Many assume that in this day an age Monarchy is useless, but that is ignorance plain and simple.For instance let us take the example of the United Kingdom.
The monarch is a political referee, not a political player, she is
beholden by virtue of her birth to no one but God, unlike politicians
who owe their souls to the ones who bankrolled them; and there is a lot
of sense in choosing the referee by a different principle from the
players. It lessens the danger that the referee might try to start
playing.
It also prevents (as so often happens in America)
political disagreements with current policy becoming viewed as
un-patriotic. In a Constitutional Monarchy one can damn the government
and still cheer the crown.
You should also bear carefully in mind the constitutional safeguards inherent in the monarchy: While the Queen occupies the highest office of state, no one can take over the government. While she is head of the law, no politician can take over the courts. While she is ultimately in command of the Armed Forces, no would-be dictator can take over the Army. The Queens only power, in short, is to deny power to anyone else.
This is more than mere theory. King Juan Carlos single-handedly saved democracy in Spain by taking personal command of the Armed Forces and crushing a military coup.
Nor is this the only example. Winston Churchill was convinced that WWII would never have come unless, under American pressure, we had not driven the Habsburgs out of Austria and the Hohenzollerns out of Germany. By creating these vacuums we gave the opening for the Hitlerite monster to crawl out of its sewer on to the vacant thrones.
Another example is Russia under Nicholas II, which with all the survivals of
feudalism, had opposition political parties, independent trade unions
and newspapers, a rather radical parliament and a modern legal system.
Its agriculture was on the level of the USA, with industry rapidly
approaching the West European level. In the USSR there was total
tyranny, no political liberties and practically no human rights. Its
economy was not viable; agriculture was destroyed. The terror against the population reached a scope unprecedented in history.
To those who would abolish the Monarchy....be careful what you wish for.
Ok. Kudos to the author of your essay
Or Mexico. Rejected their monarchy and saw revolution and tyranny.
It is also a solution to the faction problem and our judicial oligarchy
Pure drivel. No man has any higher office than any other man. The right of kings has been so soundly proven wrong that for anyone to suggest that a permanent blood line of folks are entitled to any office or position over any other person is evil.
To test this concept, I recommend that folks who hold to this theory of governance find a doctor who has a son or daughter and by virtue of blood relation, trust the offspring to tend to your medical or engineering or financial or.... needs.
I’ll be subject to no one who is not chosen by his peers nor anyone who cannot be lawfully removed from position by his peers. Anything else is tyranny.
With entitlement without merit comes excess and abuse.
A dictator is a dictator, even if defanged in principle.
Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” is the antidote to such childish monarchist thinking. No sane free man should admire or submit to some fat, farting, inbred free-bleeding potentate.
Imagine if America today never had the revolution and had to kowtow to Queen Elizabeth. Laughable.
Interesting - but there is a reason no new monarchies are being made.
None will buy them.
Englands monarchy has, in my opinion, abdicated.
The way I see it is they have the responsibility to define the culture.
The Queen could have stopped/slowed the unbelievable sell out to the
Muslims, the EU (brexit aint gonna happen), gay rights, social media censorship, Church of England, and whatever else.
Where is she on any of the life and culture changing things going on in
England?
Playing with her Corgies most likely.
Intelligent comments are not possible. Notice they think the discussion has to do with u.s. Article never mentions U.S.