The American Monarchist Party is a United States political party, comprised of two independent organizations; The American Monarchist Society, and the The Constantian Society. The American Monarchist Society was founded March 25, 1999 by Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar, Head of the Political Science department of Santa Barbara City College. The Constantian Society (from constantia, Latin for stability, a defining aspect of Monarchy) was founded in 1970 by Randall J. Dicks , and is currently governed by Donald Marinelli in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

The American Monarchist Party believes:

• Modern experience shows that kings generally rule better, not worse, than do presidents
• Monarchy provides the stability which is essential to the solution of major problems.
• A king is much freer than a president, in that he is not tied to any party, as a republican leader invariably is.
• Monarchy is an intelligible and honest form of government
• A king or queen is the living representative of a nation's history.

The American Monarchist Party currently holds no national or local seats. This is considerably smaller than larger Monarchist Parties, such as the Royalist Party in Estonia, which holds ten percent of the seats in the National Parliament. While there are several sects of Monarchists, a vocal, but minority are the restorationists, who believe in a strict revision of American government, harking back to colonial America. The majority of American Monarchists believe that America as an independent country would best be run by a symbolic, powerful and decisive ruler in a dynastic fashion.

American Monarchism has had numerous publications in recent times, the most noteworthy being a Washington Post article entitled Monarchy Rules! by Richard Morin , published Sunday, August 22, 1999. The Constantian Society publishes a quarterly publication, and several publications by political scientists, such as Zog for Albania, Edward for Estonia, and Monarchs for All the Rest? The Royal Road to Prosperity, Democracy, and World Peace, by Jeremy D. Mayer , Kalamazoo College and Lee Sigelman, George Washington University in the ; In Defense of Monarchy In An Age Of Democracy by M. M. Eskandari-Qajar (Kadjar), Santa Barbara City College Publications. Chad Hedstrom of the University of Texas at Arlington briefly mentions the Travis County Monarchist Party of America in his article Political Parties in the October 24, 2001 issue of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. James Brooke writes about the Canadian Monarchist Party in the New York Times article "Canada's Link to the Queen Grows Livelier" on Monday October 25, 1999.

The American Monarchist Party of Austin has come of such notoriety that they were featured in a prominent Daily Texan comic strip, The Man Who Hates Fun by John Thornton .

==Notes==as of March 9, 2005