Maia wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:37 am
Age wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:29 am
Maia wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:11 am
English monarchs never had supreme power even in England, let alone the whole earth or anywhere else. Anglo-Saxon monarchs had the Witan, a body that had the power to remove them from office. Norman monarchs had the Curia Regis, which had to agree to their laws, and all monarchs since then have had Parliament, which has the right to make laws.
And, as I clearly said and stated monarchs MAY HAVE 'supreme power', which also means that they MAY NOT HAVE 'supreme power'. Anyhow, no matter 'who' or 'what' has 'supreme power', at any particular place at any particular period, on earth, that is CERTAINLY NOT 'supreme power'.
But, because people give someone or something the highest rank or authority, thus the highest, or the supreme, power, on earth, then "others" WILL aspire to 'that', type of, 'power'.
Which means, 'the existence' of those, or that. which has been given 'supreme power' does NOT 'prevent' "others" from aspiring to supreme power, but ACTUALLY encourages some to want and seek out 'that, perceived, supreme power'.
I think history proves the opposite. It's when monarchies are overthrown that you often get dictators arising, with something approaching supreme power. Stalin, Hitler and Franco spring to mind (and going further back, Cromwell).
I have absolutely NO idea what the term and phrase 'supreme power' means or refers to, to you. But, to me, 'supreme power' just means or refers to,
having the highest authority of power. Which, OBVIOUSLY, some "monarchs" have had, at times.
Maia wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:37 am
The preceding monarchies in those countries, for all their faults, were not dictatorships in the modern sense.
What has this got to do with ANY thing.
Those with the 'highest power', here on earth, "monarchs" and "dictators" alike, BOTH encourage "others" to aspire to 'the power', which they have, or have had.
'Their existence', to me, CERTAINLY DOES NOT prevent "others" from aspiring to 'their, supreme, power'.
In fact, to me, 'their existence' actually encourage "others" to seek out and want 'that, supreme, power'.
Maia wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:37 am
The apparent exception to this, Mussolini, did not hold supreme power in the same way as the others did precisely because he had to share it with an existing monarchy.
Is your view of things here really narrowed down to just a relatively few years only?