Quote Originally Posted by rvg View Post
Flawed? Perhaps. Better than any alternative? Absolutely.
The UK has achieved a smiliar settlement, but with fewer wars and less bloodshed. If the UK becomes a Republic then your point will be completely moot. Note it has only remain a monarchy because the people wish it so.

Oh please. We were the pond scum: indentured servants, religious cultists, political dissidents, disgraced aristocrats and other misfits. America was a human trash pile, perhaps a notch above Australia, but that's about it. And it was treated accordingly.
Errrr

No. If you were we wouldn't have sent eminent Aristocrats out to govern you. America was the heart of the Old Empire, the land of opertunity, the engine of British Commerce. Even the currency used in the UK to this day, pounds sterling, bears witness to this.

A democracy nonetheless.
So are Canada, the UK, and Australia.

I did no such thing.
You said "we", you want to laud your Republic? Take the bitter pills with the sugar then.