Word: monarchism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over all of the realms, Elizabeth II will reign but not govern; as a constitutional monarch, her political rights were classically defined by Political Scientist Walter Bagehot in 1867, as three: "to be consulted, to encourage, to warn." In addition, as Sir Winston Churchill remarked, "she is also heir to all our united strength and loyalty . . . Thus we go forward, moving together in freedom and hope, spread across the oceans and under every sky and climate though...
...noted fretfully in his diary, after a 20-minute, opening-of-Parliament speech, that the crown "gave me an awful headache." After Ireland got dominion status, he observed, in the tone of an Alice-in-Wonderland monarch: "It is a bore having to change one's title, but I suppose it is inevitable...
After thinking it over, Nazimuddin decided that he would not challenge Ghulam Mohammad's "unconstitutional" use of the monarch's prerogative. But he held firm on one point: he would not leave the Prime Minister's residence until someone found him a new house-a difficult task in overcrowded Karachi...
...perhaps Nazimuddin had a point. Ghulam Mohammad succeeded to the governor-generalship when Nazimuddin stepped down in 1951. Now that Ghulam Mohammad had the title, however, he was Queen Elizabeth's official representative in the British Dominion of Pakistan and in the theory of British government has the monarch's delegated power to dismiss or appoint ministers and governments (in England, no monarch since the days of George III had dared invoke that power without the sanction of Parliament). Pakistan, however, is a special case: only 5½ years a nation, it functions under the 1935 Government...
...stage whisper, Mossadegh complained of court intrigues, threatened to resign and "go to the people" for a showdown. As it had before, the threat won him an invitation to talk it over with the Shah. For four hours the fiery old demagogue and the uncertain young monarch conferred. Quickly the secret got out-Mossadegh had persuaded the Shah to leave Iran-ostensibly for a vacation, possibly as the first step toward abdication...