> It is the idea that the state is a creation of the people, and that all power - real, ceremonial, even trivial - derives from the power of the people. And ye

> It is the idea that the state is a creation of the people, and that all power - real, ceremonial, even trivial - derives from the power of the people. And yet the first line of the constitution of this constitutional monarchy is that "all power derives from the people". These things are not mutually exclusive. Rex dei gratia hasn't been a thing for centuries, it's rex populi gratia these days. If any royal family fucks up too much, they're out on their asses, and they know it.