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| | Elective monarchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Alexander Hamilton argued in a long speech before the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that the President of the United States should be, in effect, an elective monarch, ruling for "good behavior" (i.e. | | | In Poland, after the death of the last Piast in 1370, Polish Kings were initially elected by a small council; gradually, this privilege was granted to all members of the szlachta (Polish nobility). | | | His proposal was resoundingly voted down in favor of a four-year term with the possibility of reelection. |
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| | Monarchy Lecture |
| | Monarchies were not defeated and abolished in the court of reason. | | | This is the type of monarchy against which revolutions were fought, and it is also the type of monarchy that was responsible for the strengthening of the arguments in favor of democracy and the republican form of government. | | | It is thus the form of monarchy, capetian and hereditary, that the constitution of the Fifth Republic achieves by elevating the president to a level that allows him to transcend even the contingencies of a presidential majority. |
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| | Monarchy: Encyclopedia topic |
| | Monarchies are one of the oldest forms of government (government: The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit), with echoes in the leadership (leadership: The activity of leading) of tribal chiefs (tribal chiefs: The head of a tribe or clan). | | | Another unique situation is Malaysia (Malaysia: A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957), in which the national king, called the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (Yang di-Pertuan Agong: yang di-pertuan agong, a malay title usually translated as "supreme head", "supreme ruler"... | | | Lesotho (Lesotho: A landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966) |
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| | History in Focus: Elizabeth I and James VI and I - review of The Right to be King |
| | It introduced the concept of elective monarchy with an unacceptably broad electorate, and that menace, as Nenner clearly demonstrates for the case of England in the seventeenth century, united, apart from the radical Whigs, the political nation which feared that such a system would merely become the antechamber to the republican Commonwealth rejected in 1660. | | | The Act of Settlement of 1701 fused the elements of hereditary and elective monarchy with the guarantee of a succession acceptable to the political nation, and, finally, after a century of turbulent theoretical and religious debate, England - although not yet Scotland - had a juridically established law of succession. | | | The 'Kongelov' of 1665 endowed Frederik III with sweeping legislative and juridical powers, but it also pronounced the transformation of Denmark from an elective monarchy, albeit one in which the king's eldest son was habitually 'elected', into an hereditary monarchy. |
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http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Elizabeth/revnenner.html
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| | Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) Vol. 2: The Online Library of Liberty |
| | In an absolute sovereignty the king may if he please be his own minister; but in a limited one a ministry and a cabinet are essential parts of the constitution. | | | to consider monarchy, not as it exists in countries where it is unlimited and despotic, but, as in certain instances it has appeared, a branch merely of the general constitution. | | | The individual is, not less than in the most absolute monarchy, unfitted by his education to become either respectable or useful. |
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| | Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 323, MONARCHY: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | The monarch does this by appointing one of the two legislative chambers; such at least is the order established by the different French constitutions; he co-operates by the appointment of ministers, who represent him in the chambers; he co-operates by the right of proposing the law, dissolving the elective chamber, or refusing his sanction. | | | These kings had supreme command in war, and offered all the sacrifices in which the ministry of the pontiffs was not indispensable; besides these two prerogatives, they were sovereign judges of all disputes, sometimes without oath, and sometimes with. | | | The essence of absolute monarchy lies entirely in the more or less complete concentration of the three powers, executive, legislative and judicial, in the hands of the prince. |
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| | (Poland: History of its Elective Democracy) |
| | A judiciary system was set up with elective judges, independent of the executive branch, and courts of appeal were established for Poland and Lithuania. | | | The entire membership of the Senate held their seats on the strength of the office to which they were appointed outside of the legislature, either in the Church or in the administration. | | | Thus, a pseudo-election was established in which the senior heir of the preceding king was confirmed by the Seym in a procedure which began to be referred to as the royal election. |
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| | ALP Abroad: News: Senate boss blasts PM's monarchy - 21 June 2005 |
