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American Pro-Monarchism
DIR By: Starling
Date: July 21, 2020, 7:32 am
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Alexander Hamilton, one of the US Founders, outright advocated
for a monarch on grounds that it will be just for all citizens.
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> If government in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize
over the many.
> If (in) the hands of the many, they will tyrannize over the
few. It ought to be in the hands of both; and they should be
separated.
> This separation must be permanent.
> Representation alone will not do.
> Demagogues will generally prevail.
> And if separated, they will need a mutual check.
> This check is a monarch.
> ...
> The monarch must have proportional strength. He ought to be
hereditary, and to have so much power, that it will not be his
interest to risk much to acquire more.
>
> The advantage of a monarch is this—he is above corruption—he
must always intend, in respect to foreign nations, the true
interest and glory of the people.
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Trump's shitshow circus proves that Hamilton was really onto
something.
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Re: American Pro-Monarchism
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 26, 2021, 1:24 am
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Prussian scheme
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> The Prussian scheme is the name of a reported 1786 attempt by
President of the Continental Congress Nathaniel Gorham, acting
in possible concert with other persons influential in the
government of the United States, to establish a monarchy in the
U.S. under the rule of Henry of Prussia, a prince of the House
of Hohenzollern, possibly to resolve the ongoing political
crises occurring during the last days of the Articles of
Confederation. The attempt may have died due to a lack of
interest on Henry's part, popular opposition to a rumored
proposal involving a different potential monarch, the convening
of the Philadelphia Convention, or some combination thereof.
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Post-revolutionary monarchist tendencies
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> The protracted disturbances created by the shortcomings of the
Articles of Confederation as the United States' constitution,
which culminated in Shays' Rebellion, reportedly gave rise to a
"class of men in the community who gave very serious
apprehensions to the advocates for a Republican form of
government".[1] Prior to, and following, the May 1787 convening
of the Philadelphia Convention, widely circulated rumors
reported that the conclave was meeting for the purpose of
offering to enthrone Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
as king of the United States.[2] So acute were the rumors that
the convention issued a public denial that any proposal for a
reestablishment of monarchy was being considered, the denial
later being repeated in a letter sent by Alexander Martin to the
governor of North Carolina.[2]
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Re: American Pro-Monarchism
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 29, 2021, 12:28 pm
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> Monarchy can easily be "debunked", but watch the faces, mark
well the accents of the debunkers. These are the men (or women)
whose taproot in Eden has been cut -- whom no rumor of the
polyphony, the dance, can reach – men to whom pebbles laid in a
row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire
mere equality they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to
honor a king they honor millionaires, athletes, or film-stars
instead -- even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual
nature, like bodily nature, will be served -- deny it food and
it will gobble poison. — C.S. Lewis
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> Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either
aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long.
It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a
democracy that did not commit suicide. — John Adams
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> When America set out to destroy Kings and Lords and Masters,
and the whole paraphernalia of European superiority, it pushed a
pin right through its own body, and on that pin it still flaps
and buzzes and twists in misery. The pin of democratic equality.
Freedom. There’ll never be any life in America till you pull the
pin out and admit natural inequality. Natural superiority,
natural inferiority. Till such time, Americans just buzz round
like various sorts of propellers, pinned down by their freedom
and equality. — D.H. Lawrence
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