The second required element of republican government was that there be no monarch. The participants in the constitutional debates believed that monarchy, even constitutional monarchy, was ...

For those in many countries, the focus on the succession of the constitutional monarchy seemed distant. But many of these nations once had a monarchy of their own! With changing political ...

like in the UK today where we have a constitutional monarchy. Government doesn't always mean central government making big decisions on behalf of the whole country. It can also refer to local or ...

Opposition Leader Mark Golding has maintained that the parliamentary opposition will only support a twinned transition to the ...

THE uphill task the Government faces as it embarks on the process to make Jamaica a republic while severing ties with the ...

There are ‘basic features’ of the Constitution, said Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat at her last Opening of the ...

Canada’s political leadership has found rare unanimity in recent weeks: nobody wants the country to become the “51st state,” ...

In the Meiji period, Japanese leaders looked to European models of constitutional monarchy, adopting a system of imperial government modeled most closely on the Prussian model. As Japan transitioned ...

The largely peaceful Constitutional Revolution of 1906 forced the Iranian shah at that time to declare Iran a constitutional monarchy with legislative powers vested in a majles, or parliament. The ...

Our government’s structure and powers are ... so Australia is referred to as a ‘constitutional monarchy’. Our Head of State is effectively a ceremonial position, says Judith Brett, Emeritus ...