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Region: Right to Life

I think a monarchist or royalist party could be sustainable -- a party that proposes making Right to Life (formally) more monarchical than it already (in practice) is. The only potential roadblocks that come to my mind are some provisions in the regional constitution, specifically:

"All citizens, without distinction, shall have full and equal enjoyment of the rights recognized and secured to them by this Constitution" (art. II, sec. 4).
"The regional government shall not make or enforce . . . partial or special legislation, which unjustly favors one citizen or one group of citizens to the disadvantage of other citizens" (art. II, sec. 5).
"Political parties shall also be permitted and recognized, provided they uphold the principles and rights affirmed in this Constitution and follow the democratic form of government used in Right to Life" (art. II, sec. 11).

In other words, citizens would have to maintain equal "rights," distinctions in matters not pertaining to rights could not be "unjust," and the party would have to be at least minimally "democratic."

I do not think, as La France pointed out, that implementing a formally monarchical system would be opposed to personal freedoms. I would actually recommend Liberty or Equality by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, a friend actually of William F. Buckley. But the wording of the constitution and the question of what it means to "unjustly favor" would need to be addressed.

La france bonapartiste wrote:

I suppose given the diversity of opinion of the monarchists here, it would be impractical to have a strictly Bonapartist party. But as I said in my original post on the subject, the party itself would be pro-religion, pro-monarchy at its most basic level. It would also be economically statist and popular in character. Considering monarchies have typically been protectionist, I don't think this would be too controversial.

The only way it would be Bonapartist would be because I, as its hypothetical leader, am Bonapartist. Each individual member would be free to follow their own private monarchial visions.

That sounds good to me. My monarchical leanings actually first sprang from my Catholic principles, so that sounds good.

La france bonapartiste wrote:

"The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire!"

Glares angrily

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