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The king’s usurpation of papal dominium mundi in the Reformation served as the legal basis for English colonization of America. If the pope could authorize Iberian colonization via the Donation Bulls, then so too could the king via royal charters.
The problem with the dominion theory of British America as justificatory of the Revolution is that it mislocates lawmaking power as in parliament, not the king. The Intolerable Acts were therefore decreed not by parliament ultra vires, but by the king (of America) intra vires.
The problem with the dominion theory of British America as justificatory of the Revolution is that it mislocates lawmaking power as in parliament, not the king. The Intolerable Acts were therefore decreed not by parliament ultra vires, but by the king (of America) intra vires.
Within the “executive power” vested in the president lay every royal prerogative not explicitly modified, granted elsewhere, or inherently incompatible with a republic.
The president is not a monarch, for while his “executive power” is nearly identical to sovereign power, he wields it not in his own right or by his personal sovereignty, but rather as regent for the sovereign republic that vested in him the exercise of that power on its behalf.
Ahem. President Trump must outlaw, conquer, and defederalize California in particular, and all blue states in general, for their flagrant violations of federal law.
Holy Roman Emperors could put imperial estates under an “imperial ban” (reichsacht) wherein they were outlawed, conquered, and mediatized. A similar “presidential ban” ought to be established and imposed on states that grossly violate federal law.
Sir Francis Lawley and Sir Robert Townshend dressed in ancient French robes representing the Dukes of Normandy and Aquitaine at the coronation of James II in 1687. These positions were last seen at the coronation of George III in 1761, who still claimed the title King of France.
From 1736 to 1755, the doge of Genoa was also the king of Corsica. This personal union between a republic and a monarchy could be replicated in North America, whereby the president of the United States is also the king of Canada.
Out of all the so-called republics in the world, there is only one that best mirrors how historical, true republics were constituted, and it’s one that is, ironically, often mistaken for a monarchy: the United Arab Emirates.
The Venetian republic only existed in the city of Venice (Dogado), with its remaining territories being nothing but colonies. The American republic ought likewise to have been limited to the original thirteen, ruling the rest of America as a federal patrimony.
He had a point. I think it would be an improvement if all chief magistrates, including the president, were elected through a conclavesque process.
Hitler modeled his proposal for the selection of future Führers on papal conclaves: senators chosen “with reference to their occupation” would elect, in camera and thus secluded from popular influence, an absolute “Chief of State.”
Habemus Papam! We have a Pope! The Cardinals gathered in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel have elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th Pope, who took the name Pope Leo XIV.
Coronation of pope Pius II depicted in a frontispiece to a constitution of the Sienese church (1464)
Hitler modeled his proposal for the selection of future Führers on papal conclaves: senators chosen “with reference to their occupation” would elect, in camera and thus secluded from popular influence, an absolute “Chief of State.”
