Translation of "Hereditary monarch" in German

Ideally, that head of state would be an elected president, rather than a hereditary monarch.

There is a hereditary monarch with Juan Carlos I presiding as reigning King of Spain.

All governments throughout the decades acknowledge the hereditary monarch as the government's head of state.

More important, an elected president has much greater legitimacy than a hereditary monarch, whose claim to authority depends exclusively on tradition and ceremony.

Both Ugyen Wangchuck, the Penlop of Tongsa who was elected as the nation’s first hereditary monarch, and his successor King Jigme Wangchuck, ruled the country from Trongsa's ancient dzong.

The present king, the fourth hereditary monarch, is Druk Gyalpo Jigme Singye Wangchuk, upon whose coronation in 1974 Bhutan opened its doors to tourists.

The most recent watershed in Bhutan's history was the coming to power of Ugyen Wangchuk, the first hereditary monarch of Bhutan.

Both Ugyen Wangchuck, the Penlop of Tongsa who was elected as the nation's first hereditary monarch, and his successor King Jigme Wangchuck, ruled the country from Trongsa's ancient dzong.

The hereditary monarch who ruled the conquering kingdom - or, in Rome’s case, won a political power struggle - ruled over this empire.

The hereditary monarch (also referred to as the King of Thailand or historically as King of Siam) is head of state and head of the ruling Royal House of Chakri.

The hereditary monarch who ruled the conquering kingdom - or, in Rome's case, won a political power struggle - ruled over this empire.

Each of the four empires was ruled by hereditary monarchs exercising nearly absolute power.

The idea that hereditary monarchs were somehow spiritually superior to the rest of us was decisively rejected.

France’s celebrated left-liberal intellectual, Thomas Piketty, in reflecting on the November 2015 terror attack in Paris, observed that the Middle East is “the most unequal [region] on the planet” due to imperialist control, in particular the tendency to appoint their local agents as hereditary monarchs:

Instead, in the West, governments have undergone a process of democratization, which originally meant the transfer of state power from hereditary monarchs to political leaders elected by the people.

Loosely put, they lived in a "democracy" - a government by and for the people rather than a government of hereditary monarchs.

Even after the communists brought in a government ruled by a political party rather than hereditary monarchs, centralized government remained.

France's celebrated left-liberal intellectual, Thomas Piketty, in reflecting on the November 2015 terror attack in Paris, observed that the Middle East is "the most unequal [region] on the planet" due to imperialist control, in particular the tendency to appoint their local agents as hereditary monarchs:

The colonial rulers relied on pliable local agents (often elevated to hereditary monarchs) who, in exchange for foreign support and a cut of the spoils, would ensure that the shareholders of the multinational oil corporations derived most of the benefit from petroleum development.

They lived in a democracy - a government of, by, and for the people rather than a government of hereditary monarchs.

France’s celebrated left-liberal intellectual, Thomas Piketty, in reflecting on the November 2015 terror attack in Paris, observed that the Middle East is “the most unequal [region] on the planet” due to imperialist control, in particular the tendency to appoint their local agents as hereditary monarchs: “Within those monarchies, he continues, a small slice of people controls most of the wealth, while a large [number] – including women and refugees – are kept in a state of ‘semi-slavery.’