We inherited our system of laws from a monarchy. Notwithstanding the palace intrigue and the imperial overreach that get all the attention from historians, there were also good Christian monarchs who desired their own salvation and that of their kingdom and laid out their judicial policies accordingly. In a republic you’d better hope you have a solid legal system already in place, because you will not be able to establish one if you lack it. Instead, you get a perpetual battle of competing private interests regarding... everything! ... or at least people think so — and so nothing can become settled or regarded as objective, “everything is politics.” Even a simple, self-evident social good like “loser pays” (to give an example) cannot be instituted because tunnel-visioned private interests are far too entrenched, and people are too skeptical about anyone who would dare to utter a far-reaching philosophical concept (like the selfsame “loser pays”) in a public setting. Everything always reduces to, “Who’s paying you to say that?” So it’s foolhardy to invest overly much hope in enlightenment republics.
“We inherited our system of laws from a monarchy.”
Well, to a degree the founders began with English Common Law. BUT, the Founders the had seen all the evil that went with that form of government. It was very hard to eject and evil cruel monarch. It was almost always done with a revolt with weapons and great bloodshed. If the failed, all the plotters were executed. They studied a huge number of previous forms of government. Franklin sought out such books as were available in his time in Europe during our revolution. He helped populate the libraries of Jefferson and Madison. These men were educated.
Paul Harvey on the Declaration of Independence
https://rumble.com/v3ginba-paul-harvey-on-the-declaration-of-independence.html
That is what our founders faced. Fact.
Corrupt Kings and some religious leaders played all the court games. Both sought to keep the peasants in check. Those who fought in wars were the only real threat to monarchs.
There are still some today that are somewhat moderate. Jordan, Saudi Arabia (moderate to a degree), England (appear moderate were often very cruel too), French until the French Revolution (really bad civil war).
Our form of government is NOT the flaw. The Constitution is still sound, but the interpretations and the Congressional over reach of power they were not granted have our corruption level beyond belief.
It is driven by a Huge Global Cabal, who are not elected and answer to no one. These “elites” believe they are superior in handling power than anyone else in the world. (God knows they are not, and he is exposing their great failures at their power grab.)
Lord Acton: Power Corrupts and Absolute Power tends to Corrupt Absolutely.
““Who’s paying you to say that?” So it’s foolhardy to invest overly much hope in enlightenment republics.”
Nonsense.
I’ve been involved in local politics, have never been paid a single dime. Not even for my local campaign.
From my youth I was exposed to the so called “enlightenment”. By the time I was 12 I was reading trying to understand Descartes, Locke, Burke, Hume, Machivelli, Diderot, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, Rousseau. I still have those books in my library.
Our founders here in America, were not atheists. There was a wide range of Christian beliefs in their numbers.
I personally do not believe that a Monarchy is an acceptable form of government. I know some groups who do. The Paleo Conservatives do, I read Chronicles (magazine) for several years until I learned about their trust in Monarchies.
Federalist 51 (Madison)
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”
In my library I have a copy of Madison’s minutes of the Convention. (I believe in hard copy, not electronic because of the noise that is often added)