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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
But that's my point. It's power versus power. Where is the concept that nobody can do certain things, that both Monarch and Government are prevented from doing things.
The US culture believes in such limitations...
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With respect, Ralph, the division of the US government into the three branches of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial, was
precisely to provide an equivalent system of "checks and balances" as is represented by that which exists between the Monarch and Parliament in the UK.
Can you give an example of something that a British government could do, but a US government could not?