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Bonjour,

Notre professeur nous à donner cette article à commenter comme devoir maison. Nous devons le faire en 2  ou 3 parties et doit être présenté comme un plan détails avec exemples contexte etc... Voici donc le texte : 

If things continue as they are, and Prince Charles succeeds his mother to reign until his death at a ripe old age, then some time around 2040 the young couple getting married in Westminster Abbey tomorrow will be King William V and Queen Catherine. By the sheer accident of birth, William will then be the head of state of whatever is left of today's United Kingdom. Would that be all right? My answer is: in theory, no; in practice, probably yes.
If William and Kate behave themselves, unlike some of the gamier members of Britain's royal family, and contribute to the development of a modernised, slimmed-down constitutional monarchy, this can actually be better than the likely alternatives. As I look across Europe, I don't think countries like Sweden, Holland, Denmark and Spain, all of which have monarchs, are worse off than those that have party politicians directly or indirectly elected to be president. Or would you rather have Buckingham Palace occupied by a President Blair?
(...) These arguments from history, poetry and soft power would have to yield if the existence of a constitutional monarchy seriously distorted the democratic process, made impossible an open society with life chances for all, and held the country back in a stuffy past of hierarchy and privilege. In theory, it does all those things. These are among the reasons why the Guardian has declared itself for a republic, and why many Guardian readers – though not, as a recent Guardian poll revealed, most Brits – would favour the abolition of the monarchy.
In practice, however, I believe it does these bad things only marginally, and far less than it did 30 years ago, when Charles and Diana celebrated their fairy-tale wedding. There are damagingly undemocratic elements in the British political system – above all, the House of Lords – but the monarchy is not high among them. (...)
The Queen may have some limited political influence, but there is no evidence that she has used it in a worse way than presidents in other countries. Such presidents can sometimes lift themselves above the party-political fray, as Richard von Weizsäcker did most impressively in Germany, but they will always be at least residually associated with a particular party. Somewhere in the past, they will have had to do what politicians have to do in order to get to the top.
As a result, some of them will even end up in court on corruption charges, like the former French president Jacques Chirac. Of course, monarchs and royal consorts can get into trouble too, (...) ut there is less chance of that happening with monarchs, precisely because they don't have to elbow their way up the greasy pole.
Countries plagued by "cohabitation" conflicts between presidents from one party and prime ministers from another – and there are many such in Europe – must often wish they had a head of state who was genuinely neutral, above the fray, and a personification of national unity (...)

If William and Kate are well advised, they will work towards being the very model of a modern European monarchy. If they don't, or if Charles and Camilla don't let them, then by 2040 — even in conservative England — the job may no longer be there for them to inherit.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/apr/28/democracy-wills-kate-president-blair

Où j'en suis dans mon devoir

Je trouve que ce texte est vraiment difficiles pour notre niveau surtout que nous n'avons pas de cours. Je n'est réussi qu'à dégager des idées et n'a donc pas de grand 1 ni de grand 2.

Je vous donne ce que j'ai reussi à en retirer

- Prince Charles is a threat because he waant to have a political role that why people want his to abdiquate in favour of William. But William and Kate have to behave themselves to get the monarchy in a good road.

- Monarchy is not reallu undemocratic the House of Lords is more. 

- Western country with republic are worst -> Jacques Chirac charging for corruption

En souhaitant et esperant une réponse rapide 

Merci beaucoup :D