Spain spent three years training Princess Leonor to command its army, navy, and air force. The constitution she'll defend still says a younger brother would have outranked her.
Article 57, written in 1978, preserves male-preference succession. Leonor is heir because King Felipe had two daughters and no sons. If a boy had been born in 2007 instead of her sister Sofía, he would have jumped the line at birth, and the 20-year-old who just graduated from three military academies would be a footnote.
Governments have promised to fix the clause since 2005. None has touched it. Changing that section requires two-thirds of both chambers, dissolving parliament, two-thirds of the new chambers, then a national referendum. A referendum touching the monarchy invites a referendum on the monarchy. So the clause stays.
Spain solved it the other way: make the question unaskable. One year at the Zaragoza army academy. Six months at sea on the Juan Sebastián de Elcano. A year flying at San Javier, graduating July 10 as the first person in Spanish history with officer training in all three branches. Build an heir so overqualified that nobody dares invoke the rule.
The last reigning queen, Isabella II, was driven out by revolution in 1868. Her successor will hold supreme command of the armed forces under a constitution that ranked her second to a brother who was never born.
Se les debe decir más seguido a tanto chavito conservador en México que son demasiado pobres para ser conservadores.
No les alcanza para ser hombres tradicionales. No les alcanza para una trad wife ni ser sustento de una familia si apenas pueden con su propia renta.
si alguna mujer ve este tuit, por favor, estudia, estudia todo lo que puedas porque el sistema te quiere pendeja, nos quiere idiotas. Por favor, no dejes de cuestionarte las cosas.