![]() Because some have does not imply they all do. I would never answer to any living human being as “your lordship” or “highness.” And there’s no evidence that western democracies de facto lead to dictatorship or injustice. Democracy implies that every citizen is of equal status before the law and more importantly before each other. No I don’t believe you can have a real democracy if you have an aristocracy and monarchy. Well, you’re not an idiot, but you are wrong. Thomas More or, for that matter, the hundreds of Englishmen martyred as “traitors” in the 150 years following Henry’s draconian war on the Faith.Īt the other extreme from the absolute monarchist was the absolute democrat, who responded to my article thus: As and when a monarch decides to establish a state religion and trample on the rights of people to religious freedom, the only correct response is that of disobedience, emulating the example of St. Thomas More to Henry VIII’s efforts to usurp the power of the Church. The Catholic view of “absolute monarchy” is seen in the response of St. The whole idea of the divine right of kings came to the fore at the time of the Protestant Reformation as a way of justifying the monarch’s right to act in defiance of the pope, not as a means of justifying his right to act in defiance of the people (the latter of which had always been taken for granted!). The person who made this criticism was clearly a Traditionalist Catholic who seemed to believe that supporting an “absolute monarchy” was truly Catholic. ![]() At one extreme I was berated for suggesting that the absolutist view of monarchy, rooted in the political theory of the divine right of kings, was wrong. My recent article on the relative merits of monarchy and democracy brought an array of comments from both ends of the political spectrum.
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