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I am not in favour of the monarchy in principle but am basically in favour of the monarchy in practice.
The monarchy remained in place, while big business and agrarians retained much influence.
Does Her Majesty, the Queen, realize the tarnishment of the monarchy that is occurring?
In Riyadh, the absolute monarchy of Saudi Arabia walks a fine line to maintain power.
A restored Stuart monarchy would have made Britain a vassal state of France.
In place of the monarchy they set up a republic with power vested in a senate and two annually elected consuls.
Only with great reluctance does Moses condone the possible introduction of a monarchy in the future.
The insurgents are waging an armed struggle to replace the monarchy with a communist people's republic.
On 21 September the monarchy was abolished in France and a republic was declared.
Indeed, one of the major arguments against abolishing the monarchy is the desire to preserve tradition.
The analysis of James as the ruler of a composite monarchy produces many new and important insights.
The Crown Jewels of the British monarchy have been around for over 800 years.
The institution of monarchy has inflicted terrible psychological damage on him since he was a toddler.
It is startling to realise how deeply the monarchy is embedded in the nation.
It's impossible not to be awed by the grandeur of temples and throne rooms of a country still in love with its benevolent monarchy.
Previously an autocracy, it moved closer to becoming a true constitutional monarchy when the King announced ambitious political changes.
Besides all that deficit spending, monarchy still has powers, despite all the efforts of the axemen, budgetary and otherwise, down the centuries.
The monarchy has its roots in the tribal leadership among the country's Pashtun majority in the south.
Would ordinary Saudis do better with a British style limited constitutional monarchy or an unlimited democracy?
It is my contention that the difference between a monarchy and a republic would be symbolic only.
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And most of us shudder at the idea of ridding the monarchy of the pomp and pageantry that routinely works us up into a collective frenzy.
After all, a queen regnant sits on the throne and the monarchy must be feeling pressure from its seemingly more progressive neighbors.
Another major difference is that the British monarchy still reigns in many countries of the former British Empire.
It was the official religion during the reign of the monarchy and is currently the unofficial religion.
It was only in 1801 that the British monarchy formally relinquished its claim to the French throne.
With those resources, there's no need to plunder the Arctic Wildlife Refuge or support repressive regimes like the Saudi monarchy.
Fifty years of civil war, a republic led by Oliver Cromwell, and the restoration of the monarchy.
The logical and just thing was to repudiate the enormous debt incurred by the monarchy.
With a huge staircase dominating the stage, and coupled with the outrageous lavishness of the monarchy, this is a truly grand affair.
The difference is that all of the popularity of the queen mother helped the monarchy.
Parliament had cut back the monarchy to a constitutional role, and asserted its own sovereignty as the representative of the people.
Spain was once a dictatorship, for example, then became a constitutional monarchy under King Carlos.
Upholding the ideals of service and duty is one of three purposes of a constitutional monarchy.
But however many millions it may cost to support the monarchy in all its pomp, the Queen sets a shining example of thrift and prudence.
Let me suggest that for William, heir to the throne, the monarchy is a Gordian knot whose time for cutting is well overdue.
The one principle on which all three courts could agree was hostility to the International and the defence of monarchy.
The writings of Mandela often assert the rich and proud history of the Thembu monarchy.
It had been almost two years since he had first joined the Rebel troops massing to overthrow the monarchy.
The attempt of the restored Spanish monarchy to regain control of her colonies by military force failed.
It was parliament that reinstated the monarchy during the Restoration period, and not the other way round.
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I've maintained all along, the monarchy will continue because it readjusts, and reinvents itself.
The whole idea of the monarchy, and titles in general, is that you do not pick and choose.
France was ruled by an absolutist monarchy and dominated by a repressive mercantilist economic policy regime.
Wherefore the monarchy and hierarchy will be beforehand with it, if they see their true interest.
He would have known that there had been a popular uprising leading to mob rule, the overthrow of monarchy and persecution of the nobility.
The first of the Tudors enhanced the prestige of the monarchy, its financial resources and its regional authority.
