Why Was the English Aristocracy so Unique?


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WHY WAS THE ENGLISH ARISTOCRACY SO UNIQUE?

Trying to wrap my head around what makes the english aristocratic tradition so unique (and wonderful) and it’s partly the extreme of truth before face – the demonstration of disagreeable truth as evidence of fitness to rule.

Why could england raise more money to fight wars than france with 3x her population? Because nobility paid the taxes, in France the peasantry did and the nobility evaded taxes. Why? English taxes were raised by consent of the nobility, then parliament, not by edict of the crown.

The question is simple, would you rather thave the old tradition of local church court (manners, morals, ethics, familiy matters), civil court (torts), shire court(crimes) manor court (problems with the fairness of the state), parlimentary court (problems with the aristocracy or the state), and the king (court of last resort), or this f—king bureacrathic hell hole we’ve created that treats you as a mechanical slave in a brutally self serving mechanism of state?

Do you have more agency to defend yourself against others the market and the state than you did under our pre-credentialed, pre-professional bureaucratic present?


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