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Old 15th December 2018, 01:15 PM   #601
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Itchy Boy, where does the law get its authority from?
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Old 15th December 2018, 01:17 PM   #602
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Originally Posted by theprestige View Post
Itchy Boy, where does the law get its authority from?
According to itchy, the queen, apparently.

Countries shucking off that stupid yoke cannot exist in itchy World.
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Ireland. Formerly a vassal state, then a commonwealth nation, then a republic. Liz got the big PFO by popular vote and is ignored by by our constitution. Because **** her.

Nope. By violent revolution because **** her.

Nope. Violent revolution. Because **** her.

Understand, we simply told the brits and their royalty to simply get lost. End of.
OK, by violent revolution. Nobody denies that violent revolution can overthrow power. In fact, that's pretty much the only way it can be done.

But for the purposes of this discussion we're not considering that as an option. We're talking about staying within the boundaries of law.
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Old 15th December 2018, 01:22 PM   #604
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OK, by violent revolution. Nobody denies that violent revolution can overthrow power. In fact, that's pretty much the only way it can be done.
False.

Originally Posted by Itchy Boy View Post
But for the purposes of this discussion we're not considering that as an option. We're talking about staying within the boundaries of law.
False.

Grow up.
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Old 15th December 2018, 01:35 PM   #605
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Itchy Boy, where does the law get its authority from?
Is this a trick question?

Remember the Constitution is laws that govern the conduct of the government, not the public.

The laws passed by the gov't, on the other hand, mostly deal with how the public is supposed to behave.

You could say the law gets its authority from the gov't who actually writes and passes the laws the rest of us have to follow.

But the gov't in turn, gets its authority from the Crown, via the written Constitution.

Every law in Canada begins with "Her Majesty, [blah blah] enacts as follows...". The Crown is clearly enacting the law, not the gov't.

So, I would say the law gets its ultimate authority from The Crown who has delegated authority to pass laws for the rest of us, to the gov't.

If you want to go beyond that, then the law gets its ultimate authority by the threat of violence.
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Old 15th December 2018, 01:37 PM   #606
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False.

False.

Grow up.
How about explaining 'false' instead of making an empty one word proclamation?
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Originally Posted by Itchy Boy View Post
How about explaining 'false' instead of making an empty one word proclamation?
You lied. What more is there?
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For my country, the process was we sent the monarch a Dear John letter; and when he didn't get the hint, we shot his people in the face until they figured it out.

ETA: A while later, some of our countrymen tried the same thing, but the face-shooting part broke the other way, and so they're still with us today.
Yes, we know violence can overturn power. But we're not considering that option in this discussion. We're talking about non-violent, legal procedures.
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You lied. What more is there?
OK, I'll bite. What did I say that I knew to be untrue?
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OK, I'll bite. What did I say that I knew to be untrue?
Everything you posted. HRH has no say in Canadian matters, in fact Canada could referendum her right out if they so desired, but don't because it would be a waste of time and resources addressing a non-issue, and there is a certain nostalgia for the GREAT BRITISH EMPIRE.

As if that even existed anymore. You might as well be advocating for the East India company.
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Everything you posted. HRH has no say in Canadian matters, in fact Canada could referendum her right out if they so desired, but don't because it would be a waste of time and resources addressing a non-issue, and there is a certain nostalgia for the GREAT BRITISH EMPIRE.

As if that even existed anymore. You might as well be advocating for the East India company.
So, everything I posted I knew to be untrue, eh? Thank you for your piercing insight and detailed analysis backed with unimpeachable source material. As a debater, you're in a league of your own.
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OK, by violent revolution. Nobody denies that violent revolution can overthrow power. In fact, that's pretty much the only way it can be done.

But for the purposes of this discussion we're not considering that as an option. We're talking about staying within the boundaries of law.
No.