| | The Australian Parliament has deteriorated into a form of elective monarchy where the Prime Minister "rules all he surveys", says the most senior public servant in the Senate, Harry Evans. | | | By Gerard Ryle, Lisa Pryor and Mark Metherell www.smh.com.au The Australian Parliament has deteriorated into a form of elective monarchy where the Prime Minister "rules all he surveys", says the most senior public servant in the Senate, Harry Evans. | | | In remarkably frank reaction to Herald revelations that parliamentary inquiries are being ignored by the Government, Mr Evans, the Clerk of the Senate, says it is time the public insists on better representation. |
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http://alpabroad.org/news/1119364650_12171.html
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| | The Whiskey Rebellion and the American Monarch - Alternate History Discussion Board |
| | Both Adams and Hamilton, the nation's two prominent statesmen, are pro-monarchists and, soon, Hamilton introduces the idea of restructuring the Constitution to include an elective monarchy (it later becomes hereditary). | | | In this case, like I said, an elective monarchy so that it still represents the people, especially considering the Chancellor (Head of Government/Prime Minister) is directly elected every six years. | | | It's either this "monarchy" or a dictatorship by Hamilton. |
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http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=360
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| | TOQ-Alain de Benoist-Democracy-Vol 3 No 2 |
| | Moreover, the influence of customary law on juridical practice was an index of popular “participation” in defining the laws. | | | In France, for instance, the crown was long both elective and hereditary. | | | In Iceland the freeman enjoyed two inalienable privileges: he had a right to bear arms and to a seat in the thing. |
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| | 557lec3&4Decline&PartitionsofPoland |
| | The first standing armie were established in the mid-17th century by Oliver Cromwell in England -but abolished after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 - by Louis XIV in France, and by Frederick Wilhelm in Prussia. | | | 1 The Elective Monarchy was abolished, and replaced by a Hereditary Monarchy Since Stanislas Augustus had no legal male heir, the crown was to go the Frederick Augustus, the Elector of Saxony (1750-1827). | | | He advocated equal citizenship for all Poles, the democratization of the state and the church, and a centralized though not absolute monarchy. |
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| | The Historical Setting: The Noble Republic (1572-1795) |
| | This turnabout threatened to renew the strength of the monarchy and brought displeasure in the foreign capitals that preferred an inert, pliable Poland. | | | The constitutional reforms made the monarchy electoral in fact as well as name. | | | Conceived in the liberal spirit of the contemporaneous document in the United States, the constitution recast Poland-Lithuania as a hereditary monarchy and abolished many of the eccentricities and antiquated features of the old system. |
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| | Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 201, INTERREGNUM: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | The end of his government being known beforehand, the election of his successor can be held, and the one enters into office the moment the other departs from it. | | | —There is no interregnum in a republic, for the supreme magistrate is elective; he does not reign, but governs. | | | In an hereditary monarchy the heir to the throne is king by right after the death of his predecessor; every one knows the expression: "The king is dead, long live the king." An interregnum can occur only in states where, at the end of one dynasty, the new prince succeeds only after a certain interval. |
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| | Hereditary monarchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | For example, when the king or queen of a hereditary monarchy dies or abdicates, the crown is usually passed to the next generation, i.e, his or her child, typically in some order of seniority. | | | Elective monarchy can practically function as a hereditary monarchy, for example in case of eligibility being limited to members of one family (or even further, if allowed by the rules of precedence in the election). | | | Under a hereditary monarchy, all the monarchs come from the same family, and the crown is passed down from one member to another member of the family. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_monarchy
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| | Monarchy FAQ |
| | But the nature of the Institution is such that even in such a caseit can bring to the fore individuals reminiscent of their Catholic forebears: George III and Edward VII of Great Britain, Gustavus III of Sweden, and Frederick William IV of Prussia come to mind. | | | Such non-Catholic clerics would have the power of life and death over all citizens, Catholic or not --- and no constitutional or legal restraints on them. | | | In a modern constitutional Monarchy, the tyrants are generally the politicians elected by the people, and the bureaucratic class who actually run the nation; these are of course unimpeachable, and must simply be obeyed. |
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| | Politics of the Vatican City |
| | The Pope exercises supreme legislative, executive, and judicial power over the Holy See and the State of the Vatican City, a rare case of elective non-hereditary monarchy. | | | Government type: monarchical-sacerdotal state - a non-hereditary elective monarchy |
