The Empire Parnell Built
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No. The situation is kind of similar to Mussolini and the Italian monarchy OTL
TTL Mozambique is part of a single colony of Angola containing OTL Angola, Mozambique, Zambia and Malawi
From what I had the holder of the Duchy of Wellington during the 1930's was a pretty unpleasant fellow?
I would say unpleasant is rather underselling it, this was the man that said, and I'm quoting directly here, that World War II was the fault of "anti-appeasers and the f**cking Jews"
You are quite right of course, I think I have a tendacy to undersell things.
On the other hand, his successor died in Italy as a Commando.
Fair enough. Slight misspeaking on my part: I meant in the sense of the House and the Speaker evolving in a more Westminster direction…
Yeah, I don't think that would depower the senate though, there are plenty of Westminster-style governments with powerful upper houses, Australia and India coming to mind right away. I find it highly unlikely that the US Senate, given the POD, would become a weakened body. It would still be the primary vehicle of the South to resist Civil Rights as a first example.
The only situation I can see it happening is if the Seventeenth Amendment never passed, meaning senators were still directly appointed by the states. In that scenario, I could see the body being forced to become somewhat like the House of Lords, allowed to question, and delay, and review, but little more by force of convention
"Such an undemocratic body can't be allowed to control too much" being the view. But even them, just given the nature of US politics, I really don't see why the senate would allow itself to be eroded.
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