HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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the real power in any state must be religious and exercised by the church.
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ultimate authority rests solely in the hands of a king who rules by divine right.
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subordinate powers have an absolute right to advise the king on conducting the affairs of state.
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no matter how humble, male citizens have an absolute right to participate in politics.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Absolute monarchy, or absolutism, meant that the ultimate authority to run a state was in the hands of a king who ruled by divine right. Divine right was the claim that a king was given his position by some higher power.
Detailed explanation-2: -divine right of kings, in European history, a political doctrine in defense of monarchical absolutism, which asserted that kings derived their authority from God and could not therefore be held accountable for their actions by any earthly authority such as a parliament.
Detailed explanation-3: -ABSOLUTE MONARCHS believed in DIVINE RIGHT (the idea that God created the monarchy and that the monarch acted as God’s representative on earth.) An ABSOLUTE MONARCH answered only to God, not to his or her subjects.
Detailed explanation-4: -Essentially, the Divine Right of a King is the belief that the monarch derives their right to rule directly from God and therefore is subject to no earthly authority. This means that the King is not compelled to the wills of his people, aristocrats or even the Church.
Detailed explanation-5: -An absolute monarchy was a form of government in which an all-powerful king or queen rules a state. This form of government was popular in Europe toward the end of the medieval period all the way up to through the 18th century. Rulers in an absolute monarchy had total control over the country.