[WikiEN-l] Arbcom

[Andrew Gray]

On 18/10/2007, Sheldon Rampton <sheldon at 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.)

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk