Absolute monarchy is a is a monarchical form of government in which the monarch has absolute power among his or her people. An absolute monarch wields unrestricted political power over the sovereign state and its people. Absolutism was used in France with Louis XIV, Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Although all of these countries were quite different they mostly believed that absolute monarchy was necessary and justified. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe, absolute monarchy was considered by some as necessary and justified because of the belief in divine right, the monarch having supreme power over nobles and government to keep stability in the country, and rule by force was essential to protect the country.
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Louis XIV sought to have supreme power, so he made sure the nobles and government agreed with him and his actions. Louis XIV (doc. 1) said that he alone has the power to make laws that keeps the order of the public and that the interests of the country are connected to his. He wanted there to be no dependence or division of the nation and that the power of the county stayed in his hands to keep the kingdom sane. Like France, Russia believed in the same idea of stability. Catherine the Great stated in The Instruction of 1767 (doc. 10) that the extent of government must have an absolute ruler to be vested in the good of the country and that it was better to be under the rule of one person. This proves that Catherine also agrees that to keep stability through the country there must be one absolute power, so there will be no disagreement. Jean Bodin in his Six Books of the Commonwealth (doc. 11), states that it was the power of the monarch to impose laws on all of the people without their consensus and that the absolute ruler should not take any commands from anyone else, but himself. There must be absolute power or else there would be arguments, disagreement, and instability throughout the country. If the monarch has absolute power there was no need to ask consent of any other being, and the king can rule his country the way he
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Louis XIV sought to have supreme power, so he made sure the nobles and government agreed with him and his actions. Louis XIV (doc. 1) said that he alone has the power to make laws that keeps the order of the public and that the interests of the country are connected to his. He wanted there to be no dependence or division of the nation and that the power of the county stayed in his hands to keep the kingdom sane. Like France, Russia believed in the same idea of stability. Catherine the Great stated in The Instruction of 1767 (doc. 10) that the extent of government must have an absolute ruler to be vested in the good of the country and that it was better to be under the rule of one person. This proves that Catherine also agrees that to keep stability through the country there must be one absolute power, so there will be no disagreement. Jean Bodin in his Six Books of the Commonwealth (doc. 11), states that it was the power of the monarch to impose laws on all of the people without their consensus and that the absolute ruler should not take any commands from anyone else, but himself. There must be absolute power or else there would be arguments, disagreement, and instability throughout the country. If the monarch has absolute power there was no need to ask consent of any other being, and the king can rule his country the way he