User blog comment:Scrawland Scribblescratch/From Louis XIV to Palpatine: Absolute Leadership/@comment-4621372-20120918183121/@comment-1738490-20120918193841

Well, Octavian, Caesar Augustus (You like latin, I supose you know him) claimed to be elected by the Senate, the same did Napoleon, and many monarchs in modern times have made referendum voting on preserve the monarchy or not. The current king of Norway wouldn't be King if the norwegian haven't elected his grandfather, Haakon VII, king, even over the option of republicanism. A monarchy where the first monarch is elected by people is just a democratical elective monarchy.