Absolutism and the Enlightenment

What is divine right?

• The right to rule was given to the monarch by God
• a Birth right
• soldiers for hire
• a monarch for hire

Who was Louis XIV?

• This man promoted Westernization campaigns to make his country more European

• This man demonstrated absolutism by building Versailles as a way of distracting the French nobility

• This man believed that humans were naturally good and would not need a large government to rule over them.

• This man did not believe that the average person was intelligent enough to participate in government, which led him to believe that an enlightened monarchy was best.

The English Bill of Rights

• created a constitutional monarchy.

• resolved all of England's seventeenth-century religious questions.

• reaffirmed the divine-right theory of kingship while limiting the king's power.

• confirmed the king's right to raise standing armies without parliamentary consent.

Absolutism means

• the real power in any state must be religious and exercised by the church.

• ultimate authority rests solely in the hands of a king who rules by divine right.

• subordinate powers have an absolute right to advise the king on conducting the affairs of state.

• no matter how humble, male citizens have an absolute right to participate in politics.

Known as the Sun King and the ruler of France. Was the perfect example of an absolute monarch.

• King James II

• King Phillip

• Louis XIV

• Louis XXI

a political theory that absolute power should be vested in the ruler

• Divine Right

• Absolutism

• Versailles

• Renaissance

The English Bill of Rights was meant to..

• protect the rights of a leader so they can't be beheaded

• protect the rights of the parliament from the King or Queen

• protect the rights of the people from the King or Queen

• protect the rights of the people and the King but not a Queen

“When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates (government officials), there can be no liberty; because apprehensions (fears) may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner…”--Baron de Montesquieu
Which solution would Montesquieu offer to avoid the enactment of tyrannical laws?

• separating the branches of government
• reinstating absolute monarchs
• limiting natural laws
• granting freedom of speech

What did the Magna Carta do?

• Gave more power to the King
• Limited the power of the King
• Got rid of the Feudal System in England
• Gave more power to the Common People

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Locke argued that we had 3 main natural rights. What are they? (Select 3)

• Life

• Liberty

• Pursuit of Happiness

• Property