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.
“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.”
100% agree. But this does not make monarchy a better idea. A free constitutional republic like the original America is the only moral way. Not a lesser despot. What happens when someone disagrees with a monarch? Must they submit? Nobody should ever need to submit to a person who cannot face election. Period.