Where did we get the idea we need kings and queens?

Anonymous

You can see the mess you get when you leave it to the people to decide matters. You need a leader, hereditary monarchy is one way of going about it, dynastic elected leaders is another.

Emothic Von Hellsing

I have more food, and resources then you. If you want some of it, then you must follow me. Human nature. Before kings and queens there were tribal leaders.

Joseph hola

around the neolithic revolution, and it's an outgrowth of tribal leaders and family patriarchs and matriarchs.

Clo G.-B.

The first king was the most powerful of chiefs who had accumulated the most followers, money, and might. It gradually became a position that was passed down from father to son. The concept of monarchy has changed over the many years -- there are very few absolute monarchs whom have all of the power. Most of today's monarchies are constitutional, where powers are shared by an hereditary branch of government and an elected one, in order to assure that not one government entity has all power.

Leslie J

Society s have always had a leader and that was usually the strongest Male, this also applies in the animal kingdom

Jimmy C

Originally villages in different parts of the country had chiefs, who were later called kings, and the king of one part of Britain would attack another part of the country to gain control. Eventually there were fewer kings with more land each until one king controlled the whole country. Then the different countries in Britain and Europe fought each other. Then we developed modern government but the king or queen remained as a symbolic head of the country.

John P

"We" as the human race in general?

Sir Prince Kenny

Simple, the local successful strong man, passed everything on to his son.

okiknowit

Power has been accumulated by individuals since pre-history. But at some point, the rules of hereditary monarchy became preferable to mortal combat in choosing a leader. Kings, queens, princes, dukes, earls, freedman slave form a ranked hierarchical arrangement for a society. More interesting is where we got the idea that we don't need a hierarchical arrangement of society and should move to a more level, democratic model.

JOHN

Strange country, because if we walk past Westminster Hall next to Parliament, there we will see the statue of Oliver Cromwell MP. If only he could have created a 'Republic' we would not now be ruled over by Hun-Krauts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Statue_of_Oliver_Cromwell_outside_the_Palace_of_Westminster.jpg Instead Cromwell made the mistake of creating a dynasty with his son taking over after him. The worst is the vile wife of Chas One a Catholic, had the body of Cromwell dug up and hanged in chains when her son Chas Two was made kingperson - the restoration of blind monarchy. Thus we have no burial place or shrine to perhaps the greatest parliamentarian of them all. Oliver Cromwell MP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDsAn_u70tw&t=12s

pit bulls bite

no country should put up with it

iammclane

It morphed out of local strong guys. Humans always plague other humans, so for each band of humans living, hunting and farming together there was always one defender who was ended up being the guy who saved the day during the latest raid. That guy quite often would also end up being called upon to settle disputes. If the group wanted to carry out their own raid against some other band, he would be chosen to lead. You see where this is going, right? When several groups get together, of course there has to be some decision made about which of the group-leaders is going to be the head leader. So as the grouping of groups gets bigger and bigger you finally reach a point where the fella chosen as the best of the best of the best comes to be considered king. The next issue is, what happens when this "king" gets old and feeble. Do you start the whole process of fighting and killing all over again to determine the new guy? Yeah, that did occur - but after a few bouts of that, somebody reasonable probably said "Let's not go through all that chaos over again...let's just have the old king tell us who the new king should be." And so it was. And then eventually some king said "The next king shall be...my son!" And, as you know, sometimes that worked and sometimes it didn't. So, I guess the answer to "Where did we get the idea?" is that it arose from necessity way back when groups of people had to deal with raids from their neighbors, and it just kinda grew into "kings and queens" by itself through an inevitable process of agglomeration.

Baron Clownish

In any society there is a need for an ultimate arbiter of disputes and setting the direction. This would originally have been set by popular acclaim. The idea of a hereditary ruler would have been based on the assumption that the original leader was so remarkable that some of his talent would continue through his sons. Unpopular leaders were overthrown by new leaders who had enough backing from their armies. It is quite recent that this has all been fossilised into an unshakeable right to rule in which kings and queens can ignore popular opinion and simply feather their own nests. But pride can come before a fall, as the French and Russians (and plenty of others) discovered.

Anonymous

Liberals still crave authoritarian rule. Of course, liberals are idiots.

Anonymous

We didn't get the idea, Kings and Queens imposed themselves on us and grew rich, enabling them to hire people to keep them in power.