On 3/8/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/03/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
Authority here derives from the monarch, but is vested in others, and any attempt to exercise power against the will of the people would cause problems.
Historically, *really* pushing it gets your head cut off, which means sensible monarchs get very good at reading the public mood in both the short and long terms.
It took us a couple of hundred years to get the balance right, and it's still changing. But over that entire period, the country remained governable and tolerably well-regulated. Is that so bad? To paraphrase a fellow Englishman, Jimbocracy is the very worst system of government, apart from all the others.
Indeed. We're doing things that have NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE; if we didn't do some *really stupid* things in the process, it'd be a clear case of not being nearly adventurous enough.
- d.
Yah but see you're all back to talking about persons and personalities whereas what's needed is an independent Commission Review, kinda like the 911 Commission, not to point fingers and find fallguys, but to examine institutional failings and weaknesses, and make dispassionate recommendations on how to avoid or manage future crisis.