Absolutism
Absolutism, political system in which there is no legal, customary, or moral limit on the government's power. The term is generally applied to political systems ruled by a single dictator, but it can also be applied to seemingly democratic systems that grant sweeping powers to the legislature or executive. Absolutism has taken wide-ranging forms such as military dictatorships in Latin America, totalitarian communism in the USSR and Eastern Europe, and dictatorships in Africa. Despite the wide range of forms of absolutism, most 20th-century absolutist regimes have shared a few basic traits. These include centralization of power, close control of social groups, absence of competing political parties, and the outward appearance of popular representation. Louis XIV and Peter I were two monarchs that attempted to incorporate absolutism into their reigns of power. Thus, when one examines the absolute monarchies of both Louis XIV and Peter I it is evident that they achieved their goa! In France, around the middle of the 17th century, a revolution against the current monarch, Cardinal Mazarin, by the various and scattered parlements, who wanted the right to claim royal edicts unconstitutional, and nobilit
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