anti-monarchism
Against royal rule
Anti-monarchism is opposition to monarchy as a system of government.
The term describes both the political stance and the movement advocating for abolition of royal rule in favor of republican or other non-hereditary governance: Anti-monarchism has grown following recent royal scandals.
Someone holding these views is an anti-monarchist.
Murdering a monarch
- dethronementRemoval from sovereign power
- overthrowForcible removal from power
- depositionFormal testimony under oath
- oustingForcible removal from position
disestablishment · dismantling · exile · banishment · expulsion · abdication · dethroning · dispossession
Organized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- coupAbrupt seizure of power
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
mutiny · sedition · subversion · barricades · guillotine · Jacobin · regicide · insurgents
Philosophy of universal equality
- anti-authoritarianismOpposition to concentrated power
- anarchismPhilosophy rejecting state authority
- libertarianismMinimal-government political philosophy
- secularismSeparation of faith, state
radicalism · reformism · dissent · dissidence · nonconformity · freethinker · activism · protest
State with elected leaders
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
- legislatureLawmaking governmental branch
president · commonwealth · federalism · citizenship · representative · electorate · bicameral · parliamentary
Right to cast ballots
- votingFormally registering a choice
- ballotVoting document
- electorateEligible voting body
- majorityOver half of total
citizenship · civil rights · liberty · equality · freedom · accountability · representation · pluralism
Lenin's revolutionary communist ideology
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
- socialismCommunal economic control
- collectivismGroup primacy doctrine
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
Soviet · revolutionary · anti-capitalism · Bolshevik · Menshevik · Leninist · Trotskyist · vanguard
regicide
Murdering a monarch
- dethronementRemoval from sovereign power
- overthrowForcible removal from power
- depositionFormal testimony under oath
ousting · disestablishment · dismantling · exile · banishment · expulsion · abdication · dethroning · dispossession · unseating
uprising
Organized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- coupAbrupt seizure of power
resistance · mutiny · sedition · subversion · barricades · guillotine · Jacobin · regicide · insurgents · radicals
egalitarianism
Philosophy of universal equality
- anti-authoritarianismOpposition to concentrated power
- anarchismPhilosophy rejecting state authority
- libertarianismMinimal-government political philosophy
secularism · radicalism · reformism · dissent · dissidence · nonconformity · freethinker · activism · protest · skepticism
republic
State with elected leaders
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
legislature · president · commonwealth · federalism · citizenship · representative · electorate · bicameral · parliamentary · civic
suffrage
Right to cast ballots
- votingFormally registering a choice
- ballotVoting document
- electorateEligible voting body
majority · citizenship · civil rights · liberty · equality · freedom · accountability · representation · pluralism · consent
Bolshevism
Lenin's revolutionary communist ideology
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
- socialismCommunal economic control
- collectivismGroup primacy doctrine
proletariat · Soviet · revolutionary · anti-capitalism · Bolshevik · Menshevik · Leninist · Trotskyist · vanguard · class struggle
anti-monarchismmonarchism
Advocacy for royal sovereignty
royalism · divine right of kings · absolutism · royalist · fealty