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To: Kaslin

Of course Jonah wants a parliamentary system, so they could do a motion of non-confidence to depose Trump.


11 posted on 11/02/2018 10:42:28 AM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Shadow44

Parliamentary government has been described as “dictatorship interrupted by elections”.

It’s winner-take-all since the majority party controls all branches of government.

For supporters of gun rights, the most glaring example is Australia. The prime minister decided he didn’t like people owning pump action shotguns, and voila! Parliament rams through a law making the Remington 870 illegal to own, ex post facto, and owners either must turn in their (registered) 870’s for pittance compensation, or the police show up at their door.

The Founding Fathers were intimately familiar with the British Parliament & its power to make Americans’ lives miserable, and they insured that the principle of separation of powers would form the basis of representative government in the United States.

Australians like to boast that there is no gun culture in their society and that they trust their government, unlike us paranoid Yanks. Fine and dandy, mate.


36 posted on 11/02/2018 11:22:53 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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