The Monarchist 1.0
Defending the British Crown Commonwealth and the English-Speaking Peoples
[+] HONOURING OUR PATRON, SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, VICTOR OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
[+] HONOURING OUR QUEEN, ELIZABETH THE SECOND, ON THE 80TH YEAR OF HER BIRTH (1926 - 2006)
[+] HONOURING OUR KING, SAINT EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, ON THE 1000TH YEAR OF HIS BIRTH (1005 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR HERO, LORD NELSON, ON THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR (1805 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR SONS, THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard, 46, Royal Canadian Regiment, Nov 27, 2006 (Afstan)
Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, 34, Intelligence Corps, Nov 12, 2006 (Iraq)
Private Jacob B. Kovco, 25, Royal Australian Regiment, April 21, 2006
[+] HONOURING OUR VETS ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORIA CROSS (1856 - 2006)
Monday, July 25, 2005
Truth, Beauty and Balance
Our esteemed colleague from Down Under, William Pitt the Younger, has informed our Commonwealth subjects that New Zealand is now in full campaign mode, with the national general election called for September 17. I know I speak for all of us at The Monarchist when I say we all wish him well as we all have a stake in this election. Against the republicans and British haters, against the soft totalitarian statists, against the banality of post-modern transnationalism; we wish a return to monarchy and tradition, for the return of our ancient freedoms, for the respectful embrace and honour of our people’s history and greatness.
What our Kiwi brother longs for is summarized in his three literary posts on Truth (prevalent in the 16th century), Beauty (17th century) and Balance (18th century), three virtues of our inherited European culture that once came of age, but are now as dead as the Galileos, the DaVincis and the Burkes.
Take “Balance” for example. The checks and balances on our shared system of “democracy” are, on the whole, laughably deficient. With varying degrees of difference between Crown Commonwealth countries, the Prime Minister today has effective control over whole swaths of the executive, legislative and judicial apparatus of government. Contrast this with 18th century Britain, when Parliament was in perfect balance between Crown, Lords and Commons. Just as it is for the present day United States, where all three branches of the government are basically sovereign arms of the people. How it came into being is a perfect example of arrested constitutional development, where the Founding Fathers took for inspiration the balance of the British Parliamentary model and applied it permanently to America. President George Bush has roughly the same powers today as King George III did in 1776. The Americans saw perfection and constituted themselves to it enduringly.
We British “benefited” from another two centuries of evolution and limited constitutional monarchy. We could have achieved something even greater had we limited the role and power of government as we gradually limited the role and power of the crown. But today the crown is way too weak and the government way too strong, a problem exacerbated in our countries where the political establishment is morally deprived. The Liberals in Canada instinctively limit their understanding of balance as that happy medium between right and left politics, so blissfully unaware have they become over the years that they now lead a thoroughly corrupted one-party, even one-man system of government.
What we’re fighting for then is balance. What we’re fighting for is truth, not the lies that confuse, for instance, the crown with colonialism. It is far beyond the imagination of republicans to understand that the bonds that unite the nations under our Queen are fraternal, not colonial. What we’re fighting for is family. What we are fighting for is beauty, when politics dared men and women to think of their country in poetic terms, not some naive and socially idealistic pursuit of a “Just Society”. Give your countrymen the freedom to pursue their own justice and dreams; don’t steal from them and vandalize their ancient traditions, history and institutions that real dreams are made of in the first place.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 5:14 p.m. | LINKS |
Our esteemed colleague from Down Under, William Pitt the Younger, has informed our Commonwealth subjects that New Zealand is now in full campaign mode, with the national general election called for September 17. I know I speak for all of us at The Monarchist when I say we all wish him well as we all have a stake in this election. Against the republicans and British haters, against the soft totalitarian statists, against the banality of post-modern transnationalism; we wish a return to monarchy and tradition, for the return of our ancient freedoms, for the respectful embrace and honour of our people’s history and greatness.
What our Kiwi brother longs for is summarized in his three literary posts on Truth (prevalent in the 16th century), Beauty (17th century) and Balance (18th century), three virtues of our inherited European culture that once came of age, but are now as dead as the Galileos, the DaVincis and the Burkes.
Take “Balance” for example. The checks and balances on our shared system of “democracy” are, on the whole, laughably deficient. With varying degrees of difference between Crown Commonwealth countries, the Prime Minister today has effective control over whole swaths of the executive, legislative and judicial apparatus of government. Contrast this with 18th century Britain, when Parliament was in perfect balance between Crown, Lords and Commons. Just as it is for the present day United States, where all three branches of the government are basically sovereign arms of the people. How it came into being is a perfect example of arrested constitutional development, where the Founding Fathers took for inspiration the balance of the British Parliamentary model and applied it permanently to America. President George Bush has roughly the same powers today as King George III did in 1776. The Americans saw perfection and constituted themselves to it enduringly.
We British “benefited” from another two centuries of evolution and limited constitutional monarchy. We could have achieved something even greater had we limited the role and power of government as we gradually limited the role and power of the crown. But today the crown is way too weak and the government way too strong, a problem exacerbated in our countries where the political establishment is morally deprived. The Liberals in Canada instinctively limit their understanding of balance as that happy medium between right and left politics, so blissfully unaware have they become over the years that they now lead a thoroughly corrupted one-party, even one-man system of government.
What we’re fighting for then is balance. What we’re fighting for is truth, not the lies that confuse, for instance, the crown with colonialism. It is far beyond the imagination of republicans to understand that the bonds that unite the nations under our Queen are fraternal, not colonial. What we’re fighting for is family. What we are fighting for is beauty, when politics dared men and women to think of their country in poetic terms, not some naive and socially idealistic pursuit of a “Just Society”. Give your countrymen the freedom to pursue their own justice and dreams; don’t steal from them and vandalize their ancient traditions, history and institutions that real dreams are made of in the first place.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 5:14 p.m. | LINKS |
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