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    It is not the case that Constitutional checks on the behavior of the monarch are essential to overcome the condition where a king neglects the general welfare.

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    • 1.A monarch's genuine long-term interest in dynastic stability and legitimacy already creates strong incentives to serve the general welfare without formal constraints.
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    • 2.Machiavelli argues in the Discourses that a prince who relies on popular goodwill as his fortress is more secure than one constrained by law, making constitutional checks redundant when self-interest aligns with public good.
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    • 3.Constitutional constraints presuppose enforcement mechanisms that themselves require unconstrained sovereign authority, generating an infinite regress Hobbes identified as fatal to limited government schemes.
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    • 1.Rousseau's critique of representative institutions holds that constitutional checks merely formalize factional elite interests rather than expressing the general will, making them instruments of particular advantage rather than common welfare.
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    • 2.When constitutional foundational laws are interpreted and applied by advisors or courts dependent on the monarch, the constraints functionally collapse into the very unchecked royal discretion they were designed to prevent.
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    • 1.Men are largely irrational and selfish, including kings.
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    • 2.Without constraints, a king will pursue his own narrow advantage at the expense of the common good.
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    • 3.Constitutional foundational laws express the king's real long-term interests and prevent the king from acting against those interests.
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