Vandal,
now you are just making things up. New Zealand doesn’t have a writen constitution so they can’t vote to change it.
What particular part of the English constitution could be changed with a vote of 51%. I would be interested to know.
Regards Herman
Hello All,
Two things,
Firstly, I am a Brit, and I have heard of KISS before. It is also used in the British military and the ‘Stupid’ part of the acronym refers to the content of the lesson, not as an adjective describing the student.
Secondly, the Welsh Assembly, the body governing the Principality of Wales, was created in 1999 based on a 51% majority of a vote comprising only 49% of those eligible to vote. So that’s 25% of the population voting ‘YES’ a little less voting ‘NO’ and the rest of them not giving a damn one way or the other. The vote took place because the 20% Welsh-speaking minority of the Principality were the loudest in voicing their objections at the destruction of their culture and heritage resulting from direct rule from Westminster in London.
Result, a new constitution – ta ra!!! Democracy in action.
Ian
Originally posted by Player
As a frequent visitor, I set my settings to only show threads active for a certain number of days. Until I set it to “from the beginning” or whatever it’s called, all the Library stuff simply didn’t show up for me. Pain.
Point taken, although the Library is set to show posts “from the beginning” by default and I think most people don’t change that setting. Of course I could be wrong on that.
Delete the Permanent “Welcome to the New Forum” after putting whatever relevant information on the other permanent “Help” thread and have a Games Filling thread with Admin-Only rights Permanent at the top of this forum … Always on top, always up to date, same old forum without having to surf and search.
Good idea, I will do this.
That’s a seperate website…how do you get there from halo5.net/meforums…?
There’s a link at the bottom of every page that says “Home Page” which takes you there. Personally, I bookmark http://forums.halo5.net and click on “View new posts” to see the latest threads.
Not all nations have a constitution but of course does that mean they are Banana Republics?
Please clarify what law in the UK may not be changed by its the current powers in office, that do not require a majority vote to be elcted.
Minorities can win the first past the post system here and dont require any other mandate to change our Laws.
Enough said since my interest revolves around those things that effect me.
You will note the Privy Council no longer applies in New Zealand and a fundamental change of its Legal Powers has just happened on a vote with was it one or two majority?
sShould the Supreme Court in the States be disbanded I am sure there would be more of a fuss but there you go.
New Zelealand still has something running it, may not be a constitution but it just changed.
Now you still think I am making it up or you want to give me gospel and verse on how you know more about the UK than I do.
Vandal
Changing a law is dramatically different to changing the constitution. A law is enacted in the Wesminster system by a majority vote in both houses and is then passed into law by Her Majesty Mrs Queen. To change the constitution (the covenents by which the laws must conform) requires (and I have never seen one less either in sporting clubs or government bodies) a 2/3 majority of all eligable voters.(who is responsible for voting and how will depend on what is in the constitution itself) This is why it is so hard to change a constitution. Getting that 2/3 of the total elegable vote to get the change over the line. Amending a constitution is usually a slightly different process again.
Regards Herman 
This poll, and this thread, clearly have nothing more to add to this forum, so I’m going to lock it and let it die the slow death of so many other posts since it appears to be degenerating into nothing more than a flame-farm.