King Charles III pledged to the nation that he will follow Queen Elizabeth II’s “selfless duty” in his first address to both Houses of Parliament as the new king, according ...

The largely peaceful Constitutional Revolution of 1906 forced the Iranian shah at that time to declare Iran a constitutional monarchy with legislative powers vested in a majles, or parliament. The ...

Opposition Leader Mark Golding has maintained that the parliamentary opposition will only support a twinned transition to the ...

From the 1870s through the 1920s, Japan underwent rapid and widespread modernization and nation-building. In the Meiji period, Japanese leaders looked to European models of constitutional monarchy, ...

His current major work in progress is the preparation of a critical edition and English translation of the decrees and letters of the Council of Basel that deal with the council's conception of ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have navigated a dramatic transition, moving between the UK, Canada, and the United States in their quest for independence from royal life. However, their departure from ...

In the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the framers were clear on what they were NOT creating: A monarchy. One delegate expressed the group’s absolute conviction that the founding document must exclude ...

Credit: Carl Court/AP/AAP Image Our monarch is Head of State, so Australia is referred to as a ‘constitutional monarchy’. Our Head of State is effectively a ceremonial position, says Judith ...

These are independent nations, formerly under British rule during the time of the British Empire, which now maintain a ...