Confirm or Deny

Republican repeals

July 11, 2010 by Confirm or Deny

The YourFreedom website lists hundreds of ways in which could be changed but I have decided to take a look at some of the ideas which are consistent with republican principles.

Ideas on the site are supposed to fall into at least one of the following headings:

• restoring civil liberties
• repealing unnecessary laws
• cutting business and third sector regulations

There are a lot of ideas on the site which don’t actually fall under any of the above headings.  I wish to highlight some of the better ideas that republicans might like to support:

separating church and state

• Separate Church of England from State
• remove all Church Measures from the statute book

ending discrimination

• Remove the law making it an offence for Roman Catholics & Jews to advise Queen on matters to do with ecclesiastical offices (a disability not suffered by any other religions)
• Repeal Royal Marriages Act & Amend Act of Succession
• Repeal 1701 Act of Settlement that explicitly discriminates against Roman Catholics

civil liberties

• Repeal the Treason Felony Act
• Modernise the law of treason

steps to a better constitution

• Bill of rights and a written constitution
• repeal Parliamentary Oaths Act 1866
• remove the personal immunity of the monarch

I may need to update this post from time to time.