monarchy

“That principle as much as any other distinguishes democracy from monarchy or tyranny, and anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it.”

“That principle, as much as any other, distinguishes democracy from monarchy or tyranny, and anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it. At the same time, in our nation, we owe loyalty not to a president or a party, but to the Constitution of the United States.”

Led in the U.S. by self-described “monarchists” who actively seek to restore their Bourbon prince to the throne, the Constantinian Order seems to exist above all to keep the lost monarchy alive: allowing a would-be king to exercise his hereditary privilege in a miniature kingdom of loyal subjects, and allowing those he deems worthy to bask in the royal glow.

By contrast, the American republic was founded on an explicit rejection of monarchy and nobility, which the framers viewed as inimical to principles of equality and equal justice under the law.

According to a leading monarchist revered by these knights, “throne and altar” monarchy sees the church as the “animating principle of society” that “confers legitimacy and authority upon the King via … ceremonies of state,” while the monarch exercises power with a “God-given authority.”