More important, an elected president has much greater legitimacy than a hereditary monarch, whose claim to authority depends exclusively on tradition and ceremony. With a king or queen unable to say or do anything that may cause a whiff of controversy, the monarchy has been stripped of its power of action or reflection.
更重要的是，当选总统的合法性比世袭君主大得多，后者的权威完全取决于传统和经济。国王或女王不能说或做任何可能引起一丁点争议的事情，因此君主制没有行动力和反思力。