Truly enjoying this thread and still waiting for ujm to tell us why he is so knowledgeable in these matters
But I need to take issue with Jackk
our rejection of the monarchy is American propaganda written by the victors.
The truth, we were paying a pittance in taxes that went to a standing army that protected us
the reality is that our forefathers wanted to protect the slave trade.
The brits had already outlawed the trade and even after independence enforced it by boarding american ships
There is a confirmed story of a british warship boarding an american vessel suspected of slavery. The captain tied his slaves to the anchor and when it became apparent that the slave ship would be boarded, he dropped anchor which removed all the slaves (drowning hundreds ) from his ship. The brits couldn’t arrest the captain because the slaves where no longer on the ship.
These are the “men” we look up to as the founding fathers.
Their names grace building like Browns university (family money made in the slave trade)
Say what you want about the monarchy but it is only in the last 50 years that America has earned the right to call itself a relatively moral country