HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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conducting foreign affairs without assistance at will
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creating and executing laws at will by monarch
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Complete and unquestionable control of military
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Tax and spend at will by monarch
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Detailed explanation-1: -Absolute monarchies are often historically characterized by the monarch claiming a divine right. This means the authority to rule is claimed to be given to the monarch by a higher power such as the appointment by a god. For example, the Pope in Vatican City is supposed to have the divine right to rule.
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: -absolutism, Political doctrine and practice of unlimited, centralized authority and absolute sovereignty, especially as vested in a monarch. Its essence is that the ruling power is not subject to regular challenge or check by any judicial, legislative, religious, economic, or electoral agency.