[annalex]

And most royals act as low class as the rest of society today. That is an odd byproduct of the loss of monarchies.

Good point. I would expand on that. A monarchy cannot be just declared, rolled in with the tanks, or voted in by Congress. You can have a junta or a dictator that way (in itself a fine American institution; we in North America might try it one day). Monarchy has to be preceded by a growth of nobility first. In other words, establishment of monarchy is a result of reaching national maturity.

[Alex Murphy]

A monarchy cannot be just declared, rolled in with the tanks, or voted in by Congress. You can have a junta or a dictator that way (in itself a fine American institution; we in North America might try it one day). Monarchy has to be preceded by a growth of nobility first. In other words, establishment of monarchy is a result of reaching national maturity.

I doubt our Founding Fathers felt the same way.