Definitionn. dominance through threat of punishment and violence
Last update: June 18, 2015
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Absolutism is not good for democracy. [Please select]
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A treasonable senate secretly plotting his dethronement, a mutinous diet rejecting the most necessary reforms for fear of "absolutism," ungrateful allies who profited exclusively by his victories - these were his inseparable companions during the remainder of his life. [Please select]
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They abhorred absolutism; they abhor it still; to destroy it they had risked their Revolution. [Please select]
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He saw in absolutism the only hope of stability, the only reign of law. [Please select]
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They could not support the throne of absolutism if they were not respected by the laity. [Please select]
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These nations seem to begin in what I may call a consultative and tentative absolutism. [Please select]
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Evidently if weight of authority were all, the truth of absolutism would be thus decided. [Please select]
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