In fact the President had really less power than a constitutional king.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
The Norwegian constitution is perhaps as near an approach to a perfect democracy as can possibly be achieved under a constitutional monarchy.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Furthermore, all this is contended for as a matter of simple right and justice to the labouring classes, on the ground that the wealth of the nation belongs to the hands that made it; it is contended for as an obligation of the State, because the State is held to be merely the organized will of the people, and the people is the labouring class; and it is contended for as an object of immediate accomplishment-if possible, by ordinary constitutional means; but, if not, by revolution.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae