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
The disguised transformation of the Roman commonwealth into a despotic monarchy, under the long administration of Augustus, is perhaps the nearest parallel.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 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
There had been, however, another toast, to which they had been wont to respond with more enthusiasm than was ever won by despotic monarchy from its slaves.
From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau
But this master of statecraft, this creator of despotic monarchy, had one unsatisfied ambition.
From A Short History of France by Mary Platt Parmele
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