[Oztrich Boy]

You are confusing freedom and indiviual rights with being ruled by a natural born tyrant.

France was, and would be for another 350 years, constitutionally a despotism ruled by one man. “L'Etat, c'est moi”.

While England had already checked

• Magna Carta (200 years)
• Parlimentary System (100+ years)

[poetbdk]

# 1 Charles VII, the man who Joan of Arc helped gain the throne was not a tyrant.

#2 Words on a piece of paper like the Magna Carta do not guarantee “freedom and individual rights.” Just look at us here today, our federal government does not obey our Constitution.

#3 While I prefer a republican form of government like out founding fathers tried to establish I understand, as most of them did, that the ideal form of government is a benevolent monarchy with Jesus Christ as the King.

Suggest you do some more study on history and political theory!

[Antoninus]

While England had already checked

You are assuming that a corrupt semi-republic is a superior form of government to a benevolent monarchy. Along with Machiavelli, I'm not sure I agree with that assumption.