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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8598259" data-attributes="member: 42582">The contemporary UK is a first-past-the-post unicameral electoral democracy. The bicameralism is an illusion - as per the Parliament Acts of 1911 and 1949 the role of the House of Lords is ultimately procedural. The concession by the monarch that underpinned the enactment of the first of the Parliament Acts reveals that the monarchy is ultimately a matter of form, not substance: the Prime Minister has the constitutional power to lead a &quot;revolution&quot; simply by majority vote in the House of Commons.I've never heard of a fantasy monarchy, in a D&amp;D-type world, that resembles the contemporary UK, and for my part would find it anachronistic unless the goal was some sort of urban or modern fantasy. Off the top of my head I can't think of a fantasy monarchy even that looks like 18th century Britain or contemporary Morocco, but I'm not that widely read in the genre, and such a thing would to me be a bit less anachronistic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8598259, member: 42582"] The contemporary UK is a first-past-the-post unicameral electoral democracy. The bicameralism is an illusion - as per the Parliament Acts of 1911 and 1949 the role of the House of Lords is ultimately procedural. The concession by the monarch that underpinned the enactment of the first of the Parliament Acts reveals that the monarchy is ultimately a matter of form, not substance: the Prime Minister has the constitutional power to lead a "revolution" simply by majority vote in the House of Commons. I've never heard of a fantasy monarchy, in a D&D-type world, that resembles the contemporary UK, and for my part would find it anachronistic unless the goal was some sort of urban or modern fantasy. Off the top of my head I can't think of a fantasy monarchy even that looks like 18th century Britain or contemporary Morocco, but I'm not that widely read in the genre, and such a thing would to me be a bit less anachronistic. [/QUOTE]

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