In this post, I was implicitly using definitions of republic and monarchy such that the UK and Denmark are republics, not monarchies, namely that a ‘republic’ is an indirect democracy led by an elected leader, while a monarchy is a country that is (actually, not nominally) led by person who inherits their office. The distinction I am making is an important distinction to be able to make, in particular there isn’t a better word than “monarchy” to describe what I meant thereby, but “indirect democracy” might have been a better phrase than republic, although it makes the phrasing flow worse.
You are correct that the usual definition of the terms which I used would classify the UK and DK as monarchies, not republics, and it was bad form on my part to use non-standard definitions without explicitly stating what I meant. Sorry for the linguistic mix-up, I will edit my post accordingly when I have a chance to.
In this post, I was implicitly using definitions of republic and monarchy such that the UK and Denmark are republics, not monarchies, namely that a ‘republic’ is an indirect democracy led by an elected leader, while a monarchy is a country that is (actually, not nominally) led by person who inherits their office. The distinction I am making is an important distinction to be able to make, in particular there isn’t a better word than “monarchy” to describe what I meant thereby, but “indirect democracy” might have been a better phrase than republic, although it makes the phrasing flow worse.
You are correct that the usual definition of the terms which I used would classify the UK and DK as monarchies, not republics, and it was bad form on my part to use non-standard definitions without explicitly stating what I meant. Sorry for the linguistic mix-up, I will edit my post accordingly when I have a chance to.
I’ve seen republic defined this way before - ‘there is not a king/monarch’. (With monarchy assumed to run on the usual hereditary mechanism.)