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absolute monarchy: see monarchy monarchy, form of government in which sovereignty is vested in a single person whose right to rule is generally hereditary and who is empowered to remain in office for life. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Wilkes served his faction as one of its ablest propagandists, anonymously publishing a newspaper, the North Briton, that lampooned Bute as a friend of royal absolutism and enemy of English liberty. In the last fifteen years, the literature on European state formation has offered a more complex and nuanced understanding of royal absolutism that disputes the conventional notion that monarchs of the ancien regime exercised absolute and, in some instances, despotic power. Peltonen recognizes the importance of the vocabularies of royal absolutism, the ancient constitution, and "Tacitism" in Jacobean political discourse, but argues in favor of a place for Ciceronian and republican themes as well. |
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