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Because the idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet laureate. -Thomas Paine "The Rights of Man"
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I'm happy to have an inoffensive head of state that is non-political. We need someone we can send out to international shindigs without embarrassing us.
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So true, Agamemnon.
Battra: Yeah, I think you'd be hard pressed to find an American who didn't agree with at least the core of that quote, and you could probably extend that to Westerners more generally.
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Indeed. Of course if there has to be a monarch I like the model set by Oliver Cromwell.