Cons Of Monarchies In The United States

Throughout the world there are countless forms of government around, some, like fascism and monarchy give power to the few. While others like democracy and communism give power to the many. I believe that governments like those installed into the United States today benefit the many exceedingly more than monarchies with benefits such as representatives for the people. Though, I do believe that monarchies played a key role in improving the world for what it is today with the creation governments like that of the United States because of it. Monarchies could continue to do so if reprised to a position of power like that of the United States, as monarchs can introduce positive ideas quickly and with care or leading to oppositions and conflicts

Although the most common form of choosing monarch leaders is by heredity in Absolute Monarchies, voting forms of the next monarch have been practiced around the world in Elective Monarchies (10 Principal Pros and Cons of Monarchy). The most common form of selecting the next monarch in line, heredity, going from father to son and continuing down the line of succession unless usurped by another family (Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, page 339). My society’s monarchy would select an heir not by blood or vote, as by blood the son or daughter in line could be ill or have a problem of some kind along with reasons of corruption, but by election. Elective Monarchies, although less common than Absolute Monarchies have been seen in counties like Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, and the Holy Roman Empire and benefited the nation in various progressive ways (Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, page

This was seen explicitly in the American Revolution where the crown of Britain did nothing to please the British across the Atlantic Ocean as many of the monarchs were traditionalists and didn’t want reform. This complicated the hopes of philosophers and writers and many felt after the American Revolution that “if kings would not lead to reform, then that form of government might not be the necessary form after all” (Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, page 342). I believe that if my societies monarchs were to become corrupt or traditionalists, unwilling to change, that this would be when a revolution or change in government would become beneficial and that the next form of government would reform to a stronger more equal form of