mixed monarchy

plural mixed monarchies

1. governmentA monarchy which includes elements of democracy and aristocracy.

   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.

   1994, Neal Wood, Foundations of Political Economy, page 48

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   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.

   2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 171