How to Use constitutional monarchy in a Sentence

constitutional monarchy

noun
  • When the monarchy was restored 11 years later, Parliament curtailed the crown’s power through a Bill of Rights that ushered in a constitutional monarchy.
    Sarah Lyall, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
  • So this weekend’s events will set a precedent for what such a transition of power might look like in the context of Denmark’s modern constitutional monarchy.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Many, especially the youth, are apathetic about the constitutional monarchy, and a golden carriage is hard to square with a cost-of-living crisis.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
  • The party also wants to reduce the influence of the military, which has staged more than a dozen coups since Thailand became a constitutional monarchy in 1932, and of big business monopolies.
    Jintamas Saksornchai, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • From an oligarchy to a democracy to a constitutional monarchy, there are many ways government can operate.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2023
  • And as if to make the case for constitutional monarchy emphatically, a visitor has just arrived here to look at his Scottish golf course, although very much not invited to the coronation.
    Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 4 May 2023
  • Would this long-time climate campaigner with a once controversial fondness for penning his thoughts to ministers overstep the mark in a constitutional monarchy?
    Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Public opinion surveys here show waning interest in remaining a constitutional monarchy and little affection for Charles.
    Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • My family fled Iran during the 1979 revolution that transformed it from a constitutional monarchy into a theocratic totalitarian regime, the Islamic Republic of Iran.
    Sara Li, ELLE, 2 Feb. 2023

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