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Yep you're right. It's the meaning of what 'monarch' really is.....I'm sure there was a Democrat a few years back that parsed words like that...

I know this is going to come as a shock to you sunshine, but if you elect someone for life, what's going to happen? Sooner or later they start playing fast and loose with the document that binds them. Or are you suggesting that some of the landmark decisions that have come from the judicial system as of late really good for us? Inherited or elected, you put someone there for life the only types of people that are going to be drawn to the job are money and power hungry fools. Of course since the destruction of the Republic, the same could be said about a majority of the people that sit in Washington on both sides of the aisle

I said nothing about the "meaning" of the term monarch. What words did I parse, I merely asked you some questions about the quotation which you didn't answer.

I know not what country you are part of but the United States of America is still a republic. Hysterical hyperbole to the contrary.

At any rate, the thinking of many of the founders was that a life time appointment removed those appointed from the temptations to do what you fear. They may have been wrong but that is what they thought. Where did I say that I wanted such an appointment or election. I was merely trying to clarify what Hamilton and others thought about it. They also thought that the Court would be ABOVE politics.

Hamilton, of course, feared the rise of the Jeffersonian democrats and THEY are the reason we have court decisions many of us don't agree with. Not that any reasonable man would believe he would agree with every decision of any court. Or that you could predict what a judge would decide on a given case. Of course, that is exactly what the RATS demand from their judges but those who care about integrity and such old fashioned things would never make such a demand.