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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    I answered your question the best way I know how. This is not a yes or no question either. It depends on how the system is structured...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    Asked and answered.
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    They should be. The king is not under the law in the proposed constitution, except in theory and only barely that, it seems. The...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    Once again, this would only be so if the judges wrote the law or could remove the king by fiat. If all they are doing is performing a...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    Ultimately, as is the case for all rightful authority, it originates with God. From there, however, authority is distributed by law...
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    Another example of why I couldn't be a cop.
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    Everything before the bolded comment above was wasted time. Both for you to type and for me to read and even that either missed or...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    This is not the answer I expected. Every other statement you've made indicated to me that you believed that the mere existence of any...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    It's hard to understand how it can be that you don't see your own contradictory statements. You make it quite clear that you believe...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    That's only partially true. The HPT isn't Bob's work and it is only portions of it that I disagree with. I find it's basic premise quite...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    Because history is replete with nations that "waited out" a wicked king to be replaced with his heir who turned out to be wonderfully...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    It's clearly a rationalization. I've never said it was a dodge. See what I mean? Rationalization! No, he cannot. Commands do not make...
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    @JudgeRightly, Yet another new direction from which to make the same essential point.... Civil disobedience is explicitly sanctioned...
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    Clete reacted to Nick M's post in the thread The continued policing problem in America. with Love Love.
    Always remember our rebuke of the Democratic party is not an endorsement of the Re-publican party.
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    Clete replied to the thread Constitutional Monarchy.
    I cannot imaging how it is possible for you to write something on the order of a 2000 word response to such a simple post and you do so...
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