When a king wanted to become absolute, he sought to increase his royal authority by getting more control over the nation’s finances, religion, and nobility; enlarging the standing army and developing a strong navy; incrementing the government’s bureaucracy and making it an instrument of their royal will; and expanding their territory. They said that God had given them their authority and that they ruled by “divine right”. This meant that they had absolute authority and they were not bound to any manmade laws. Absolutism took over many European countries like France, Prussia, Austria, and Russia yet in England it was defeated. English kings had to contend with Parliament. Absolutism lasted almost two centuries and people, especially the middle class, were tired of doing whatever the king wanted so they started to rebel against the kings until July of 1789 when the French imprisoned Louis XVI, the last French absolutist, and later sentenced him to death in 1792. Since the excuse for absolutism was that their authority came from God, people ended up blaming God and rejecting
When a king wanted to become absolute, he sought to increase his royal authority by getting more control over the nation’s finances, religion, and nobility; enlarging the standing army and developing a strong navy; incrementing the government’s bureaucracy and making it an instrument of their royal will; and expanding their territory. They said that God had given them their authority and that they ruled by “divine right”. This meant that they had absolute authority and they were not bound to any manmade laws. Absolutism took over many European countries like France, Prussia, Austria, and Russia yet in England it was defeated. English kings had to contend with Parliament. Absolutism lasted almost two centuries and people, especially the middle class, were tired of doing whatever the king wanted so they started to rebel against the kings until July of 1789 when the French imprisoned Louis XVI, the last French absolutist, and later sentenced him to death in 1792. Since the excuse for absolutism was that their authority came from God, people ended up blaming God and rejecting