You're saying we have to stay within the boundaries of the law, and we keep telling you that the real world doesn't work that way.
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Originally Posted by Itchy Boy View Post
So, everything I posted I knew to be untrue, eh? Thank you for your piercing insight and detailed analysis backed with unimpeachable source material. As a debater, you're in a league of your own.
Sorry for your trouble. I deal in reality, not fantasies such as is proposed in this thread.
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No.

You're saying we have to stay within the boundaries of the law, and we keep telling you that the real world doesn't work that way.
I'm not saying we HAVE to do anything. We've been talking about law, written or unwritten. We haven't been considering violence in the discussion because obviously at that point all bets are off, no laws apply anymore whether written or not.

We're talking about how 'civilized' society handles disputes, and that is through the courts.

What you keep telling me is that the highest laws, those that govern the government, are the unwritten, unjudiciable 'rules', which are not laws.
You keep telling me these rules are religiously followed while the judiciable laws are completely ignored. You keep telling me the supreme law of the land is invalid. You keep telling me the real world doesn't operate according to law.

I don't buy it.
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OK, by violent revolution. Nobody denies that violent revolution can overthrow power. In fact, that's pretty much the only way it can be done.

But for the purposes of this discussion we're not considering that as an option. We're talking about staying within the boundaries of law.

OK then.


India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Africa, Hong Kong, Nauru, Sarawak, Singapore, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia, Malaysia, Brunei...


I could name more.


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OK then.

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Africa, Hong Kong, Nauru, Sarawak, Singapore, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia, Malaysia, Brunei...

I could name more.

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Well, you have me at a disadvantage there. I don't know enough about those countries' histories to comment on them.

I only know something about Canada.

Every situation is different.
I had a brief look at the Australian Constitution and from what I could tell it was similar to Canada's but with differences that would take some study to understand.
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Well, you have me at a disadvantage there. I don't know enough about those countries' histories to comment on them.

I only know something about Canada.

Every situation is different.
I had a brief look at the Australian Constitution and from what I could tell it was similar to Canada's but with differences that would take some study to understand.

So when you said "Nobody denies that violent revolution can overthrow power. In fact, that's pretty much the only way it can be done.", you said it without having a clue what you were talking about and how wrong you were. How is anybody supposed to take your unevidenced hypothesis seriously when you do not even know about or understand anything about the history, even recent history of the dissolution of the British Empire. (The one you think is still going strong)


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Old 15th December 2018, 07:58 PM   #618
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I wonder what watching movies is like with itchy boy

-king Tommen is running the show in GoT
-the king of Rohan clearly has the legal authority to take council from work tongue
-guy pearce is required to take orders from Ben Kingsley.
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Well, you have me at a disadvantage there. I don't know enough about those countries' histories to comment on them.

I only know something about Canada.

Every situation is different.
I had a brief look at the Australian Constitution and from what I could tell it was similar to Canada's but with differences that would take some study to understand.
Frankly, you don't know enough about how Canada works.

You apparently were absent the many days in civics classes where they discussed Parliamentary Supremacy and how it came about in England, how the 1837 and 1838 Rebellions broke the Family Compact in Upper and Lower Canada and Responsible Government was brought about, the Westminister Accords, the King-Byng Affair, the elimination of the Judicial Court of the Privy Council ceased to be the ultimate court of appeal for Canada, and the repatriation of the Constitution. You must have missed how precedent is used by the Canadian legal system to interpret the written law.

And you haven't paid attention to the last hundred years of world events and the dissolution of the British Empire and the many ways that the British have lost control, both peaceful and not.

Your analysis lacks nuance and an understanding of legal norms and government principles and an inability to see anything beyond your own POV. Hundreds of legal scholars and dozens of people on this forum have explained that the formal powers vested in the Queen are exercised only on the advice of the elected officials and have been for centuries - your response is to whinge that you can't understand how someone with that kind of formal power could not use it, so it must therefore be exercised in such a way that millions of elected officials in dozens of countries since 1688 have been doing the bidding of a monarch, but either haven't been aware of it or are too cowed to blow the secret (pro tip- I'm fairly sure those nations not inclined to have a favourable view of aspects of British rule, say the Irish, Americans, Indians, South Africans, Rhodesians, etc might have talked by now if that was the case.
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Frankly, you don't know enough about how Canada works.

