Especially in foreign policy and devolution........ I also understand there is no constitution like in the USA? Thanks.
2006-08-08 17:43:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
The Windsors are just figure heads. A bunch of free loaders who live off the tax payers money. They serve no useful purpose. Why you British put up with it is beyond me. None of them ever worked a day in their lives. The queen mother lived 100 years. All she ever did was punch out a few kids.....Big Deal!!
2006-08-10 03:23:46 · answer #1 · answered by The Mick "7" 7 · 19⤊ 0⤋
Yes the Queen of England is still the head of State for Canada the UK Northern Ireland Australia New Zealand and a few other Commonwealth countires. Canadian troops and police swaer and oath to the Queen as do the government(s) of those countries.
How much power does she have? Not a lot but at the same time a lot.Our entire legal syestem revolves around the Monarch and her signature on bills but as you know she can not enter the House of Commons without an invitation she opens closes Parliment and offically allows the PM to govern and can stop a bill but she hasn't in a long long time.
The last thing she did or rather didn't do in Canada was to allow Mulrooney to appoint 8 extra senators to the Upper chamber - I wish she hadn't done that but there ya go.
Mostly her power is ceremonial but she is still there
2006-08-09 16:45:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Queen exercises only a small amount of real power, and that is mostly procedural. She is limited by British law from exercising more.
There is no British constitution in the American sense of a single overriding document that governs what the government can and can't do.
2006-08-09 03:42:40 · answer #3 · answered by JerH1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The monarch has some powers that, in prepare, have been delegated to others, such because of the fact the best Minister, various different officers, and Parliament. See the region under for the monarch's powers and prerogatives and who surely workouts them at the instant:
2016-11-04 04:35:46 · answer #4 · answered by saturnio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Queen addresses Parliament once a year.
I imagine the Queen has her opinions, given her imperialistic past.
2006-08-09 10:46:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Queen doesnt have much power..its the British Government that has the real power..the Queen has only a name and not power
2006-08-10 00:09:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