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King Bhumibol Adulayadej is the world's longest serving monarch.

And Chip Taylor, our monarch butterfly expert, he replied, Nothing lasts forever.

And Chip Taylor, our monarch butterfly expert, he replied, Nothing lasts forever.

Those of you from North America will be familiar with the Monarch butterfly.

A big man in town. Three floors of mahogany in the Monarch Building.

Plant this small seed, wait 2,000 years, and you get this the Lost Monarch.

Parliamentarians did not exercise their functions for life, neither was there a monarch who appointed the members of some chamber.

The Sicilian people want Italy to be one and indivisible, with Victor Emmanuel as constitutional monarch, and his legitimate descendants.

Ideally, that head of state would be an elected president, rather than a hereditary monarch. Indeed, anything worthwhile that a monarch can do, an elected non executive president can do better not least because an elected official is much less likely to be undermined by the scandals of pampered offspring or degraded by the inevitable hypocrisy and servility of a royal court.

The British monarch is represented by a Governor who presides over the Executive Council and is responsible for defence, external affairs, internal security, public services and offshore finance.

5. In brief, under the revised Constitution of 1994, the Governor, who is appointed by the British monarch, is responsible for external affairs, defence, internal security and public service.

This strong willed monarch, while ruling the Russian empire autocratically, managed to bring stability and prosperity, allowing capitalism to take root. He worked to strengthen and modernize Russia s armed forces while avoiding armed conflict.

The monarch butterfly could be one of the 20 to 50 percent of all species that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates will be ticketed for extinction by the end of the century if we stay on business as usual fossil fuel use.

For more than six months, the country has been unable to form a government that is able to unite the French speaking Walloons (32 ) and Dutch speaking Flemish (58 ). The Belgian monarch, Albert II, is desperately trying to stop his subjects from breaking up the state.

More important, an elected president has much greater legitimacy than a hereditary monarch, whose claim to authority depends exclusively on tradition and ceremony. With a king or queen unable to say or do anything that may cause a whiff of controversy, the monarchy has been stripped of its power of action or reflection.

An elected president has a stronger mandate to be controversial, especially in areas of thought and culture that lie beyond the domain of quotidian politics but shape the quality of the public space in which politics plays out. It would be inconceivable for a reigning monarch to attack the financial oligarchy, as Higgins did in his speech in Chicago.

But the most important reason why an elected president is better equipped than a monarch to catalyze a public conversation about a society s values and priorities is that he or she is more likely to be a person of superior ability. Indeed, that is why, on balance, a meritocratic system will always produce better results than a hereditary one.

Of course, the head of state whether the president or the monarch has other critical duties as well, including acting as guarantor of the constitution and a symbol of national unity. Moreover, in proportional voting systems like Italy s, where no single political party normally wins a majority of seats in parliament, the president often plays a key role in appointing the prime minister.