{"id":2460,"date":"2016-08-01T08:01:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T12:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2024-01-30T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:13:34","slug":"wont-you-come-home-bill-windsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wont-you-come-home-bill-windsor\/","title":{"rendered":"Won&#8217;t You Come Home, Bill Windsor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About this whole presidential election thing&#8230;couldn\u2019t it all be somehow less fraught? As William Seward, Lincoln\u2019s Secretary of State once said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/article-1G2-3441900010\/historic-roots-executive-branch.html\">\u201cWe elect a king for four years.\u201d<\/a> Some of our presidents have been giants but most, not so much. Well, what if we didn\u2019t need to elect a king because we had a king?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if America were a constitutional monarchy like Britain or Canada. Instead of picking a President we could elect a government. The Prime Minister would not be head of state, but merely the king or queen\u2019s first minister in Congress\u2026or Parliament. No White House for the Prime Minister, no 21-gun salutes, no Hail to the Chief. The Prime Minister would be just a public servant.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the White House, we would have a monarch. I nominate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dukeandduchessofcambridge.org\/the-duke-of-cambridge\">HRH Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge<\/a>. He, his wife Kate, and their two lovely children, George and Charlotte, would make a superb American royal family. The British won\u2019t want to give them up, of course, but maybe, just maybe we could entice them here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve heard of Brexit\u2026I want Brenter! Come back, please! Two hundred forty years after the Founders severed ties with King George III, let\u2019s restore his descendant. And then let&#8217;s relax over the choice of our next Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bill Windsor, Won\u2019t You Please Come Home?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4443,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}