constitutional monarchynoun [ C ]
uk/ˌkɒn.stɪ.tjuː.ʃən.əl ˈmɒn.ə.ki/us/ˌkɑːn.stɪ.tuː.ʃən.əl ˈmɑː.nɚ.ki/a system in which the king or queen's power is severely limited, because they act only on the advice of the politicians who form the government
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Systems of government
- a reign of terror idiom
- absolutism
- ancien régime
- anti-federalist
- apartheid
- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- democratize
- despot
- interregnum
- Jim Crow
- junta
- kleptocracy
- majority rule
- plutocracy
- plutocrat
- police state
- regime
- reign
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Examples from literature
- A constitutional monarchy existed nowhere, except perhaps in England.
- In all the constitutional monarchies we find legislative bodies similar to our Congress.
- In constitutional monarchies the ruler holds his position by heredity, but there exists also a constitution, which defines the distribution of powers among the branches that compose the government and fixes the limits of authority vested in each.
- It is true that under a constitutional monarchy, the royalty is above politics.
- It was determined that the King should no longer be absolute, and the choice lay between a constitutional monarchy and a republic.