"But no, Grand Duke Henri’s Catholic conscience was too well formed for these deceits."
Posted on 03/20/2009 1:28:51 PM PDT by GonzoII
"But no, Grand Duke Henri’s Catholic conscience was too well formed for these deceits."
Ping.
Change the names and you’ve got the same thing here. The Constitution and the rights of the States and the People are slowly being stripped away. I only hope our outcome is better than his.
He needs to update his calendar; this is 2009.
Thank you for this post.
I'd take him over Obama.
My pleasure.
Surprisingly, there are some conservatives who are so conservative they reject classical liberalism and advocate a return to the monarchy. They argue that Enlightenment thinking—including the political and economic liberalism that accompanied it—was inherently anti-Christian, and while they may have a point I think they fail to recognize there’s little reason to assume the monarchy is a superior system.
Well, I am glad the Grand Duke has decided that ‘it is better to serve in heaven, than rule in Luxembourg.’
Yeah, but imagine an Obama for 40 or 50 years under a monarchy.
At least we get another crack at zer0 in 2012.
Did they mean proscribed?
I wouldn't call that being ultra-conservative. It could more accurately be described as extremely idiotic and stupid.
Are these Freepers you're talking about, or well-known conservative personalities?
What matters most is that the governing authority, whether king, president, parliment or “central committee” recognize that they operate under the authority of God and are accountable to God.
Once a ruling authority forgets this or rebels against God, decay begins. Everything begins to fall apart.
A godly monarchy is better than an ungodly democracy.
I'd take him over Obama.
King Ronald I would have been loved by all, except for the bitter leftists whose yapping we wouldn't listen to. His first natural born son would now be king and I don't think I'd care much for the rule of King Ronald II.
I think what matters most is that the state understands that it never, ever has the right to make anyone worship a particular religion, force the populace to be accountable to any clergy or church, or prohibit the exercise of religion.
A birthright monarch does not assume power by the consent of the governed, and that is the antithesis of freedom.
I think there’s one Freeper—B-Chan—who calls himself a monarchist, but I’m not sure if that’s why. I know a couple people in real life who lean in that direction, and I recently went to an ISI conference at Yale where many of the speakers seemed to take that position.
Who gave the various European Monarchs their authority? What a load of dung. The founding fathers of American got many of their ideas from the French revolution and understood that wisdom was not hereditary.
Thomas Paine wrote while reviewing several sources of governments:
First, Superstition. Secondly, Power, Thirdly, The common interest of society, and the common rights of man.
The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.
When a set of artful men pretended, through the medium of oracles, to hold intercourse with the Deity, as familiarly as they now march up the back-stairs in European courts, the world was completely under the government of superstition. The oracles were consulted, and whatever they were made to say, became the law; and this sort of government lasted as long as this sort of superstition lasted.
After these a race of conquerors arose, whose government, like that of William the Conqueror, was founded in power, and the sword assumed the name of a scepter. Governments thus established, last as long as the power to support them lasts; but that they might avail themselves of every engine in their favour, they united fraud to force, and set up an idol which they called Divine Right, and which, in imitation of the Pope, who affects to be spiritual and temporal, and in contradiction to the Founder of the Christian religion, twisted itself afterwards into an idol of another shape, called Church and State. The key of St. Peter, and the key of the Treasury, became quartered on one another, and the wondering cheated multitude worshiped the invention.
Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
And ... what?
Popular election of heads of government has given the world such worthies as (in no particular order, and not implied to be equal) Franklin Roosevelt, Josef Stalin, Jimmy Carter, Robert Mugabe, Bill Clinton, Barak Hussein 0bama, Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac ...
"Enlightened", "Rational" revolutions have presented us with "La Terreur", the Third Reich, The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos under the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the Peoples' Republic of China ...
Sometimes, Monarchy looks pretty darn good by comparison.
Oh yeah, Stalin and Mugabe were certainly elected in free and fair elections. /s
Are you trying to discredit yourself?
If King Ronald had served he would be succeeded by his idiot leftist natural born son Skipper.
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