Meaning of mixed monarchy | Babel Free

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A monarchy which includes elements of democracy and aristocracy.

Examples

“Regal absolutism might be the preferred ideal, but he was ever fearful of its potential for tyranny, so in practice he approved limits on royal power, as in the case of England's mixed monarchy.”

“Europe's shift from a medieval to a modern sovereign state coincided with the Empire's own reforms, consolidating it as a mixed monarchy where the emperor shared power with a complex hierarchy of imperial Estates.”

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