We've got enough crazies in the UK without importing more of them.
How about we let the US have King Charles and family instead unless you end up crowning King Donald 1.
We'll keep the assets though.
Dunno, James I for all his faults did understand that his “divine right” had to be tempered by what was politically possible. It’s Charles I that would worry me 😀
Indeed, James recognised that he was obliged to rule according to law. It was the fact that this wasn’t subject to, um, checks and balances that helped foment the subsequent conflicts. Interesting to see the US re-immersing itself in that particular set of constitutional nightmares.
Nah, man. As a modern (that means 17th c to present) British historian with a field in Tudor-Stuart, I assure you George III knew the things parliament would do if he performed the tyrannical things this ruling makes possible.
Parliament could get rid of him, and had experience doing so
The "tyranny of King George" is a foundational myth of the United States. It's not quite as publicly and obviously hilarious as, say, "endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights" or several international equivalents without pointing fingers, but it's definitely a foundational myth.
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But even if they didn’t apply a “Charles I” solution, which gets messy, they could apply a William and Mary solution or George I solution (dredge up some distant cousin)
Every July 4th, I think about how my Republican brother and father would have definitely been on England's side during the Revolutionary War, while I would have fought with the rebels, but meanwhile they act like they own the holiday.
I wish.
“Thus we have plac’d the noblest constitution the human mind is capable of framing…where one part of the Legislative body checks the other by the privilege of rejecting, both check’d by the Executive, as that is again by the Legislative.”
— King George III
