“Tribal tradition is enough.”
Booga booga. And what about those citizens of the Republic, who have a tradition of being free of Monarchs? Who should prevail when such a person and a monarch meet?
Does the monarch defer to the free citizen? Or must the citizen submit to the leadership of a nobleman because part of France (a tribe) thinks he should.
And in your thinking, is a Frenchman destined to be a tribe member and nothing more? Does this “tribe” trump their freedom and natural rights?
Remember, our constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes that all men are born with them. A Frenchman possesses these rights whether or not any French government will recognize them.
Fascinated.
Booga indeed. As Napoleon said (regarding medals, but the concept is the same) - “ by these baubles are men led”.
Or Macaulay’s “ashes of their fathers and the temples of their gods”.
As for rights and powers, there is no need to compromise. We do have functioning constitutional monarchies all over. The real threat to liberty in our world is the unelected “ permanent government”, the choking bureaucracies and their corporatist collaborators, who spit on individual rights and democracy alike. The tyrants of Europe today are more tyrranical than any absolute monarch ever dared be.