In our introductory post we stated that the UK monarchy is controversial. Let’s quickly look at the reasons why.
1 – No-one should be born into power
The concept of ‘from the people, for
the people, by the people’ (and the much more succinct ‘Liberté, égalité,
fraternité’) is based on the idea that no-one should be in a position of
authority merely because of who their ancestors were. The fact that the next
three people to be Head of State have already been determined, regardless of their
capabilities or values, can be difficult to accept.
