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And they take their shared monarchal history seriously.

Exactly how these days will play out is not yet clear, but we have a rough outline from centuries of monarchal practice.

In the courtier society of Saudi Arabia, commoners such as Aljabri rise and fall with their royal patrons, a fact of monarchal life that is central to the tragic end of Aljabri’s career.

Anxious about monarchal absolutism, the founders invested Congress, not the president, with the power to schedule the selection of presidential electors.

An editorial by the independent Russian newspaper Vedomosti called Russia’s current government as “close to monarchal.”