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They write this in their statement of principles, except expressed the opposite way around: https://www.republic.org.uk/statement_of_principles



Reading these, it strongly smells like they started with the answer and then worked backwards. It's not at all clear how you can start from the enumerated of rights and end up with "replace the crown with an elected policitian".

Similarly, there's a lot of hand-waving and contradiction. "The will of the people should be the basis of the authority of government." contradicts "Citizens have the right to be protected from tyranny, whether the tyranny of one or the tyranny of the majority;". If the will of the people is to deport all black people, then which institution is going to protect them? What protects that institution from being dismantled by the will of the people?

I'm no monarchist, but the republican movement really needs to put a bit more effort in than that. This stuff is hard.




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