Constitutional fictions of the crown protect State unity and consent.

Evidence

The Queen is self-absorbed, but not self-possessed. It is the people who dress her who own her. … Rose Bertin made and dressed a life-sized doll to look like Antoinette, and so one wonders: Was she ever “me” or only a simulation of a person, a dressed doll wheeled along by other people, its outer surface decorated with mirrors to reflect her times? — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 698 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Both religious-unity and conscience-freedom arguments reinforced state unity; A monarch’s identity can be owned by those who embody it — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 698; Effective revolutionary parties unite force with consent dialectically

Related

• A monarch’s identity can be owned by those who embody it (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Both religious-unity and conscience-freedom arguments reinforced state unity #expands (0.82)
• A monarch’s identity can be owned by those who embody it #expands (0.75) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 698
• Effective revolutionary parties unite force with consent dialectically #complicates (0.70)