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To: kalee
I would rather have the Republic our Founding Father envisioned and that my ancestors fought and died to establish.

The author seems to agree with you:

My case holds only for countries where maintaining or restoring (or conceivably installing) monarchy is a live option.2 We Americans have sounder hope of reviving respect for the philosophy of our Founders. Our traditions could serve some of the functions of monarchy in other countries.

However, it would be smart to ask ourselves, how come "reviving respect for the philosophy of our Fathers" is not happening, but rapid movement away from it definitely is happening. I think America should lose its allergy to a monarchy; it is very likely the best option in case of a constitutional crisis.

142 posted on 05/10/2011 5:28:37 AM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex

“”how come “reviving respect for the philosophy of our Fathers” is not happening””

The core was not Holy to begin with.

From the words of Saint Hilary Of Poitiers in the 4th century..

“But nowadays, we have to do with a disguised persecutor, a smooth-tongued enemy, a Constantius who has put on Antichrist; who scourges us, not with lashes, but with caresses; who instead of robbing us, which would give us spiritual life, bribes us with riches, that he may lead us to eternal death; who thrusts us not into the liberty of a prison, but into the honors of his palace, that he may enslave us: who tears not our flesh, but our hearts; who beheads not with a sword, but kills the soul with his gold; who sentences not by a herald that we are to be burnt, but covertly enkindles the fire of Hell against us. He does not dispute with us, that he may conquer; but he flatters us, that so he may lord it over our souls. He confesses Christ, the better to deny Him; he tries to procure a unity which shall destroy peace; he puts down some few heretics, so that he may also crush the Christians; he honors Bishops, that they may cease to be Bishops; he builds up churches, that he may pull down the Faith…- Saint Hilary Of Poitiers


173 posted on 05/10/2011 8:05:13 PM PDT by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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