Philip Benwell

These are extracts from my various writings and in particular from my two books on the Australian Constitution and Crown.

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There is little difference between the rule of law under the Union in Britain today and the rule of law in Vichy (cont) http://t.co/sYjDQR1y

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Whilst it is the Government and the parliament which now decides upon and executes foreign treaties, the (cont) http://t.co/aoKu3ya0

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The democracy we enjoy under the Crown is a total anathema to the dictatorial rule that is the ideal of the (cont) http://t.co/zBJilt10

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Macaulay in his ‘History of England’ written between the years of 1849 to 1861, said: “It is because we (cont) http://t.co/k9yGhCjI

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On the 12th February 1689 parliament drew up a Declaration of Rights affirming the ancient rights and liberties (cont) http://t.co/A5P7eODU

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Politicians use the precedent of Magna Carta which give them the right to tax (No scutage nor aid shall be (cont) http://t.co/N2drHSa4

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The Queen does not receive a salary but is only paid an allowance for costs and the upkeep of the royal (cont) http://t.co/FUEGC4Xq

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As long as people take our hard-won democracy for granted those who are able to manipulate the system for their (cont) http://t.co/nvvDFQne

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Many of the problems we face today are due not to adversity but rather to prosperity, for as the seventeenth (cont) http://t.co/hRmjqY7A

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The 18th century statesman Edmund Burke described the Westminster system as: The King and his faithful subjects, (cont) http://t.co/ZUIzyE4u

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George Orwell once wrote: He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the (cont) http://t.co/oSK5bRzh