wejo wrote:
I was about to say the US couldn't join the Commonwealth because that would mean we would have to agree to the Queen being our head of state.
I now see that is wrong. 16 countries in the Commonwealth have the Queen as Head of State but many don't.
Did you all know the Queen of England is also the Queen of Canada?
I've talked to Canadians who didn't know the Queen was the head of state of their country.
No.
Canada is a constitutional monarchy.
The crown is head of state.
Since Oliver Cromwell, the crown's power is in the City of London Corp's hands.
The City of London Corp. is one square mile within the city and is not part of the United Kingdom (never was), and has it's own charter.
The city of of London corp set up the Commonwealth and with all government operations being Crown corporation, meaning subsidiaries. Thus the Bank of Canada, Australia and so on are run out of London.
Who controls the city of London corp?
Go to Wikipedia and all the corporations are listed there.
The major (root) shareholders of the big companies are the ones who are effectively the crown.
In the 1800's everyone knew who the crown was. After several generations people again believed the urban peasant myth the queen was the crown and that parliament ran the country.
If you wish to learn more, just pick up a book on British law, how it all works is described literally. look deep into Cromwell, how the financiers (City of London and Amsterdam transplants) backed him to take out the crown, and how the financiers took out Cromwell and installed a puppet monarchy. thus the takeover was complete.
The parliamentary system while holding some power, is not a deciding force in any matter of great importance.
Which to say that these types governments are neither a monarchy nor a democracy. The be fascist regimes.
And thus the American revolution was a struggle between the City of London Corp. and the upstart money men in the original 13 colonies.
Look up who signed the Declaration of Independence.
All of them were merchants, lawyers and staff of the major money players in the 13 colonies.