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malletgirl02

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4. Monarchy

Reply to sabrina 1 (Reply #3)

Mon Nov 11, 2013, 02:36 PM

Nov 2013

I despise the entire concept of monarchy, but one thing they did have right until 600 or so years ago is that the king would lead his country into battle. Actually it wasn't just the king, but all the nobles would go into battle. They risk their lives for the wars they wanted to wage. Also if they wanted to go to war they had to have taxes that specifically went to the war effort, none of this creative accounting that goes on now days. Don't get me wrong, I'm not idealizing that time period, there were many things that were wrong.

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I agree malletgirl02 Nov 2013 #1

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I agree with him. No one should take a country to an unnecessary war unless they sabrina 1 Nov 2013 #3

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Necessary or unnecessary sarisataka Nov 2013 #6

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Amen. Octafish Nov 2013 #5

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