Good Knight

[Hubris Boy]

Originally posted by Nic Name
The point was that no true republican would accept an honour from a British monarch. eg. George Washington accepting a knighthood from King George III.

Bad example. Washington was no small-r republican at all. If you had to categorize his beliefs on government, he'd fall solidly in with the High Federalists like Hamilton and the rest of that crowd. And don't forget, Washington spent much of his young adulthood trying to weasel his way into a commission in the British army; he'd have jumped on a peerage with both feet, if it had come his way.

But I think I see the point you're trying to make, although you make it badly:

1) The part about small-r republicans was that no person who truly believes in the virtues of the small-r republican form of government would accept a title of honor from any monarch?

I suppose that might have been true once, but less so now. These days a non-hereditary peerage is just a pat on the back for a job well done.


2) The part about capital-R Republicans was just you being a jackass.