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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    I'm not retreating, I just can't make myself read 1950 words written in response to seven sentences. You claim I deny things that I open...
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    Clete reacted to VladtheDestroyer's post in the thread Constitutional Monarchy with Like Like.
    Hmm....well I just thought I would throw my 2 cents in. It's interesting.
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    Repeating our positions is all that there's been left to do for over a month. The arguments have been made repeatedly on both sides and...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    It's the same arguments! I've answered these issue many times before. There is no such thing as a perfect system. "Who removes the...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    I am referring only to matters of law and criminal justice, not the kings character per se and there would be no committee that sits...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    It would hardly be any worse - in principle. That is, there is no need for a legislature but there is a need to see to it that the king...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    Your arguments that aren't semantic in nature all boil down to choosing which worst case scenario you prefer, to which my response...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    Perhaps, but I see no necessity to settle for one tyrant over many. How about a system that doesn't tolerate tyrants to begin with; a...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    Which I have been responding to directly all along. That's the whole discussion. If there is no authority to enforce the law when the...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    Finally admitted it?! I've never denied it! Yes, that's why the men who created America, wisely created a system where there are three...
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    That's all they can do. Their theory of origins is ultimately a timeline of emergent properties that appeals to imagined pre-existing...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    It is above the king. The law is above the king. Those who enforce the law, enforce it against those who are under it. It is the only...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    I barely had time to even read all of that. Bob's proposed constitution is a human institution. As proposed, it is installing a king...
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    Clete replied to the thread Are you Going to Heaven?.
    No doubt!
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    Clete reacted to Right Divider's post in the thread Are you Going to Heaven? with Like Like.
    I think that this type of thing is all too common nowadays.
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