It was supposed to be about ideology and heroism, but in reality, it was just a new brand of monarchy.
A universal franchise and limited government are better than monarchy or tyranny.
The Spartan constitution was mixed, containing elements of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy.
His reign marked a significant advance from personal monarchy towards the bureaucratised state of the future.
When Prussia defeated France in 1870, it initiated the establishment of a new German Empire, a monarchy over monarchies.
Since 1951, Jordan has been a constitutional hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary form of government.
Old traditions are still very much alive in Swaziland, where the monarchy maintains absolute power.
However, the monarchy was not absolute, but relied on the support of a powerful and divided nobility.
The 1958 coup that saw the overthrow of the monarchy threw the his family into turmoil.
The monarchy and the royal judiciary played important roles in the history of early modern France.
When we come back, we'll talk about the royals and what's going on with the monarchy.
Of more immediate concern to the queen was probably the role of the monarchy itself and the vicissitudes of the royal family.
The Crown and the Royal Family, the monarchy, stand for something to be proud of in this world today.
When analysing this aspect of the portraits, one historian questioned why the Spanish monarchy tolerated him.
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Egypt is a mock democracy, and Saudi Arabia is a theological monarchy oligarchy run by dictators called the Royal Family.
Both argued that irrespective of the form of government, be it monarchy, aristocracy, or democracy, a relatively compact minority always ruled.
Aristotle produced a complex taxonomy of constitutions, the three main types of which are monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy.
Their balancing syphon is a reproduction of ones used by the monarchy of nineteenth-century Vienna.
Anyway, our Brendan decides to put the cat among the pigeons by means of this post slagging off the monarchy and right wing bloggers.
Should the British ever give the monarchy the heave-ho we'd just have to rename it Republic Day.
He's the son of the late Shah of Iran and the heir to the Iranian monarchy.
In a word, no distinction was now drawn between despotism, tyranny, and absolute monarchy.
The convocation of a national representative assembly meant the end of absolute monarchy.
She was the grand old lady of the monarchy who slipped peacefully away after 101 years of faithful service to her country.
The rebels took up arms against the government in 1996 with the aim of ending Nepal's monarchy and multiparty political system.
The monarchy is all about show, the man cloaked and hidden from view by pomp, ceremony and symbolism.
Was France trapped in a cycle of monarchy, republic, and empire, or did it advance stumblingly towards stability?
Iran has made the transition in the last twenty years from a nominal constitutional monarchy to a democratic theocracy.
We could easily end up in a situation where the only thing left is, in a sense, the shadow of a monarchy.
Amidst the pageantry the monarchy is presented as a part of the unbroken tradition unifying the nation.
After the restoration of the absolute monarchy in 1814, Goya narrowly survived a purge.
Will the monarchy under a relative unknown remain relevant, acting as a necessary source of stability?
If enthusiasm for monarchy waned, did the emergence of feasible alternatives explain subsequent political changes?
Norway was the most recent remaining European monarchy to replace a coronation ceremony with an enthronement.
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In return for granting subsidies, Parliament demanded ever new powers from the monarchy.
He killed the person Yu the Great had appointed and succeeded to his father's power, beginning the hereditary system of monarchy.
Modern Basque historiography blames the monarchy of Navarre for failing to integrate the particularities of the local legal system.
We live in a world where monarchy is largely a symbol and where even political power is subject to checks and balances, including media scrutiny.
It happened on the anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, the overthrow of the monarchy, so that's perhaps some significance to be drawn there.
The monarchy itself will increasingly suffer from this politics of benign neglect.
It failed, the monarchy resorted to military dictatorship, and the Democratic leaders were driven into exile.
Human beings seems to be hard-wired for monarchy, from student unions to Oxford colleges to the University of Oxford.
Of course even such symbolic discrimination is wrong, but monarchy is by definition a rejection of social equality.
The snobbery and hatred of meritocracy that have been revealed this week are simply inevitable further by-products of monarchy.
Khan said a large number of people in Nepal said the king's recent action was not in keeping with constitutional monarchy.
