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Re: UK / Great Britain
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Tue, 1 Jun 1999 18:41:57 GMT
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On Sun, 30 May 1999 21:43:03 GMT, Carbon 60 uttered the following
profundities...
of the stuff on the CIA UK page were a bit misleading - constitutional
monarchy is one thing - we aren't ruled by our monarchy - the Queen
reads the list of laws to be introduced and discussed by Parliament -
this Parliament has been voted in by the people.  Many of the political

I thought that we were, but that the monarch, recently, kept
out of the affairs of government, leaving it to Parliament to
decide. I could be wrong....

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(...) To avoid being immediately replaced by a president, yeah. Royal houses do exercise great influence, still, but behind-the-screens for the most part. Jasper (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.uk)

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(...) I've never seen it used - I've only ever seen a place offering you to sell you one once - that was deep in the Internet-Admin sites. I got it off (URL) - not exactly the most official place to find it but they must have got it from somewhere. (...) (25 years ago, 30-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.uk)

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