Would monarchy be good in America?

It sells newspapers. Attracts tourists. And it's better to have scandals about royalty than scandals about politicians.

It also gives you someone safe to have patriotic feelings about. Nobody can be accused of being unpatriotic if they attack Tony Blair, the way they often are for attacking Bush.

The last thing you want is some politician symbolising your country. That's why even republics like Germany and Israel insist on having a president who plays no part in day-tp-day political life - more or less as an elected monarch.

Never seen any evidence whatsoever to support the claim the monarchy attracts tourists.

Would any tourist planning to come to London really change their mind if there was no queen.

1/2 the time she's not there anyway. The palaces could be opened up and people allowed to walk around them instead of standing outside. The guards could still change, they still do in other European countries where the monarchy is long gone.

Monarchy is something that is way outdated. Nobility isnt something you are born with. Aside from that I dont see the point in monarchy unless they have power. from what i can see, its just a bunch of people who have been inbred.

Also, what is the point of the house of lords in britain?

I've read in a French source that the reason for this is when the American colonies rebelled, they copied the structure of the British government at the time (1770s). Which consisted of a monarch, the house of lords and the parliament, with powers similar to today's American system.

The difference was that being rebels, they elected their monarch (president) and the members of their house of lords (senate). America even has its coronation ceremony, where the president makes an inaugural speech with military parade etc.

In most other countries which rebelled against monarchy, there is no elected strong president, coronation ceremony or senate. Most of them keep a weak president, though.

I think it should also be pointed out that our constitution forbids the bestowment of titles of nobility on any person..

I mean the countries who rebelled against their own monarchies, unlike the colonies, who rebelled against mother countries, not necessarily against monarchy itself. 

France was the original model, but it has the fifth republic now. Still, they don't have a senate.

China is Maoist, which is Stalinist, which is Leninist, which is some sort of Jacobin. Do they have a senate? An elected king/president? 

A title of nobility isn't political?

Incidentally I should have added that people go on being called 'Senator' and so on even after they are no longer members, because they have been defeated or retired.

Calling someone a senator or whatever while he/she actually is one is more reasonable.

I don't notice a shortage of wonder at Hampton court, Versailles or Fontainebleau, despite the lack of royalty.