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Fnord666
on Wednesday January 03 2018, @06:24PM
from the a-rolling-stone-gathers-no-ellsberg dept.
from the a-rolling-stone-gathers-no-ellsberg dept.
The Rolling Stone has run a web version of its 1973 interview with Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg is the former US military analyst who blew the whistle on the Nixon administration's misdeeds regarding the Vietnam War. Specfically he photocopied an extensive, secret study and gave it to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and later to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and nearly a score of other newspapers. These documents he released became known as the Pentagon Papers eventually published as excerpts and commentaries by The New York Times. Both The New York Times and The Rolling Stone have since drifted from that kind of coverage and the article provides an interesting contrast to how those publications are now.
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(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday January 04 2018, @05:16AM (1 child)
It might well apply to a constitutional monarchy, being less familiar with them I did not mention them and do not take a position on it.
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(Score: 2) by dry on Thursday January 04 2018, @07:03AM
Of course China is a republic, and has been since they got rid of the Emperor. What they are not is a Constitutional Representative Democracy.
As for Constitutional Monarchies, they're not much different then Constitutional Republics. Generally the Constitution is the highest law in the land and limits the powers of the government, the Constitution may contain a bill of rights, the courts may have the power to strike down laws due to not being Constitutional and the Constitution is not trivial to change. Generally they are Parliamentary systems where the government is formed by the legislature which is responsible to the people through elections.
There are also monarchies such as the UK where instead of a written Constitution, they have a bunch of traditions forming an unwritten constitution. The problem there is it is too easy for the government to remove rights.