Quote of the Month

Writes Dr. Jonathan M. Kolkey:

Today it’s a cardinal article of faith that the America colonists were completely justified revolting against King George III and British colonial rule. However, the beauty of comparative history is that it allows us to look at this episode in broader perspective so that the alleged uniqueness of events often fade as larger patterns are identified. In fact, the American Revolution looks a great deal less wholesome – indeed rather unnecessary – upon sober reflection.

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Some Quotes at the End of the Month

The Western Confucian, denying it began with King George III, writes:

It all began with King John, who usurped the both ancient Anglo-Saxon and Catholic liberties, a situation corrected when the tyrant was forced to sign the Magna Carta, whose first article guarantees "that the English Church shall be free, and shall have its rights undiminished, and its liberties unimpaired."

Mr. Gerald Warner of Scotland on Sunday writes (also at The Monarchist):

For generations, British schoolchildren were educated – or brainwashed – into an exaggerated respect for parliament and its associated institutions. Even as the British Empire went into receivership, imitation chambers emerged in former colonies, with Speakers and clerks decked out in the horsehair wigs that replicated the supposed gravitas of the circus on the Thames. Reinforcing this spurious deference was the Whig interpretation of history, which attempted to imbue an infamous gang of self-serving bandits and tyrants with a "democratic" veneer and an invented romance.

Concluding:

Now, the challenge is to explore all our existing resources, as is the British way, to replace this failed legislature. We must be the only tribe in the world to have a council of elders that we relegate to ceremonial duties: time to make more use of the Privy Council. An executive monarch, too, curbing the power of a prime minister, was until recently unthinkable; but, considering the record of recent prime ministers, it now seems a positive alternative.

Monarchists Shut Down Nepalese Capital

Monday in the past week Kathmandu was shut down by monarchists. So Reuters India reports.

Google News has more.

Gay "Marriage"

The Western Confucian posts:

• The Heretical Roots of Modernist Marriage
• "Marriage Equality" and Religious Liberty

Please also feel free to visit or revisit yours truly's My Bike Is a Car.

Loyalist Book

Royal World recommends James H. Stark's The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution.

Please also feel free to visit or revisit your blogger's related bibliography.

Louis XVI Remembered

Over at The Times, Ms. Bess Twiston Davies reports on a memorial Mass for Louis XVI.

Another mass:

And a procession:

H/T: Royal World

The Capuchin Crypt

Dag T. Hoelseth, proprietor of Hoelseth's Royal Corner (please note that it has moved) blogs on a Der Spiegel article on the Imperial crypt in Vienna.


Elsewhere: Royal World

Joseph de Maistre

Eleven years short of two centuries ago today, Joseph-Marie, comte de Maistre passed on.

The Zimmermann Telegram

Four score and a long dozen years ago today, the Persona Non Grata of this weblog learned of the Zimmermann Telegram.

The Legal Tender Act

A century and four dozen years ago today, the Legal Tender Act was passed.

J.B. Hjort

A century and fifteen years ago today, J.B. Hjort was born. Four decades and a year ago yesterday, he passed away.

J.B. Hjort wrote Justismord (Miscarriage of Justice), where he analyzed – amongst others – the “trials” against Anne Boleyn, King Charles I of England, Queen Marie Antoinette of France, and Prime Minster Selmer of Norway.

J.B. Hjort also wrote Demokrati og statsmakt (Democracy and State Power), where he addressed – although being guilty of abuse of the word democracy – the need for checks due to the vices of democracy.

He often wrote in Farmand, and he was an active opponent of a government-“developed” language.

Andreas Hofer

Two centuries and three days ago today, Andreas Hofer was martyred.