatisfying.

The independant is a completely stupid answer that has nothing to do with the equasion like chocolate pudding.

"Hmmm.. well I know it's not pudding!"