Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in...
by karmajunkie on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:10AM
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did you perhaps mean 1914? i’m not a historian but i DID watch Hamilton a few times and it really seemed like King George had quite a lot of power and authority…
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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in...
by yakubin on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:30AM
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Particularly since Elisabeth I came long after that date. It’s definitely not 1414.
Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in...
by whoooooo123 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @11:20AM
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I'd say it's 1688: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution
Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in...
by pmyteh on Thursday October 20, 2022 @02:47PM
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Other possible choices are 1708 (last example of the monarch refusing royal consent to an act of parliament, Queen Anne on the Scottish Militia Bill), or 1834 (last example of the monarch dismissing their government, William IV sacking the Whigs; he had to have them back in 1835 as the Tories he installed couldn't command a majority of the Commons).
Or you can point to things like the Kerr Sacking (in Australia, but using (vice-)regal power) and say it's not quite done yet, though in decline for centuries...
Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in...
by triceratops on Thursday October 20, 2022 @02:53PM
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I often wonder if George was merely the figurehead for colonial frustrations. After all, Parliament precipitated the revolution by insisting that they had the power to tax the colonies.