In a landmark move, Denmark will put its traditional rules for royal succession to a public referendum on 7 June 2009. The plan to challenge this historic procedure has been in place for more than 3 years, but Denmark’s Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has finally announced the date of the public vote.
According to Rasmussen, the reason for the challenge is that Denmark is trying to create a truly equal society. To properly achieve that, the same sense of equality must be reflected in the nation’s monarchy.
Presently, the male children of the king or queen have priority to the throne over any daughters, regardless of their age. The Copenhagen Post reports that the new law would grant this privilege to the first-born child of the king and queen no matter what their gender. It’s a major step forward in what is seen as an ancient and traditionally male-dominated process.
Such is the magnitude of the referendum that it had to be passed twice by parliament, both before and after the national election, to ensure that it was welcomed. Now that this part has been approved, at least 40 percent of Danes must vote in the referendum next June for it to be valid; and at least 50 percent of the voters must choose to pass the referendum before it can be law.
I say bring back the guillotine!
Just incase you donnot know anything about your country.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/8684351/Denmark-Political-Aggravation-Dirty-Monarchy
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First of all, never been a Monarchy whom kings and Queens are elected. If that will happened it was a government of puppetry and extreme falsifications of extreme perjury against sovereignty and it’s citizenries.
Point One: Never been A so called Hereditary Monarchy that is governed by A commoner through a political corrupt coverted election. No matter all you can say that this constitution of yours is a constitutional Monarchy by definition. Monarchy by definition alone is already a crime of sedition ,identity theft and counterfeit and already a crime committed. If these citizentry of this country just make themselves ignorant of these political aggravations. The government of this country must have been so facist in citizenry mal education. Deny the entire country from truth accessability.
Point two: Monarchy regardless of constitution defines hereditary succession by statute primogeniture. Means the successor is not currently citizen of this country and bloody foreigner from Monarch’s other country dominium. And these statute has been a cemented marbled constitution and by laws ratified 1947 after WW2 In couirt Or5der Promulgations by United Nations Council with NATO Alliance and confederation of Duchess. To corrupt these traety means legitimate war of succession. And that even war cannot be declared on that country since its current puppet wanna be monarch has been from the beginning falsificated. Manarchy country in this case are often time capitulated in their current standard constitution sanctioned banned reduced to 5th world. We could say the Engalnd and Denmark will be onother 5th World 5years from now and for it’s inevitable.
Why cant we citizenry learn our lessons of Monarchy from school. The Monarchy of our fore fathers was never been t obsolete to fight for our freedom and justified right , what was obsolete today is our American Monarchy of republic of gangsterism wanna be commoners in perjury of mixed up medals of kremeans and catholics’s saints fashion out of prostitution! Signed: leahlancaster
Good point! Daniel, a monarchy can only be fair if anyone can be elected king. The entire idea of a monarchy is un-democratic in it’s foundation, and anytalk of equality must include equality for all, not only if you happen to be born by certain parents.
Equality within a monarchy? I am from Spain and this debate also took place in my country. I feel it is nonsense to change that, since monarchy itself is anything but equality, so who cares about a prince having priority over a princess if the rest of the citizens of the country have none at all?
Dare we hope someone will put forth a new constitution, without any mention of a monarchy what so ever? I suppose not.