Translated from the Italian*The Monarchy
Kingship is not something empty, as in doctrinal liberalisms, nor omnipotent as in totalitarian or absolutist constitutions. The monarch reigns and governs but within the limits imposed by fundamental or local laws. It is not possible for them to alter the legal organization of their peoples without the consent of the peoples themselves. He rules, yes, because he is king; but he reigns in the context of very specific laws.
On this level, the traditional monarchy is the only form of government in which the power of the ruler is truly limited, because the limits that mark his faculties do not consist in cold literature or dead doctrines, but in the fruitful social reality, anterior and distinct from the state itself. Where totalitarianisms and absolutisms see an additional instrument of their power and where liberals see emptiness, in intermediate and autarchic societies, the traditional monarchy is the only form of government where men can feel truly free.
* Capitolo Sesto, "La Monarchia Federative," La monarchia tradizionale, Francisco Elías de Tejada, Controcorrente Edizioni, 2001, p. 129-130
