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But for anyone outside the British elite, the constitutional monarchism that emerged after the civil wars did not look much like democracy or true liberty.—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024 Yet, paradoxically, the regular waves of anti-monarchism were held at bay largely by the sheer, irrefutable fact of her continued existence.—Vulture, 8 Sep. 2022 And the Decemberists tried to overthrow the Tsar and insist on having some of the more basic aspects of representative constitutional monarchism introduced into Russia.—CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022 King Charles can take strength from the inherent monarchism of the British people, which grew even stronger in the last two decades of Elizabeth’s reign.—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022 For in the dozen or so countries that make up South-East Asia, liberal democracy has long struggled in the face of authoritarianism, bolstered by monarchism, nationalism and ethnic chauvinism.—The Economist, 24 May 2018 Now, Morocco and Jordan have toned down reformism and presented a new bottom line to their societies and the world: Ruling monarchism is here to stay.—Sean Yom, Washington Post, 16 May 2017 The tsarist and Soviet styles collide; monarchism and elitism are imposed on the industrial, the everyday.—Sophie Pinkham, New Republic, 3 July 2017
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