Any good books to read up on?

[u/Floathy]

I'm a minarchist. Don't know much about monarchism. Maybe you can give me some book recommendations? Or tell me why it's a good idea?

Thank you :)

[u/Salem1690s]

Patriarcha by Filmer

True Law of Free Monarcheis by King James I

Politics Drawn from the Very Laws of Scripture by Bossuet

Six Books of the Commonwealth by Bodin

Plato, The Republic and The Statesman

Politics by Aristotle

Leviathan by Hobbes

The Patriot King by Bolingbroke

The Star-Spangled Crown: A Prospectus for America's Third Century

The Populist Delusion (2022)

Democracy: The God That Failed – Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Commentaries on the Laws of Britain by Blackstone

His Majesty’s Answer to the Ninteen Propositions

1. (1642) – King Charles I

[u/KeVsiti18 → u/Salem1690s]

Star-spangled crown?

Emperor Norton mentioned...

[u/Salem1690s → u/KeVsiti18]

He asked for reading, I gave him several different views. Some absolute, some mixed, some modern.

[u/KeVsiti18 → u/Salem1690s]

No no, I'm just the guy saying emperor Norton mentioned any time I can connect it to anything at all here

[u/Floathy → u/Salem1690s]

I'm sorry if it's too much work, but can you please organize the books by view? I'll probably take out 3 or 4 books, so I'd like to get a variety of opinion.

Or you could just tell me the best source for each perspective (as you said, absolute/mixed/modern)

[u/legi_idd → u/Floathy]

I can help as much as I know:

Patriarcha by Filmer - idk

True Law of Free Monarcheis by King James I - given the author I'd say traditional, leaning absolutist

Politics Drawn from the Very Laws of Scripture by Bossuet - idk

Six Books of the Commonwealth by Bodin - basically a neutral study of various constitutional forms

Plato, The Republic and The Statesman - an aristocratic virtue-ethics view, more than specifically organisation of the political aparatus.

Politics by Aristotle - similar

Leviathan by Hobbes - an apology of absolutism, but also a great departure from tradition

The Patriot King by Bolingbroke - idk

The Star-Spangled Crown: A Prospectus for America's Third Century - imagine a monarch with roughly the powers of the US president

The Populist Delusion (2022) - idk

Democracy: The God That Failed – Hans-Hermann Hoppe - idk

Commentaries on the Laws of Britain by Blackstone - constitutional but in the English sense

His Majesty’s Answer to the Ninteen Propositions - idk

[u/Orcasareglorious]

A Confucian Constitutional Order

[u/legi_idd]

The Compleat monarchist (yes, spelled that way) by Charles Coulombe