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Be real- they're not getting representation maybe they can get upgraded from Territory status after Puerto Rico
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loquacius posted:Pfft PR keeps voting not to be a state, there's no line. All the UK would have to do is vote a little better than they just did and they'd get in easy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2012 multi-part question so open to interpretation, but by most indications Statehood is the most popular option, and given the recent budget crisis I think full statehood would be likely to win if it was a straight up or down vote the bigger issue is that there is little reason for a Republican controlled congress to add one or more new states that would be solidly politically aligned with the opposition party, so you'd need large agitation on the parts of the territories, wave elections favoring the Democratic party, or a political realignment
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Jun 29, 2016 19:12
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loquacius posted:well given what just happened in the UK that's certainly not true for them They might be racist enough, but having been sheltered by undemocratic European bureaucracy for the last several decades I'm not sure the average Englishman really has the constitution for the full blast of  FREEDOM inherent in modern U.S. movement conservatism
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Jun 29, 2016 19:23
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Bitter Mushroom posted:do we get guns though? dealbreaker yes, it would be a constitutional right for anyone who wanted one
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Jun 29, 2016 19:34
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Typical Pubbie posted:Is there a law against a state having a monarchy? yes, there is actually a bunch of the constitution dealing with this See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_of_Nobility_Clause and Article One, Section 10 posted:No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. LGD fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Jun 29, 2016 |
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Jun 29, 2016 19:36
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boom boom boom posted:I just figured out how we could make Britain part of the US, and let them keep the queen as their leader while still staying within the constitution's ban on monarchy. Just make her a high school football coach. No, you just absorb most of Britain as a state and create a set of treaties with The Crown that leave it a totally dependent but self-governing quasi-state with complete freedom of movement that consists only of it's properties like Windsor/Buckingham Palace/etc. That way you can still have kings, queens and all of the associated royalty for tourism purposes, but it has no bearing on the actual apparatus of government. Think of it like the Vatican. Or maybe an Indian reservation for royalty.
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Jun 29, 2016 20:16
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spud posted:Buckingham palace is the most expensive house in the world (that noone can actually buy). If we joined the US, probably 50million people would move over and then the Queen would be left in her big, cheap, lovely house, all alone. They can just turn it into a casino. e: loquacius posted:Uhh if any of this were true clearly we wouldn't have a pressing need to make America great again, therefore it is false Lets be real, the average American would be horrified by the execution of the royals and such a move would completely derail any movement for English statehood. After all, they're basically funny foreign celebrities who are Just Like Us when you get down to it. Except royal, which is better. LGD fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Jun 29, 2016 |
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spud posted:Wait, why did you introduce execution? I am unsure what else the suggestion that the English "introduce those royals to Monsieur Guillotine" would be plausibly interpreted as. e: yeah e2: spud posted:This was me back when I worked in NYC in 1999, but lived upstate. It still holds true today. lol wait until they see how far that gets you in the genuinely inexpensive states
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