humanities.philosophy.objectivism

On Apr 4, 2:34 am, Reggie Perrin wrote:
> On 3 Apr, 22:33, Charles Bell wrote:
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> > On Apr 3, 2:07 pm, Reggie Perrin wrote:
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> > > On 3 Apr, 13:30, Charles Bell wrote:
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> > > > I am in favor of a sort of English Law Lords (placed in the Senate, no
> > > > longer directly elected, as originally intended) method of judicial
> > > > last resort.  Stupidly, and, I might add, at the direction of
> > > > leftists, the British Parliment is doing away with the Law Lords and
> > > > giving themselves a Supreme Court.
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> > > Yeah, fused powers -- *that's* the way to secure liberty!
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> > The problem in Britain is that its Executive is divided between a Head
> > of State who is merely a tourist attraction and a Head of Government
> > who is merely a political party functionary, and all real power is
> > entirely in the legislature.  To compound the problem by devolving
> > power to another political branch, but which is not beholden to the
> > people (IOW, cronyism), is not going to help.
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> Wrong way round, actually. The problem is that too much
> power is concentrated in the executive.


The "executive" Prime Minister can be dismissed in a matter of minutes
by his own party or the House of Commons at large. The House of Lords
can now be entirely constituted by the House of Commons, and the new
Supreme Court may be entirely constituted by the House of Commons by a
circuitous route only thinly veiling the origins. The appointment to
the new Supreme Court by the Monarch as Head of State is a farce as
the Queen is a rubber stamp for the Prime Minister [or technically the
Judicial Appointments Commission], and this will apply to the new
House of Lords once all the hereditary peers die off. At a national
level, there will be effectively no separation of powers in Britain.
It is only appearance that matters here, in that the Law Lords was not
*seen* as separate from the legislative branch, it being in the House
of Lords, but the House of Lords used to be distinct from the politics
of the House of Commons, which, it, of course, has not been for a very
long time.