DENT & SCRATCH - The Compleat Monarchist

Please note that as we are still waiting for our supply of hardcovers, any hardcovers of this title will ship 2-4 weeks later than the paperbacks.  “The arguments for monarchy are basically of three kinds: providentialist—monarchy has been the state form most used by the providence of God to further the Christianization of peoples; sacramental—monarchy permits the symbolic clothing of civil authority with the mantle of Christ the Servant-King, thus setting in a most desirable way the ethos of the state; pragmatic— monarchy transcends factions (no one has voted either for or against the king) as well as the ravages of time (the royal institution necessarily considers both conservation of heritage and provision for future generations). In this humorous yet serious book, Charles Coulombe interweaves such arguments with a great stock of monarchist lore, covering an impressively wide range of historical, geographical, and religious instantiations. The overall message emerges clearly enough: