Emirs are usually considered high-ranking sheiks, but in monarchical states the term is also used for princes; then "emirate" means more or less the same as principality in this context.

In some places where communes arose (e.g. Britain and France), they were absorbed by the monarchical state as it emerged.

Thus, with the decline of the Greek polis, and the establishment of monarchical states, the environment and social freedom in which to excel may have been reduced.

Some monarchical states call this procedure Royal Assent.

The emergence of monarchical states in the later Vedic age, led to a distancing of the rajan from the people and the emergence of a varna hierarchy.

He added that the "kings of England have a 'monarchical' state, not a 'seignoral'; the first makes freedom, the second slavery".

After the downfall of the Gupta Empire in the middle of the sixth century AD, North India reverted to small republics and small monarchical states.

The heads of state for the 9 monarchical states are their respective monarchs (7 out of them Sultans).

For the republican and monarchical civic states of the 19th century, collections in the form of public museums became emblems of self-determination.

Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is the principles of law accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.