Bretonia's Political System and Parties

[jammi]

What exact role does Queen Carina have, in the first place? If she has little to no power, she's just a puppet in the Parliment's hands. If she can block every possible thing made by the Parliment on the other hand, that's not the Constitutional Monarchy.

The latter is the reason why King/Queen of England do not have any real power.

Ask and ye shall receive.

Constitutional monarchy doesn't mean the monarch has no powers. That's often the case in modern constitutional monarchies, because the idea of a monarch actually doing things is archaic in the extreme and doesn't mesh particularly well with current democratic ideals. Frankly, doing it any other way would be embarrassing on an international level, when dealing with other 1st world democracies.

(un)Fortunately, Bretonia isn't the modern world and has a vastly more powerful Queen than the one the UK is used to. All constitutional monarchy means is that the monarch's powers are clearly codified in an immutable fashion (whether that be through an actual constitution or merely by legislation and treaties as with the real UK), meaning they can't make things up as they go along, i.e. absolute monarchy.

In Bretonia, the Queen has fairly far ranging powers, most of which are laid out in the document I linked to.