1. Royal Authority in the Age of Absolutism
During the period between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians label this period as the "Age of Absolutism" in the Discovering the Western Past on page 38. Absolutism is defined as by www.dictionary.com as "A political theory holding that all power should be vested in one ruler or other authority". ... Absolutism is based from the ideas of religious beliefs and the absolute power invested in a prince/king. ... At first, there were problems with the idea of Absolutism. ... The theory of laws control how power vested in one can be used to make themselves higher in sovereignty...
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