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The Key West Citizen
Key West, Monroe County, Florida
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Last week, Britain crowned King George VI as the new monarch of the British Empire, ruling over 500 million people and one-fourth of the globe's land surface. The article discusses the constitutional monarchy's democratic aspects and the reason for the change from King Edward.
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Last week the British crowned a new king, the titular ruler of 500,000,000 people and the sovereign of about one-fourth of the land surface of the globe.
Americans find it hard to understand the trappings of royalty that bedeck a democratic country, which leads the United States in application of social security laws and even now prepares to take over the coal mines of the nation as a governmental enterprise.
While His Majesty, George VI, rules the British Empire in theory he does so, in fact, according to the advice tendered him by countless representatives of the people.
Thus the King speaks the popular mind as interpreted by the elected spokesmen of his people in many parts of his realm and, in other areas, acts through administrators trying to introduce representative institutions.
What happens when the King does not follow the advice of elected officials explains why it is now King George and not King Edward!
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British Empire
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Last Week
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king george vi crowned as new monarch instead of king edward due to not following advice of elected officials.
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The British crowned a new king, George VI, titular ruler of 500,000,000 people and sovereign of about one-fourth of the globe's land surface. He rules the British Empire in theory but in fact according to advice from representatives of the people. The King speaks the popular mind as interpreted by elected spokesmen and acts through administrators introducing representative institutions. The change from King Edward occurred because he did not follow the advice of elected officials.