Japanese imperialism took the governmental form of a nominally constitutional, but in fact absolute, monarchy that embodied a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and the landowners. The close proximity of economically and militarily weak countries—China and Korea—intensified the aggressiveness of Japanese ...
aAbsolute monarchy(君主) is a monarchical form of government where the monarch exercises ultimate governing authority as head of state and head of government, thus wielding political power over the sovereign state and its subject peoples. In an absolute monarchy, the transmission of power is two-...
monarchy, form of government in which sovereignty is vested in a single person whose right to rule is generally hereditary and who is empowered to remain in office for life. The power of this sovereign may vary from the absolute (see despotism) to that strongly limited by custom or constituti...
[and] was put through absolute hell by prosecutors, police, local media and the hospital…while…in the midst of a life-threatening medical crisis…She was interrogated…while “tethered to her hospital bed with IVs”…[after] two nurses [named Connie Moschell and Jordan Carrino, who already...
Under this new constitution, monarchical absolutism was replaced by parliamentary supremacy. It was quickly realised that Magna Carta stood in the same relation to the King-in-Parliament as it had to the King without Parliament. This supremacy would be challenged by the likes of Granville Sharp. ...
by other countries like Japan and Britain, the status of the monarchy has endured. In 1962, a small revolt was quashed that sought to bring down the monarchy, and ever since, the country has technically been under martial law. The Sultan holds absolute power and rules as the prime minister...
by other countries like Japan and Britain, the status of the monarchy has endured. In 1962, a small revolt was quashed that sought to bring down the monarchy, and ever since, the country has technically been under martial law. The Sultan holds absolute power and rules as the prime minister...
Japan's bicameral Diet has sole legislative power. The House of Representatives has 480 members, who are popularly elected for four-year terms; approximately three fifths of them are chosen by single-seat constituencies and the rest proportionally. The House of Councilors has 242 members; they ...
Hence not only is a free exercise of monarchical power not felt as heavily by us as in Europe, but it is generally moderated by parental consideration for the feelings of the people. "Absolutism," says Bismarck, "primarily demands in the ruler impartiality, honesty, devotion to duty, energy...
It was his mother who gave Louis his belief in the absolute and divine power of his monarchical rule.[12] Louis XIV, then Dauphin of France, in 1642, one year before his accession to the throne, by Philippe de Champaigne During his childhood, he was taken care of by the governesses...