In the Meiji period, Japanese leaders looked to European models of constitutional monarchy, adopting a system of imperial ... Using a cooperative jigsaw, students then analyze three documents from the ...

The largely peaceful Constitutional Revolution of 1906 forced the Iranian shah at that time to declare Iran a constitutional monarchy with legislative powers vested in a majles, or parliament. The ...

In the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the framers were clear on what they were NOT creating: A monarchy. One delegate expressed the group’s absolute conviction that the founding document must exclude ...