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MIXING OF TERMS.
MONARCHY AS A MAN TO MONARCHY AS A PERSON, AND OF COURSE A STATE IS A SINGLE PERSON SOVEREIGN AND THE WILL OF THE MANY AGAINST THE WILL OF THE ONE.
MONARCHY. That government which is ruled, really or theoretically, by one man, who is wholly set apart from all other members of the state.
According to the etymology of the word, monarchy is that government in which one person rules supreme—alone.
Man is real, person is fiction
In modern times the terms autocracy, autocrat, have come into use to indicate that monarchy of which the ruler desires to be exclusively considered the source of all power and authority.
The Russian emperor styles himself Autocrat of all the Russias. Autocrat is the wlme with despot; but the latter term has fallen somewhat into disrepute.
Monarchy is contradistinguished from republic.
Although the etymology of the term monarchy is simple and clear, it is by no means easy to give a definition either of monarchy or of republic.
The constitution of the United States guarantees a republican government to every state.
What is a republic?
In this case the meaning of the term must be gathered from the republics which existed at the time of the formation of our government, and which were habitually called republics. Lieber, In a paper on the question, "Shall Utah be admitted into the Union?'' (in Putnam's Magazine), declared that the Mormons did not form a republic.
The fact that one man stands at the head of a government does not make it a monarchy.
We have a president at the head. Nor is it necessary that the one person have an unlimited amount of power, to make a government a monarchy.
The power of the king of England is limited by law and theory, and reduced to a small amount in reality; yet England is called a monarchy.
Nor does hereditainess furnish us with a distinction. The pope is elected by the cardinals, yet the States of the Church were a monarchy; and the stadtholder of several states of the Netherlands was hereditary, yet the states were republics.
We cannot find any better definition of monarchy than this: a monarchy is that government which is ruled (really or theoretically) by one man, who is wholly set apart from all other members of the state (called his subjects);
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14th Amendment
Amendment XIV
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.
while we call republic that government in which not only there exists an organism by which the opinion of the people, or of a portion of the people (as in aristocracies), passes over into public will, that is, law, but in which also the supreme power, or the executive power, returns, either periodically or at stated times (where the chief magistracy is for life), to the people, or a portion of the people, to be given anew to another person; or else, that government in which the hereditary portion (if there be any) is not the chief and leading portion of the government, as was the case in the Netherlands.
Monarchy is the prevailing type of government.
Whether it will remain so with our Caucasian race is a question not to be discussed in a law dictionary. The two types of monarchy as it exists in Europe are the limited or constitutional monarchy, developed in England, and centralized monarchy—to which was added the modern French type, which consisted in the adoption of Rousseau's idea of sovereignty, and applying it to a transfer of all the sovereign power of the people to one Caesar, who thus became an unqualified and unmitigated autocrat or despot. It was a relapse into coarse absolutism.
Paley has endeavored to point out the advantages and disadvantages of the different classes of government—not successfully, we think.
The great advantages of the monarchial element in a free government are: first, that there remains a stable and firm point in the unavoidable party struggle; and secondly, that supreme power, and it may be said the whole government, being represented by or symbolized in one living person, authority, respect, and, with regard to public money, even public morality, stand a better chance to be preserved.
The great disadvantages of a monarchy are that the personal interests or inclinations of the monarch or his house (of the dynasty) are substituted for the public interest; that to the chance of birth is left what with rational beings certainly ought to be the result of reason and wisdom; and that loyalty to the ruler comes easily to be substituted for real patriotism, and frequently passes over into undignified and pernicious man-worship.
Monarchy is assuredly the best government for many nations at the present period, and the only government under which in this period they can obtain security and liberty; yet, unless we believe in a pre-existing divine right of the monarch, monarchy can never be anything but a substitute—acceptable, wise, even desirable, as the case may be—for something more dignified, which, unfortunately, the passions or derelictions of men prevent.
The advantages and disadvantages of republics may be said to be the reverse of what has been stated regarding monarchy.
A frequent mistake in modern times is this: that a state .simply for the time without a king—a kingless government—is called a republic.
But a monarchy does not change into a republic simply by expelling the king or the dynasty; as was seen in France in 1848.
Few governments are less acceptable than an elective monarchy; for it has the disadvantages of the monarchy without its advantages, and the disadvantages of a republic without its advantages. See Government; Absolutism; Republican Form Of Government. BOUV 1919
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ORIGINAL: rulemylife
Concise and directly on point. 
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