{"id":11861,"date":"2011-10-31T09:17:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T13:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11861"},"modified":"2011-10-31T10:52:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T14:52:41","slug":"british-constitutional-quirk-prince-charles-has-a-limited-veto-over-some-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/31\/british-constitutional-quirk-prince-charles-has-a-limited-veto-over-some-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"British constitutional quirk: Prince Charles has a limited veto over some legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when I think the British system of government compares poorly to that of Terry Pratchett&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Ankh-Morpork#Politics\" target=\"_blank\">Ankh-Morpork<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2011\/oct\/30\/prince-charles-offered-veto-legislation\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> charming little hangover from medieval times, for instance:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ministers have been forced to seek permission from Prince Charles to pass at least a dozen government bills, according to a <em>Guardian<\/em> investigation into a secretive constitutional loophole that gives him the right to veto legislation that might affect his private interests.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2005, ministers from six departments have sought the Prince of Wales&#8217; consent to draft bills on everything from road safety to gambling and the London Olympics, in an arrangement described by constitutional lawyers as a royal &#8220;nuclear deterrent&#8221; over public policy. Unlike royal assent to bills, which is exercised by the Queen as a matter of constitutional law, the prince&#8217;s power applies when a new bill might affect his own interests, in particular the Duchy of Cornwall, a private \u00a3700m property empire that last year provided him with an \u00a318m income.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the government nor Clarence House will reveal what, if any, alterations to legislation Charles has requested, or exactly why he was asked to grant consent to such a wide range of laws.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when I think the British system of government compares poorly to that of Terry Pratchett&#8217;s Ankh-Morpork. This charming little hangover from medieval times, for instance: Ministers have been forced to seek permission from Prince Charles to pass at least a dozen government bills, according to a Guardian investigation into a secretive constitutional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,84,7,9],"tags":[396,458],"class_list":["post-11861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-government","category-history","category-law","tag-monarchy","tag-parliament"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-35j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11863,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861\/revisions\/11863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}