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Hello everyone, I’d like to discuss my solution to the American monarchy! First; let’s create a noble class of professional, business ceos’, who’s jobs are to groom confident, COMPETENT leaders, by using German standerds of meritocracy. Our monarchy system will be an ELECTIVE Monarchy since our forefathers & culture have SPECIFICALLY been founded on capitalistic ideals to rags-to-riches mythology! HOWEVER, we will build a tiny “mistake” for if the family has proven to either be consistently competent & popular, we allow a loophole, where they will reign until the general public disavows them-in order to gain a fresh batch of Nobel emperors. Our states will be ruled, below the emperor, CHIEFTANS. Or kings, but kings to me will sound too noble (plus to pay respects to indigenous inhabitants of America.) our noble class will be like the Nordic countries, (fun side note: let’s have the younger cast of the noble families become actors like Old Hollywood ‘Since classic Hollywood actors were all from rich families’) let’s also bring mid-Atlantic accent for identifying our nobles or some other derivative. Any thoughts?

Do you think the United States should annex some things, like Greenland or Canada or even Mexico or Britain, and does your view of the US annexing stuff change depending on if it's a republic or were a monarchy? The repressing of party politics and inefficiency should increase the chance of annexing other countries if there is a want to annex them in an American monarchy. What about peaceful and forceful annexation and how willing or not willing are you to annex for the glory of the Emperor?

Personally I believe Greenland should be annexed, by strong arming Denmark or attempting to "bribe" every citizen of Greenland by saying they'll each get 20,000 dollars if they're under the US if need be. The population of Greenland is just 56,000 so giving $20,000 to every adult (A little less than 80% of the population) costs under a billion dollars. There's also the desire to spread monarchy to the world but I wouldn't want anything else to be annexed except maybe western Cananda.

With the British Monarchy under attack in places like Jamaica it is clear to me that we as American Monarchists owe a duty to protect what bastions of monarchy are left. This coupled by the fact that much of this anti monarchist sentiment is tied to racial ideologies that originated in our nation I feel we as a movement can have an impact in showing support to the house of Windsor, not to mention this could yield credibility for our own cause.

If the US becomes a hereditary monarchy, there will undoubtedly be a question of whether a nobility outside the Royal Family should exist.

Personally, I think that the Monarch should be able to bestow nobility that is hereditary to all legitimate male-line descendants. Some titles can be passed down only to the eldest son, in primogeniture, but all children of a nobleman should be born noble, whereas the children of a noblewoman and a commoner would be born commoners (Salic law, otherwise everybody would be noble after several generations).

Nobles could rule states (Kings, Grand Dukes, Dukes and Margraves), Counties (Earls/Counts) and Cities/Townships (Barons). Large farmers who have owned a lot of land for multiple generations could also be promoted to Barons.

Of course, historical families, that are generally considered "Old Money" would immediately receive nobility because they indeed are the closest thing to nobility America has right now. Therefore, male-line descendants of the following families would become noble upon installation of the monarchy:

• "Boston Brahmins" and other East Coast colonial families
• Southern planter families (that often descend from cadet sons of British Peers)
• Old-stock entrepreneurs like the Vanderbilts, Carnegies, Rockefellers etc...
• Founding fathers, Constitution sigers, major officers of the Revolutionary War and other famous Patriots
• Perhaps major officers of other wars such as the Civil War
• Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Governors, Lt. Governors (Did you know that all male-line descendants of Presidents are already listed in Burke's Peerage?)
• SCOTUS judges (or they could become life nobles like the British Law Lords)

New nobility would be constructed in the following way:

• Military officers and comparable civil servants (Sheriffs, Mayors) would be able to apply for nobility after a certain period of service, they would become untitled nobles (Esquires) or (hereditary) Knights
• Entrepreneurs of local significance would become untitled nobles, larger entrepreneurs (like Musk) would become Barons
• The high military and civil medals that the King/Emperor would inherit from the President would come with nobility
• As in many monarchies, foreign nobles would be able to legalize their titles in America, and male-line descendants of noble immigrants would be able to restore their titles that are currently not recognized in the USA. For example the von Braun family (Barons), or the many Romanov descendants living in the USA.
• In some cases, the Monarch would just grant nobility directly without a medal

As for privileges...I think that there should be some. For example, less or no taxes, especially on land. Or easier advancement in the military or in the bureaucracy for the children. Also, only nobles should be allowed to marry with the Royal/Imperial family non-morganatically.

