[WikiEN-l] Review

[David Gerard]

On 08/03/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at 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.