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It's insane how fragile most Westoid democracies are. For example, the elected Prime Minister of Australia Gough Witlam was dismissed by the Governor General (the British Monarch's "ceremonial" representative) using powers that almost everyone reacted to with "woah woah woah, he can do that?!"
If you live in the UK or the commonwealth Anglo settler colonies, there's a pretty good chance that your entire constitutional framework is just a bunch of "conventions" that people mostly agree to follow but aren't enforceable. Nobody really knows what happens if someone stops following them besides "lol constitutional crisis" or "idk civil war".
I was just about to use this example. Not only that, but many politicians (never mind the public) asked at the time didn't even know that the Governor General and said powers even existed at the time. He had, however, been on the CIA's payroll for some time.
Yeah it's nuts that in most Westminster systems the only stick propping up democracy is the convention of the British Monarch appointing prime ministers 'on the advice of Parliament'. Even the expert legal scholars in this field have no idea what would happen if the King just decided to ignore Parliament and do whatever.
I mean they had a civil war about it, so i think they probably have some idea
In theory, but would Kid Starver or Rishi Sunak execute Charles? I have my doubts.