10-03-2007, 08:10 PM
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| Partisan  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Los Angeles Gender:  Posts: 9,641 Country:  Points: 29,811, Level: 99 | Level up: 89%, 189 Points needed |  |  Quote:
Originally Posted by waitingtables  They are constitutional monarchies, not the kind that was in England at the time of our founding. Those monarchies were still the ultimate power. | Britain has had a Constitutional monarchy since the 13th century, beginning with King John signing the Magna Carta in 1215, a document which embodies many legal tenets that even today underpin the legal system of the United States.
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