Citations:cardboard monarch


 * 1994, Juliet Vale (translator), (author), A History of France II: The Royal French State: Louis XI–Henri IV, 1460–1610, Basil Blackwell Ltd, ISBN 0631170278, “Introduction: Classic Monarchy”, page 5:
 * Finally, under the auspices of a cardboard monarch, we should note the Polish Diet with its liberum veto: the least significant magnate could use this procedure to block the wishes of an otherwise unanimous assembly.