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PARLIAMENTARIANISM AND ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM - Coggle Diagram
PARLIAMENTARIANISM AND ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM
Absolutism and parliamentarianism
Absolute monarchies
Superiority of the king’s power over all others
Growing centralisation of political and administrative decisions in the royal courts and the monarchy’s government bodies
Permanent army under the orders of the king
Royal treasury able to raise revenue
Marginalisation of the courts and parliaments structured in estates
Parliamentary monarchies
England was the main example
Kings rule with the condition that they sign the Bill of Rights
Parliamentary republican political systems
Governed by members of the nobility and wealthy middle class elected by local assemblies
Enlightened despotism
Variant of absolutism
Incorporated ‘trickledown’ reforms inspired by the Enlightenment
Did not decrease the absolute power of the monarchs
Additional reforms
Economic reforms
Increase income from the royal estate
Political reforms
Parliaments or courts were no longer convened
Regalist reforms
Designed to gain privileges within the Church