You apparently were absent the many days in civics classes where they discussed Parliamentary Supremacy and how it came about in England, how the 1837 and 1838 Rebellions broke the Family Compact in Upper and Lower Canada and Responsible Government was brought about, the Westminister Accords, the King-Byng Affair, the elimination of the Judicial Court of the Privy Council ceased to be the ultimate court of appeal for Canada, and the repatriation of the Constitution. You must have missed how precedent is used by the Canadian legal system to interpret the written law.

And you haven't paid attention to the last hundred years of world events and the dissolution of the British Empire and the many ways that the British have lost control, both peaceful and not.

Your analysis lacks nuance and an understanding of legal norms and government principles and an inability to see anything beyond your own POV. Hundreds of legal scholars and dozens of people on this forum have explained that the formal powers vested in the Queen are exercised only on the advice of the elected officials and have been for centuries - your response is to whinge that you can't understand how someone with that kind of formal power could not use it, so it must therefore be exercised in such a way that millions of elected officials in dozens of countries since 1688 have been doing the bidding of a monarch, but either haven't been aware of it or are too cowed to blow the secret (pro tip- I'm fairly sure those nations not inclined to have a favourable view of aspects of British rule, say the Irish, Americans, Indians, South Africans, Rhodesians, etc might have talked by now if that was the case.
Precedent is used to determine civil and criminal law. Precedent, as far as I know, has not been used to determine anything in the written Constitution in Canada. There has to be a challenge to a law for a precedent to be set. Have any of the laws in the Constitution been challenged in court?
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Frankly, you don't know enough about how Canada works.

You apparently were absent the many days in civics classes where they discussed Parliamentary Supremacy and how it came about in England, how the 1837 and 1838 Rebellions broke the Family Compact in Upper and Lower Canada and Responsible Government was brought about, the Westminister Accords, the King-Byng Affair, the elimination of the Judicial Court of the Privy Council ceased to be the ultimate court of appeal for Canada, and the repatriation of the Constitution. You must have missed how precedent is used by the Canadian legal system to interpret the written law.

And you haven't paid attention to the last hundred years of world events and the dissolution of the British Empire and the many ways that the British have lost control, both peaceful and not.

Your analysis lacks nuance and an understanding of legal norms and government principles and an inability to see anything beyond your own POV. Hundreds of legal scholars and dozens of people on this forum have explained that the formal powers vested in the Queen are exercised only on the advice of the elected officials and have been for centuries - your response is to whinge that you can't understand how someone with that kind of formal power could not use it, so it must therefore be exercised in such a way that millions of elected officials in dozens of countries since 1688 have been doing the bidding of a monarch, but either haven't been aware of it or are too cowed to blow the secret (pro tip- I'm fairly sure those nations not inclined to have a favourable view of aspects of British rule, say the Irish, Americans, Indians, South Africans, Rhodesians, etc might have talked by now if that was the case.
"Parliamentary supremacy is a concept in the constitutional law of some parliamentary democracies. It holds that the legislative body has absolute sovereignty and is supreme over all other government institutions, including executive or judicial bodies."

As far as I know, this does not apply to Canada. If it's in constitutional law, then it must be written in the Constitution, which I don't think it is.

And PS says the legislative body holds sovereignty over all other government institutions. In countries where PS applies, I don't know if The Crown is included in 'government institutions'.

In Canada the monarchy is the foundation of the executive (Queen-in-Council), legislative (Queen-in-Parliament) and judicial (Queen-on-the-Bench).
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Some of you have a very impressive knowledge of general history, far superior to mine.

It is said that history is written by the winners.
Napoleon said, "History is a set of lies agreed upon."

