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To: rmlew

Agreed, in 60 years she’s not exercised her powers, but, in all that time she’s served her people better than all but one president (Reagan) and one PM (Thatcher).

Sad to say, “elected by God” has a better track record than “elected by the mob”.

Repeal the 17th - bring back hereditary peerages!


4 posted on 06/04/2012 9:25:52 PM PDT by Vide
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To: Vide
Agreed, in 60 years she’s not exercised her powers, but, in all that time she’s served her people better than all but one president (Reagan) and one PM (Thatcher).

Actually, she has exercised her powers on a few occasions.

In 1963, she appointed a Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home. In 1974, she directed Harold MacMillan to form a minority government. And in 1999, she refused permission to debate a Bill in Parliament.

The Queen only exercises her powers in very specific circumstances, but it does happen.

13 posted on 06/05/2012 2:41:34 AM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: Vide

Her first Prime Minister was Winston Churchill.


18 posted on 06/05/2012 11:09:55 AM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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