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Originally Posted by nomadking
So what is the point of Royal Assent being required, if not to block a backdoor overthrowing of a democratic vote?
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I think it's there to stop any absurd or immoral laws being passed, the last safety valve in the procedure if you like.
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Originally Posted by Chris
Not quite. They aren’t symbolic; they’re very real. They are, however, only exercised on advice (the conferring of the Order of Merit is an extremely rare exception). The monarch avoids a constitutional crisis by respecting a convention, not by obeying a law.
The powers of the sovereign have effectively been brought under democratic control because they are exercised by, or on the advice of, an Executive which is drawn from, and answerable to, our elected Parliament.
However, it is a delicious irony that our last line of defence against tyranny is that there is no law any government can usurp to give itself absolute power, because power has never been stripped from the Crown.
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So a Government couldn't pass a law that abolished elections and kept them in power indefinitely. I assume that Hitler did something along these lines??