Present
In 1974 a new Instrument of Government was established as the vital part of the Constitution, and for the system of Government. The monarchy has remained but the King has lost all formal political influence and is reduced to a mere symbolic head of state. Several of the traditional head of state functions has instead been transferred to the Speaker of the Riksdag.
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Famous quotes containing the word present:
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)