What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Absolutism

There are many different ways to organize a central government (Melina para 1). A democracy is a form of government where the people have the power to elect the leaders, like in the current United States of America (Melina para 11). A communist government is where one party runs the whole government with a stern hand, like in present day Russia (Melina para 6). Both of these kinds of governments have huge differences in how they operate (Melina para 1). These are main government systems today; however, during the seventeenth century, there was a different kind of government that was enacted (Spielvogel 444). Absolutism was one of the governments during this developing period; absolutism is the type of government where power is in the hand of one king and he rules by divine right (Spielvogel 444). In simplest terms, the king has all the power of the nation resting in his hands (Spielvogel 444). France, during the seventeenth century was seen to be ran by an absolute monarchy (Spielvogel 444). During the seventeenth century, France was in the

There was a vast amount of overlying authority with regionals courts, local parliaments, and member of upper class resulting in some viewing the French monarch not being an absolute monarch (Spielvogel 446). Even though there was these levels of power, I believe that the French monarchy was an absolute monarchy (Spielvogel 444). Between King Louis XIV and the Cardinals approach to ruling France, they had the main authority (Spielvogel 444-448). They were still in charge and had no limitations on what they could do. The slaughter of conspirators of Cardinal Richelieu, defense of rebellion by Cardinal Mazarini, and the Edict of Fontaineblaeu all show the strength and no limitations of these rulers (Spielvogel 444-448). Therefore, I believe that the seventeenth century French monarch can be classified as an absolute monarch (Spielvogel