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I was thinking about alternate forms of government while in the bath last night and a rather strange idea occurred to me, and I understand if this is too farfetched but bear with me...

A system similar to a Constitutional Parliamentary Monarchy, for example, in which the Monarch is essentially a figurehead with little real power. I'm using the UK as an example here.

In order for the Monarchy to retain lasting legitimacy in such a system, someone decides the Monarch would automatically always be a candidate for Prime Minister, Chancellor, President, whatever. If the electorate (or, if we're using the example of the UK, the House of Commons) decides to elect the Monarch as Prime Minister for that term, the Monarch must go before the Parliament to essentially ask the people to form a government rather than the other way around when the Monarch is not elected.

So the Monarchy and the Prime Ministry is under one person for that term, but that person does not have the constitutional power to form a permanent absolute monarchy, change the term limits, abolish the parliament, etc.

By tradition if not by law (again as in the UK) the Monarch is obligated to allow the winning Prime Minister candidate to form a government, and likewise in the case of Monarchial election, the Parliament is traditionally obligated to unite to allow the Monarch to from a government through them.

I thought maybe this could be proposed after the Glorious Revolution.

Am I making sense?

I'm trying to think of other places where this could work, perhaps after the Unification of Germany the Kaiser would want to implement something like this.

Any ideas for alternate histories with a system like this? What to call it? Is it even plausible?

Thanks, guys!

p.s.

I've missed you all intensely.
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