...Since the mid nineteenth century, prophecies of constitutional monarchy’s impending demise have far outnumbered the political initiatives taken to remove it. In the sixteen Commonwealth countries that currently retain the Queen as their Head of State, the end of the monarchical connection has...

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...The case of the comte de Mirabeau is typical of the more general picture of the influence of British models and ideas during the French Revolution. Mirabeau's attempt to impose a British-style constitutional monarchy in France, and to introduce other British practices, may not have been well...