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  1. 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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    2. TheFlyingGerbil

      TheFlyingGerbil

      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.

    3. TheMightyEthan

      TheMightyEthan

      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.

    4. Battra92

      Battra92

      Indeed. Of course if there has to be a monarch I like the model set by Oliver Cromwell.

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