[WATCH]: Democracy, Monarchy & Catholicism: A Scholarly Analysis

Distinguished American historian Charles Coulombe speaks: "The fact is that ... in any revolution the vast majority of people are not interested in change. At any given moment, the vast majority of people just want to be left alone, firstly. And if they have any interests or loyalties they are for the existing order. Revolutions are brought about determined minorities who know what they want and are ruthless in getting it. And will not brook any opposition. And you are hard put to find a revolution, including the American revolution, that has brought about a better state of affairs than the one it replaced. Think about it. Even if the monarchy in question was one you would not want to live under, like the Manchu emperor or the

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