Totalitarianism vs. Monarchy: What's the Difference?
Totalitarianism and Monarchy Definitions
Totalitarianism
Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed
"A totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.).
Monarchy
Government by a monarch.
Totalitarianism
A practitioner or supporter of such a government.
Monarchy
A state ruled or headed by a monarch.
Totalitarianism
A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.
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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.
Totalitarianism
A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Monarchy
The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
Totalitarianism
The principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
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.
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Monarchy
States based on a system of governance headed by a king or a queen.
Monarchy
A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch.
Monarchy
A system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch.
In those days he had affected zeal for monarchy.
Monarchy
The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
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Monarchy
An autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority
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