Why you people always got to see the bad?
Boondock Saint wrote:I would challenge you and reply with ...
'It is NOT the people who tend to forget, but the monarchs.'
I meant in todays day and age, not historically.
Boondock Saint wrote:HA HA!
I could just imagine it now ... a farmer peasent walks up to King Thomas the Cruel and says 'hey you there, yes you! What makes you think you can get away with this eh? I say your being a bad king up there in your palace. We are starving here! Now, be a good king and go provide for your people!'
Yea ... thats a likely scenerio ...
Actually, it is a likely scenario, or else we wouldn't have a French Republic or an United States. Your example of King Thomas the Cruel is noted (though unlikely, as peasents would first have to go to their local lordling, and he to the King), but I counter with The English Civil War:
Some Puritan peasent walks up to King Charles and says "Hey, you there. Stop being so damned Protestant! That's right, be more Puritan or we'll lop off your head" Which of course, they did.
I think the main point your having trouble with, is that I'm propossing an Monarchical system with no serfdom (which amounts to slavery), which therefore lends itself a working law system in which every freeman, and nobleman (inlcuding the King) were equal under the law. Under said system, a King could easily be brought to justice. Simply appoint a group of rotating Nobles to uphold the law code from Royal interference (i.e. Royal elimination of said law code).
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), "Non-Violence in Peace and War"