Our government and the corporations whose investments it protects have propped up corrupt monarchies and single-party autocracies. |
Democratic republics can no more dispense with national idols than monarchies with public functionaries. |
It declares that we, as a society, have more faith in foreign monarchies than we do in our own innovation and technology. |
They called themselves the king and supreme monarch of their respective monarchies by the mandate of heaven. |
By way of comparison there are nine constitutional monarchies in the Caribbean which have never had problems with their governors-general. |
The restoration of monarchies in 1814-15 heralded a wave of persecution of minorities deemed to be associated with revolution. |