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I'm going to... stick my neck out... and venture that republics have usually got rid of their monarchs.
by sevensor 9y ago
I'm going to... stick my neck out... and venture that republics have usually got rid of their monarchs.
- labster 9y agoHar har, yeah, point taken, but many constitutional monarchies are de facto republics. The UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, Norway. I was trying to distinguish from the hereditary monarchies that aren't republican, like the People's Democratic Republic of Korea.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Har har, yeah, point taken, but many constitutional monarchies are de facto republics. No, they are just representative democracies. Which aren't coextensive with republics: you can be either without being the other.