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PARLIAMENTARIANISM AND ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM
Absolutism and parliamentarism
ABSOLUTE MONARCHIES
The King has all the power and it is considered a divine power given by God
superiority pf the king's power over all
other characteristics
growing centralisation of decision power in
monarchy’s government bodies
decisions in royal courts
permanent army under oreder of the King
royal treasury able to collect income
marginalisation of
courts
parliaments
PARLIAMENTARY REPUBLICAN POLITICAL SYSTEMS
There is a parliament and there isn't a King
who governed?
were elected by local assemblies
wealthy middle class members
members of the novility
Where?
Holy Empire
Italian Peninsula
characteristics
high levels of econmic+cultural development
inhabitants had some individual freedoms
were weak againts Monarch's military power
they were small
United Provinces was an exception
had its own colonial empire
PARLIAMENTARY MONARCHIES
The King/moonarch has simbolic power. The parliament has the real power
to controll the monarch's power developed
institutional+legal systems
controlled by the couts/parliaments
England main example
because of the Bill of Rights
signed after the Glorious Revolution
by the new Monarchs
limited monarch's power + recognised the rights of the individual
major changes took place with this system
remained stable during the 18th century
Enlightened despotism
Additional reforms
Regalist reforms
give privileges to the regalists
upper cleregy and nobility
apointment of high positions in the Church
tax exemptions
Economic reforms
aim:
increase income from royal estate
Improvements in
agriculture
communication routes
introduced crafts and commerce
tought manual skills
Politic reforms
no more parliaments or courts
provincial government reorganised
to strenght the kings power
Catherin "The Great" empress of Russia
enlightened despot
in contact with the most important thinkers
only apply the reforms that made her more powerfull
reforms
central provincial government
created courts for
noblemen
middle class
free peasants
harsh polices for peasants
popular uprising
serfs administered justice by masters
dictatorship that wanted to carry on some of the enlightement reforms
All for the pople but without the people
the power of the absolut monarch didn't decrease
where?
France
Prussia
Frederick II of Prussia
Spain
Russia
Catherine II of Russia
enlightened thinkers worked as advisers
rationalise how monarchies work
improve administrative+institutional bodies
make the more efficient
monarch thought
these new ideas would make them govern
more efficiently
legitimise their power
academies did studies for them
science and arts promoted in European courts
