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PARLIAMENTARIANISM AND ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM
ABSOLUTISM AND PARLIAMENTARIANISM
18th century
End of the Modern Age
Beginning of Contemporary Age
ABSOLUTE MONARCHIES
king’s power
supperior than the others
growing centralisation
political decisions
administrative decisions
permanent army
orders of the king
Royal treasury
PARLIAMENTARY MONARCHIES
controlled the monarch’s power
institutional systems
legal systems
England
took place
social changes
economic changes
PARLIAMENTARY REPUBLICAN POLITICAL SYSTEMS
In Europe
governed by
nobility
wealthy middle class
high levels of economic and cultural development
Inhabitants
have some individual freedoms
ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM
A variant of absolutism
use trickledown reforms
European countries
Important Enlightenment thinkers
worked as
government advisers
ministers under monarchs
ADDITIONAL REFORMS
Economic reforms
increase income from the royal estate
Improvements in
communication routes
agriculture
crafts
commerce
Political reforms
Parliaments or courts
no more convened
Regalist reforms
designed to gain privileges
CATHERINE ‘THE GREAT’
From 1729 to1796
She was an Enlightenment despotism
She contact the most important Enlightenment thinkers
