Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1901 — An Absolute Monarchy. [ARTICLE]

An Absolute Monarchy.

The government of Russia is an absolute hereditary monarchy. The succession to the throne is in the male line, by the right of primogeniture of the house of Uomanof-Ilolstein-Got-torp, and only transmissible to female descendants afttT the complete extinction of the male heirs. This law of succession was established in 1797 by a decree of Emperor Paul, which annulled that issued by Peter 1., on February 5,1722. according to which each sovereign was to select his successor to the throne from among the member! of the imperial family, irrespective of the claims of primogeniture. Four empresses had preceded Czar Paul namely, Catherine 1., Anne, Elizabeth and Catherine 11. *