23 JUL 2011 by ideonexus
The Monarchy Paradox
There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to act in cases where the highest judgment is required. The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly; wherefore the different parts, by unnaturally opposing and destroying each other, prove the whole character to be absurd and useless.The King must be cut off and distanced from the governed, the very thing he is supposed to be most knowledgeable about.