http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/3005/robin-burls Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 27 May 2026 20:39:43 -0400 Wed, 27 May 2026 20:39:43 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1171/re-stating-the-case-for-monarchy By Robin Burls - Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Aberystwyth, to open the new extension of the National Library of Wales, has predictably generated considerable furore in the local media, political circles and even the academe. The familiar siren’s song wails for the abolition of the monarchy and optimistically urges the introduction of a political system that is more ‘representative’ and more ‘relevant’ to the British state as it staggers towards the twenty-first century. Now is clearly the time to remind ourselves of the superiority of monarchy as a political... Wed, 01 Jan 1997 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1171/re-stating-the-case-for-monarchy