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Originally Posted by carve
So, if they don't like a bunch of people who still hold the right of absolute power and have the ability to use state money for their own shits and giggles, based entirely on who they're descended from they can just move? That makes more sense than trying to change it?
Inauguration is different. The leader is elected, it's an official function of office, and they're usually relatively modest affairs- a bunch of chairs, a sound system, and a few speakers.
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First of all, they have no power whatsoever; it's merely symbolic (although they do exercise some symbolic diplomatic power in dealing with foreign states, from time to time). And I do believe the vast majority of the Brits (I believe something like 74%) supported having the monarchy -- which is a far greater majority than the support that got our Presidents
elected.
By the way, the cost of Obama's inauguration was, I believe, north of $150M ($49M from federal taxes). Hardly a "modest affair".