In current usage the word monarchy generally refers to a traditional system of hereditary rule, as elective monarchies are rare in the modern period.

The other Classes, excluded from power by the hereditary rule of the Officers, reacted by building what power bases they could.

It seems therefore that imperial ritual was isolated from Buddhism to protect the principle of hereditary imperial rule.

Like you, people of our class had certain suspicions when the ballot box replaced hereditary rule.

Monarchy is political or sociocultural in nature and is generally (but not always) associated with hereditary rule.

It defines the hereditary monarchic rule with a parliamentary system of representation.

After he secured hereditary rule for his family, the Wali ruled until 1848, when senility made further governance by him impossible.

The policy of this party was to away with hereditary and autocratic rule and instead introduce a representative form of government.

Succession in the monarchy was based on hereditary rule, with the King or Emperor's successor designated as crown prince.

Also amended to allow the Department of Indian Affairs to ban hereditary rule of bands.