Death to the Monarchy, Is the monarchy a good or bad thing? Options

[crocodilo]

Do any of you guys out there see any good in the Monarchies of such countries like England? All the Monarchies are is a waste of money paid by the working class tax payers. Do any of you guys think that any Monarchies are pointless and should be removed?

[*mipadi*]

I believe it was Jean-Jacques Rousseau who believed that a monarchy was the most efficient form of government (although an aristocracy was perhaps the best). Thomas Hobbes had similar thoughts, as did John Locke. A government with a single leader will be best able to control and manage a country. The power of a government is inversely proportional to the number of people controlling that government.

Of course, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau were all discussing political makeup as theory, meaning that they worked under the assumption that the best would rule; Hobbes in particular, in Leviathan, worked with the assumption that a ruler would not usurp, or take, more power than he was entitled.