hereditary
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Seretse Khama, the hereditary chief of Botswana’s largest tribe, became the country’s first president in 1966.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The Tooro Kingdom follows a hereditary system in selecting its monarch.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Today, almost every country that isn’t a hereditary monarchy is declining to issue currency that features its sitting head of state.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Japan has the world's oldest continuous hereditary monarchy, with a lineage that's believed to span more than 2,600 years.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Political complexity was greatest on Tonga and Hawaii, where the powers of hereditary chiefs approximated those of kings elsewhere in the world, and where land was controlled by the chiefs, not by the commoners.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing hereditary
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"Democracy in America, Vol. 1" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Introduction–Chapter 5
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