After the 'No Kings' protests of June 14, two readers use the 4th of July to reflect on America's past and present.

So what can explain the depth of feeling, the palpable sense of loss and regret, in this superpower ex-British colony across the Atlantic at the death of Queen Elizabeth II?

America's 'Lost Monarchy': The Man Who Would Be King. Published Oct 07, 2008 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 6:10 PM EST. By Kurt Soller . Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member. FOLLOW.

It’s in the immigrant starter-pack. America cancelled the monarchy long ago, in the pre-Twitter national dawn of 1776, from which much pride, and a whole day off work, is derived.

America had just elected a new president — boorish, unstable, indifferent to rules, contemptuous of the law, with a long history of sexual assault, ... America Can't Understand Monarchy.

That’s the playbook to achieve the techno-autocratic monarchy/kleptocracy Yarvin envisions. Don’t be deceived by justifications based on eliminating fraud and abuse. Those justifications are lies.

As religion faded in Britain, the monarchy became the repository of the country’s sense of the sacred. Britons will mourn Elizabeth II as no American of living memory was mourned.

Trump is set to make America a monarchy again – an autocratic monarchy, not a constitutional one. A country that was in many ways founded on hatred for a supreme ruler has apparently decided it ...

What if America had never been a democracy but instead a monarchy? It's modern day America but under the reign and rule of a descendant of George Washington, Prince Geoffrey, who is the sole heir ...

America's Only 'Monarchy' Is Currently Locked in a Dramatic Legal Battle. The descendent of Hawaiian royalty is fighting for control of her $200 million estate. By. Diana Pearl. Diana Pearl.