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Re: Comparative freedom
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 11 Nov 2002 22:33:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Pedro Silva writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
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> > > What else--oh, we're not beholden to a piece of paper written 200+ years
> > > ago. We make our own laws 'n such for what we need them to be, for us
> > > citizens living *now* :p
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> > I'm not impressed by a country that had to ask the permission of a Queen to
> > conduct it's own business. Give me the 200+ year old document that told the
> > royalty to bugger off!
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> Actually, they did not told the Queen to bugger off... because they did not
> have to; they got their own PM instead. Given that the Crown has little (if
> any) effective power, it is even better: getting independent whilst assuring
> a powerful friend (1).
David (no "!") understood what I was refering to - technically everything
Canada did was supposed to be approved by the Queen until that last vestige
of empire was officially expunged a couple of decades ago. I was
embarrassed for my Canadian friends until then.
> Had the USA chosen the same path, and they wouldn't have had a Civil War.
> Thinking of which, the Canadian Way may actually have been a good way,
> wouldn't you say? (2)
What worked for Canada wasn't going to work for the U.S. We just weren't
wimpy enough. ;-)
Nor were we worried about a counter-revolution by the French and the
necessity for support from the Crown in maintaining what we swiped from
another European power. :-O
Bruce
(just teasing....)
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| (...) Yes, Pedro was right--Quebec did not want to 'bring the constitution home' for they could appeal to a highter authority than the Canadian Supreme court if they were denied something from the Supreme Court. The separatists wanted a higher (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Actually, they did not told the Queen to bugger off... because they did not have to; they got their own PM instead. Given that the Crown has little (if any) effective power, it is even better: getting independent whilst assuring a powerful (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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