Posted by: worldwideweb September 1, 2013
Britain votes against war, where is the voting in US?
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@NepaliLaure or Chaure,
The official power or authority to declare war used to be with the Queen before 2003. That is, even if the prime minister wanted to declare war he could not do so without the approval of the Queen. But, because as we know the only people who knew if it was the right time to declare war were the more experienced politicians and not the fat lady, whenever the Government took the approval of war to the queen, she had to sign it. So, legally as George bush was blamed for Iraq war, here Queen would be blamed even if she hadn't decided to wage the war. Hence, to get out of the controversy if there were any, she handed over this authority from the monarchs to the ministry.
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