From the column: "(Benjamin Franklin) wrote that other forms of government have descended into despotism — governments run by ...

In other words, a republic was a state governed ... The participants in the constitutional debates believed that monarchy, even constitutional monarchy, was inconsistent with republican government.

There are some who would see Jamaica’s transition from a constitutional monarchy to a constitutional republic as a historic endeavour, but historic does not always mean it is a step in the right ...

Throughout human history, constitutional reform has been both a necessity and a symbol of political evolution .