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The monarchy of the Netherlands is governed by the country's constitution, roughly a third of which explains the mechanics of succession, accession, and...

Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises...

the Royal Family but do not seek to abolish the monarchy. There are two conflicting claims of the origin of the epithet: one deriving from the Dutch monarchy...

in the United Kingdom, as king. The other two are the Monarchy of the Netherlands which is used in states of the Dutch Caribbean, and the Monarchy of...

Absolute monarchy is a form of monarchy in which the sovereign is the sole source of political power, unconstrained by constitutions, legislatures or other...

A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication. The political legitimacy and authority...

An elective monarchy is a monarchy ruled by a monarch who is elected, in contrast to a hereditary monarchy in which the office is automatically passed...

Republiek is a Dutch republican pressure group advocating the replacement of the Dutch Monarchy with a de jure parliamentary republic, founded in January...

monarchs when the monarchy was established in 1813 (first as a Sovereign Principality, but in 1815 as a Kingdom). The origin of the Dutch monarchy can be traced...

A federal monarchy, in the strict sense, is a federation of states with a single monarch as overall head of the federation, but retaining different monarchs...

hereditary monarchy is a form of government and succession of power in which the throne passes from one member of a ruling family to another member of the same...

members of the Council of State to draft a new constitution for the new monarchy. With Louis Napoleon on the Dutch throne the Kingdom of Holland the country...

Republicanism in the Netherlands is a movement that strives to abolish the Dutch monarchy and replace it with a republic. The popularity of the organised republican...

from the flag of the Dutch Monarchy—the Prince's Flag—as used in New Amsterdam in 1625, when that city became the capital of New Netherland. For the first...

Popular monarchy is a term used by Kingsley Martin (1936) for monarchical titles referring to a people rather than a territory. This was the norm in classical...

In the European history, monarchy was the prevalent form of government throughout the Middle Ages, only occasionally competing with communalism, notably...

Dual monarchy occurs when two separate kingdoms are ruled by the same monarch, follow the same foreign policy, exist in a customs union with each other...

universal monarchy is a concept and political situation where one monarchy is deemed to have either sole rule over everywhere (or at least the predominant...

of the French sovereign. Under the French Empire this was Emperor of the French and under the constitutional monarchy King of the French. On the British...

("governor"; Dutch: stadhouder) during the Dutch Republic. However, in 1815, after a long period as a republic, the Netherlands became a monarchy under the House...