Elective Monarchism

"Not to be confused with Constitutional Monarchism."

Elective Monarchism, shortened to Elecmon, is a non-quadrant monarchist ideology. Elecmon was born as an alternative to lineage based monarchies who had a tendency to result in succession crisis after a few generations. The voting powers are usually only held by high ranking nobles and influential clergy members.

He believes that the state should be based around a monarch (ranging from Absolute to  Ceremonial) that instead of being hereditary, should be elected. Usually the monarchial candidates would be elected by a specific pool of nobles, but this process could theoretically stretch "to the plebs".

History
Elective monarchism was born in the antique era. One of his most notable appearances was in Rome during Roman kingdom era. He is also known for the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Jerusalem. He made a semi-comeback in the renaissance with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. A modern example of an elected monarchy would be that of the Vatican City where new popes are decided upon by the votes of cardinals, and the King of  Malaysia where a new King and the Deputy-King was elected among the nine Malay Rulers in the Conference of Rulers via a secret ballot. The Conference of Rulers, which has the power to disqualify a candidate, has sometimes varied the original seniority order. Since then, the election have followed a de facto established rotation order.

How to Draw
Elecmon_flag.svg Elecmon is basically Classlib but upside down and with a crown.


 * 1) Draw a ball with eyes
 * 2) Draw a tricolour of Dark Blue, Gold and White
 * 3) Draw a Crown

And you're done!

Friends

 * [[File:Conmon.png]] Constitutional Monarchism - Almost me!
 * [[File:Hamiltonianism.png]] Hamiltonianism - Thank you for supporting me!
 * LiberMon.png Libertarian Monarchism - He likes monarchy and freedom too.
 * [[File:Authdem.png]] Authoritarian Democracy - You like me but what are these "term limits" you're talking about?
 * [[File:Catheo.png]] Catholic Theocracy - The papacy has a good system.

Frenemies

 * [[File:Abmon.png]] Absolute Monarchism - Monarchs are cool. But democracy is too.
 * [[File:Clib.png]] Classical Liberalism - You have some nice ideas, but why do you hate monarchies?!
 * [[File: Res_Publica.png]] Roman Republicanism - I got a lot of ideas from you but you insist that we're different.

Enemies

 * [[File: Ochlo.png]] Ochlocracy - You're a sociopath, even if you care about our kingdom.

Wikipedia

 * Elective Monarchy
 * Papal Conclave
 * Royal Elections in Poland
 * Imperial Election
 * Prince-Elector
 * Yang di-Pertuan Agong (Malaysian King)

Videos

 * |The Roman Senate during the Monarchy