The People Are Sovereign

15 Replies to “The People Are Sovereign”

1. Our “elites” and “politicians” all believe that they know better than the people what they should have and want

2. Have to agree with Neil. A constitutional monarchy has a key strength: the king is accountable not only to the people, but to almighty God to whom he swore his oath. He is the guardian of a thousand years of tradition. If he betrays that holy trust his name will be cursed for all time. That’s a powerful incentive to lay up store not for this world, but for the next.

   God save the King. May he live up to his oaths and to the example of his forebears.

3. Mr Oliver makes the point, often overlooked, that in constitutional monarchies the people are sovereign, and that the monarch is there to protect this sovereignty and our rights and freedom against tyrants. I agree, and much prefer a constitutional monarchy that can act as a brake on ideological excess. It wasn’t the Queen who locked Canadians down or seized bank accounts, that was the ‘elected government’.

   Would you prefer a Trudeau as President? Here in the UK, we’d get a sleaze like Tony Blair. Or how about Macron?

   I can just about understand the superficial appeal of republicanism, but the unfortunate thing is we cannot trust politicians and ex-politicians to behave well. It’s not what they say, it’s what they do and how they think.

4. Sorry Mr. Oliver … but nobody in America holds up our Constitution as a Captain America shield anymore. Our constitution is now regarded as a death oath … death to indigenous peoples by the white colonial invaders. Our constitution is now regarded as a death oath to slaves not even considered as “whole” humans by that constitution. The PEOPLE of America today have no long history of American Sovereignty … they’ve just arrived and only know what BLM has “taught” them about a racist America and her racist constitution.

   Not a single one of our politicians take their oath to the constitution seriously. They violate those oaths daily by subjugating The People to their political whims. Yeah … the alphabet NGO’s have funded a million man army poised to flood across America’s borders … and our oath-sworn politicians are not defending our constitutionally protected borders.

   1. That’s because in any political system, and especially in a nation that becomes materially rich, people forget (and so fail to pass on to successor generations) that if we neglect our duties and responsibilities we will lose our rights and privileges.

   2. “our oath-sworn politicians are not defending our constitutionally protected borders.”

      Nothing in the USC empowers the USG to regulate immigration at all. Hilarious

5. We need Magna Carta 2.0
   NOW.

6. Shrug. Our constitutional monarchies are turning into shitholes at the same rate as the republics. The common denominator? Pussified urban electorates.

   1. We have a Charter of inalienable rights and freedoms that is just about worthless, as interpreted by woke and captured courts and corrupt legislators. The whole thing needs to be burned down and start over.

7. Neil is right, and he makes a number of very important points that are usually overlooked.

   “On the contrary we are born free, and woe should betide any that seeks to compromise that freedom.”

   People should never be afraid of their own government. Government should be afraid of the wrath of the people should it transgress in violating their sovereign rights. This is what was so egregious about the Rouleau Commission.

   Neil discusses the value or lack thereof of a written constitution. Canada has such a constitution, and it was utterly worthless during the February 2022 truckers strike. What is far worse, is that the Canadian constitution is practically impossible to amend thanks to Trudeau I and a gang of socialist enabling Premiers in the Constitution Act of 1982.

   People ARE sovereign over Parliament, and we have Oliver Cromwell to thank for establishing that precedent with the overthrow of the completely corrupt Long Parliament in 1653.

   1. Cromwell, defacto King and dictator who proved far worse a scumbag than Charles? OK, … he was such cumb dunt he had to be forcibly overthrown. Sure, let’s side with the revolutionaries everytime.

      Sorry, f++k the revolution. Every single one of them since Athens.

      1. You are simply showing your driveling ignorance of history. Fact is, he was not overthrown. Try reading a book sometime, dimwit.

8. Trudeau removed “Defender Of The Faith” from Canadian British Monarch reference.

9. The monarchy exists today as a ceremonial relic. Despite Oliver’s accurate but romantic vision of what a monarchy should be, they stand by and allow parliaments to push through all sorts of infringements of the peoples natural rights with or without a functioning constitution. End-stage democracy will not be halted. All democracies end in tyranny.

10. I pray only that the new monarch will make as little trouble as possible, and on my first attempt I got a message … “all lines busy, try again later.”