England is a Republic or Monarchy? Please explain.

Question

So the Prime Minister is #1 in charge? and it is not a republic?

Answer 1

England stopped being a monarchy after the rule of King Charles I.  Monarchy was replaced by a republic known as the Commonwealth of England from 1649-1653.  Oliver Cromwell and his son ran a government known as "the Protectorate which failed and exiled Charles II was called to regain the monarchy in 1660.  Today the Parliament of Britain and the Prime Minister have ultimate power.  The queen is still the head of the Government, but has limited power.  England has a system of checks and balances not unlike the United States.

Answer 2

It's a monarchy.

The English cannot be trusted to elect their own Head of State so the job always goes to the same family.

No English child can ever aspire to be the leader of their country unless they have been born into this one family

Answer 3

Quick geography lesson: the United Kingdom consists of the island of Great Britain (on which is England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland.

The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and representative democracy. The people elect the members of the House of Commons. The leader of the largest political party in the Commons is asked by the monarch to form a government and become the Prime Minister.

The government is accountable to Parliament which is accountable to the people. The monarch is a purely ceremonial head of state and only becomes important if democracy is threatened. For example, if a tyrannical Prime Minister ever managed to get to power, the monarch would be the only one who could remove such a PM and call an election. This is what happened in Thailand after the 1981 coup, when the King stepped in to restore democracy. In a sense, the UK's unelected head of state is democracy's last line of defense.

Answer 4

Britain is a Constitutional Monarchy.  That is, although the Queen is our head of state, she does not wield political power, which is in th ehands of the Prime minister and members of parliament.  The Queen does have regular meetings with the Prime Minister, however, at which she advises him.

We are a democracy of a sort, since we vote our members of parliament into pwoer, however as a people we have no other power, and once the ministers have been elected they can do what they like, the people are not consulted. In this way, they have been able to inflict all sorts of abominations on us, like the decimal system, the metric system, the EU etc.  In a real democracy, we would have been able to vote on these issues.

Answer 5

Constitutional Monarchy because the Queen is the Head of State but the Prime Minister and the House of Lords and House of Commons are the powers to be  

Answer 6

England is a Monarchy!

The monarchy of the United Kingdom (commonly referred to as the British monarchy) is a system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories; the terms British monarch and British monarchy may also mean different things in different contexts beyond the United Kingdom.

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. It alone has parliamentary sovereignty, conferring it ultimate power over all other political bodies in the UK and its territories. At its head is the Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II.

The parliament is bicameral, with an upper house, the House of Lords, and a lower house, the House of Commons.[1] The Queen is the third component of Parliament.[2] The House of Lords includes two different types of members: the Lords Spiritual (the senior bishops of the Church of England) and the Lords Temporal (members of the Peerage); its members are not elected by the population at large but are appointed by past or current governments. The House of Commons is a democratically elected chamber with elections to it held at least every 5 years. The two Houses meet in separate chambers in the Palace of Westminster (commonly known as the "Houses of Parliament"), in the City of Westminster in London. By constitutional convention, all government ministers, including the Prime Minister, are members of the House of Commons or, less often, the House of Lords, and are thereby accountable to the respective branches of the legislature.

Answer 7

England is a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and hence a monarchy.  Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is the Head of State.  The Prime Minister is the head of Government.  

Answer 8

Dave Spider Monkey Renewed  is correct. Constitutional monarchy. Although we have a parliament which enacts legislation, the Queen/ruling monarch is head of state and of the armed forces and has to give her ascent to any legislation passed by parliament. She also has the power to ask a part leader to form a government. She also has the power to dismiss a government although in reality she never would do so.

Answer 9

Yes I would say so since the the people elect the House of Commons. but not totally since the House of Lords is appointed and the Prime Minister is decided by the Ruling party

The queens jobs is useless its just a figurehead for Official events and should be abolished

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