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It tend to more easy to have ressourses to give peopole a decent service, when you dosen't have an empire to run all the time.. It is expensive to be in sharge of the largerst military power on the planet.. The US, as current have the same military power as the 20 other of "top payer of military hardware" combined... And then even many are talking about expanding the US military even further.. Why should US do that, when US allready have biggest most mean military force on the planet as it is... Who are US so afraid of, that you have to expend it so big?

Wel, im not sure but I think, in Norways case it have been the "glue" who have binded everybody togheter.. In the early 1900s when Norway as a nation was new, it also had alot of political grifiences between the rich and the pooor... And Norway was a really political melting pot where radicals was on the brink of open revolt.. A poor country with a population who was hungry for anything.. Then in 1905 we got our first King in more than 500 year, who was king in Norway!.. And he might not be the "smartes" of the shoices we had when we elected our king, but he was defently the most clever one, and he must have been a first rate politican, becouse he not just managed to be welcomed as a king, but also, for the most part to be loved by most peopole, even when their political ideology was 180 degrees of a kingship.. And he semented that trust from the popole in the world war two, where he first flattely denied to kneel for the germans, then had to flee up to Northen parts of Norway. And then in UK was our maybe best diplomat by all means.. And he was welcomed in June 1945 with the cheer of norwigians, who have never been at the same large crowd ever.. And in 1948, when the cold war was in ful, and he was asked what to do with the comunists, who then was in Parlament with 11 reps.. He just say, why should I do something with them, they are still my peopole.. That was a gigant leap for a man who officially in 1917-1920 had seen hes first cousin Tsar Nicolay 2 of Russia been shot, with most of his family by the red forces.. And who publically had told parlament that NO norwigian king was to wisit Russia before the communist was out of power.. In 1993 the first norwigian King, our Harald vas in Russia for the first time... I doubt that Haakon 7 of Norway belived it should go 70 year before it was over in Soviet then... Olav V, our old king - who I rembember best and who had been king all my life when he died in 1991 also segmented the trust most peopole had to him and the royal familiy by acting both as a King, but also to do what is his duty.. And he was respected by most pepole.. Even my old fosterfather, who was "red" to the bone - was sad when he told me that our king had died.. He died allmoust on the eve of the first golf war - and Harald have later told that his father was REALLY worried about what could came of that, becouse he was old enough to rembember Sept 1939...

For the most part, the power lies not in the hand of the King, but rather in the hand of the Parlament. But the king have a important role, and have some say when new laws passes his desk to be signed into laws.. But many of his duties, specially when it came to the political roles is mostly sermoniel, and he dosen't have to mutch REAL power.. But inderectly all 3 kings we have had to this days, have had great power, even signifant power when new laws are put into effect.. Many have used this "back-channel" to both let the king know when things happend in parlament, but also to know what the king is thinking about cases.. And we have the freday meeting at the Palace where our king, and all the ministers are in plenum to diskuss what is important, and new from the parlament..
In most cases the modern King in Norway as the head of state, and the first between equals.. He dosen't have to mutch directly power, but have signifant indirectly power, by the fact that he should be adviced by the Parlament.. But that power is also mutch up to eath King to use. Olav V of Norway used this mutch more than our current King Harald V of Norway.. But the kingship is far different today, than it was when Olav was around I guess.

The british Royal House is a far different thing.. That behavour Would never have been acepted in any of the scandicanvian country's.. Not even a fraction of what have happend in the British Royal family would have been accepted... But then again, the british royal familiy have a whole different tradition in the british comunity than in scandinavia I guess

And all tree kings, have had as their "Nametag" the word Alt for Norge. Everything for Norway. It is on all coins and was the tittle Haakon 7 used when he was elected as King of Norway in 1905.
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