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Before I start to sound like a total autocrat, let me say that being in favor of Christian monarchy does not mean throwing public opinion completely out of the window. God has never forced people to obey Him, and so a monarch should be willing to "advise and warn" whether or not the people heed them. If the people want what is truly in their own best interests there can be no argument, since surrender to the will of God, and the authority of Christ the King is exactly what is in their best interests. Particularly I think when it comes to taxes, the people should have power over how their money is spent. For a long time parliamentary democracy existed peacefully alongside monarchies that would today be described as autocratic.
One of the last European monarchs to speak of himself as a servant of God first, and uphold the Divine Right without shame was Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was at the top of a government that was both extremely respectful of royal power and yet could not be considered a tyranny since the people elected representatives to the Reichstag who controled the purse strings of government. During the Kaiser's time the power of most monarchies which still exist today was not much different on paper, however, the monarch, be it King George V of Britain or King Albert I of Belgium, was a much more involved and powerful figure than any of their counterparts today.

S.K.M. Wilhelm II, Deutscher Kaiser

The Russian Empire was considered to be the most autocratic monarchy in Europe, yet it is hard to imagine a monarch who had a harder time exercising his own authority than the tragic Tsar Nicholas II. In the traditions of Rome and Byzantium of the Christian High Middle Ages, the Tsar was an autocrat in theory, but one whose government, and at least in his case, his own character, restricted him with tradition, the aristocracy and the Russian Orthodox Church. Nicholas II took this so seriously that, even when his life was threatened, his primary worry with abdicating was that it might be a sin for him, as a crowned and anointed monarch, to do so.
Absolute monarchy without limitation would be no better than absolute republicanism without limitation. The problem is, few such monarchies have ever existed whereas republics are more tyrannical as a rule in that they almost unanimously reject any official recognition of Christ and in turn make a god of the state and political system. Even Louis XIV did not impose so many rules and regulations on his own people as the modern U.S. federal government. Christians would do well to take a second look at this! Is America truly a Christian nation?

Emperor Maximilian and Empress Carlota of Mexico making their cheerful entry into Mexico City. Despite what has been written since, they recieved a joyous welcome from a great many of the Mexican people who had grown tired of being exploited by ambitious politicos and generals. Their coronation was the last of only two traditional Catholic coronations (of which I am aware) in North America.

Holy Imperial Martyrs: The Romanov Family of Russia

Certainly we have Christian roots, granted they are almost entirely Puritan or assorted Protestant. Yet, most of the founding fathers were Deists and Freemasons, however, didn't they talk alot about "Providence" and the "Supreme Being"? The answer is really not that difficult to obtain. All we have to do is ask, is our country founded on the rule of God or the rule of the people? In monarchies which held formal religious coronations there could be no doubt, certainly not in the Empire when it was often the Pope himself who did the crowning. In Britain you can still see the words on every coin, "Elizabeth II, By the Grace of God, Queen". Yet, I am afraid that in America we have been 'sold a bill of goods'. We have been told that our country is based on the rule of the people, with a vague idea of "trusting" in God, but in reality we are under the rule of professional politicians who care about the people only when it does not interfere with their own personal interests. The people elect those who promise them the most, and they in turn vote themselves as much of their children's money as they please. And these people dare to call monarchy corrupt?
Christians must take a step back and rethink their entire political philosophy, and Catholics who favor turning their Church into a republic would do well to ask themselves if the likes of Bill Clinton, Jacques Chirac or the electoral antics of George W. Bush would serve well in the Papacy. Monarchy, around the world in all cultures, gave God the highest place, the monarch had power only through God. Republics never live up to their ideal and are based almost solely on telling the people what they want to hear. The truth of government is very simple: where people do not allow Christ the King to rule they will be forced to live under the rule of exploitive and oppressive tyrannies. If we are to be true Christians, which is Christ-like, we could do no better than embracing the government used by God himself and stop being afraid of giving Christ temporal as well as spiritual control of our lives.