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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by kenneth on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:20AM (#26086720)
Stripping the Monarchy of their lands goes quite a bit further than just abolishing the monarchy. Removing the right to rule a county is one thing. Stripping a wealthy family from all their holdings seems to go a bit too far by any measure in a civilized society that values the concept of personal property.
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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by psychoslave on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:38AM (#26087578)
>Stripping a wealthy family from all their holdings seems to go a bit too far by any measure in a civilized society that values the concept of personal property.

The concept of personal property can perfectly accommodate of a limit in how much a individual person can personally own, especially in regard to the distribution of wealth in the whole population.

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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by MagnumOpus on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @06:45AM (#26088008)
> Stripping a wealthy family from all their holdings

An Act of Parliament could just ascertain that the Windsors exempting each other from Inheritance tax was unlawful, and ask the new Republican Revenue & Tax office to assess 40% IHT on every historical generational transfer of assets.

Just redressing the historical injustices that the Windsors benefitted from would strangely make them much less rich.

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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by Nullabillity on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:44AM (#26087614)
Do you let a thief keep the stuff they stole?
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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by girvo on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @07:54AM (#26088454)
Historically, it seems to depend on how long ago they stole it.
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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by MockObject on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:27AM (#26090412)
Logically too, when the crime victims may have died centuries or even millennia ago.
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