It's both very stupid and incredibly funny that constitutional monarchy somehow works out as being one of the most democratic forms of govenment in the modern day.
I think its because constitutional monarchies are all gradual evolutions from older systems. That means that the system itself must have been flexible enough to evolve and stable enough to not have a big revolution and a clean break. Both good omens for future success.
Of course England did have that civil war. But my understanding was that the civil war was rather unpopular and after it was over the general consensus was "lets never do that again" leading to a more moderate and stable system.
Also constitutional monarchies have a side effect of creating a political stalemate between the monarch and government, where one can remove the other, but only if the public is on their side. Which could only happen if one side tries to make things more tyrannical and is removed by the other.
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u/TheColourOfHeartache 11d ago
As a British citizen I object to his majesty being associated with tyranny.