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Most republicans assert that hereditary monarchy is unfair and elitist. They claim
that in a modern and democratic society no one should be expected to differ to
another simply because of their birth.
Monarchy is ethnic-discrimination
By virtue of their narrow breeding mechanisms, most monarchs belong to a clearly
identifiable ethnic group. Thus, members of other ethnic groups are forever denied
a head of state they can directly relate to. This phenomenon produces divided
societies where one ethnic group can, openly or discreetly, boast about their ethnic
link to the royal family and derive from it a sense of superiority.
Monarchy is gender-discriminative
The British Royal Family uses male primogeniture, which means that the crown is
inherited by the eldest son, and is only passed on to a daughter if the monarch has
no sons. If absolute primogeniture were used instead of male primogeniture, the
crown would be passed on to the eldest child irrespective of sex so that daughters
had the same rights as sons. The current method of succession disinherits not only
and the contents of certain memos which were leaked to the press regarding how
people achieve their positions
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