ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the structure of ‘democratic monarchy’ and then consider some of its practical advantages. The monarch’s constitutional obligation to exercise effective sovereignty in certain circumstances must be explained. The practice of consulting one another in the ‘state prerogative council’ would both help the current holder of the prerogatives to think through any proposed courses of action and help to prepare the other men or women who might later be called upon personally to exercise these same constitutional powers. The hereditary head of state would be constitutionally required personally to exercise the prerogatives only in the unlikely event that no ‘governor general’, ‘deputy’, or ‘speaker’ currently existed. The model constitution offers the most favourable institutional framework for the materialization of rational rule, whether with the explicit support of a majority of the citizenry or by a benevolent minority in the face of popular indifference or antagonism.
