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    prisoners. These two social groups required some change in their government. They desired less powering the hand of the king and more toward the people’s hands. However‚ everyone knows that this contradicts what Louis XIV desired for France; an absolute monarchy. One might say that this traumatic experience sculpted his future reign as king‚ whether it was for better or for worse. The Fronde‚ sculpted Louis XIV’s reign as the absolute king of France in many ways. To begin‚ the constant pressure and hatred

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    themselves as. The divine right also gave absolute monarchs legitimacy‚ as the church would support the absolutist in order to get out of their way out of fear. French theologian Bishop Jacques Bossuet was one of the chief theorists of the divine-right monarchy in the seventeenth century‚ and he wrote about how the royal power is absolute‚ a ruler needing to account their actions to no one but God. Bossuet was a popular theorist‚ and many supported his beliefs on absolutism in that the Kings were Gods representatives

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    Can People Be Trusted to Govern Themselves? One question that has been pondered since the times of Greece. Should the people be trusted to govern themselves? There has been great arguments‚ points‚ and responses to the question but history definitely plays a role. Aristotle born in 384 BC in Stagira‚ Greece. Aristotle was a philosopher who believed that the government should be ruled by middle class men and that people should be trusted to govern themselves but only the properly educated middle

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    Absolute power is having power and control over everything. Normally it is taken by force and at times could be hated. In the 1500s‚ after the fall of the clergy‚ king and queens began to take more and more power. It was said that God gave them power through Divine Right. This created more centralization‚ main government having all of the power‚ and Power of Law‚ the ability to create their own laws. King Louis‚ also known as King Louis the Great and the Sun King‚ was a French monarch. He reigned

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    The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era in which absolutism dominated the political systems of Europe. I strongly agree to this assessment. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were hard times in Europe. The Reformation produced a trail of conflict and difficulty as the implications of Reformation thought began to be imagined in areas outside of religion. In the latter half of the 1600’s‚ monarchial systems of both England and France were changing. In England‚ the move was away

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    Absolutism is a simple manner was the absolute power held by the monarch‚ and was exempt from being challenged. In other words‚ a monarch could‚ in theory‚ regulate various aspects of life without their authority being called into question. In France‚ absolutism is associated with the likes of Louis XIII‚ but rather more so with his descendent‚ King Louis XIV. However‚ while in theory absolutism granted the king a vast majority if the power and authority‚ it does not mean that it worked that way

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    Constitutionalism in England. Absolutism controlled all competing interest groups and organized all religious sects. Louis XIV had centralized power and control under his authority in France while Constitutionalism in England failed to create absolute monarchy. Constitutionalism in England dealt with James I‚ Charles I‚ and James II that led to a catastrophe. Absolutism in France was much more secure than Constitutionalism in England because Louis XIV had powerful standing armies. Louis came to a decision

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    vol. 1‚ 434). In response to this people searched for order. Many sought stability‚ but in order to obtain it they had to increase their monarchial power. The end result of this absolute monarchial power became well known as absolutism or absolute monarchy. In Absolutism the king claims to rule by divine right: the idea that Kings received their power to rule directly from

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    Thirty Years War republic mercantilism Peace of Augsburg Junkers Seven Years War Boyar Czar The Restoration Habeas corpus Edict of Nantes absolute monarch Czar War of the Spanish Succession Treaty of Paris‚ 1763 Constitutional monarchy Peace of Westphalia Glorious Revolution L’etat‚ c’est moi Names of families in charge of the various European countries (spelled correctly) Divine right Edict of Nantes Who won and lost the Thirty Years War Explain the importance of three

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    held by a centralized sovereign individual‚ with no checks or balances form any other part of nation or government. In effect‚ the ruling individual has absolute power‚ with no legal‚ electoral or other challenges to that power. There is absolute monarchy is a monarchical form of government in which the monarch exercises ultimate governing authority as head of states and head government. Absolutism is a good way considering Spain‚ France‚ and Russia. Absolutism and Spain. Philip II took

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