constitutional monarchies
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pluralof constitutional monarchy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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For centuries monarchs were far more likely to die from disease or violence than to hand over titles that carried real power before the democratic era of constitutional monarchies.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
Within the past year, political leaders in the Bahamas, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda have all indicated their plans to review their positions as constitutional monarchies.
From BBC ● May 8, 2023
But 14 are constitutional monarchies that have retained the British sovereign as their head of state, a mostly symbolic role.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
Both countries are constitutional monarchies, with the British monarch as head of state, though the role is largely ceremonial.
From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2022
But still the opposite set of opinions, diffused over the world with the tricolor flag, maintain their ground with the great majority even of well-informed men, at least in all republican states and constitutional monarchies.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various