HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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“It is the parliament that must make the laws”
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“The government must be based on a sound constitution”
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“The rights and prohibitions of the nation are joined with my body and reside in my hands alone”
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“People in a state of nature are solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rulers in an absolute monarchy had total control over the country. Most believed that they had the divine right to rule, meaning that God created the monarchy they ruled over and they alone were God’s representative on earth.
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 monarchy is a form of monarchy in which the monarch rules in their own right or power. In an absolute monarchy, the king or queen is by no means limited and has absolute power, though a limited constitution may exist in some countries.