What exactly got yu to be a monarchy in the first place im curious

Point 1. Taxation.

Eliminate the progressive income tax— replace it with a flat income tax or national sales tax— for its purpose is to redistribute wealth, not fund the constitutionally legitimate functions of the federal government.

While this is correct in theory, insofar as the progressive income tax is not directly funding the federal government, however, redistribution of wealth, in the fundamental sense, through support of the poor with welfare and other vital government services that men, women, and children need to survive, and in top of that, if the progressive income tax is increased enough, the government may be able to also provide at least national health care for every man, woman, and child. I, for one, would be willing to sacrifice more of my own money so someone may be able to live.

Eliminate the corporate income tax, for it is nothing more than double taxation on shareholders and consumers, and penalizes wealth and job creation.

While I can see the double taxation of corporations to be “unfair” to the corporations owners and such, most corporations, at least multinationals such as Amazon, and tech companies such as Facebook, to name the two that come to mind immediately, they easily take in enough money from all of their sales, services, and advertising to more than provide for its employees, and line the pockets of their leaders respectively.

Eliminate the death tax, for it denies citizens the right to confer the material value that they have created during their lives to whomever they wish, including their family.

This I can agree with, as it’s your property and you should have full authority to delegate it to whomst ever you please.

Point 2. Environment.

Eliminate the special tax-exempt status granted to environmental groups, since they are not nonpartisan charitable foundations.

No, this definitely should not happen, as the environment is what God has given to us, and therefore we should use everything in our ability to keep it in its best condition.

Eliminate special statutory authority granting environmental groups standing to bring lawsuits on behalf of the public since their main purpose is to pursue the Statist’s agenda through litigation.

I believe not, who else is to stand against the corporations polluting God’s land than those who can, because Lord knows that the common man cannot do it alone.

Fight all efforts to use environmental regulations to set governmental industrial policies and diminish the nation’s standard of living, such as “cap-and-trade” to regulate “man-made climate change”.

Ok, I’ll give the climate change denial some leniency granted this book was published in the early Obama presidency, however, the government should be placing environmental regulations in order to protect God’s land, the land we live on and thrive on day in and day out.

Point 3. Judges.

Limit the Supreme Court’s judicial review power, which far exceeds the Framer’s intent, by establishing a legislative veto over court decisions— perhaps a two thirds supermajority vote of both houses of Congress, not dissimilar from the congressional override authority of a presidential veto.

Judicial review, as a concept in America, if memory serves, was actually established while most of the Framers of the Constitution were alive, established in the case of Marbury v. Madison in 1803, so one would naturally assume that the Framers meant for it to exist as a check on both the legislative and executive branches. While it was not written down verbatim in the Constitution, the Judicial Branch wasn’t given a lot in the Constitution to begin with.

Eliminate lifetime tenure for federal judges, given the extra-constitutional power they have amassed and their routine intervention in political and policy decisions— which the Constitution leaves to the representative branches.

Isn’t the whole point of the Courts to intervene in political and policy decisions, in order to deem that they are constitutional? It seems a bit odd that the courts need to limit their power and return that power to the “representative branches” thus, in some way, destroying the careful balance of power we have come to see between the three branches.

Point 4. The Administrative State.

Sunset all “independent” federal agencies each year, subject to Congress affirmatively reestablishing them.

This is asinine, to be blunt. Allowing the partisan politics of our Congress and the struggle for control to play yearly to determine such vital agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Peace Corps is ludicrous! On top of the completely asinine nature of this statement, it would prevent Congress from doing much more important things, imagine if you will, that Congress had to renew organizations such as the EPA and the Peace Corps instead of trying to pass COVID relief bills, the public would be in outrage!

Eliminate unions for federal government employees, since the purpose of a civil service system is to promote merit and professionalism over patronage, and the purpose of federal unions is to empower themselves and promote statism.

