monarchy

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A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch.

A system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Samuel Johnson

A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it." Benjamin Franklin

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy. Friedrich Engels

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute. Garry Kasparov

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. Henry David Thoreau

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion. Lytton Strachey

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