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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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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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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