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This guy should write another piece explaining why England is a republic since the Magna Carta, with senators wily enough to pilfer Augustus' "The Republic is functioning regularly" and make it "The Monarchy is functioning regularly" (except for the occasional termination with great prejudice of 'monarchs' who got ideas).

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I’m not sure if you’re joking (sorry), but a ‘crowned republic’ [0] is definitely a common way to characterise the effective political system of many constitutional monarchies today — in particular the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowned_republic

> why England is a republic since the Magna Carta

You'd have a much better case if you went with "since the Civil War" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War) or "since the Glorious Revolution" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution)...

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