Posted on 01/03/2014 9:02:39 AM PST by Squawk 8888
Does America need a monarch? Ever since, according to legend, George Washington turned down the chance of becoming the new country’s king, America’s identity as a republican nation of citizen rulers has been rock solid. Indeed, nothing can stir patriotic anger more than the suggestion that the U.S. president is acting like unelected royalty. Yet even before independence, John Adams argued in favor of a “republican monarchy” of laws, lamenting, “We have so many Men of Wealth, of ambitious Spirits, of Intrigue … that incessant Factions will disturb our Peace.”
Looking at the United States, today, Adams was prescient, with the country almost evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, special interests dominant, and poisonous partisan gridlock destroying Washington, D.C. While Adams favored a republican monarch with absolute veto powers, today we need a person who can sit above politics and help strengthen our commitment to republican values. We need a king, or something like one.
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The First Citizen would serve one 15-year term, thus ensuring that he would have to deal with at least two presidents. The First Citizen, along with his or her spouse, would represent America at all social and ceremonial meetings with foreign heads of state and would perform civic activities for all national holidays. Instead of the president, the First Citizen would pardon turkeys, welcome Super Bowl champions, open Olympics, lay wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider, light the national Christmas Tree and the like. He or she would also commemorate important national anniversaries, such as major battles, and would be the chief mourner at national tragedies or memorial services.
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I bet they’d fully agree to a single authority - as long as he was a lefty/commie.
This goes right with their ideology, that those in power are more enlightened, moral, intellectually superior to all others,
that they need to be given the power to substitute their decisions for yours.
We said "NO!" then, and we must say "HELL NO!" now. It's clear that Polutico and the commie left would have been Tories.
ObAMA don’t need no stinkin congressional approval.
I’m saying that needs to stop, and stop now and in some cases, reversed. I know it sounds harsh, but our way of life is at stake. What made our countries great is going down the tubes.
I don’t care what color a person is, I care about their values, their loyalties and their relationship with Jesus.
Garbage post.
Much the same could be said about the Hudson’s Bay Company; Charles II gave his son ownership of North America.
0bama will leave the office of the president on Jan 20, 2017 either vertically or horizontally, his choice.
5.56mm
Why not. We have a joker as our President.
Ping!!!
“First Citizen”? Not sure about that. Sounds Jacobin.
That sums up this Government, and must stop, Now.
No. Not really interesting.
The State wants to usurp God’s role. Never succeeds and always dies trying.
I love how Jesus said of dread Herod “Go tell that fox, ‘I will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.’ In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day—for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem!”
To think He is returning to dole out what is due to every antichrist ruler that has ever lived!
Yes, I am non-partisan. It is good to be the King.
Everybody jump the Queen
Is the author kidding me? We HAVE elected a near king. The President has expanded Executive Branch power to an unprecedented degree. In many Parliamentary countries, the Prime Minister has a lot of power—but it can be kept under control by a “No Confidence” vote at any time. We’re stuck with our King for four years.
...”That sums up this Government, and must stop, Now.”....
Yep...and that’s just we we know...it’s the unknown that is far more critical.
Even in tacky Sci-Fi, they realized the "First Citizen"
would be a dupe & pawn of the ruling elite ...
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