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Constitutional monarchy, system of government in which a monarch (see monarchy) shares power with a constitutionally organized government. The monarch may be the de facto head of state or a purely ceremonial leader. The constitution allocates the rest of the government’s power to the legislature.
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Similar to the way in which the powers and duties of the president of the United States are described in the U.S. Constitution, the powers of the monarch, as the head of state, are enumerated in the constitution of a constitutional monarchy. In most constitutional monarchies, the monarchs’ political powers, if any, are very limited and their duties...
Constitutional
A constitutional monarchy is a blended form of government in which a king or queen with limited political power rules in combination with a legislative governing body such as a parliament representing the desires and opinions of the people.
Absolute
An absolute monarchy is a form of government in which a king or queen rules with total unchallenged and unchecked political and legislative power. Based on the ancient concept of the “Divine Right of Kings” suggesting that kings derived their authority from God, absolute monarchies operate under the political theory of absolutism. Today the only remaining pure absolute monarchies are Vatican City, Brunei, Swaziland, Saudi Arabia, Eswatini, and Oman. After the signing of the Magna Cartain 1512...
Today, the world’s 43 constitutional monarchies are members of the Commonwealth of Nations, a 53-nation intergovernmental support organization headed by the sitting monarch of the United Kingdom. Some of the best-recognized examples of these modern constitutional monarchies include the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, and Japan.
Bogdanor, Vernon (1996). The Monarchy and the Constitution. Parliamentary Affairs, Oxford University Press.Dunt, Ian, ed. (2015). Monarchy: What is a Monarchy?politics.co.ukThe meaning of CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY is a system of government in which a country is ruled by a king and queen whose power is limited by a constitution.
a system of government in which a king or queen is head of state, but laws are made and put into effect by a legislature, or a country that has this system of government. (Definition of constitutional monarchy from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
a system of government in which a king or queen is head of state, but laws are made and put into effect by a legislature, or a country that has this system of government. (Definition of constitutional monarchy from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