Much of what Australian republicans sought was achieved under constitutional monarchy.
It acknowledges darkness, as well as the historic bookends of oppressive monarchy and violent fascism.
The rebels are spearheading a violent campaign to set up a republican state by abolishing constitutional monarchy in Nepal.
Saudi Arabia is among the world's richest monarchies, but it has not spread monarchy in the mainly republican Middle East.
Partly Spanish by ancestry, he claimed descent on his father's side from the Scottish monarchy.
A monarchy which strives to avoid political controversy now finds itself inadvertently at the heart of it.
The garment was being made for an ambassador due to be cross-posted from a republic to a monarchy.
She publicized her fury at the government with a rebuke unprecedented and unrepeated in the history of the British constitutional monarchy.
Note how the arguments for a monarchy are couched in emotive rather than rational terms.
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Constitutional changes to permit a female empress may thus trigger dangerous public debate about the need for a monarchy.
First, it was a republic with a stadholder as head of state, not a monarchy or empire like almost everywhere else.
Without a hostile Iraq towering over it, Jordan's pro-Western Hashemite monarchy would likely come into full bloom.
The rebels are fighting to overthrow Nepal's constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy in favor of a communist republic.
Zanzibar received its independence from the United Kingdom on December 19, 1963, as a constitutional monarchy under the sultan.
The monarchy expresses itself physically through the palaces and other residences of the royal family.
A republican federacy could be formed out of the provinces of the defunct monarchy.
The last time this happened, the feudalists took over a monarchy and then North America.
In June 1960 a group of princes signed a memorandum calling for a constitutional monarchy.
The Deputy Prime Minister said today that he believes in supporting the constitutional monarchy.
Both the Flemings and Walloons revolted against Dutch rule, and the new Kingdom of Belgium was established in 1830 as a constitutional monarchy.
Enthusiasm for the divine right of kings dovetailed neatly with other theories stressing the sacred nature of monarchy.
Not all the arguments which apply to the British monarchy will apply to others, but I will concentrate here on the British arguments.
The restoration of the monarchy brought political oblivion, then intermittent government harassment for the rest of his life.
The restoration of the monarchy brought about the resumption of Anglican worship and its musical traditions.
James Rothschild, his brother, arrived in Paris in 1811 and helped finance the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy.
In April 1936, he became Prime Minister upon the restoration of the monarchy, and on 4 August 1936 was given dictatorial powers.
The restoration of the monarchy in 1660 could be seen as proof that, as kings had always argued, it was the bulwark against anarchy or despotism.
During a brief restoration of the monarchy, under King George II's orders, they were all buried together in the family plot.
In 1814 Laplace supported the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy and cast his vote in the Senate against Napoleon.
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Everything would change dramatically, however, by the spring of 1660, when the monarchy was restored and the royal family returned to power.
By 1455, at the battle of Arkinholm, he had destroyed the family and annexed their lands, a valuable financial strengthening of the monarchy.
When the country introduced the constitution of 1849 and thus became a constitutional monarchy, anointment was also abandoned.
He was Piedmontese and like the great majority of his party, he was deeply loyal to the monarchy.
It was re-named Lesotho and became independent in 1966 as a constitutional monarchy, with a National Assembly to work with hereditary chiefs.
The country's large oil industry was nationalised and the monarchy overthrown.
The Orleanist monarchy had to weather a challenge from the Right as well as from the Left.
Both fought for infant republics and the rights of man against the excesses of monarchy.
Southern Iraq was inhabited by Arabian tribesmen, some of whom recognized the Sesanian monarchy.
Restraint in dress represented a reaction to the excesses of a corrupt monarchy and decadent regime.
Despite subsequent upheavals, the French have never seriously considered restoring the monarchy since.
Yet in a 1952 referendum the Belgians voted in favour of keeping the monarchy.
Can people move directly from a clan-based system to democracy, skipping monarchy and feudalism?
He ridiculed the very idea of monarchy and turned the political debate in a decisively republican direction.
