My thoughts on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II: are Monarchy and liberty incompatible?

Classical liberals in the English sense recognize the importance of the symbolic in government. Since Her late Majesty’s passing, I have read libertarians spewing the most vile and loathsome nonsense about Her and the role of the monarch in our Westminster version of limited, constitutional, parliamentary democracy without ever suggesting by what process we would be able to replace our system and what that new form of government would look like. It appears to me that libertarians despise the Rule of English Common Law which is arguably one of our greatest inheritances. It is the very reason that Lieutenant Governor Simcoe was appointed to the newly separated province of Upper Canada in the 1790's since the American Loyalists who lost their land in the states did not want to live under French Civil Law which Lower Canada had at that time and indeed still has today.

If we are to hope for greater liberty under law by ignoring the traditions which has created the most successful democracies on earth, we are merely deluding ourselves. For libertarians to assert they have something better than our admittedly flawed system of government without having a single example of the form of government they advocate ever having existed shares a similar delusion that leads radical socialists to claim that communism has never been tried is spite of all its tyranny and failures. So, if you hope to increase liberty here in Canada, I strongly advise a little gratitude for those who struggled mightily within the Westminster System to apply Magna Carta to all men by reminding our illiberal and authoritarian government that Magna Carta is such a fellow as will have no sovereign. We have much work to do but that work will not be accomplished by tearing down. It can only be furthered by building on the millennia old foundations which began in the times of Witan and Ting on to the modern Westminster System which exist throughout the Commonwealth today. After all we have a common enemy, namely those who have the temerity to believe they are sovereign to Magna Carta! It will be more than sufficient for us to remind them on no uncertain terms that no one is above the Grand Charter and that the Rule of Law must apply equally to all!