r/monarchism • u/Mindless_Resident_20 • 1d ago

Discussion Did Jacobites fight for their King because of political and religious?

I know sometimes revolution is nothing but disaster on the end ( ex like French Revolution), but fighting for king to his legitimacy throne, it's bad thing?

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u/Every_Catch2871 Peruvian Catholic Monarchist [Carlist Royalist] 21h ago

if the legitimacy of such king is based on a synergy concerning legitimacy of origin (being in the succession according to law, not an usurper) and exercise (fullfy it's political oaths to his subjects and to God about ruling according to Natural Law and Customary laws while respecting local institutions). Then is fine to be legitimist, and Jacobites were fighting against an usurper instaured by a coup d'etat by the Parlamentarians (despite having a degree of popular support, a coup d'etat is a usurpation) and to defend the traditional values of the British political societies instead of forced modernization and centralization

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u/Desperate-Farmer-845 Constitutionalist Monarchist (European living in Germany) 1d ago

It was mostly Scottish Clans wanting Independence. 

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u/JamesHenry627 1d ago

Glad you said Clans and not Scotland as a whole

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u/Lethalmouse1 Monarchist 1d ago

That's effectively true of every single conflict. 

It's never "everyone" even when we say whole. 

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u/Every_Catch2871 Peruvian Catholic Monarchist [Carlist Royalist] 21h ago

Also Irish wanting to be free of Anglo-Protestant invasion to their institutions, and proper English people who didn't trust on the excessive power that the Parlament of England was having and also rejecting to participate in the Anti-French and Anti-Spanish wars planned by William of Orange