Compare And Contrast The Three Major Forms Of Early Modern European Government

The three major forms of government in the early modern period in Europe could be summarized by looking where the power is centralized. The first form, Absolutism also known as divine right kingship, is centralized to where the power was held by the Monarch and Monarch alone. The second form, Constitutionalism, is centralized by the idea of limited power. The existence of a fundamental governing law that made no one body of the ruling government, too powerful. The third and final form, Enlightened Despotism, is similar to Absolutism but it had limiting ideas which conflicted each other, they limited their growth with the rigid class structures and liberal ideas that were not implemented efficiently. The governments of the early modern period