What are the opposite words for absolute ruler?

An absolute ruler is a person who has unrestricted power and control over a particular society or kingdom. However, there are antonyms or opposites to this term, describing a different form of governance. A democratic ruler, for instance, is someone who is chosen by the people in a free and fair election to govern a nation. A constitutional monarch is a ruler whose powers are limited by a constitution or laws of the land. In contrast, a figurehead ruler holds no real power or authority; this person serves as a symbol or representative of a nation while actual governance is carried out by someone else.

What are the antonyms for Absolute ruler?

• n.

  • tyrant
  • democrat
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• Among today's Italians, when treading upon Haile Selassie's memory, the sense of guilt and shame is such that they react by seeing only his positive traits: the merits of his past actions. His portrayals always brim with excessive deferance, unwarranted admiration and delusion. They go on and on about his priestly composure, his regal dignity, his great intelligence and his generosity towards former adversaries. They never explain who this sovereign, who we made into a victim, really was. They never dare tell us if he was something more, or less, than a victim. For example, that he was an old man hardened in principles which were centuries out of date; that he was the absolute ruler of a nation which has never heard the words and , which lives in a near prehistoric fashion in the suburbs, opressed by hunger, disease, ignorance and the squallor of a feudal regime which even we did not experience during the darkest years of the Medieval period.

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