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To: annalex
I would go further and say that if, quite simply, everybody who holds any political office today (or at any other time) is told that he holds that office as his property as long as he wants it, and can bequeath it to his child -- our lives as private citizens will improve dramatically, this country will prosper in peace, the size fo government will be reduced over time drastically, and generally much if not all of the conservative agenda will be implemented in due course. That is because property is preserved and increased when it has an owner, and in a democracy the national infrastructure has no owner, only renters.

I don't think any American Monarchist (I am one) considers monarchy a possibility for America presently. I think that an aristocratic system with a monarch balancing and limiting the excesses of the nobility is a natural development of any free society; I think that a healthy society does have a dominant religion and merely tolerates other religions. I also think that Protestantism is the dominant American religion at least for the time being.

Does "not a possibility for America presently" mean that Catholics should be trying improve the possibility for it in America, at least in the future?

180 posted on 05/03/2011 7:38:05 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG...thank you. Thank you.)
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To: Alex Murphy
Does "not a possibility for America presently" mean that Catholics should be trying improve the possibility for it in America, at least in the future?

Not just Catholics, everyone. It is good for America, so it would be good for as many people as possible see that as a historical goal. The least we all can do is to stop using "monarchy" like a swear word often not realizing what it even means.

It is true though that since monarchy is often a happy historical experience for Catholics, and far less so for Protestants or other confessions, you are likely to find more monarchists among the Catholics. Among the Orthodox, especially, they are quite a sizable minority of the faithful.

184 posted on 05/03/2011 7:57:23 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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