>>766836Sometimes I think Pedro II let his monarchy go, but pessimistically I feel like I could also quote Hobbes,
>In such a constitution of people, methinks, the King is already ousted of his government, so as they need not have taken arms for it. For I cannot imagine how the King should come by any means to resist them.…
Others find him to be too Liberal, but I can understand being a monarch and not really being into the high churchism (as my recent posts indicate)–although I'm not really too keen on the peak Victorian era style of constitutional monarchy as a political ideology (really, I despise with the most livid passion 🔥 that era's dull Whiggy ideal of constitutional monarchy). For myself, I'm not really all about high church so much, but for other monarchists it has to be all high church to the utmost degree–and if a monarch is short of Saint Louis IX tier religiosity, then that monarch better abdicate and loses his legitimacy in being a monarchy–That's quite a quagmire for myself, liking absolute monarchy but not being too altogether happy with the high churchism. So I cannot judge Pedro II for being insufficiently Catholic and rather Liberal.
I'm the kind of person who looks with approval at Henry VIII dismantling the Becket shrine or Emp. Peter I instituting the holy synod.
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Other than this, Pedro II oversaw great victories and was a learned administrator.
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I'm the kind of monarchist who hyperfocuses on a few select monarchs (as opposed to a wide array), and it is mostly either from personal fixation at their stories or ideological leniency with my own ideals of monarchy. My chief fixation are three rulers: Louis XIV, James VI & I, Gaius Caligula (who admired Alexander the Great)–these names represent my top three to read about. I like the so-called Enlightened Despots like Emperor Peter I, Joseph II, Frederick the Great. The Stuarts & Tudors. & a few others. –Dictatorships like ᴉuᴉlossnW & Stalin are actually where I started early on, along with stories of the Julio-Claudian Roman Emperors, so that is why I have an eccentric taste in monarchy compared to others… obviously North Korea is a fixation as well. These areas are altogether what interest me the most, it's not so much history but the stories, and no
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