| In fact, a kind of diarchy in these ministries has been in place for long causing severe damage to their proper functioning. |
| The former in 27 BC became princeps civitatis and got the title of Augustus, founding the principate, a diarchy between the princeps and the senate. |
| Relations among States are governed both by the nature of states and that of diarchy society. |
| Most states only have a single person acting as monarch at any given time, although two monarchs have ruled simultaneously in some countries, a situation known as diarchy. |
| Nigerian intellectuals, in particular, and African intellectuals, in general, have also debated other alternative forms of democracy similar to diarchy. |
| The diarchy, however, as might have been expected, was found not to work very successfully in practice. |
