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 …
That's an important value, but it's not a categorical imperative. And while periodic elections are the only sure guarantee of continuing consent, there are certainly examples of monarchies that had broad popular consent at the time.
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I’m using consent in the formal legal sense because you posed a best vs best comparison—not the public opinion approval sense. There is categorical moral weight in giving government’s subject a legal pathway to change it that is beyond the grip of the government’s leader.
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