0 a system in which the king or queen's power is severely limited, because they act only on the advice of the politicians who form the government
1 a system of government in which a king or queen is head of state, but laws are made and put into effect by a legislature, or a country that has this system of government
A constitutional monarchy existed nowhere, except perhaps in England.
In all the constitutional monarchies we find legislative bodies similar to our Congress.
In constitutional monarchies the ruler holds his position by heredity, but there exists also a constitution, which defines the distribution of powers among the branches that compose the government and fixes the limits of authority vested in each.
It is true that under a constitutional monarchy, the royalty is above politics.
It was determined that the King should no longer be absolute, and the choice lay between a constitutional monarchy and a republic.
Where the effort to create constitutional monarchy proved fleeting, the move to a ministerial system has endured.
Over much of the nineteenth century, the juste milieu of a constitutional monarchy struggled to assert itself among the political elite.
In the modern world, after all, constitutional monarchy, if it is to survive, must be a monarchy which rests on popular consent.
