I've had intermittent contact with monarchists over the years. A monarchist is one who supports the role of the monarch in a country, or in this case, Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen of Canada. During those encounters, I've found that there are several assumptions that monarchists make. When I was recently reading the Monarchist's League's Arguments for the Crown I noticed they packaged up several of the assumptions that monarchists make that I don't think or necessarily true. I think that Queen Elizabeth II has been a very hands off monarch. She has essentially not interfered at all in ...

I was recently reading some arguments for the crown. As a Canadian republican, I believe that Canadian values would best be reflected in making Canada a democratic republic, rather than what it is, a democratic monarchy. Reading over the document I noticed a very interesting thing. Monarchists generally believe that the Queen has several important roles in our country. One of them is an embodiment of the country itself. And they believe that this is better then many of the alternatives. Consider the US Pledge of Allegiance. You pledge "to the flag of the United States of America, and ...