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Parliaments are democratically elected to represent the people, and every member of parliament is equal before it. The UK prime minister is answerable to the pe
by simonh 25d ago
Parliaments are democratically elected to represent the people, and every member of parliament is equal before it. The UK prime minister is answerable to the people via parliament at all times, must face questions from MPs regularly, and can lose power from a majority vote at any time. We can all see that the impeachment process in the USA is fatally flawed, it just can’t function as intended.
The kind of powers Kinge George III had and exercised in the 1780s and 90s were a quirky historical accident of a constitutional system in flux. Freezing that structure in place in the US, even with a democratic mandate and other admitted improvement, is another historical accident.
Who today would look to Britain in 1790 as a template for constructing a modern constitution?
- carlosjobim 25d agoYes, I think everybody here knows how a parliamentary system works. But the head of state selected by parliament is not elected by the people. A president is.