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Civi 2 : The British monarchy (Arguments for the monarchy (majority of…

- - - - you cannot combine a regular job with being a working royal
      - Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan : £1 - 2m security bill
      - Prince Charles hinted a streamlined family
      - 12/1936 : King (Edouard VII) abdicates to marry an American -> shooked the Country
      - 16 countries have the Queen as their head of state
    - - form of government
      - king or queen as head of state
      - head of state separated from party politics
      - ability to make and pass legislation with an elected Parliament
      - stability, contituity, national focus
      - on almost all matters the Sovereigns acts on the advice of Ministers
    - - 1 - 2 - 5 - 6. monarch supposed to be impartial
      - Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (1867): monarch has three rights
        
        to be consulted
        
        to encourage
        
        to warn
      - 1 - 2 - 4 - 1. Head of state
        
        consitutionnal and representationnal duties
        
        inward duties
        
        The Queen playing a part in State functions
        
        Parliament must be opened
        
        Orders in Council have to be approved
        
        Acts of Parliament must be signed
        
        outward duties
        
        Queen represents Britain for the rest of the world
        
        support of diplomatic and economic relations
      - 1 - 2 - 4 - 2. Head of the Nation
        
        role less formal
        
        representing Briitain to the rest of the world
        
        focus for national identity and unity
        
        stability and continuity
        
        achievement and excellence
        
        encourage public and voluntary service
      - 1 - 2 - 4 - 3. Head of the Armed Forces
      - 1 - 2 - 4 - 4. Fountain of justice
        
        Court, prisons are Queen's ones
        
        Acts accusation "The Queen versus..."
        
        Queen personnal prerogative of pardon and mercy (thought she relies on the advice of a commission presided over by the Home Secretary)
      - 1 - 2 - 4 - 5. Fountain of Honor
        
        confers peerages and knighthoods
        
        reward exceptionnal merit or service to the community
    - - The succession laws
        
        not only throught descent, but also by Parliamenty statue
        
        sons and daughters of any future UK monarch have equal rights to the throne (else : first-born son, only if there are no sons eldest daughters)
        
        Communion with the Church of England
        
        promise to uphold the Protestant succession
        
        Succession to the Crown Act (2013) end the system of male primogeniture
      - Scrapping the ban on marrying a Roman catholic
        
        Roman catholic specificially excluded from the succession to the throne
        
        end of those who marry Roman Ctaholics disqualified from the line of succession
        
        M. Cameron : "The monarch must be in communion with the Church of England because he or she is the head of that Church. But it is simply wrong they should be denied the chance to marry a Catholic if they wish to do so. After all, they are already quite free to marry someone of any other faith."
  - - - Andrew
      - Anne
      - Edward
      - Charles <3 Diana puis Camillia
        
        William <3 Kate
        
        Louis
        
        Charlotte
        
        George
        
        Harry <3 Meghan Markle
- - - - Too many ? Should we reduce the royal family to the main line ?
        
        "As a father, my wish for my daughters is for them to be modern working young women" > Prince Andrew