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Responding to your question on my talk page... see MetaFilter. It was a dumb question, as I didn't know what a "slithy tove" was, and now I do - so it's not exactly a user name that only person would come up with. :) –Outriggr § 04:04, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Re: Your query on the Papua New Guinea talk page as to the form of government edit
You said: "The CIA World Factbook (definately a reputable source)[1] states the government type of Papua New Guinea as "constitutional parliamentary democracy" whereas this article states it as a "Constitutional monarchy". Are these the same, or what is going on here? However much I may like Wikipedia, I would be more apt to believe the CIA World Factbook, and therefore change the wording used here. If these are however two words for the same, there is no point. Can anybody help with this? Slithytove2 02:05, 2 January 2007 (UTC)"
- The CIA World Factbook is as you say "definately" [sic] a reputable source but if you consult its entries on most parliamentary democracies, whether or not they have a monarch as head of state, it is often rather confused on the niceties of constitutional arrangements in such countries. (It is, further, self-evidently extremely brief and cannot get into detail.) A constitutional parliamentary democracy is, at least in the anglophone world, a system of "cabinet" or "responsible" government on the model of the parliament of the United Kingdom. Many such countries, such as India and Ireland, have abolished the monarchy and replaced it with a non-executive president; they may be called "republics" but the term is misleading as it may imply to some that the system of government is one of separation of powers as in the USA where the executive branch of government is separately elected and not responsible to the legislature. Where they have not abolished the monarch (Papua New Guinea, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK itself, among others) such parliamentary democracies are often called constitutional monarchies. Both terms are correct. I hope this helps. Masalai 19:32, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
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