Bouvard on Sovereignty, Covenant, and Institutional Balance
Well, you raise the question of restoring the monarchy, but what the national religious want to know, I think, is the king's relationship to a restored priesthood performing ritual sacrifices in the name of the covenant in a restored temple (and which restoration comes first). You are not too interested in the early modern Protestant reading of the Jewish texts but you take for granted what I take to be its central point, that the Jewish (or Biblical) state is one in which the political head, as distinguished from the priestly caste, has the final decision on what is Jewish (or any national religious) law. I don't think you see in covenants any model of sovereignty but will the state readily find the Jewishness it wants without a priestly discipline close at hand, at least some kind of replacement for the modern globalist "priesthood"?
Jewish law, which is very flexible, would have to find answers to these questions. The Mishna, I believe, lays out in some detail the relation between the king, the priests and the judges, and I assume that would be the starting point for further deliberation. The notion of a covenant between the Jews and God, if not amongst the Jews themselves (that's the notion that turns into republican modernity) is unobjectionable, as far as I can see. A hereditary priesthood is also fine; rebuilding the Temple might also be a very good idea, but that and the question of sacrifices would be open for discussion. (I think the Talmud already abolishes sacrifice; that decision could be revised, of course, but it seems unlikely.) I think you could have a more serious discourse around these points than around "democracy," "human rights," etc. The Bible's ambivalence to monarchy would have to be addressed--but that's always been a problem for Christian monarchies as well. It's a bigger question of the relation between the sovereign center and what I've started calling the "permanent center."
Bouvard on Sovereignty, Covenant, and Institutional Balance — https://center.study/post/reddit-distilling-sovereignty