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The Man Who Would Be King

If George Washington had been made monarch, this Texas family might be American royalty today.

By Kurt Soller | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Oct 8, 2008 | Updated: 12:09  a.m. ET Oct 8, 2008

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  • Posted By: winstanley @ 01/13/2009 7:35:45 AM

    C B Fry the English cricketer and sportsman was offered the position of King of Albania after the GReat war but turned it down.

  • Posted By: winstanley @ 01/13/2009 7:33:02 AM

    C B Fry the English cricketer and sportsman was offered the position of King of Albania after the GReat war but turned it down.

  • Posted By: markeenewsweek @ 01/05/2009 8:28:57 AM

    Interesting article, however, anyone with a small knowledge of history would know that Oliver Cromwell turned down the position of monarch when offered the Crown of England after the civil war. So the premise that George Washington was the only man in history to do this is incorrect. But this makes two that I know of. Anyone aware of any others???

  • Posted By: wirana leman @ 12/18/2008 8:35:48 PM

    It's nice to have someone we can admire beside God or stars

    wirana leman
    Indonesia

  • Posted By: fryegrl22@yahoo.com @ 11/23/2008 7:49:23 AM

    yea and how about Frye info....LOL

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 11/19/2008 2:24:07 AM

    Wow. WHAT AN interesting article. You need to give Miller some tips.

  • Posted By: noelanthony @ 11/18/2008 6:05:07 PM

    I beleive a King should only be appointed by deeds of a great leader by it's people. Kingship should not be passed down it these great traits are non existing in bloodline by observation. Kings should only be appointed by it's peers for positively changing the moral landscape of it's civilization. King is a King appointed by it's people but can a King be a Divine King appointed by GOD? YES!!! A Divine King is different from a Monarch King because Divine Kings "Jesus Christ" only comes along by GOD'S necessary demands. A Divine King is defined by Divine Powers....NoelAnthonyHaughey

  • Posted By: noelanthony @ 11/18/2008 5:52:16 PM

    I believe a King should be decided by deeds of a great leader by the witness of it's people. Kingship should not be passed down if these traits are non existing by observation. Kings should only be appointed by only great deeds changing the moral landscape of it's civilization. A King is a King by outstanding deeds judged by it's peers, but can a King be a Divine King appointed by GOD? YES!!! A Divine King is different from a Monarch King appointed by it's people because a Divine King "Jesus Christ" only comes along by GOD'S necessary demands......NoelAnthonyHaughey

  • Posted By: oldfat&ugly @ 11/06/2008 9:35:01 AM

    to Seahawker: Did you not read the article?

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  • Posted By: Seahawker @ 10/23/2008 8:08:13 PM

    George Washington may be the Father of Our Country, but that was the only thing he fathered. You see, George was unable to father children because of the smallpox and tuberculosis he had as a child. Thus, George Washington has no descendents because he fathered no children of his own. So, any myth of royalty proposed by this article is, well, crap.

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/22/2008 5:04:59 PM

    FactCheck.Org is owned by the Annenberg group of Chicago! Talk about a conflict of interest! And Obama has been telling people on the trail to check out the site to verify his opponents claims. Funny, every time that he endorsed something, it turns out to be a part of his spin machine! Like he raised objections in the primaries when Indiana required photo I.D. to vote. He Protested that It took away people's right to vote! I
    knew then and there that he was up to no good! America, wake up from the MASS HYPNOSIS!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTs1YyhFRg&feature=related

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/22/2008 5:04:43 PM

    FactCheck.Org is owned by the Annenberg group of Chicago! Talk about a conflict of interest! And Obama has been telling people on the trail to check out the site to verify his opponents claims. Funny, every time that he endorsed something, it turns out to be a part of his spin machine! Like he raised objections in the primaries when Indiana required photo I.D. to vote. He Protested that It took away people's right to vote! I
    knew then and there that he was up to no good! America, wake up from the MASS HYPNOSIS!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTs1YyhFRg&feature=related

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/21/2008 12:22:05 AM

    This is so true about how the election is already bought and paid for:
    http://www.againstobama.com/2008/10/what-is-it-that-barack-obama-knows-that-the-rest-of-us-don%E2%80%99t/#comment-1929

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/20/2008 8:52:08 PM

    Obama, the excuses are wearing thin. what excuse do you have for this one?:
    http://www.againstobama.com/2008/10/obama-praised-searing-and-timely-book-by-ayers/

  • Posted By: billtill @ 10/14/2008 9:53:03 AM

    About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

    'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.'
    'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.'
    'From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.'

    'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years'

    'During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

    1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
    2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
    3. from courage to liberty;
    4. from liberty to abundance;
    5. from abundance to complacency;
    6. from complacency to apathy;
    7. from apathy to dependence;
    8. from dependence back into bondage'

    Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

    Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
    Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
    Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
    Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1

    Professor Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare...' Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the 'complacency and apathy' phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the 'governmental dependency' phase.

    If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

    If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message. If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

    WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE,
    ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE

    • Posted By: juniorco @ 10/15/2008 10:38:15 PM

      A complete urban legend, check it out at snopes.com.

  • Posted By: hratzlow @ 10/14/2008 7:50:05 PM

    I'm not quite sure how you and Megan Smolenyak of Ancestry.com figure that George Washington has 8,000 living descendants. Many 7th graders can tell you that George Washington had NO children. When he married Martha Custis, a widow, she had two children, John and Martha CUSTIS. There were no offspring of George and Martha Washington, therefore anyone sirnamed Washington is not and cannot be a descendant of George Washington. Helen Ratzlow Batavia, Illinois

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/12/2008 8:12:44 PM

    THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CANDIDATE!

    NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY HAS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BEEN GIVEN SUCH A FREE PASS BY THE PRESS AND JUST ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE!

    I AM WAITING FOR A BLACK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO MAKE IT ON HIS OWN MERIT.

    COLIN POWELL COMES TO MIND!

  • Posted By: WMSEVEN @ 10/11/2008 1:13:10 PM

    For all you uneducated Americans out there , in 1797 George Washington stated at the Treaty of Tripoli "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" and the Constitution forms a secular document, and nowhere does it appeal to God, Christianity, Jesus, or any supreme being, Thomas Jefferson made an interpretation of the 1st Amendment to his January 1st, 1802 letter to the Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association calling it a "wall of separation between church and State." Madison had also written that "Strongly guarded. . . is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States." There existed little controversy about this interpretation from our Founding Fathers.

    .And by the way moron, it is spelled forefathers not "four" fathers as you stated.

    • Posted By: Morgan2008 @ 10/12/2008 2:45:58 AM

      Totally false. The only reason America has religious freedom instead of a state religion is that the thirteen colonies couldn't agree on which religion would be the state religion...thus America ended up with religious freedom, Thank God.

  • Posted By: emptywallet @ 10/12/2008 1:04:45 AM

    We already have a King in the white House; and he has his prince,---Prince Cheney
    And the Emporer is Paulson--he has all the loot 700b of it --remember money is power;
    so all the positions are filled-forget about being in the royal court-- those positions have already been taken by Congress.which proves you don't have to be a direct descendent.

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