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That’s a pretty specific implementation detail of a few specific democracies that doesn’t really refute anything that the parent comment said.

Like, for example, in the UK (which entirely lacks a formal constitution) the right to govern is literally derived from the most divine source: god himself, through his agent, the Queen.

In practice, despite the quasi-sacred and divine foundations of our government it doesn’t mean jack. If the Queen where to exercise any of her divine powers over the will of the current Parliament it would cause a constitutional crisis and she would have those powers immediately stripped.



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