antiroyalists
Foes of monarchy
Antiroyalists are people who oppose monarchy or royal rule.
The term describes those who favor abolishing kingship or resist a particular royal regime: The antiroyalists gathered support for a republic.
The word appears in historical contexts—revolutionary France, the English Civil War—and in contemporary debates about constitutional monarchies.
Violent governmental overthrow
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- overthrowForcible removal from power
coup · regicide · sedition · insurgency · resistance · mutiny · civil war · purge
English republican military leader
- RobespierreRevolutionary who devoured himself
- JacobinsFrench revolutionary faction
- RoundheadsCivil War anti-monarchists
- Levellers1640s English egalitarian faction
sans-culottes · Bolsheviks · Mensheviks · Fenians · revolutionaries · regicides · dissidents · radicals
Government by elected officials
- anti-monarchismOpposition to royal government
- egalitarianismPhilosophy of universal equality
- popular sovereigntyPopulace holds ultimate authority
- constitutionalismGovernance bound by fundamental laws
secularism · self-governance · commonwealth · democratization · parliamentarism · citizenship · abolitionism · levelling
Public expression of disapproval
- dissentDisagreement with authority
- pamphletUnbound topical booklet
- broadsideFierce written assault
- petitionFormal written appeal
rally · demonstration · agitation · propaganda · leaflet · manifesto · civil disobedience · boycott
revolution
Violent governmental overthrow
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
overthrow · coup · regicide · sedition · insurgency · resistance · mutiny · civil war · purge · exile
Cromwell
English republican military leader
- RobespierreRevolutionary who devoured himself
- JacobinsFrench revolutionary faction
- RoundheadsCivil War anti-monarchists
Levellers · sans-culottes · Bolsheviks · Mensheviks · Fenians · revolutionaries · regicides · dissidents · radicals · reformers
republicanism
Government by elected officials
- anti-monarchismOpposition to royal government
- egalitarianismPhilosophy of universal equality
- popular sovereigntyPopulace holds ultimate authority
constitutionalism · secularism · self-governance · commonwealth · democratization · parliamentarism · citizenship · abolitionism · levelling · radicalism
protest
Public expression of disapproval
petition · rally · demonstration · agitation · propaganda · leaflet · manifesto · civil disobedience · boycott · reform
antiroyalistsroyalists
Supporters of hereditary rule
monarchists · loyalists · king's men · Jacobites · Tories