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In the 19th century many monarchial states had monarchs that held considerable power while also being somewhat limited (to various degrees) by a constitution and coexisting with elected legislatures that had genuine political significance. IOTL surviving monarchies are either completely dominated by elected parliaments with the monarchs reduced to figureheads (such as the European monarchies), or, as is the case in the Gulf States and Bahrain, they are absolute monarchies with rubber-stamp legislatures (if any at all). Was such a development inevitable or could this system have survived to the present day.
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