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This raises a question I would like to ask a medievalist: Do lords tolerate kings because the nobility needs a monarchy? It’s as if they recognize the need for an umpire or something.

Related: The Founding Fathers were as lords in their way, and created a government they could dominate. (I’m thinking of the Senate in particular.) Many of today’s lords, the billionaires, treat government as a beneficent king, dispensing favors and overlooking the lord’s crimes.