Match the heading to the short text. Britain is a democracy, yet its people are not, as one might expect in a democracy, constitutionally in control of the state. The constitutional situation is appearantly contradictory. As a result of a historical process, the people of Britain are subjects of the Crown, accepting the Queen as the head of the state. Yet even the Queen is not sovereign in any substantial sense since she receives her authority from Parliament, and is subject to its direction in almost all the matters. This curious situation came about as a result of a long struggle for power between the Crown and the British Parliament during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. THE SYSTEM OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WESTMINSTER THE HOUSE OF LORDS THE HOUSE OF COMMONS PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES THE CROWN A PRETENDER TO THE THRONE PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE WHITEHALL BY THE OLD TRADITION
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Britain is a democracy, yet its people are not, as one might expect in a democracy, constitutionally in control of the state. The constitutional situation is appearantly contradictory. As a result of a historical process, the people of Britain are subjects of the Crown, accepting the Queen as the head of the state. Yet even the Queen is not sovereign in any substantial sense since she receives her authority from Parliament, and is subject to its direction in almost all the matters. This curious situation came about as a result of a long struggle for power between the Crown and the British Parliament during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries.

  • THE SYSTEM OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
  • WESTMINSTER
  • THE HOUSE OF LORDS
  • THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
  • PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES
  • THE CROWN
  • A PRETENDER TO THE THRONE
  • PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE
  • WHITEHALL
  • BY THE OLD TRADITION

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