10 sentences with “monarchy”

In a monarchy, the king or queen are the heads of state.

The Spanish monarchy dates back several centuries of history.

Many European countries still maintain a monarchy as a form of government.

Sparta was then an aristocratic monarchy, with two kings ruling over councils of citizens.

As noted, they were at that time a monarchy, ruled by (possibly) Etruscan kings, but with powerful Romans acting as advisors in an elected senate.

However, as the power of the French monarchy grew in the west and the Ottoman Turks became an active threat in the east, the most powerful cities signed a treaty, the Peace of Lodi, in 1454 that committed each city to the defence of the existing political order.

Although monarchy had been repugnant to earlier Romans, during the period of the Republic, the good emperors tried to live and act in accordance with traditional romanitas, undertaking actions not only for their own glorification but for the good of the Roman state.

Since Romans were convinced that anything resembling monarchy was politically repulsive, a dictator was expected to serve the greater good of Rome and then step aside when peace was restored. In fact, until the first century AD, dictators retired when their respective crises were resolved.

As described in the previous chapters, the medieval monarchy system was one in which kings were in reality the first among the nobles; their power was based primarily on the lands they held through their family dynasty, not on the taxes or deference they extracted from other nobles or commoners.

On the cultural front, the English monarchy and nobility severed their ties with France and English high culture began to consciously reconfigure itself as distinctly English rather than French, leading, among other things, to the first use of the English language as the language of state and law.