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To: allmendream
Slavery: A friend to Liberty

Last I checked, the last monarchy of any sigificant size to shed all vestiges of slavery was the Imperial Russia in 1861, peacefully. I can name a republic where slavery was still the law of the land, then.

Monarchy has nothing to do with dictatorship.

Hereditary autocracy is another word for monarchy, and is indeed a good thing.

A king is annointed to serve by God indeed. That's bad?

100 posted on 05/09/2011 6:58:42 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex
A king annointed to serve by God is a DELUSION, and makes all men his slaves.

I am a free man, and yet you say I should dream of righteous slavery and pray that God appoints a better man to rule me?

Delusional. Fighting against a great tide of history.

The children of Queen Victoria were a feckless worthless lot - the Czar, the Kaiser and the King.

But even if they were men worthy of the titles won by better men than themselves - they would still have to claim to rule any man worthy to call himself free.

In a Free Republic you are free to say such anti-American drivel, such worthless rot, such infantile putrid archaic nonsense - with the freedom won for you by free men who scorned monarchy as the idiocy it was.

King George said of George Washington that if he gave up power after winning the war, then he was the greatest man that ever lived.

109 posted on 05/09/2011 7:28:29 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: annalex

“A king is annointed to serve by God indeed. That’s bad?”

Kings are also human and have made huge mistakes that have cost many their lives. I don’t see how good kings automatically have perfect heirs; usually, they have failures for heirs.


126 posted on 05/09/2011 10:48:44 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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