They proposed a referendum on abolishing the monarchy, and setting up a republic.
Between the World Wars, the Greek population vacillated between the establishment of a republican form of government and the restoration of monarchy.
The first one I have put up is a rather whimsical article by an American journalist on why constitutional monarchy is the best form of government.
The Netherlands is a constitutional monarchy, which means the role of the king is anchored in its laws.
Was France trapped in a cycle of monarchy, republic, and empire, or did it advance stumblingly towards stability, finally achieved by the Third Republic?
She has criticised educational progressivism and defended the monarchy.
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Much like the British monarchy, when the current Aga Khan is ready to abdicate his post, he will personally choose a successor.
Kate and William's rejuvenation of the British monarchy depends on making us think they are just like us.
He succeeded him in the monarchy, and reigned gloriously for 20 years.
There are elements of autocracy, monarchy and military in the organizational structure and culture of Chassidic movements.
The territory was invaded first by Scandinavians and later by the Normans, to be ruled by a French-speaking monarchy and nobility until the 15th century.
He is transparently impatient with the traditional tribal leaders whose support has always been the bedrock of the monarchy.
He had, as Weisbrode points out, a great reverence for the institution of monarchy, but a spotty record with monarchs.
The royal element of the performance adds an extra piquancy to proceedings, especially during the shake-and-fake line-up between the stars and the monarchy.
During the interregnum following the beheading of Charles I in 1649, Parliament forced the submission of governments that supported the displaced Stuart monarchy.
Under the Hashemite monarchy, which ruled from 1921 until 1958, Iraq adopted a parliamentary system modeled on that of its colonial master, the United Kingdom.
It was a patriotic project, with the names of the streets and the squares chosen to celebrate the Union and the Hanoverian monarchy, as well as the culture of Scotland.
He took his stories from writers more recondite than Ovid and Livy, the sources for the painters of the Bourbon monarchy and the Napoleonic empire.
The broadly uniform system of parliamentary representation belied the administrative complexities inherited by the Hanoverian monarchy from its predecessors.
Do you think that's where the royal family and the monarchy will go?
Funding and direction are said to come from a Lao exile living in the United States who claims to be fighting for democracy and the return of monarchy to Laos.
My father was born in Laos in 1952, when the monarchy ruled supreme there.
Spain is a parliamentary monarchy with a bicameral legislature.
Today, the Netherlands has a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral, multi-party system administered by a premier and a coalition cabinet of ministers.
The stylish new family have been a breath of fresh air for the British monarchy.
The allegedly post-Lycurgan ephorate was abolished, the gerousia made subject to annual re-election, the dyarchy transformed into a de facto monarchy.
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In fact they were defending the old Spain of privilege and poverty, threatened by the masses entering politics after the 1931 expulsion of the monarchy.
If the populist, royalist Daily Mail saw itself as supporting a very successful project, the tone in the Telegraph remained more in keeping with older ideas of the monarchy.
A martial arts expert, he had served in the military, worked as the warden of a county jail in New Jersey, and later as a security contractor for the Saudi monarchy.
Furthermore, he provides ample historical illustration of how the transformation from monarchy to democracy changed the conduct of war from limited warfare to total war.
Henry was credited with an experiment in government by limited monarchy.
The Caliphate became a monarchy, first absolute, then nominal, controlled by oligarchies, feudal lords, warlords, tribal chiefs and regional chieftains.
A new constitution was promulgated restoring constitutional monarchy.
The second great purpose of the monarchy is to be available as an impartial umpire above party when the nation is split by a constitutional crisis.
Discussions about republican Rome were also at that time a way of masking criticisms of monarchy, in a society where open criticism was impossible.
Some have called for an appointed government and even a return to absolute monarchy.
Qatar, a traditional monarchy, is diversifying its oil-dependent economy by becoming host to one of the largest U.S. airbases outside of North America.
But in its long history, the British monarchy has survived ignorant, incompetent, debauched and mad sovereigns as well as many ambitious mistresses.
