  Ultimately, a model monarchy will be a constitutional monarchy that will strongly resemble a democracy. This fits with Matheron’s suggestion that, because state power is fundamentally based in the power of the people, those states that deviate least from a democracy will be most powerful (Matheron 1997). Nevertheless, the fact that Spinoza countenanced the possibility that “a people can preserve a considerable degree of freedom under a king” (7/31), can be seen as a resignation to the reality of Orangism after the events of 1672 (Blom 2007; Steinberg 2008).