Monarchy

Well, the timing is great to be able to highlight just the need that people have there and the fact that we can get involved.

So, again, it's engageNepal.org and the program on Thursday night from Monarchy to Republic.

That alone will be an interesting discussion.

And thank you, Catherine, for the good idea of combining that with this relief for Nepal.

Thank you for listening.

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Anyway, the merch is popping off.

Turns out the best sellers now are Unmute Dude, the Orthodox shirt, the Monarchy shirt, and the Pope of the Future.

But guys, we still got...

Although we did sell quite a few Yakub.

You guys are loving it.

We have the top-selling shirts here.

Everybody likes the Wigxantium, the Unmute Dude, the Monarchy T, the hats.

I think, I don't understand.

Now, you might wonder what do legalists think about the number of rulers? Should we have monarchies or what? How many rulers should we have? And the legalists are generally in favor of having one ruler.

There's nothing that makes that be necessary.

but monarchies do offer one major advantage which is that they prevent any kind of confusion or fragmentation the ruler speaks with one voice you never have to worry about following what this ruler says at the expense of some what some other ruler says if you have multiple people calling the shots you could get the possibility of disagreement or just you know even different rules different looking preferences and stuff like that but you Monarchies prevent that by consolidating power rather than fragmenting it.

And so legalists are in favor of having one ruler, i.e. a monarchy.

And as I've been saying through this whole episode is that we really don't need to talk about the personal qualities of the ruler.

In England a different scene is witnessed.

The Revolution had overthrown three great institutions:—the Monarchy, the Parliament, and the Church.

All three were now restored under the old forms,—the Parliament first, and then in natural sequence the Monarchy and the Church.

And when the settlement is complete it is seen that the first and the last have gained immensely, and that what they have gained the Crown has lost.

Acting in strict harmony the Parliament and the Church assume toward the King a dictatorial attitude; and from their dictation he partially escapes by a gradually deepening subservience to Louis XIV., a subservience rendered easy from the fact that Parliament has as yet no direct control upon foreign policy.

He left two ideas occupying the whole field,—the old idea of the absolute monarchy and the new idea (which he created in France and which Mazarin after a hard struggle sustained) of the irresponsible prime ministership.

It was in the fact that to Louis XIV at the death of Mazarin there descended both of these,- -the prestige and power of royalty and the prestige and power of the premiership,--that his extraordinary position was in a great degree owing.

And it was the struggle, the selfish and frivolous struggle, of the privileged classes against the new creation and not against the Monarchy that constituted the Fronde .Mazarin and the Reaction.

1830-48.

The Orléans Monarchy or the July Monarchy.

louis philippe was first proclaimed lieutenant-general of the kingdom afterwards his title was changed by the chamber of deputies to that of king he was at this time a man of fifty-seven the son of that louis philippe joseph the duke d'orleans who was formerly celebrated under the title of he had gained a reputation as a good soldier in revolutionary times unfortunately when dumouriez fell under the suspicion of conspiring against france louis philippe was credited with being his accomplice he therefore prudently fled from france lest he should be proscribed living first in switzerland and then in england in the days of the first revolution he returned to france he was by nature a homely man a stout bourgeois in appearance and it now suited him to take up the role of the friend of the middle class contemporaries like to describe how he promenaded the streets of paris unattended la parapluie sous le bras just like an ordinary citizen almost inevitably the citizen king became his nickname his hardy bluff manners were unsuited to formal ceremonies his queen marie amlie of sicily seems to have shared her husband's attitude in society when guests came to the royal palace she did not lay aside her needlework and the atmosphere of the tuileries was that of a middle-class home Even her sons were educated at the college of Henri IV, mixing on friendly terms with the sons of the bourgeoisie.

All this parade of equality brought in its train a certain measure of popularity, but on the other hand it had the effect of dispersing, once and for all, the glamour which had hitherto surrounded the monarchy in France.

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Monarchies, man.

Man.

Violent coups, insurrections.

Nice.

Gurkrollplay for $10 says, I'm still waiting on the Monarchy picture.

Also just wanted to ask.

Yeah, I'll get you that.