Prior to independence and before the partial democratic dispensation of the British the country had been ruled by absolute monarchy, stretched for centuries.
I guess once they guillotined the king, ending over 1000 years of monarchy in Europe, the mob weren't likely to take any kind of authority very seriously after that.
Now, Swazis insist that they are proud to be a kingdom, so the task at hand is to find a way to make the monarchy work while the rights of the people are respected.
The Tudors established a strong monarchy in the sixteenth century.
The growing prestige of Parliament as an institution gave the aristocracy a powerful base from which to challenge the monarchy and defend itself against the commonalty.
Some eagle-eyed fans said they could see both Switzerland and Austria, the two countries that sandwich the tiny monarchy.
Groups such as the Diggers and the Levellers believed that after the execution of Charles I, a biblical monarchy was nigh and that Jesus would be the king.
Evidence of the malaise now afflicting the established institutions in our society is all around, from parliament and the police to the monarchy and the churches.
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He never doubted, and gratefully recognized, Mary's own contribution to the device of the joint monarchy, and her death on 27 December 1694 prostrated him for months.
Ever since, the Saudis have seen the Brotherhood as both a domestic and geopolitical threat to the monarchy.
As an absolute monarchy there was comfort in an Arab world of other autocracies.
Similar interests in Europe developed courts, parliaments, financial institutions and urban autonomies, often in violent confrontation with monarchy.
Although he was far from pro-French, the weakness of the French monarchy during most of his lifetime made him willing to accept an Anglo-French alliance.
One of the weaknesses of a hereditary monarchy is the possibility of having a monarch who is too young to rule, requiring a regency or protectorate to govern in his name.
The rather weak excuse some of them gave for their obvious enthusiasm was that it wasn't so much monarchism that they hated, but the British monarchy.
Shortly thereafter, the government proposed conversion from a monarchy to a republic with an elected president replacing the British monarch as chief of state.
Generations of people around the world have endured autocracy and dictatorship, totalitarianism, fascism, monarchy, oligarchy and even anarchy without knowing freedom.
Just as she was getting the hang of this monarchy lark, along comes another embarrassing chain of events to sink its teeth into the royal posterior.
It is more than three hundred years since the Glorious Revolution was to have freed us from the tyranny of an absolute monarchy ruling by divine right.
Weary as Kate may be of the unrelenting focus on her womb, the fuss is entirely predictable in a hereditary monarchy.
Bahrain is a traditional monarchy in which the king is the chief of state.
The Assembly voted to suspend the monarchy and convoke a new body elected by manhood suffrage, the Convention, to draw up a republican constitution for the country.
A future monarchy cannot rest on an individual pining for the past.
The upsurge of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people forced the government out, destroyed a centuries-old autocratic monarchy and ended the war.
Since then, the British monarchy, past and present, along with my broader interest in history and genealogy, has become less of an avocation and more of a part-time vocation.
All the indicators are that any free consultation of the community would have revealed an overwhelming consensus for a restoration of the Stuart monarchy.
Denmark is a constitutional monarchy in which succession to the throne is hereditary and the ruling monarch must be a member of the national church.
And if you buy into the principle of hereditary monarchy, it surely follows that you expect the royal family to behave better than us ordinary folk.
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Since the political reform of the absolute monarchy in 1932, Thailand has had 19 constitutions and charters.
Tracing its roots to the 2nd millennium BC, Ethiopia's governmental system was a monarchy for most of its history.
In 1974, the Ethiopian monarchy under Haile Selassie was overthrown by the Derg, a communist military government backed by the Soviet Union.
The principality is a constitutional monarchy headed by the Prince of Liechtenstein.
During the last phase of the monarchy, internal political debate was centered on the issue of slavery.
The foreign affairs in the monarchy were basically related issues with the countries of the Southern Cone with which Brazil has borders.
During the 19th century, the revival architectural styles were very popular in the Bohemian monarchy.
By the time of his death, the Scottish monarchy was stronger, and the kingdom and royal finances more prosperous than might have seemed possible.
