| | Constitutional monarchy - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Like most republics, the constitutional monarchies executive authority is vested in the head of state. |
 | | It is today almost always combined with representative democracy, and represents (as a theory of civics) a compromise between total trust in the electorate, and in well-bred and well-trained monarchs raised for the role from birth. |
 | | Most modern constitutional monarchies owe their origins to systems in which the monarch not merely reigned but governed, for instance according to the theories of Absolute Monarchy which from the renaissance succeeded more aristocratic systems. |
| www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Constitutional_monarchy (1713 words) |