government by a King which is not absolute but rather exists together with a constitution
A constitutional monarchy is a form of
government established under a
constitutional system which acknowledges an elected or hereditary
monarch as
head of state, as opposed to an
absolute monarchy, where the monarch is not bound by a constitution and is the sole source of political power. The process of government and law within a constitutional monarchy is usually very different from that in an absolute monarchy.
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