I think there's some truth in that.
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"Parliamentary supremacy is a concept in the constitutional law of some parliamentary democracies. It holds that the legislative body has absolute sovereignty and is supreme over all other government institutions, including executive or judicial bodies."

As far as I know, this does not apply to Canada. If it's in constitutional law, then it must be written in the Constitution, which I don't think it is.

And PS says the legislative body holds sovereignty over all other government institutions. In countries where PS applies, I don't know if The Crown is included in 'government institutions'.

In Canada the monarchy is the foundation of the executive (Queen-in-Council), legislative (Queen-in-Parliament) and judicial (Queen-on-the-Bench).
Why are you so afraid of that dreaded word "convention"?

It is by convention that the Queen only follows recommendations - not by law (constitutional or otherwise). As others have pointed out, if the Queen were to stop following convention then it would end badly for her.
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Here's how simple it is to ensure Royal Assent is 'rubber stamped'.

The Crown can examine any proposed bill before it goes to Parliament.
They can say, "we can't grant this bill Royal Assent unless you make the following changes...".

The proposers of the bill have no choice but to make the changes or drop the bill entirely.

That's because they know they can't force The Crown to grant RA under the non judicable Conventions, and they would have no case with which to challenge the judicable Constitution - which maintains The Crown's legal power to withhold RA.
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Here's how simple it is to ensure Royal Assent is 'rubber stamped'.

The Crown can examine any proposed bill before it goes to Parliament.
They can say, "we can't grant this bill Royal Assent unless you make the following changes...".

The proposers of the bill have no choice but to make the changes or drop the bill entirely.

That's because they know they can't force The Crown to grant RA under the non judicable Conventions, and they would have no case with which to challenge the judicable Constitution - which maintains The Crown's legal power to withhold RA.
And show one, just one, case in the last, say, 200 years where this has happened.

You can’t. What a ridiculous thread.

ETA, do you know the process of amending bills, by the way? Do you think someone can get out an eraser and change it? Maybe you do, but it has to go back to parliament. I’m sure you can point out times when the government has put an already passed bill back for amendment because royal assent was not granted.

I don’t know why I’m responding to rubbish.
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The Crown can examine any proposed bill before it goes to Parliament.
They can say, "we can't grant this bill Royal Assent unless you make the following changes...".
That NEVER happens. If the crown tried then there would be hell to pay.
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Originally Posted by Itchy Boy View Post
Here's how simple it is to ensure Royal Assent is 'rubber stamped'.

The Crown can examine any proposed bill before it goes to Parliament.
They can say, "we can't grant this bill Royal Assent unless you make the following changes...".

The proposers of the bill have no choice but to make the changes or drop the bill entirely.

That's because they know they can't force The Crown to grant RA under the non judicable Conventions, and they would have no case with which to challenge the judicable Constitution - which maintains The Crown's legal power to withhold RA.
It should be a simple matter then for you to show ANY instance of a reigning monarch or Governor General doing just that.

Find one. Any Canadian legislature since 1850 (yes, before Confederation).
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It should be a simple matter then for you to show ANY instance of a reigning monarch or Governor General doing just that.

Find one. Any Canadian legislature since 1850 (yes, before Confederation).
How is it a simple matter for me to show that a private communication between the proposers of a bill and The Crown staff has taken place?

The whole point of the scenario is that it's done away from the public eye.
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Old 16th December 2018, 11:57 AM   #629
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Seeing as how The Crown has the legal authority to refuse Royal Assent, it seems logical that anyone proposing a bill would run it by The Crown as standard procedure.

It's to nobody's advantage to let a bill go through the whole Parliamentary process only to be refused RA and not be passed into law.
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Old 16th December 2018, 12:49 PM   #630
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How is it a simple matter for me to show that a private communication between the proposers of a bill and The Crown staff has taken place?

The whole point of the scenario is that it's done away from the public eye.
Ah, so it only happens in your imagination, then.

