Anarchy vs. Monarchy
Anarchy and Monarchy Definitions
Anarchy
Absence of any form of political authority.
Monarchy
Government by a monarch.
Anarchy
Political disorder and confusion.
Monarchy
A state ruled or headed by a monarch.
Anarchy
Absence of any cohesive principle, such as a common standard or purpose.
Monarchy
A government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler).
An absolute monarchy is a monarchy where the monarch is legally the ultimate authority in all temporal matters.
A constitutional monarchy is a monarchy in which the monarch's power is legally constrained, ranging from where minor concessions have been made to appease certain factions to where the monarch is a figurehead with all real power in the hands of a legislative body.
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Anarchy
(uncountable) The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.
Monarchy
The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
Anarchy
(uncountable) Anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
Monarchy
A form of government where sovereignty is embodied by a single ruler in a state and his high aristocracy representing their separate divided lands within the state and their low aristocracy representing their separate divided fiefs.
Anarchy
(countable) A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
Monarchy
States based on a system of governance headed by a king or a queen.
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Anarchy
Confusion in general; disorder.
Monarchy
A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch.
Anarchy
Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.
Spread anarchy and terror all around.
Monarchy
A system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch.
In those days he had affected zeal for monarchy.
Anarchy
Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.
There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their re koning of years.
Monarchy
The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
What scourage for perjuryCan this dark monarchy afford false Clarence.
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Anarchy
A state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)
Monarchy
An autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority
