It really was the original form of limited government. Nowhere near as intrusive as our governments today. Back then, power was very diffused. Everyone had it from the King all the way down to the lowest serf. However, authority was concentrated (up at the top). The result was that if the king overstepped his bounds, he was just told: "No!" Try that today where authority is diffused (everybody has a vote) but power is concentrated at the top. If you don't vote the right way, they make you vote again. In the end, we all know that if voting was actually capable of changing anything, it would be made illegal.
Little thought experiment: Suppose our POTUS was replaced with a hereditary monarch with all the limitations on power originally enumerated in the Constitution. We suspect that the very moment he tried to make a grab for power that the law didn't give him, the peasants would be out with pitchforks ready to overthrow him. But, because we all vote we're all peachy keen with the Federal Government growing increasingly powerful.
If you can stand the persiflage, here's a playlist of Coulombe talking monarchy.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCVYi9yXYkhrhyWmfmdflvzknb7F3Dlls
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Could only get through 10 minutes of listening to these two fags.
Republics seldom give the little guy more freedom than he already had. Dictators always killed off or send into exile the royal families.
In the USA, we’re fortunate that the Founders made a concession and gave us the 2nd Amendment. Without it, we would’ve looked like Australia or Canada under Covid a long time ago.
I wish they would've paid more attention to the impact of The Protestant Revolt. On the one hand, it's inseparable from Satanism as Milton's Paradise Lost shows. On the other hand, it started out as a looting operation. The princes made a bargain with Luther (and other reformers): You let us steal this Church property and we'll put you in charge of the State Religion. Like the Peasant Revolt which Luther instigated and then turned on, authorizing one of the earliest genocides, it was all for the benefit of the oligarchs, not the common man. Theological justifications for The Reformation came later. It was all about sex, power, and money.
Moral of the story: never join a religion started by a Catholic priest.
"Moral of the story: never join a religion started by a Catholic priest."
Where does Jesus fit in then?
It’s a joke. Luther was a priest. Get it?
:Luther was a priest." So was Jesus. Get it?
Interfered with fluffing your boyfriend, no doubt.
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