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Old January 8, 2013, 04:46 PM   #35
Scouse
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Ben Towe - Actually your average UK citizen is not technically a subject.

If you are bothered about the legal intricacies:
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/br...itishsubjects/

We are not subjects in a technical sense, and really we are not in any other sense either. The monarch has been functionally irrelevant to UK politics for centuries and has essentially no power. What power the monarch does have is exercised strictly at the direction of the elected government.

You may disagree and say that if there is a monarch there are subjects, and that is a fair enough position, but that is how I see it anyway.

Beautiful part of the world you are from by the way, I love Middle Tennessee, it is where I learned to shoot.
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