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submitted 1 year ago by cyd@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Can he? In general, can/do popes vote in their home countries?

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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Which is made even more confusing by British “countries” (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇯🇪).

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Eh, the British "countries" are countries in name only. They don't really fit any of the usual things people would think of as constituting a country.

In reality, they're constituted like less than the state of a federation like the US, Germany, or Australia. A state has a constitutional right to its governance, and cedes some power to the federal government. The devolved governments of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are rights granted by Westminster, and could be taken away at will. Nothing Biden, or Trump, or Mike Johnson wanted could ever take away Maine's right to its own governance like that.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I know. Hence quotation marks.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Oh right, the “quotation marks”

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

The technical term for quotation marks used that way is "scare quotes".

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