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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jul 3

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Heath Mayo

      A number of them started off as loyal monarchists. It was experience, not theory, that taught them to prefer the messy compromises & limits of a democratic, republican, liberal, constitutional system. https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/what-is-democracy-for-anyway/ …https://twitter.com/HeathMayo/status/1411298779425296386 …

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      Heath Mayo @HeathMayo
      Monarchy is, by its nature, morally worse than democracy because, though both subject the individual to power, monarchy subjects the individual to power over which he has no control or say. I’m glad our Founders realized the philosophical importance of the distinction. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1411155000567402498 …
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    2. Heath Mayo‏ @HeathMayo Jul 3
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Monarchy at its best is still worse—much worse—than democracy at its best, because democracy at its best respects and actualizes the dignity and fundamental equality of all citizens before the law. That’s something monarchy, by its nature, can never do—even at its best.

      2 replies 2 retweets 4 likes
      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jul 3
      Replying to @HeathMayo

      There is no theoretical barrier to a monarchy recognizing individual liberty & equality. The problem is experience: the average monarchy is worse, the worst monarchy is worse, the transition of power is worse. So we limit power. But those are matters of historical reality.

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        2. Heath Mayo‏ @HeathMayo Jul 3
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          How so? It’s inherent in the unconstrained power given to one individual at the exclusion and disregard of all the others. It vests all authority in one person and subjects all the other individuals to the monarch’s rule, even if the monarch is benevolent.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jul 3
          Replying to @HeathMayo

          The problem with that is what our *experience* tells us will regularly be done by monarchs. Look, I've spent years making the case for popular sovereignty over modern monarchy's equivalents in the judiciary & bureaucracy. My column walks through the argument.

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