Stephen Hill: An Interracial Argument Analysis

User Stephen Hill posts a different view:

The monarchy is unelected which renders it unaccountable, and this is extremely undemocratic. It should, therefore be abolished. It's [sic] survival is based on a good PR machine, which seeks to personalise it. As an essentially feudal institution it has no place in our society, nor in our epoch. We have enough celebrities already. (Hill 2015)

The preceding argument is weak based on an error in fact and the fallacy of the sweeping generation. It is the fact that the monarch gets the national power not by election but by heredity (Kostiner 2014); however, the unelected British head of state is not definitely undemocratic. The possibility exists that monarchs may abuse their power to satisfy their personal

First, the premises are acceptable in basis of facts. British constitution is unwritten, which is “an accumulation of various statutes, conventions, judicial decisions and treaties” and the core principle is that “what the Queen in Parliament enacts is law.” (University College London). In this sense, the probability lies that there are no constitutional devices which allow abolishing the monarchy. Furthermore, the statement about British Constitutional Democracy is a priori, which can be known to be true on the basis of meanings of terms that Britain is ruled by laws. What is more, the language employed in this argument is relatively neutral in that they are not emotionally charged.

In addition, this argument is cogent in deductive logic. British constitutional democracy follows the rule of laws, but there are no constitutional devices for abolishing the monarchy, so it is illegal to abolish the monarchy; therefore, the UK should not abolish the monarchy. In short, the deductive logic used in this argument is convincing for the audience. However, there is no positive proof provided by the poster to justify the premise that there are no constitutional devices for abolishing the monarchy. In addition, only one reason is not persuasive for the audience who may not accept