British monarchy is outside of government in a way not even the American judiciary is WashTimesOpEd
A declaration stated that the king was a tyrant and that tyranny had to go. No royal family. No nobility. A republic came to be.The Founding Fathers were well schooled in Greek and Roman antiquity. Socrates was sentenced to death for opposing Athenian democracy, referring in his defense speech to the dramatist Aristophanes. Aristophanes of Athens wrote the comedy “Assemblywomen,” in which wives dress up as men in their husbands’ clothes and take over the popular assembly of Athens.
A well-known critique of democracy is that it is inefficient, as many people take part in the decision-making, a main reason that pure direct democracy is suitable only for small city-states. About half a century into the life of the American republic, the French nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville came to America, and he observed the democratic culture that by then had developed.
Even Montesquieu, the father of modern checks and balances, noted that in democracies, the power of the people is confused with their liberty. The days when Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary told a European-touring Nobel Peace laureate Theodore Roosevelt that the point of monarchy was for the monarch to protect his people against their government may be long gone.
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