limited monarchy

She turned the monarchy from a theoretically absolute monarchy into a constitutionally limited monarchy of the kind that we understand today.”

Where was the sense of having such terms as “limited monarchy” in the text-book at all, if the pupils were not to be told what this meant?

In sovereigns, whom our old writers quaintly term ‘fountains of honour,’ is vested the right of conferring dignities, and it is by a judicious use of this prerogative that the balance of a limited monarchy is properly preserved.

The limited monarchy of England is a result of the action of two distinct elements, equally necessary for its composition.

Constitution dates from 1852; government is a limited monarchy; executive power rests with the reigning Prince; legislative, with a State Council.