A form of governance in which authority is vested in a single decision maker based on birthright. Under constitutional forms, the power of monarchs may be limited to the duties of head of state, where they possess no direct effective power over government policy. Close Window
A form of government in which a King or Queen is in charge of the country.
A political system in which power resides in one person or family and is passed from generation to generation through lines of inheritance.
a government in which a king, queen, or emperor exercises supreme powers
Government in which political power is exercised by a single ruler under the claim of divine or hereditary right.
A government in which one ruler reigns over a state or territory, usually for life and by hereditary right, especially.
first period of Roman government; legend relates that Rome was governed by seven kings, the first of whom was Romulus; the Roman monarchy lasted from the founding of the city of Rome by Romulus and Remus to 509 BCE.
an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority
a constitutionally-limited hereditary rule, where you are the sole ruler but subject to some approval of the aristocracy, and having need of the support of the propertied class
a country that is ruled by a king or a queen
a country which has a king or queen
a form of government headed by a single member of a royal family, usually a king, a queen, or some other hereditary ruler
a form of government that has a monarch
a government ruled by a monarch
a Greek work meaning "ruled by one
an area over which there is a single ruler, or "monarch
a nation at whose head is a personal ruler, called King, Emperor, or Czar, who has control of the government, appoints the principal officers of state, and to whom in theory at least, these appointees are responsible for their actions
a political system in which a single family rules from generation to generation
a series of ruling families, usually headed by a king and queen
a state ruled by a monarch
a system by where a King or Queen rules absolutely
a type of a political system in which the head of the government plays that role for life and most often inherits it
Government that is headed by a king or queen
A form of government in which a sovereign ruler such as a king or queen heads the country
a government under absolute rule by a single person, usually a hereditary chief of state in power for life.
A political system with a hereditary sovereign, often called a dingo or queen. Analytically, a political system is which one person exercises a very large proportion of political control.
A form of government that is ruled by a single person (such as an emperor or queen), who (usually) inherits the position and has it for life.
derived from the Greek for "the rule of one man," it was a type of Greek government in which a king represented the community. (p. 61)
form of government in which political power belongs largely to one ruler, generally called a king or queen, who receives his or her position by claim of divine or inherited right.
Any state ruled or headed by a monarch; Israel and Judah were ruled by monarchies during the period of the kingdoms. See Biblical Story.
Government by a single sovereign, usually hereditary, whether by absolute power (Autocracy) or by some limited means.
Monarchy is a Channel 4 British TV series, 2004-2006, by British academic David Starkey, charting the political and ideological history of the English monarchy (later British), from the Saxon period to modern times.