The primary problem for expanding the House of Commons (and Lords for that Matter) to include the colonies was practicality: the travel time for physical communication. The alternative was to return power to the monarchy and run the colonies as separate governments. We didn’t.
Source date (UTC): 2019-08-21 15:39:51 UTC
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Understand? We were wrong. We had the perfect form of government. It just didn’t reform fast enough given the rate of colonial expansion.
Constitution, Monarchy, Supreme Court, House of Lords (Territories), House of Commons (Business), and Church (house of family).
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Understand? We were wrong. We had the perfect form of government. It just didn’t reform fast enough given the rate of colonial expansion.
Constitution, Monarchy, Supreme Court, House of Lords (Territories), House of Commons (Business), and Church (house of family).
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