> If I remember right, didn't the Queen refuse to give her assent to table this bill to the Parliament?
The Queen, acting upon the advice of her government, refused to grant her consent for the Bill to be debated.
You see how this works? The Queen didn't just decide for herself.
Parliament is sovereign, it can vote to do away with any of these customs and traditions at any time it likes. But we like custom and tradition, it's part of our culture.
> it is only in the last 3 - 4 decades that they are being interpreted more "democratically" in modern parliamentary traditions
That is a ridiculously narrow view. There have been plenty of times we've had constitutional crises. We have an election to resolve them, such as the 1909 finance bill that resolved the issue of which chamber was supreme.
The Queen, acting upon the advice of her government, refused to grant her consent for the Bill to be debated.
You see how this works? The Queen didn't just decide for herself.
Parliament is sovereign, it can vote to do away with any of these customs and traditions at any time it likes. But we like custom and tradition, it's part of our culture.
> it is only in the last 3 - 4 decades that they are being interpreted more "democratically" in modern parliamentary traditions
That is a ridiculously narrow view. There have been plenty of times we've had constitutional crises. We have an election to resolve them, such as the 1909 finance bill that resolved the issue of which chamber was supreme.