Legitimacy in dynastic monarchy derives from family membership

Evidence

The other connotation of the term “monarchy” relates not to the exercise but to the acquisition of supreme sovereign authority. In this sense monarchy means hereditary, that is, dynastic rule, in which the headship of the state is transmitted from one member to another of the same family. It is membership of this family that confers legitimacy, that is, the primary basis of entitlement of whoever accedes to the supreme sovereign office after the death or removal of his prede­ cessor. In this sense, the converse of a monarchy is a republic. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 519

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: James I fused patriarchal fatherhood into head-of-state ideology — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 351; Governing dynasties can contractually institutionalize a religious-ideological alliance for internal legitimacy. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 191