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In reply to the discussion: Ginsburg: 'Radical' Hobby Lobby Ruling May Create 'Havoc' [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)fasttense
At least in our monarchy the king are not a political leader - he is sort of a figurehead who is king for all of his subjects - and have no real power when it come to how the country are run - on a political level at least - Of course or king do have some un formal power - but it is seldom used - mostly because the system seen to work as planned and have less turbulence than in many other form of governance it seen
And we do not have any court who play ball with the political system in the country either - our highest court is rather apolitical in its rulings - and it is seldom that our highest court is making any inroad into how the political system works in our country - I doubt we have any "small kings" as in the US, where they can deside on their own more or less from partisan ideology how they want to respond to a change in the country - and it is no doubt in my mind that some of your justices in your highest court is playing politic when on the bench - something that they might not really be allowed to do...
If anything - the kings of old was more decent in their rulings than the current US highest court - and the responsibility if they failed was rather brutal and rash.. I doubt Scalia or Thomas would end up in the business of a arrow or starved to death like Richard the 3th of England did... Even though I believe Scalia could have good use of a decent diet for a while...
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