Talk:Succession to the Crown Bill

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Is it possible to say something about the likelihood of this Bill going through? Pcb21| Pete 22:03, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I dunno. Is it? Will it get a free vote, or will it be whipped?

James F. (talk) 04:05, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Philip Benwell MBE, National Chairman of the Australian Monarchist League has written to the Clerk to Parliaments of the United Kingdom, as well as to the Speakers of all the Commonwealth Realms, to advise that: "the Bill entitled the 'Succession to the Crown Bill (HL)', the Second Reading of which is scheduled for the 14th January 2005, is unconstitutional under the terms of the Statute of Westminster which specifically states: "And whereas it is meet and proper to set out by way of preamble to this Act that, inasmuch as the Crown is the symbol of the free association of the members of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and as they are united by a common allegiance to the Crown, it would be in accord with the established constitutional position of all the members of the Commonwealth in relation to one another that any alteration in the law touching the Succession to the Throne or the Royal Style and Titles shall hereafter require the assent as well of the Parliaments of all the Dominions as of the Parliament of the United Kingdom."

[edit] The Bill has been dropped.

The Succession to the Crown Bill (HL) has been dropped because of difficulties in getting agreement from all 16 Realms on the measures.

There is still the Common's version of the bill, but this is likely to be dropped soon too.

I think this proves that constitutional reform in the UK is practically impossible!!

[edit] cognatic

Sadly, Ashley Y has decided to take the less than clear term "cognatic primogeniture" around here, not respecting the need of the encyclopedia to use terms which have better consensus about its meaning. cognatic seems to be controversial term re precise definition, therefore a term having more consensus of its meaning should be used. Particularly here because the primogeniture system now used in UK has also been called "cognatic". 213.243.176.92 17:54, 4 May 2005 (UTC)