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A government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler).

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The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.

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A form of government where sovereignty is embodied by a single ruler in a state and his high aristocracy representing their separate divided lands within the state and their low aristocracy representing their separate divided fiefs.

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States based on a system of governance headed by a king or a queen.

We are replacing monarchy with self-rule.

In a monarchy, despotic or constitutional, there cannot in strictness be an aristocracy, because the whole political power cannot be vested in the noble Venice class.

Monarchy is not inherently bad, and there have been fine kings and queens in history.

In a monarchy, where the king can ennoble, this ideal cannot be kept.

All this came to an end with the monarchy.

The northern kingdom cherished the institution of a monarchy, and in this, as in all great political events, the prophets took part.

The history of the Dual Monarchy during his reign is told under the heading of AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, and here it is only necessary to deal with its personal aspects.

There were no hereditary or formally elected chiefs, nor was there any vestige of monarchy.

The system led inevitably to bankruptcy and ruin; the war of 1859, by bringing it to an end, saved the monarchy.

Yet again, the approach of the divided monarchy is foreshadowed.

Nevertheless, these places of cult remained some 300 years until almost the close of the monarchy, when their destruction is attributed to Josiah (§ 16).

From the flourishing days of the later monarchy and onwards, different writers handled the early history of their land from different standpoints.

When, in 1643, the disasters falling on the monarchy on all sides led to the dismissal of Olivares, Philip had lost the power to devote himself to hard work.

He soon gave to the policy of the monarchy a resolution which had long been wanting.

The charge that he laboured to introduce monarchy by intrigue is an under-estimate of his good sense.

It has seemed as if any form of nobility was inconsistent with a republican form of government, while nobility, in some shape or other, has come to be looked on as a natural, if not a necessary, appendage to a monarchy.

It is precisely in Saul's time that the account of the Judaean monarchy, or perhaps of the monarchy from the Judaean standpoint, now begins.

History saw in David the head of a lengthy line of kings, the founder of the Judaean monarchy, the psalmist and the priest-king who inaugurated religious institutions now recognized to be of a distinctly later character.

The monarchy had been undermined.

If the reign of his predecessor shows us almost the ideal of personal monarchy we may see in that of Louis XV.

Though a passionate lover of liberty, he hoped to secure the freedom of France and her monarchy at the same time.

Queen Mary, unshaken in her attachment to the ancient faith and the papal monarchy, was able with the sanction of a subservient parlia ment to turn back the wheels of ecclesiastical legis lation, to restore the old religion, and to reunite the 1558.

English Church with the papal monarchy; the pope's legate, Cardinal Pole, was primate of all England.

The alliance of England and the Scottish Protestants against the French, and the common secession from the papal monarchy, was in a sense the foundation and beginning of Great Britain.

The French monarchy, as we have seen, had usually succeeded in holding its own against the centralizing tendencies of the pope.

After the battle of Valmy, Dumouriez was the greatest man in France; he could almost have restored the monarchy; yet Marat did not fear to denounce him in placards as a traitor.

Although, among other obstacles, the popes of the 12th century had experienced some difficulty in subduing the inhabitants of the city, which was the seat and centre of the of the Christian world, their monarchy did not cease to gain in authority, solidity and prestige, and the work of centralization, which was gradually making them masters of the whole ecclesiastical organism, was accomplished steadily and without serious interruption.

But with the growth of the idea of German unity, Germanism had established a new ideal, of which the centre lay beyond the boundaries of the Austrian monarchy, and which was bound to be antagonistic to the aspirations of other races.

Sweden is a limited monarchy, the constitution resting primarily on a law (regerings-formen) of the 6th of June 1809.

The navian famous expeditions of Rurik and Askold which Settlements resulted in the origin of the Russian monarchy in Russia.

This was the greatest victory of the French medieval monarchy.

Every time that Henry confirmed the Great Charter, the fact that England was already a limited monarchy became more evident.

The limited monarchy established by the Provisions of Oxford lasted only three years.

He understood the problem that was before him, the construction of a working constitution from the old ancestral customs of the English monarchy plus the newer ideas that had been embodied in the Great Charter, the Provisions of Oxford, and the-scanty legislation of Simon de Montfort.

Then came rapidly a succession of blows at the supports by which the Tudor monarchy had been upheld.

The death of Charles 11., the heirless king of the huge Spanish monarchy, had long been expected.

The Spanish monarchy was disarmed.

Their monarchy was elective.

When the emperor of Austria summoned a meeting of the German princes at Frank Christian monarchy against the revolution as the chief duty of the Prussian government.

His early fall was predicted, and it was feared that he might bring down the monarchy with him.

Prussia was bound by the treaty of London of 1852, which guaranteed the integrity of the Danish monarchy; to have disregarded this would have been to bring about a coalition against Germany similar to that of 1851.

His opponents have accused him of unscrupulousness and party spirit, but not one of them can deny that he reshaped Hungary and made her the leading partner of the dual monarchy.

From the Franciscan's letters it appears that the earl had studied a political tract by Grosseteste on the difference between a monarchy and a tyranny; and that he embraced with enthusiasm the bishop's projects of ecclesiastical reform.

These became subject to the Persian monarchy with the other Greek cities of Asia.

Other and more profound differences relating to the rise of the monarchy (§ 2), the career of Saul (§ 3) and David's conquest of Jerusalem (§ 4) represent irreconcilable historical background.

Hamilton's ideal was an elective monarchy, and his guiding principle a proper balance of authority.

But it should be borne in mind that, in the days of Gustavus, Vienna was by no means so essential to the existence of the Habsburg monarchy as it was in the days of Napoleon; and even Gustavus could not allow so dangerous an opponent as Tilly time to recover himself.

Thomas Andrews, newly appointed Lord Mayor of London, proclaims the abolition of the Monarchy.

The project also hosted a major international colloquium on Hellenistic Monarchy at Somerville College, Oxford, in March 2003.

David led a confederacy of the twelve tribes and founded a hereditary monarchy with Jerusalem as its capital.