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What?

King are men

It’s HIS children

Don’t adopt leftist nonenglish

I was thinking of king AND Queen when I said the their bit.

I just didn’t put Queen in there because I was being retarded.

Machiavelli talks about this in The Prince

I agree that saying their for everything is gay af.

Good times create weak men etc

A prince ought to be educated in the history of warfare and be raised to hunt

To know what it takes to lure and kill your enemies and to learn the lay of the land

How valleys slope and forests conceal

Everyone should. It is just extra important for rulers to.

So that he may know how to lead a battle when the time comes

Reminder that the mongols were raised hunting mice and herding on horseback

And conquered half the world’s population in an afternoon with six horses and a banana

Anyway not a question

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If a monarch makes an elected parliament to represent the people will that inevitably spiral into further loss of a monarch’s power or can a monarch’s power remain if a parliament exists?

Now there’s a good question

It’s hard to say

There’s not a large enough sample size to determine a clear trend

The British monarchy was pretty solid for centuries even with a separate legislature

Though of course their system has Lords n shiet

The king was still pretty powerful until after the war

And that was largely due to the complacency and weakness of the sitting monarch, rather than a systemic failure

IMO

I think that the system can exist for long periods when things are going good or ok but when hardship hits people tend to blame the system instead of the actual causes.

The parliament and House of Lords were fine because Britain was doing well.

But when they stopped doing as well the kings powers were taken.

it's almost as if the system of government is secondary to a strong culture and society

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Eh

Both reinforce eachother

As far as I can tell any sort of federal assembly is a bad idea in the longterm

If you have a parliament, the one thing it can agree on always is empowering parliament. Even one moment of monarchical weakness and you end up with a figurehead

And once parliament is in charge I think we can observe in history there's always been a drive to expand the franchise

If anything have regional parliament or better yet make large cities republican enclaves

I like large cities being mini republics, buy I'd also like to point out the necessity of Parliaments, of which all medieval monarchs had a form, for feudal tax collection. You're gonna have to find another way for people to consent to tax and your government.