Why a Monarchy is the best form of Government?

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Another thing, didn’t Owen and Cromwell almost have a parting of the ways over Cromwell pausing to think at all before refusing the title of “king?”
Yes. Owen overreacted. Cromwell was for all practical purposes a king, yet even he rejected the title.
 
Yes. Owen overreacted. Cromwell was for all practical purposes a king, yet even he rejected the title.
Men can indeed overreact. Didn't George Washington snub Alexander Hamilton for the rest of his life because Hamilton slapped his back at a party or something?
 
Men can indeed overreact. Didn't George Washington snub Alexander Hamilton for the rest of his life because Hamilton slapped his back at a party or something?
A popular myth - Washington appeared at some point during the American Revolution to feel that Hamilton (his aide-de-camp) disrespected him (there are conflicting accounts but they all include something about Hamilton making Washington wait for a few minutes). Hamilton resigned and asked for a battlefield command which Washington gave him. But after the war W. made H. the first Secretary of the Treasury, and W. often favored H. over Jefferson in major political decisions. So W. and H. reconciled but were never known to be close personally after the war. Still, when W. died, H. wrote to Washington’s secretary, “I have been much indebted to the kindness of the General, and he was an Aegis very essential to me” (Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, 2 January 1800, National Archives).
 
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Some good points. I think you make a good case there for people choosing their King. The only point I would make is that I personally believe that if God appoints the King then if take away from man appointing the ruler. We can clearly show who is "his man" by right of birth.
The action is the same though in God and men: The promise that the sons of David would sit on the throne (and though the kingdom split, the sons of David remained on the throne in Judah), and at the same time, the action by which that was preserved was the people's electing a certain king because of faith in the promise:

2Ch 23:3 KJV And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.
 
The action is the same though in God and men: The promise that the sons of David would sit on the throne (and though the kingdom split, the sons of David remained on the throne in Judah), and at the same time, the action by which that was preserved was the people's electing a certain king because of faith in the promise:

2Ch 23:3 KJV And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.
I do not see the people "electing" anyone in this passage. Jehoiada, the reigning king, is initiating all of the action (v.1). When the people covenant with him in v.3, they are expressing their submission. But it is the king ruling by putting his son on the throne (see vv.10-11) - the end of v.3 is Jehoiada speaking ("And he [Jehoiada] said unto them, Behold...") and showing faith in the promise, not the people. Again in vv. 10-11: "And he [Jehoiada] caused all the people to stand (every man with his weapon in his hand) from the right side of the house, to the left side of the house by the altar and by the house round about the king. Then they brought out the king’s son, and put upon him the crown and gave him the testimony, and made him King. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king."
 
I do not see the people "electing" anyone in this passage. Jehoiada, the reigning king, is initiating all of the action (v.1). When the people covenant with him in v.3, they are expressing their submission. But it is the king ruling by putting his son on the throne (see vv.10-11) - the end of v.3 is Jehoiada speaking ("And he [Jehoiada] said unto them, Behold...") and showing faith in the promise, not the people. Again in vv. 10-11: "And he [Jehoiada] caused all the people to stand (every man with his weapon in his hand) from the right side of the house, to the left side of the house by the altar and by the house round about the king. Then they brought out the king’s son, and put upon him the crown and gave him the testimony, and made him King. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king."

That is correct. Rutherford does note the point have a "confirming" role, but it is nothing like modern-day electioneering.
 
That is correct. Rutherford does note the point have a "confirming" role, but it is nothing like modern-day electioneering.
I still see no problem with our modern election system. Should it be improved? Always. Should it be scrapped? Nope. Let's not take the last election debacle and say that's what the way it's always been.
 
I still see no problem with our modern election system. Should it be improved? Always. Should it be scrapped? Nope. Let's not take the last election debacle and say that's what the way it's always been.

I have no problems with elections per se. I'm just too much of a cynic to think the guys who rigged the last election will play nice this time. We do not have the government our founders envisioned (in fact, the very fact we amended how we elect presidents demonstrates that). We are closer to "democracy" than we might comfortably admit.
 
Section 2 of the 14th Amendment amended Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution. The later Reapportionment Act is not an Amendment to the Constitution.
Section 2 of the 14th Amendment did not amend Clause 3 of Article I, Section 2 - it abrogated the first sentence of Clause 3, effectively getting rid of the "Three-Fifths Compromise." The rest of Clause 3 remains active.

I did not claim that the 1929 Reapportionment Act is an Amendment to the Constitution - I stated (see #53 above) that Congress passing this legislation was a de facto (unconstitutional) amending of the Constitution.
 
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