13 sentences with 'constitutional'
Example sentences and phrases with the word constitutional and other words derived from it.
• « Ironically, the two most powerful states in Europe during the following century were absolutist France and its political opposite, Europe's first great constitutional monarchy, the United Kingdom of Great Britain. »
• « The result was Europe's first constitutional monarchy: a government led by a king or queen, but in which legislation was controlled by a parliament and all citizens were accountable to the same set of laws. »
• « An unexpected benefit for constitutional monarchy was that British elites, through parliament, no longer opposed royal rule but became the government. »
• « With the exception of the constitutional monarchy and the strong parliament of Britain, the monarchs of the major states of Europe managed in the eighteenth century to control governments that were at least "absolutist" in their pretensions, although the nobility and local assemblies had much real power almost everywhere. »
• « As a constitutional monarchy, Britain was a major exception to the continental pattern of absolutism. »
• « Until June 1791, the National Assembly tried to build a constitutional monarchy, even as it faced growing hostility among the great powers of Europe, all of them monarchies, along with problems of inflation and famine in the countryside. »
• « The situation quickly became radicalised as the king's prestige was destroyed overnight; even when the new French Constitution was formally adopted in October 1791, making France a constitutional monarchy, the king himself was under house arrest. »
• « Like the French revolutionaries in the early phase of the revolution, most early 19th century liberals considered constitutional monarchy to be the most reasonable and stable form of government. »
• « Britain remained the most "liberal" power in Europe, having long been the model for constitutional monarchy. »
• « In 1815, Britain was already comparatively "liberal", having been a constitutional monarchy since 1689, but there was still much for British liberals to attack. »
• « The politics of the new Italian state (a constitutional monarchy in which the king still had considerable power) was all about patronage: getting jobs for cronies and shifting the burden of taxation to those least able to pay. »