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What's Your Preferred Form Of Government?


Veritas

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[quote name='Veritas' post='1065986' date='Sep 18 2006, 02:42 PM']
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I prefer a kind of Burkean monarchy where the Monarch's rights are given by the consent of the people and checked by a legislative body.

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[quote name='prose' post='1065991' date='Sep 18 2006, 02:55 PM']
Would Theocracy work?? Worked for the Calvinists in Geneva. Unfortunately it is abused in Iran.
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Theocracy did not work in Geneva. Quite the contrary, Calvinist Geneva on a regular basis had witch-hunts and the execution of those who opposed Calvin or Calvinism. (Re Michael Servantes).

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a republic in which whole families chose their representatives, perhaps including a royal family who chose the head/president/whatever

okay, so it'd have to be pretty small scale for that to work.

but anyway, even on a larger scale I support a republic; not a democracy. the less federalization, the better of course a horse of course.

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I think a Democratic Republic, like the USA is in practice one of the best forms of government possible. Of course, my "ideal state" would change a few things about the Constitution and so forth; for example, I would make it clear that authority to govern comes from God, not "the people," and try to make it difficult for people to try to silence Christians by citing "freedom of religion". But other than that, I think that the USA was founded fairly wisely.

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The government in America today would be fine if the people had good morals.

"The government does not have to listen to the Church. The government listens to the people and the people listen to the Church."
- Archbishop Chaput, Archdiocese of Denver

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can someone explain to me what's up with the whole monarchy thing?

Are you guys serious about it? cuz I don't understand why anyone would want to revert...

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