Seriously, have you the first idea of how your own federal politics operates? I suspect you don't. All you have is a silly conspiracy theory that clearly has no basis in fact at all for any part of it. And when you try to make up stories to make it seem true, it all runs rapidly headlong into the brick walls of fact in all directions. And yet you still continue to insist your reality is right, no matter how warped it is.

There's words to describe that sort of mental problem, you know...
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Old 16th December 2018, 01:14 PM   #631
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Ah, so it only happens in your imagination, then.

Seriously, have you the first idea of how your own federal politics operates? I suspect you don't. All you have is a silly conspiracy theory that clearly has no basis in fact at all for any part of it. And when you try to make up stories to make it seem true, it all runs rapidly headlong into the brick walls of fact in all directions. And yet you still continue to insist your reality is right, no matter how warped it is.

There's words to describe that sort of mental problem, you know...
What is there to prevent the scenario I described?
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Old 16th December 2018, 01:16 PM   #632
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Originally Posted by Itchy Boy View Post
Seeing as how The Crown has the legal authority to refuse Royal Assent, it seems logical that anyone proposing a bill would run it by The Crown as standard procedure.

It's to nobody's advantage to let a bill go through the whole Parliamentary process only to be refused RA and not be passed into law.
Well it must be easy to find a bill that has been returned to the parliament because royal assent as refused.

As others have said, you have no idea how your parliament works.
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Old 16th December 2018, 01:23 PM   #633
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Seeing as how The Crown has the legal authority to refuse Royal Assent, it seems logical that anyone proposing a bill would run it by The Crown as standard procedure.

It's to nobody's advantage to let a bill go through the whole Parliamentary process only to be refused RA and not be passed into law.
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The Crown can examine any proposed bill before it goes to Parliament. They can say, "we can't grant this bill Royal Assent unless you make the following changes...".

The proposers of the bill have no choice but to make the changes or drop the bill entirely.

That's because they know they can't force The Crown to grant RA under the non judicable Conventions, and they would have no case with which to challenge the judicable Constitution - which maintains The Crown's legal power to withhold RA.

I am interested in who you think The Crown actually is in this case as the term as it is used legally is an abstract and changeable concept. Please name the real person who would actually refuse to assent to Legislation in the name of The Crown, as you have only been saying The Crown this and The Crown that, then "they" (referring to The Crown) can do this and that).


Who is or are "they"?



Are "they" the Queen, the Governor-General, Governor in Counsel, the Cabinet, or somebody else?


If you write a letter to The Crown, who does it go to?



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What is there to prevent the scenario I described?
Reality.
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"There are two kinds of world history: one is the official, mendacious, intended for use in schools, the other is the secret history, which holds the true causes of events."

- Honoré de Balzac
If it's a secret then how do you know about it?
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Originally Posted by fromdownunder View Post
I am interested in who you think The Crown actually is in this case as the term as it is used legally is an abstract and changeable concept. Please name the real person who would actually refuse to assent to Legislation in the name of The Crown, as you have only been saying The Crown this and The Crown that. Is it the Queen, the Governor-General, Governor in Counsel, the Cabinet, or somebody else?

If you write a letter to The Crown, who does it go to?

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Wiki says this about The Crown Legally ill-defined, the term has different meanings depending on context. I agree and don't assign one specific meaning, precisely because it's impossible to 'name the real person'.

In the scenario I described, that 'real person' is not refusing Consent, they are simply 'warning' the bill's proposers that the bill, as currently written would not be granted RA and explain why. The 'real person' would likely have consulted with others on staff, as opposed to acting alone.

And how would I know the name of the person who would receive my letter to the Crown? I don't know who received my letter to Santa Claus.

The fact remains that the scenario I described is a very simple way to ensure RA is 'rubber stamped' and there doesn't seem to be any mechanism to prevent what I described from happening.
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Reality.
Thanks, but could you be a little more specific?
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If it's a secret then how do you know about it?
The guy who said it was Honoré de Balzac, not me.
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