Absolute advantage

However, soon it all turned downhill and into shambles, until Napoleon rose to power and stabilized France again. Napoleon did become a dictator, but it was not absolute monarchy because he set many laws and rules and gave rights to people that he actually followed, which absolute monarchs didn’t do, since they thought their actions had no boundaries and didn’t feel the need to follow ant rules or laws. Napoleon also spread the positive aspects of the French Revolution…

Frederick the Great became king of Prussia in 1740, his reign as absolute monarch was unique and unlike no other. An absolute monarch is a king or queen whose actions are restricted neither by written law nor by custom. The goals of an absolute monarch are to create a successful army, improve the economy, centralize government, and pacify nobility. These are all important because they make the country stronger and more successful because they can protect themselves, make money, and have a strong…

authority in the state rested in the hands of a king who claimed to rule by divine right the idea that kings received their power from God and were responsible to no one but God. Catherine The Great and Tokugawa Ieyasu were both known as prominent absolute rulers but, Ieyasu was a more effective absolutist ruler. Tokugawa controlled his country by reasonable means that wouldn’t cause uprisings and distrust while still being the only one to make decisions for the country. Catherine was simply…

An absolute monarchy could only be successful under the leadership of an extraordinary ruler who had complete power over his people. An absolute monarch should be able to overachieve the abundance of obstacles placed in front of him. King Louis XIV was able to obtain much of his prodigious power by creating a new, modernized army. Louis was an exceptional mastermind at trade and he had dramatically increased France’s revenue. These actions allowed him to have the unique ability to create such a…

In the later portion of the 1600’s, the monarchical systems of both England and France were changing. England strayed away from an absolute monarch and ran toward a mightier parliament instead. The opposite was occurring in France as Louis XIV strengthened his own office while weakening the general assembly of France, the Estates General. Absolutism, the political situation in which a monarch controls makes all political, social, economic, and cultural decisions in a government without checks or…

that was limited by the instability of the state of nature (XIII, 321). However, to subject oneself to the rule of an erratic sovereign would produce an environment no more hospitable to these pursuits. While Hobbes considers the interests of an absolute monarch most tied to the interests of his subjects, he does nothing to explain further in what way this guarantees commodious living (XIX, 337). History has provided many examples of a monarch living a life of unimaginable indulgence while his…

In medieval times there was a hierarchy, this hierarchy consist of many parts. Some of theseparts were ranked higher in medieval times than others. This means certain levels of the hierarchy livedin poverty while the others lived in what would now be called “The One Percent”. They lived in the bestcastles with the best food and servants to wait on them hand and foot while the rest of the kingdomlived on little to nothing. There were many components of the hierarchy, the King and or…

Absolute monarchs and democracies are both types of government, however there are some major differences that set the two apart. In absolute monarchies the people have little to no power to influence governmental decisions. In Document 1: This illustration depicts the government of France from the mid-1600s to the early 1700s, the absolute ruler appears to be King Louis XIV. He is looking down upon his subjects, the nobles, as they kneel before him. When Louis ruled over France, he chose the sun…

During the seventeenth century, conflict arose over the way people should be governed. In this time there were two main forms of government, absolutist and constitutional monarchies. In an absolutist monarchy, such as those in France, Spain, Central Europe, and Russia, the monarchs exerted dominance over the people by collecting all power for themselves. In a constitutional monarchy, such as those in England and the Dutch Republic, the rulers did not have complete power, they abided by the laws…

had complete power over you with every aspect of your life? Some people believe they should certainly follow the rules of absolute monarchs, while other people believe the absolute monarchs should have no right to grant any rules without the society having a say. In some degree, the absolute monarchs should have came to a compromise with their people before they make laws. Absolute monarchs have caused negative ramifications with their type of power. However, the positive affects outweigh the…