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
An ardent republican and revolutionary, he was tied by the strongest bonds to the most despotic monarchy in Europe.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
The political system appears to have been a despotic monarchy, and the realm of the monarch to have extended to far wider limits than those of the “city-states” of historical Greece.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
So completely did this remodel the whole administration, that the most despotic monarchy in Europe was transformed into the one most severely limited.
From A Short History of Spain 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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