Ironically, given the public perception of the wealth and privileges associated with the monarchy, the Todd/Evatt/Forsey case argues that the reserve powers of the Crown and the special nature of the office make it a useful, albeit limited, advantage over the “presidential” aspirations of prime ministers and superior protection to executive oversight. which is available in a Republican context. The case suggests that she is an external observer who, combined with ministerial accountability conventions, enhances the democratic accountability of the executive to the elected legislature and the accountability of the elected legislature to the electorate. Simply put, one useful way is to require prime ministers to bend the knee and regularly show respect and humility to keep their egos under control. An absolute monarchy is a form of government in which a king or queen rules with totally unchallenged and uncontrolled political and legislative power. Based on the ancient concept of the “divine right of kings,” which suggests that kings derived their authority from God, absolute monarchies operate according to the political theory of absolutism. Today, the only remaining pure absolute monarchies are Vatican City, Brunei, Swaziland, Saudi Arabia, Eswatini and Oman. There are at least two different types of constitutional monarchies in the modern world – executive and ceremonial. In executive monarchies, the monarch wields significant (but not absolute) power. The monarchy under this system of government is a powerful political (and social) institution. In contrast, in ceremonial monarchies, the monarch has little or no real power or direct political influence. Other advocates of constitutional monarchies argue that royal families promote tourism and are a (key) tradition associated with patriotism and national pride. For example, in many constitutional monarchies, the monarch`s birthday is a national holiday and an event marked by public patriotic events and holidays.

In recent years, many royal families have also become popular targets of tabloid journalism and gossip, which, while often seen as intrusive and destructive, continue to prove that many members of the royal family simply find interesting as celebrities. Another argument speculates that abolishing a popular monarchy could be a useless endeavor anyway, since even a “deposed” royal family could probably still live its royal lifestyle and attract public attention, making any republican replacement illegitimate. Historically, when monarchies were abolished, the royal family was usually banished to a foreign country to prevent their presence from disrupting or distracting the new republican government. However, such measures were usually taken in times of conflict and turmoil with the monarchy. If a democratic country abolished its monarchy today, exile from the royal family would probably be denounced as cruel and therefore not seen as a practical option. A constitutional monarchy is a form of monarchical government established under a constitutional system that recognizes an elected or hereditary monarch as head of state. Modern constitutional monarchies generally implement the concept of trias politica, or “separation of powers,” in which the monarch is either the head of executive power or simply plays a ceremonial role. When a monarch holds absolute power, it is called an absolute monarchy. The process of governance and justice within an absolute monarchy can be very different from that of a constitutional monarchy. Today, just over a quarter of constitutional monarchies are Western European countries, including the United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Luxembourg, Monaco, Liechtenstein and Sweden.

However, the world`s two most populous constitutional monarchies are located in Asia: Japan and Thailand. In these countries, the prime minister has day-to-day governmental powers, while the monarch retains the remaining (but not always insignificant) powers. The powers of the monarch differ from country to country. In Denmark and Belgium, for example, the monarch formally appoints a representative to lead the formation of a coalition government after a parliamentary election, while in Norway, the king chairs special cabinet meetings. Didn`t the French monarchy end with a bang – or a groan – but with a smile? The concept of executive constitutional monarch identifies constitutional monarchies with fewer parliamentary powers. [4] Therefore, constitutional monarchies can also be called “parliamentary monarchies” to distinguish them from executive constitutional monarchies. [5] Poland drafted the first constitution for a monarchy in continental Europe with the Constitution of 3 May 1791; It was the second single-document constitution in the world, shortly after the first Republican constitution in the United States. Constitutional monarchy also appeared briefly in the early years of the French Revolution, but much later. Napoleon Bonaparte is considered the first monarch to describe himself as the embodiment of the nation rather than a divinely appointed ruler. This interpretation of monarchy is important for continental constitutional monarchies.

The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel gave the concept a philosophical justification in his work Elements of Legal Philosophy (1820), consistent with contemporary developing political theory and the Protestant-Christian view of natural law. [17] Hegel`s prognosis of a constitutional monarch with very limited powers, whose function is to embody the national character and ensure constitutional continuity when necessary, was reflected in the development of constitutional monarchies in Europe and Japan. [17] The most important family of constitutional monarchies in the world today are the sixteen realms of the Commonwealth of Nations, all independent parliamentary democracies under a common monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II. Unlike the UK, almost all other Commonwealth countries have drafted constitutions with complex processes of constitutional amendments. Through political crises, peaceful draft constitutions and international debates, the Westminster Conventions on the Constitutional Monarch have acquired a much clearer definition in the other fifteen kingdoms than in the United Kingdom.