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| | Is there a future for the British Monarchy? |
| | Monarchy became a requirement of Catholic Europe and, for the time being, we were stuck with it. | | | Anne was the last English monarch to block an act of Parliament, George II was the last English king to fight at the head of his armies and so on. | | | This was a significant move, as it meant that Parliament had now established its right to control the succession (one of the reasons given for not having an elective monarchy is that nobody has the right to change the succession - someone doesn't know their history). |
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| | the Holy Roman Empire |
| | The emperor's wife, the Empress, also had rank, but not his children, since the office was elective. | | | At its head stood an elected emperor (Kaiser), who was the sole sovereign and monarch of Germany. | | | The HRE evolved over time into a limited elective monarchy, and at the same time a state composed of many states. |
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| | Elective monarchy: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
| | Most kingdoms were officially elective long into the historical times (though the election usually, EHandler: no quick summary. | | | A monarchy, (from the greek monos, "one," and archein, "to rule") is a form of government that has a monarch as head of state.... | | | (recognised in common law jurisdictions possessing a monarchy as belonging to the... |
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| | The Danish Monarchy - History - History of the Monarchy |
| | The democratic constitution of 5 June 1849 changed the monarchy's status from absolute to constitutional. | | | Denmark has a Constitutional Monarchy, which means that the monarch cannot independently perform political acts. | | | The monarchy was originally elective, but in practice the election normally fell on the eldest son of the reigning Monarch. |
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| | One World Gov't - Alternate History Discussion Board |
| | In the sense that the election of any head of state is an elected monarch for the period of their term (outside of constitutional monarchies) then the model for the world government would appear to be elective monarchy. | | | A monarch is a noble (I doubt any Polish kings were born poor, and worked their way to the top, like Abe Lincoln), and the United States government cannot constitutionally give anyone a title of nobility. | | | Someone will make the inevitable allusions to the Civil Rights movement and how the Center turned out to be morally right and the Periphery was not, but 9 times out of 10 its the other way around. |
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| | Denmark.dk: Official website - Denmark - The Danish Monarchy |
| | In the Act of Succession of 27 March 1953 the House of Glücksborgâs right of succession was confirmed, and according to this the throne passes to the successors of Christian X. According to the Act, sons have precedence over daughters, but if there are no sons, the throne is inherited by the eldest daughter. | | | The Danish Monarchy can be traced back to Gorm the Old (buried 958 in Jelling in Jutland) and his son Harald I Bluetooth, who moved the royal residence to Zealand. | | | He succeeded to the throne in 1947 and his activities as king strengthened the constitutional monarchy, as he accepted that the king had no political power. |
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| | Our Elective Monarchy |
| | Sheldon Richman is senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation, author of Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State, and editor of The Freeman magazine. | | | Great Britain& government is a parliamentary system under a monarchy. | | | Had a Martian been visiting the United States last week, he never would have believed it. |
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| | Liberalism Is a Sin Chapter 12 |
| | History offers the repeated example of republican powers which have been fervently Catholic. | | | It is not the act of legislation by the king in a monarchy, by the people in a republic or by both in a mixed form of government, which constitutes the essential nature of its legislation or of its constitution. | | | Their essence consists in the civil authority by virtue of which they govern, whether that authority be in form republican, democratic, aristocratic, monarchical; it may be an elective, hereditary, mixed or absolute monarch. |
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| | Parliament becoming a monarchy: Dems - Breaking News - National - Breaking News |
| | Australian Democrats leader Lyn Allison has backed concerns raised by the Senate's most senior public servant that federal parliament has become a form of elective monarchy. | | | Harry Evans has likened Prime Minister John Howard to a king and claimed Australia no longer has parliamentary government in any meaningful sense. | | | Parliament becoming a monarchy: Dems - Breaking News - National - Breaking News |
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| | Monarch - Encyclopedia of Political Information |
| | In some other monarchies, the monarch chooses who will be his successor, who need not necessarily be his eldest son, e.g. | | | A nation or state that is ruled by a monarch is called a kingdom. | | | Although there are a number of hereditary monarchies still existing in the world, many countries with hereditary royalty are de facto ruled by a democratically elected leader such as a prime minister, while the monarchy continues to hold a symbolic or ceremonial position (eg. |
