despotic monarchy
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Having succeeded in cutting the colonies loose from what they regarded as a despotic monarchy, the founding fathers were extremely wary of the tyrannical potential in the office of Chief Executive.
From Time Magazine Archive
Looking merely at the surface of things, we should call Denmark a despotic monarchy, and the Roman world, in the first century after Christ, an aristocratical republic.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
The despotic monarchy is gone; the luxurious and privileged aristocracy has disappeared; and the incredibly wealthy and tyrannous Church is reduced to humbleness and poverty.
From Arrows of Freethought by G. W. (George William) Foote
But this master of statecraft, this creator of despotic monarchy, had one unsatisfied ambition.
From A Short History of France by Mary Platt Parmele
If it is an absolute, despotic monarchy, it is also a very democratic country, with its self-made men, its powerful public opinion, and a “states’ rights” question of its own.
From Drugging a Nation The Story of China and the Opium Curse by Samuel Merwin
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