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/^t/Yet another reason for restoring monarchy in Poland is that, monarchism is a system that has shown itself to work all around the world - and it is generally agreed that if something works it cannot be a bad thing. The British system of constitutional monarchy, like many monarchies still in existence all around the world - including such well-developed countries as Japan, Spain, Denmark or the Netherlands - shows that monarchy is by no means a bad or fossilized system. Next, it is not anti-democratic to have a queen or a king, and British society, for example, is living proof that monarchy and democracy can coexist without any harm to the society. Yet, if we go back into the past, we shall see that Cromwellian military rule in the republic of England in 1650s, which was harsh and extremely unpopular, proved that the only thing worse than a monarchy is lack of it, and that the monarchism is actually the best way to rule a country.