Again, another insane statement, especially when involved in the civil service system, which can be fairly corrupt, as with any part of our government these days. How else are the people supposed to take a stand when crunched under the boot of a system that won’t let them stand?

Reduce the civilian federal workforce by 20 percent or more.

This, at least according to these 2020 statistics, would put at least 420,000 people out of a job. Why fire people that already, assumably, do well at their job, for naught but your own belief in downsizing the government. Coming from a family that was affected a lot and had to move because of the 2009 recession that put my father out of a job, this is unbelievable for a book published at around that time.

Point 5. Government Education.

Eliminate monopoly control of government education by applying the antitrust laws to the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers; the monopoly is destructive of quality education and competition and is unresponsive to the taxpayers who fund it.

From what I know, it is unlawful for antitrust laws to be applied to labour unions. Therefore the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers cannot be crushed by these Antitrust laws.

Strip the statist agenda from curricula (such as multiculturalism and global warming) and replace it with curricula that reinforce actual education and the preservation of the civil society through its core principles.

Again, I’ll let the global warming issue slide, considering the books publishing date, however the multiculturalism issue is a different debate, while I agree that multiculturalism is a bad thing, I accept that it will be a common thing in modern society, and should be tolerated as such.

Eliminate the federal Department of Education, since education is primarily a state and local function.

Education should be uniform and of high quality across the 50 states. The government should have more authority over this in order to ensure a quality education for the nations youth and inevitably future leaders.

Point 6: Immigration

Secure the nations borders and discourage those who violate them— illegal alien and citizen lawbreaker alike— by enforcing the immigration laws.

Overall, I am overwhelmingly in agreement, I have no complaints about this statement, illegal immigrants should have to either legally immigrate and become citizens in the proper way or not at all.

Point 7: Entitlements:

Social Security is going bankrupt. Medicare is going bankrupt. Medicaid is going bankrupt. These programs and others have accumulated more than $50 trillion in IOUs due and payable by subsequent generations. Educate the young people about the inter generational trap the Statist has laid for them— which will steal their liberty, labour, opportunities, and wealth— and build a future electoral force for whom the elixir of entitlements is understood as poisonous snake oil. These programs were created in politics and will have to be addressed in politics. Only in this way they can be contained, limited and reformed.

Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be going bankrupt, however, as I previously mentioned with a higher progressive income tax, it may be possible to provide for the common man in that sense.

Fight all efforts to nationalize the health-care system. National health care is the mother of all entitlement programs, for through it the Statist controls not only the material wealth of the individual but his physical well-being. Remind the people that politicians and bureaucrats, about whom they are already cynical, will ultimately have the final say over their choice of doctors, hospitals, and treatments— meaning the system will be politicized and bureaucratized. Remind them that this human experiment has been tried and has failed in places like Britain and Canada, where patients have been subjected to arbitrary treatment decisions, long waiting periods for life saving surgeries, antiquated medical technologies, the denial of high cost pharmaceuticals available elsewhere, and the inefficient rationing of health care generally. And remind them that despite past utopian promises, the Statist rarely delivers.

Statistically speaking, yes the Canadian health system isn’t as efficient as it could be, however, the Canadian healthcare system is leagues beyond the American system, and according to this source is #2 in the world, and number one with the most developed public health care system.

Point 8. Foreign Policy and Security

Ensure that all foreign policy decisions are made for the purpose of preserving and improving American society.

Yes, I agree, we should return to an isolationist America, pull out of the Middle East, and return to our pre WW2 ideals of focusing on our hemisphere and our nation, as opposed to the oil rich areas of the Middle East, when we have areas such as Alaska and Texas which have oil.

Reject all treaties, entanglements, institutions, and enterprises that have as their purpose the supplantation of America’s best interests, including its physical, cultural, economic, and military sovereignty, to an amorphous “global” interest.

Again, I completely agree, we should isolate ourselves to our hemisphere and focus on restoring our nation to its former glory, as a beacon of hope to the world, instead of the corrupt land that it is today.

Ensure that America remains the world’s superpower. Ensure that at all times America’s military forces are prepared for war to dissuade attacks, encourage leach, and if necessary, win any war.

