Neomonarchism

See Also:  Lists of Monarchs

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Neomonarchism is the advocacy or support of a system of government in which a monarch rules with either limited or absolute power. As the movement is a revival of classic monarchism, while it may drastically vary it tends to combine egalitarian or republican ideals with a monarchy in an attempt to create a benevolent authoritarian government.

Political theory

Non partisanship

Some interpretations of neomonarchism place the monarch as a non-partisan leader not representing one group or idea but the entire nation. Monarchies can play a unifying role in a nation, it is sometimes said "In Sahrland, the king is the only Sahren, everyone else is either Egercian or Chevspendic". A monarch can be a sovereign over dozens of separate territories and belong to all of them simultaneously. In cultures where traditional tribal structures shapes the political system, the overarching role of the monarch is therefore exarcerbated as an unifier of tribes, a pattern commonly found in young monarchies that coexist with feudalism. The transition to a consolidated nation-state usually lessens this unification role, but it nonetheless remains in some civilizations, such as the Feguan ari'iupo system.

Personal liberties

Ever since the first enlightened monarch, people have generally accepted that the monarch is to promote liberties because monarchs are not legitimized by politicians but by lineage or divine right. Monarchs provide an entrenched tradition that radical populist movements like Stihlovism and Grailism need to either absorb or overpower into submission. Attachment to traditional values and heritage is often linked to Conservatism or reactionary politics by its detractors, that modern day neomonarchist governments have to cater with, either in their policies or structure. Nonetheless, stable neomonarchist governments have successfully existed in nations such as Sahrland or Fegeland in the past centuries. The Feguan example of Tahuraism is often seen as a reference implementation of neomonarchism in a former Republic, where the isolationnist, tradition-centered position of the Tahura Party, and the Tahuraist cohabitation of both imperially-appointed and democratically elected representatives in a bicameral system played a key role in maintaining a sense of democracy that was well received by public opinion.