The Scots were routed, leading to the overthrow of the monarchy and the occupation of Scotland.
It is common to start counting either since the beginning of the monarchy, or since the beginning of a particular line of state succession.
After the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the incidents of feuding between clans declined considerably.
Today, Belgium is a federal constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance.
Belgium is a constitutional, popular monarchy and a federal parliamentary democracy.
The traditional view has been that the Norman monarchy granted these outright.
Arab nationalism made an impact in some circles who opposed the lack of modernization efforts in the Mutawakkilite monarchy.
The launch of the plant took place before the fall of the Pahlavi monarchy.
Although she had no heir, she left behind a legacy and monarchy worth noting.
Unionism has traditionally been associated with strong loyalty to the British monarchy.
In Sicily, the first coastal towers date back to the period between 1313 and 1345 of the Aragonese monarchy.
During the reign of Philip of Valois, the French monarchy reached the height of its medieval power.
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Apart from the monarchy, the Shrievalty is the oldest office in the county and the only secular office surviving from Saxon times.
The shift from Gallicanism to Ultramontanism during the nineteenth century may partly result from the demise of the French monarchy.
His credibility was so deeply undermined that the abolition of the monarchy and establishment of a republic became an increasing possibility.
There were many, many Soviet and monarchy era factories in various degrees of operation or inoperation.
Could the beloved monarchy broker some kind of Solomonic solution?
The government of the new kingdom took place in a framework of parliamentary constitutional monarchy dominated by liberal forces.
Italy has been a unitary parliamentary republic since 2 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished by a constitutional referendum.
Today, Sweden is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a monarch as head of state, like its neighbour Norway.
Eventually democracy was peacefully restored in the form of a parliamentary constitutional monarchy.
The new Bourbon monarchy drew on the French system of modernising the administration and the economy.
Enlightenment ideas began to gain ground among some of the kingdom's elite and monarchy.
The heavy losses suffered during the Rif War in Morocco brought discredit to the government and undermined the monarchy.
Through Victoria's reign, the gradual establishment of a modern constitutional monarchy in Britain continued.
In the 1560s many Frisans joined the revolt led by William of Orange against the Habsburg monarchy.
In France, the battle was instrumental in forming the strong central monarchy that would characterise its rule until the first French Revolution.
The guerrillas have been fighting since 1996 to overthrow Nepal's constitutional monarchy.
In this guide, military events, military figures, and the British monarchy assume a superordinate status in both text and image.
Modern Egypt dates back to 1922, when it was granted independence by the British Empire as a monarchy.
In 1923, however, after the country's independence was declared, a new constitution provided for a parliamentary monarchy.
By the end of the English Civil War, the monarchy, House of Lords and Privy Council had been abolished.
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In the following century, France would be governed at one point or another as a republic, constitutional monarchy, and two different empires.
Canada is a federal parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state.
One is the inevitable decline of a system of hereditary monarchy, once it has been demythologised.
The United Kingdom was already an established constitutional monarchy, in which the sovereign held relatively little direct political power.
His charm and personableness had contributed greatly to the magic of monarchy.
Constitutional monarchy also occurred briefly in the early years of the French Revolution, but much more widely afterwards.
However this model of constitutional monarchy was discredited and abolished following Germany's defeat in the First World War.
The Tudor monarchy was powerful and there were often periods of several years when parliament did not sit at all.
But parliamentary criticism of the monarchy reached new levels in the 17th century.
When the last Tudor monarch, Elizabeth I, died in 1603, King James VI of Scotland came to power as King James I, founding the Stuart monarchy.
This proved that parliament could survive without a monarchy and a House of Lords if it wanted to.
These events marked the beginning of the English constitutional monarchy and its role as one of the three elements of parliament.
By the late sixth century, this arrangement had been replaced by a permanent monarchy, the Kingdom of the Lombards.
The dispute represents a significant stage in the creation of a papal monarchy separate from and equal to lay authorities.
From 1649 to 1660, the tradition of monarchy was broken by the republican Commonwealth of England, which followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
The 11th century saw England become more stable, despite a number of wars with the Danes, which resulted in a Danish monarchy for one generation.