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| | The Rights of Man |
| | Burke has two or three times, in his parliamentary speeches, and in his publications, made use of a jingle of words that convey no ideas. | | | Poland, though an elective monarchy, has had fewer wars than those which are hereditary; and it is the only government that has made a voluntary essay, though but a small one, to reform the condition of the country. | | | Burke, he is a stickler for monarchy, not altogether as a pensioner, if he is one, which I believe, but as a political man. |
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| | The Germanies |
| | Through successful marriages, the Habsburgs became the dominant royal family in Europe during the 16th century. | | | The electors in an elective monarchy usually choose a candidate who will not threaten their independence. | | | His brother, Ferdinand I, received the Austrian territories of the Habsburg family and the elective title of Holy Roman Emperor. |
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| | Judah, Kingdom of - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia |
| | The judge again was usually appointed in order to meet some special crises, and theoretically ideal state of things was one in which there was no visible head of the state--a republic without a president. | | | The real reason was that the system of government by elective kings or judges had proved a failure and had completely broken down. | | | So too, the Arab women were not permitted to marry non-Arabs during the first years of conquest. |
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| | PPP 13/21: Abdication: How to fill the vacancy of the Throne |
| | The Cambodian monarchy is an elective monarchy whereby a Throne Council would elect a successor within seven days following the death of the reigning monarch. | | | Either through a convention or through a constitutional amendment, such a procedure to fill the vacancy of the Throne should lessen or put an end to the present uncertainty created by the King's hints at his own abdication. | | | It is very much like Britain though the British monarchy is hereditary while the Cambodian monarchy is elective. |
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| | Article 2, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3: William Blackstone, Commentaries 1:185--86 |
| | The best, the wisest, and the bravest man would then be sure of receiving that crown, which his endowments have merited; and the sense of an unbiassed majority would be dutifully acquiesced in by the few who were of different opinions. | | | And, if the individuals who compose that state could always continue true to first principles, uninfluenced by passion or prejudice, unassailed by corruption, and unawed by violence, elective succession were as much to be desired in a kingdom, as in other inferior communities. | | | An hereditary succession to the crown is therefore now established, in this and most other countries, in order to prevent that periodical bloodshed and misery, which the history of antient imperial Rome, and the more modern experience of Poland and Germany, may shew us are the consequences of elective kingdoms. |
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| | Blackstone's Commentaries - Book the First : Chapter the Third : Of the King and His Title |
| | The beft, the wifeft, and the braveft man would then be fure of receiving that crown, which his endowments have merited ; and the fenfe of an unbiaffed majority would be dutifully acquiefced in by the few who where | | | favour of hereditary monarchy to all future ages; as they proved at laft to the then deluded people: who, in order to recover that peace and happinefs which for twenty years together they had loft, in a folemn parliamentary convention of the ftates reftored the right heir of the crown. | | | All regal governments muft be either hereditary or elective : and, as I believe there is no inftance wherein the crown of England has ever been afferted to be elective, except by the regicides at the infamous and unparalleled trial of king Charles I, it muft of confequence be hereditary. |
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| | Faboo, an elective monarchy, is going through a transition with the election of its new Queen, Amelia, who is rather...young. | | | Don’t ask me why they elected her; elective monarchy is silly anyway. |
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| | On the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions |
| | History, however, which is experimental politics, demonstrates that an hereditary monarchy is the government most stable, appropriate, and natural to man, while an elective monarchy, on the contrary, is the worst form of government known. | | | This being established, who would not believe that such a monarchy would be more strictly defined and limited than any as to the prerogative of its leader? | | | If we had never heard governments spoken of and men were called upon to deliberate, for example, on hereditary or elective monarchy, we should justly regard one who should decide for the former as a madman. |
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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99021652 |
| | Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Prusy Krolewskie (Poland) History, Poland History Elective monarchy, 1572-1763, Poland History Partition period, 1763-1796 | | | Joint-winner of the Orbis book prize, The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. |
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| | Universal Systems |
| | Saudi Arabia — currently monarchy but becoming an elective monarchy |
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