Quote Originally Posted by Pelopidas
And...I absolutly not understand the intervention of sir Edward on this subject... military defeats and political changes_even civil wars_ doesn't indicate that this country doesn't exist.
The US have done more than 40 amendments to their constitution in their short existence, is it not the same thing that changing the constitution ?

The political system of the United Kingdoms in 1900 wasn't even democratic, and became only a few years after...so the England of queen Victoria is not the same country than the England of the Beattles ? :]
Well france actually changed it's entire goverment, like the weimar changed to the 3rd reich. The US has always been the US.

And britian not democratic untill 1900? Please don't be a idiot. England had had a powerfull parliment since the cival war in the 1600's. I always find it annoying when people assume that a counry with a monarch is not democratic.
Infact by the 1920's every person in the UK could vote (It was changed so all women could vote), some 40 years before the same happend to the US.