mixed monarchy

English

Noun

mixed monarchy (plural mixed monarchies)

1. (politics) A monarchy which includes elements of democracy and aristocracy.
   • 1994, Neal Wood, Foundations of Political Economy, page 48:

     Regal absolutism might be the preferred ideal, but he was ever fearful of its potential for tyranny, so in practice he approved limits on royal power, as in the case of England's mixed monarchy.

   • 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 171:

     Europe's shift from a medieval to a modern sovereign state coincided with the Empire's own reforms, consolidating it as a mixed monarchy where the emperor shared power with a complex hierarchy of imperial Estates.