Royalty…
I believed that under these circumstances (a Royal veto for moral
reaons) it would be allowed to stand, as the House of Lords wielded its power a
few years ago to strike down a law persecuting former nazis.
But there are still limits as witnessed recently in … the
Netherlands? when the king temporarily abdicated the throne to allow an
abortion act to pass without his signature. _He_ obviously believed his own
legal power was irrelevant compared to the "will of the people" as pronounced
by parliament.
The moral imperative of the monarch to act independently in what he,
the omniscient descendant of God, knows to be for the good of his country is
popularly acknowledged, especially in Britain (still!). But let's face it,
we're talking about the Windsors here, not Edward the Confessor. William Rufus
would be at home with this bunch. Of course, he'd have had me hung, too, and
at one of his wild parties I have no doubt.
Perhaps the Windsors aren't so bad after all. b-{>
-Vree in Virginia
Post Script (an artificial device in the electronic age, eh?)
I expect to be roving around the Welsh border in late April. Please
don't tell Her Majesty. b-{>
-Vree still in Virginia
P.P.S.
I was about to send this when I noticed that I had not completed my
argument.
Vetos I can accept, but who is going to follow the sovereign in a grab
for power? I once tried to come up with some plausible scenarios for a novel
but they were all rather tortuous, and obsolete these days without the second
world in power or much in the first world worth fighting for.
-Vree still still in Vriginia Beach, Virginia.