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To: patlin

I’m not sure what you propose works under a republic. You’d have to forswear allegience to the Queen again to get a comparable situation.

The problem is, as you’ve noted, is that anyone could become president once they were naturalized. How much sense does it make to reject foreign entanglements, when someone could come from abroad and govern the nation?

Granted, you’ve got the worst of it right now with Obama, where someone has done just that, come from abroad to govern America, *despite* the laws in place that say this shouldn’t happen.

This is a disaster long term for the republic.

Anyways, long term, that is one of the benefits of the monarchy to retain the general character of the nation. I’d accept your argument if it meant going back to how things were done prior to the revolution, but I sincerely doubt that many Americans, even those who are sympathetic, would support this. We’re both odd-ducks.


59 posted on 03/19/2011 10:50:11 AM PDT by BenKenobi (Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Silent Cal)
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To: BenKenobi
Anyways, long term, that is one of the benefits of the monarchy to retain the general character of the nation. I’d accept your argument if it meant going back to how things were done prior to the revolution, but I sincerely doubt that many Americans, even those who are sympathetic, would support this

You have it completely wrong. The feudal doctrine that usurped the original common law of England based on natural law is what has caused the many civil wars in England and across its colonies from the Norman Conquest forward. In fact, it really wasn't until the mid 1300’s that the feudal doctrine really gained a hold and it is that doctrine that is the core of oppression. It forces the will of a Sovereign ruler by taking away the natural God given rights of locomotion. Cicero, Aristotle, Grotious, Pufendorf Sidney & Locke are the works in which Vattel brought together and laid out so simply & eloquently and why since his time, his works are quoted more than any other in Supreme Courts around the world to date. He took the natural right & reason of all those before him and gave us the basis for all international law today.

61 posted on 03/19/2011 11:10:32 AM PDT by patlin (Ignorance is Bliss for those who choose to wear rose colored glasses)
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