Criticism of Monarchy

Criticism of Monarchy may refer to the criticism of monarchy as a form of government, or to the criticism of particular monarchical governments, as controlled by hereditary royal families. In many cases, criticism of royalty carries serious limits, and beyond those limits critical speech is regarded as criminal speech.

Monarchies were strongly critizised during the Age of Enlightenment, as well as the concepts that substained them, such as the Divine Right of Kings. This led to the French Revolution and the American Revolution, where the monarchic governments were replaced by Republics, and other countries replaced their absolute monarchy with a Constitutional monarchy.