Boring is beautiful: The quiet benefits of Canada’s constitutional monarchy
There is no one in Canada who likes a coronation more than a devout anti-monarchist. With so much attention being to paid to the goings-on in London, this is their shining moment to argue that the country needs to cut its ties with Britain and find a more modern way of selecting its head of state.
Republicans like to argue that any form of monarchy is anachronistic. But that is belied by the fact that many of the most prosperous, stable and progressive countries in the world today – Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg – have hereditary monarchs that serve as their heads of state.
It seems kings and queens have managed to adapt, and to become rather fond of the benefits of democracy. Adone by a professor at the Wharton School in Pennsylvania found that constitutional monarchies have a better record of protecting the property rights of businesses and individuals, key to economic prosperity, than republics do.
It is, rather, an institution that represents centuries of history and tradition, over which time an absolute monarchy has evolved into the servant of a democratic parliament. The royal family embodies that steady march toward democracy; they can be seen as being both antiquated and modern.
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