Assertion: monarchy's government | /r/CapableOf | pass into distant history
Facets:
value: to the effect
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Whilst over time the principle weakened as republican government passed into distant history to the effect that the Empire became, functionally, an absolute monarchy the office of Roman and Byzantine emperor remained vaguely elective (albeit with the election procedure never strictly defined, but generally understood to be a matter for the Senate).