S8 Ep346: SEGMENT 16: THE CALMING POWER OF KINGSHIP Guest: Gregory Copley Copley offers praise for monarchical systems as stabilizing forces in nations facing discontent. Discussion examines how kingship provides continuity, national unity, and legitimacy that elec

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SEGMENT 16: THE CALMING POWER OF KINGSHIP Guest: Gregory Copley Copley offers praise for monarchical systems as stabilizing forces in nations facing discontent. Discussion examines how kingship provides continuity, national unity, and legitimacy that elected leaders often cannot muster, with examples of how constitutional monarchies successfully navigate political turbulence and maintain social cohesion during crises.

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1:00.5	I'm John Batchel with Quirc. And never was it more obvious to me, Quircary, these last weeks, that the United States could use a king.
1:09.8	Someone to gather us together and say, stop emphasizing your differences, start talking about what you have in common.
1:15.8	We do not have that person. Instead, we have a chief executive who is also the leader of government and the leader of the nation. But without a king, do we have a solution? Or are we just going to
1:21.4	struggle the way we view it now? Well, I think after 250 years, the United States is being now forced to think about its form of
1:30.0	government and where it's going from here, and that could be positive, or it could be just
1:34.3	to reaffirm what's already there. The United States' form of government was modeled
1:40.0	on the government of George III period in the United Kingdom.
1:46.4	What happened as a result of the wars in the Americas and elsewhere
1:51.4	was that it was decided in the UK that separating the role of head of government
1:58.7	from the role of head of state was a timely thing.
2:03.3	So what you've got is that the United States is modeled on Georgian Britain,
2:09.0	or the first part of Georgian Britain, but not on the second part.
2:13.3	The second part is where Parliament provided the political and governmental leader
2:18.4	and the Crown provided the unifying aspect of representing the entire population.
2:28.3	Now, what's interesting is that on July the 4th, 250 years anniversary of 1776, we're seeing King Charles III of the United Kingdom
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