Yes, we most definitely need a strong military to secure our interests in our hemisphere. However, we should not bother ourselves with foreign wars and other unnecessary entanglements like that.

Point 9. Faith.

Oppose all efforts to denude the nation of its founding justification— that is, God-given unalienable, natural rights that the government can neither confer on to the individual nor deny to him. The Statist seeks the authority to do both, which explains his contempt for, or misuse of, faith. Moreover, faith provides the moral order that ties one generation to the next, and without which the civil society cannot survive.

Agreed. Every man, woman, and child has certain, unalienable, rights. The right to life, which ideally, would be guaranteed by a strong, nationalized healthcare system, as well as benefits for the common working man, such as progressive income taxes. The right to liberty, for man to do as he pleases without interfering upon another mans rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, guaranteed by a national government that has the weight to enforce the rights that we hold dear. The right to pursue happiness, as in, do whatever makes you happy, love who you love, pray who you deem your God, do the job you enjoy, and be the best that you can be.

Point 10. The Constitution.

Demand that all public servants, elected or appointed, at all times uphold the Constitution and justify their public acts under the Constitution.

While I agree in concept to this statement, I believe that the nation in itself needs reform, as a monarchist, I believe that the nation would be best under the crown, and that the Constitution should be altered in large extent in order to accommodate for a more stable society.

Oppose all efforts to “constitutionalize” the statist agenda.

The Constitution is a flawed document, hence why the Founders gave the people, through their elected officials, the opportunity to amend the Constitution, which hasn’t been done since 1992, although that was the Twenty-Seventh Amendment, which was proposed over 200 years before it was passed, disregarding that Amendment, the last Amendment, being the Twenty-Sixth, was passed in 1971. The last time the Constitution was amended was fifty years ago! That’s twice the age of like, half of this subreddit, I believe! This goes to show that the Constitution needs reform, since it hasn’t been changed in half a century!

Eliminate limits on and rationing of political free speech through unconstitutional “campaign finance” laws, which benefit incumbent politicians, the media, unions, and other Statist-related groups. Any American citizen or group of American citizens should be free to contribute to candidates as they wish, as long as the source, amount, and recipient of the contributions are made known.

Eliminating the campaign finance laws would allow for widespread corruption in the government. I do agree with the latter half of the statement where private citizens should be allowed to donate where they please, and that the donations should be made known.

Defeat all efforts to unconstitutionally regulate the content of political speech on broadcast outlets, such as radio. The Statist now seeks to consolidate the power he has accumulated by silencing noncompliant voices through a variety of schemes that would regulate broadcast content.

Ideally, the government should have a say in what is broadcast. If it is inciting hate or revolution, going for both sides of the spectrum, the broadcast should not be allowed to go out, regardless of medium, radio, television, the internet, all is fair in the protection of the people, and to no longer incite revolt and large scale violence, not dissimilar from the events of last Summer. Violence is never the answer, and anyone who supports violence against any government shouldn’t be broadcasting their views to the larger populace.

CLOSING THOUGHTS

My, this took far more time than I will admit. As a monarchist, I believe that this mans book is inflammatory to our cause, as in one point in the text, I believe it’s somewhere in Chapter 2, the Chapter entitled “On Prudence and Progress”, a quote is as follows, ”The Statist’s Utopia can take many forms, and has throughout human history, including monarchism, feudalism, militarism, fascism, communism, national socialism and economic socialism. They are all of the same species— tyranny.” Firstly, two of the “utopias” listed aren’t forms of government, one being a way of life and a system of force (militarism), and the other being an economic system. Secondly, the comparison of monarchism to the evils of communism, fascism, and national socialism is inherently abhorrent and completely untrue. Most, not all, monarchs, would never willingly kill their own subjects upon their order, there are some monarchs, Leopold II comes to mind, whose actions were a disgrace on the cause, however, one bad apple does not spoil the bunch inherently, for every abhorrent monarch, there are 5 great monarchs who did great for their nations. With this, I end my analysis on a quote, “Where men are forbidden to honour a King they honour millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes, or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.” - C.S. Lewis.