>Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 06:56:03 -0400 >From: "David H. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: The "S" word again > >I thought Australia had voted to continue to recognize the British >monarch as their monarch also. Am I remembering things wrong? Was it >maybe New Zealand? > >Mark D. Lew wrote: > >> At 6:52 PM 07/10/02, Peter Castine wrote: >> >> >>>[...] which is not surprising given Sibelius' long-standing >>>dominance in anglophone constitutional monarchies. >>> >> >> OK, I'll bite. Aside from the UKoGBaNI, what else would you call an >> anglophone constitutional monarchy? Lesotho? Tonga?
OK, I haven't checked for a long time. According to the CIA World Factbook <http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/as.html#Govt> ----- Country name: conventional long form: Commonwealth of Australia conventional short form: Australia Government type: democratic, federal-state system recognizing the British monarch as sovereign ----- Sounds like a constitutional monarchy to me. Would a rose by any other name smell more sweet? On to <http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/nz.html#Govt> ----- Country name: conventional long form: none conventional short form: New Zealand abbreviation: NZ Government type: parliamentary democracy ----- OK, I must have missed the news on this one. But Queen Elizabeth II is *still* listed as chief of state. I got a minor surprise to read that Canada's chief of state is still HRH (represented by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson). Basically, what I meant in my previous message was "any country that uses a fifty-year-old silhouette of Queen E. II on their postage stamps." Any more complaints? Cheers, Peter -------------------- <http://www.bek.no/~pcastine/> -------------------- Peter Castine | The Litter Power Pro Bundle is now available! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | <http://www.bek.no/~pcastine/Litter/> | for further information and download links _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
