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In five pages this paper provides essays that answer questions comparing and contrasting the forces that encouraged or limited the extension of absolute monarchy in England and France; explains how and why France erupted in revolution, considers the course this revolution took; and examines how Napoleon both spread and betrayed the French Revolution; and discusses the effects of labor mechanization on the lives of the European working class. One source is listed in the bibliography.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGessays.rtf
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absolute monarchy is a ruler within whom power is completely concentrated. This leader exerts total authority or dominion over the people, all socioeconomic classes, groups, and religious bodies.
An absolute monarch does not rely upon law or a constitution to legitimize his or her leadership; it is a position into which one is born and educationally groomed for.
Unlike France and its other European neighbors, England had not always been keen on an absolute monarchy because it was a very loose configuration of very primitive and oftentimes
violent groups like the Anglos and the Saxons. In the case of England the stability that an absolute monarchy represented ultimately cemented it as a central power source.
But free-spending kings like James I and his equally extravagant son and successor Charles I were more interested in spending Englands money than in offering strong leadership that would unify
the many English territories and peoples. When the English Parliament attempted to pass legislation that would impose strong limits on Charles spending, he dissolved the Parliament and installed himself
as Englands lone or absolute ruler. He would only call a meeting of Parliament in session whenever it served his purpose - such as whenever he needed funding for
one of the many wars he was fighting. This constant in-fighting between the English monarch and Parliament led to a civil war that toppled Charles and installed Parliaments champion
Oliver Cromwell. However, his Protectorate government approach, which amounted to dictatorship, actually served to extend the practice of absolute monarchy. Soon, Cromwell was out and Roman Catholic sympathizers
Charles II and his brother James II were in. But when James became a Catholic convert, the English people rallied against the absolute monarchy, and William of Oranges Glorious
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