On 18/10/2007, Sheldon Rampton sheldon@prwatch.org wrote:
It sounds reasonable to me too, but I don't see how having a "constitutional monarchy" is necessary in order to make this sort of thing possible. Many corporations (which are not constitutional monarchies) have policies that enable employees to take leaves of absence.
What's being referred to here isn't that only constitutional monarchies can do such things, but that our constitutional-monarchy style governance method - "we do things the way they've always been done, except when we need to make up a new approach" - allows us to make such regulations up as we go along, when needed, without worrying about existing rules and whether or not we've thought about it before :-)
(Bagehot would have loved us, I have to say.)