The lack of clear leadership led to civil and military unrest, and for a popular desire to restore the monarchy.
The final transition to a constitutional monarchy was made during the long reign of William IV's successor, Victoria.
It was damaged during the Siege of Portsmouth in 1642, but after the restoration of the monarchy the tower and nave were rebuilt.
He is also a supporter of Republic's campaign to replace the British monarchy with a democratically elected president.
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As such, he repeatedly took advantage of expedient moments to press the English monarchy for concessions and support of the reform agenda.
The result was to create a division in the castle between a more private Upper Ward and a Lower Ward devoted to the public face of the monarchy.
The Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 saw the first period of significant change to Windsor Castle for many years.
Although Romania is no longer a monarchy, its former King Michael now resides at Elisabeta Palace.
In England, Henry VIII was the King of England and a significant figure in the history of the English monarchy.
His kingship was thought to contain elements of the early modern absolute monarchy as exemplified by the Tudor dynasty.
The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 began a new phase in Milton's work.
Constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy were in their infancy during Locke's time.
Written in a direct and lively style, it denounced the decaying despotisms of Europe and pilloried hereditary monarchy as an absurdity.
At the same time, Shelley makes an egalitarian case against monarchy, class distinctions, slavery, and war.
Based on Bracton's notes and writing, Pollock and Maitland believe that he was neither a courtly flatterer nor a champion of despotic monarchy.
It is a positive attack with the political intent to disestablish our monarchy and to change us to a state ruled by a dictator.
In many countries, the resolution of this conflict was the rise of absolute monarchy.
Under the new constitution, Belgium became a sovereign, independent state with a constitutional monarchy.
It establishes a constitutional monarchy organised as a parliamentary democracy.
The extant Danish monarchy traces its roots back to Gorm the Old, who established his reign in the early 10th century.
First written in 1849, it establishes a sovereign state in the form of a constitutional monarchy, with a representative parliamentary system.
The Kingdom of Denmark is a constitutional monarchy, in which Queen Margrethe II is the head of state.
Patriation removed the role of the British parliament from the Canadian constitution, but the monarchy was retained.
Criticism was focused on the institution of the monarchy itself and the Queen's wider family rather than her own behaviour and actions.
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Thus, a reign usually lasts until the monarch dies, unless the monarchy itself is abolished or the monarch abdicates or is deposed.
Following independence, the southern state gradually severed all remaining constitutional links with the United Kingdom and the British monarchy.
During this period Henry VII and his son Henry VIII greatly increased the power of the English monarchy.
Protestants were persecuted under the Habsburg monarchy, which controlled the region and eventually managed to recatholicize it.
Calvinism developed through the Puritan period, following the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, and within Wales' Methodist movement.
On 4 April they voted to remove James VII from office, drawing on George Buchanan's argument on the contractual nature of monarchy.
Throughout much of European history, the divine right of kings was the theological justification for absolute monarchy.
The years between 1789 and 1809, then, are also referred to as a period of absolute monarchy.
The legislators abolished hereditary offices, except for the monarchy itself.
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, and succession to the British throne is hereditary.
A hereditary monarchy may occasionally use election to fill a vacant throne.
All three were united in opposing Sir Robert Filmer's defence of divine right and absolute monarchy.
Some stuffy royalists will say it just goes to show how the monarchy and command performances have dived down market.
This was the base from which the Spanish monarchy administered its new colonies and their expansion.
New Zealand is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy, although its constitution is not codified.
On 20 September 1792 the National Convention abolished the monarchy and declared France a republic.
The title of Romulus was associated too strongly with notions of monarchy and kingship, an image that Octavian tried to avoid.
In his view, the Roman Empire was to be governed as a divine monarchy with himself as the benevolent despot at its head.
The President's powers were once so broad that it was said Finland was the only real monarchy in northern Europe.
The monarchy was replaced by a shaky coalition of political parties that declared itself the Provisional Government.

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