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constitutional monarchy refers to a form of government where a monarch, like a king or queen, is the head of state, but their powers are limited by a constitution. This means that the monarch's authority is checked by laws and regulations, and they are required to rule in accordance with the constitution. The monarch's role is largely ceremonial or symbolic, and the government is run by elected officials and a system of laws.
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Sentences with «constitutional monarchy»
- The need for abdication as a regular feature of constitutional monarchies became apparent in the first half of this century. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
- Government: Under 1991 constitution, constitutional monarchy with parliamentary government based on British model. (ambergrisCaye.com)
- What Solzhenitsyn claims in the Stolypin chapters is that a moderate alternative to Tsarist autocracy existed in Russia in the early twentieth century» namely, a peaceful evolution toward a European «style constitutional monarchy under the enlightened statesmanship of Prime Minister Stolypin. (firstthings.com)
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