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    1. tantum‏ @QuasLacrimas Jan 12

      Acton and Pitt were working within a much older tradition about the way in which slavery/despotism corrupts both the master and the slave Here it is not power that corrupts the master, but the power his slaves gain over him: he depends on them, they subvert him in self-defense

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    2. tantum‏ @QuasLacrimas Jan 12

      And (finally), there is a version related to "hard times make hard men"; superfluous power abets carelessness, while challenges inspire severity and piety Note that Acton's examples are not what we would call "absolute monarchs" (e.g., William III)

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    3. tantum‏ @QuasLacrimas Jan 12

      5/4 PS - Also worth noting Acton is not asking whether *giving ppl more power is good or bad*, but how to write about them (as a historian) He rejects out of hand the Nixon defense (if the president did it, it's no crime)

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    4. tantum‏ @QuasLacrimas Jan 12

      6/4 e.g. if a statesman has enemies assassinated or has foreigners kidnapped and killed, that is noteworthy Not a moral judgment of statesmen so much as metaethical pt about gathering the data on which we judge him (eg: which gov'ts kill more ppl? first, tally deaths)

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    5. tantum‏ @QuasLacrimas Jan 12

      Right. Notably both of Acton's royal examples were about a monarch whose sovereignty was denied by the supreme prelate recognized by many subjects, and the violence was directed (a) vs the pretender, (b) vs the seditious heretics

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    6. tantum‏ @QuasLacrimas Jan 12
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      But if Britain had never alienated the sovereign's authority over the Church to a precarious Italian republic, that would never have been an issue in the first place

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    7. tantum‏ @QuasLacrimas Jan 12

      lol i think we prolly agree in principle, but the Greek Orthodox church hardly offers an edifying spectacle when it comes to church-state relations... i assume you know the history of the Byzantines...

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      tantum‏ @QuasLacrimas Jan 12

      Do you think the dangers of giving a sovereign authority over the bishops are indexed to the general danger that the sovereign will be suborned and sink into a morass of informal power? Or do you see the risk as equal for good govt and misgovt?

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        2. tantum‏ @QuasLacrimas Jan 12

          I agree (and n.b. the habit of training younger bros for the Church often led to kings who micromanaged theology to an unseemly degree) But the bishops can't claim religious policy as the exclusive domain of their caste; yesterday iirc I compared them to weapons engineers

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        3. tantum‏ @QuasLacrimas Jan 12
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          Weapons engineers should be trusted because they know the answer to tough technical questions better than anyone else But you don't let engineers set the military budget, make declarations of war, or anything like that

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        5. tantum‏ @QuasLacrimas Jan 12

          There is no way to formalize the delineations; you didn't happen to read the blogposts I did on "formal and informal capacities", did you? Whether a marriage is null is legitimately a religious q. Whether a baby is bastard or legitimate issue is a political/legal q. Inseparable!

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