[lakecumberlandvet]

The British system wherein certain people, by virtue of birth, are deemed “royalty”, superior beings to all others who are referred to, condescendingly, as “subjects”. It’s a thoroughly disgusting system that is totally contrary to the American notion that all men are created equally.

[shadowlands1960]

Congratulations... that makes you a small 'r' republican.

While England did fossilize into a class system, the origins of the monarchy were in public acclamation of the 'able man' or the 'competent' man. This memory of public acclamation led to the institution of Parliament and the idea that people could only be taxed by the king with the approval of them. In the age the monarchy emerged from, you were more in danger from your local nobility than from the king. The conquest of 1066 shifted that and placed the local nobility under central control, this gave England a huge advantage over their continental rivals. It also led to a universal system of rights from which we here in America also benefit.