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-...
a.A sole and absolute ruler. b.A sovereign, such as a king or empress, often with constitutionally limited authority:a constitutional monarch. 2.One that commands or rules:"I am monarch of all I survey"(William Cowper). 3.One that surpasses others in power or preeminence:"Mont Blanc is...
…an Ohio woman [who was] wrongfully arrested and prosecuted for her pregnancy loss is [su]ing her nurses [for] conspiring with police to fabricate evidence against her…Brittany Watts…was…charged with “abuse of a corpse” [due to] miscarrying at home…[and] was put through absolute hel...
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 ...
247). Under the absolute monarchy, most ancient Chinese governments adhered to a hierarchical structure, with the emperor positioned at the apex of the power hierarchy. The emperor’s imperial documents, such as edicts 制 and decrees 詔Footnote 8, constituted the primary means through which the ...
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. ...
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...
In Julius Caesar the dream is also vital to the plot and is opportunely inserted into the development of the tragedy, which deals with the conflict between monarchical and democratic parties in the political world of Rome. Julius Caesar is full of omens and dreams, such as Calpurnia’s dream...
as well as on how he constructs himself both publicly and privately vis-à-vis his community towards which he is fashioned in line with an absolutist monarchical ruler, whose judgment is not to be questioned. Goldsmith's nov...
One of the most reactionary monarchical regimes in Europe was replaced by a bourgeois-democratic structure. The proletariat of Austria achieved a number of gains, including the eight-hour workday and social insurance. The equality of women was established by law, and the rights of local organs ...