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*1a : a political theory that absolute [[power]] should be vested in one or more rulers :b : [[government]] by an absolute ruler or [[authority]] : despotism

...ent that has a king or queen with limited power is called a constitutional monarchy (such countries include Canada, the United Kingdom and Japan).

...contexts]] where there is the end of colonial rule, absolute government or monarchy, as well as demands for [[autonomy]] by religious, ethnic or geographic reg

...established [[religion]], absolute [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy monarchy], and the Divine Right of Kings. The early liberal thinker [https://www.wik

...Adventures of Telemachus]]'', a scabrous attack on the [[France|French]] [[monarchy]], first published in 1699. ...e exercising the future king to use restraint and wisdom in exercising his absolute power, in ''Telemachus'', Fénelon went so far as to write "Good kings are

...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism colonial] rule, absolute government or [[monarchy]], as well as demands for [[autonomy]] by religious, ethnic or geographic r

...lways done it that way." Examples of traditional authoritarians include [[absolute monarch]]s. ...ion. A [[republic]] is the term usually used to describe nations without a monarchy.

...the [[Divine Right of Kings|divine right of kings]] in [[absolute monarchy|absolute monarchies]] or a [[theocracy]]. ...ereignty is a Republic's absolute and perpetual power''". Sovereignty is [[absolute]], thus indivisible, but not without any limits: it exercises itself only i

...he great had to be preserved through recourse to the principle of absolute monarchy. I hope closer study will be given to these paradoxical interregnums of myt

...unter-revolutionary]] and authoritarian conservatism, with the emphasis on monarchy as a guarantee of order in society. The [[legitimist]] movement was the pol ...tudes of a rural land owning class, and championed the institutions of the monarchy, the [[Anglican Communion|Anglican Church]], the family, and property as th

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom throug ...on over the positive pole is that its integral revolt makes the project of absolute mastery the only solution. Slaves in struggle for the abolition of constrai

...a science, not as an instrument to achieve the political goals set by the absolute monarch did not fit well into the new order of things. The literary product

...f government worldwide is a [[republic]], however other examples include [[monarchy]], [[social democracy]], [[military dictatorship]] and [[theocracy]]. ...r products. Trade exists between regions because different regions have an absolute or [[comparative advantage]] in the production of some tradeable commodity,

potentiality is itself equivocal. The first is absolute potency in an infant, the second as The Banquet, On Monarchy, the Letters, and select cantos of The Divine Comedy,