HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Dictatorship
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Parliamentary Democracy
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Constitutional Monarchy
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Absolute Monarchy
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Detailed explanation-1: -A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication.
Detailed explanation-2: -absolutism, the political doctrine and practice of unlimited centralized authority and absolute sovereignty, as vested especially in a monarch or dictator.
Detailed explanation-3: -The monarch was able to maintain absolute control over the society with the addition of feudalism, which involved people being placed into different estates of power, such as: clergy, nobility and peasants. An absolute monarchy can best be seen in the words of Louis XIV in France when he proclaimed “I am the state”.
Detailed explanation-4: -Another form of government is monarchy. The monarch (king or queen) has the power to make decisions and run the government. The monarch may have a small group of people to discuss matters with, but the final decision-making power remains with the monarch.