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Like the Puritan “republics” of New England, however, the commonwealth experiment in kingless government held enormous importance for the future American republic and fed many of the ideas that later supported its revolution.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

The historian Colin Jones characterises 18th-century Paris as "the kingless city of Enlightenment".

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2011

As Britain's top labor leader, Vic Feather must try to hold sway over 155 fiercely independent unions that often prefer to behave, as one union boss put it, like "baronies in a kingless kingdom."

From Time Magazine Archive

A yes vote would not only make Franco "Chief of State" for life in a kingless "kingdom," but would give him the legal right to name the king or regent who would succeed him.

From Time Magazine Archive

No one knew his place in this disordered and kingless country.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein