EMERGENCE OF USA
POLITICAL EFFECTS OF THE 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. Public order in its entirety comes from me.”
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“People in a state of nature are solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which quotation would most likely have been made by an absolute monarch? “It is the parliament that must make the laws.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Throughout much of European history, the divine right of kings was the theological justification for absolute monarchy. Many European monarchs claimed supreme autocratic power by divine right, and that their subjects had no rights to limit their power.
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: -The English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, wrote in the 1600s that a powerful monarch, or king or queen, was the best way to unify a nation. Hobbes believed that kings were justified in assuming absolute power because only they could maintain order in a society.