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PARLIAMENTARISM AND ELIGHTENED DESPOTISM - Coggle Diagram
PARLIAMENTARISM AND
ELIGHTENED DESPOTISM
Absolutism and parliamentarism
Absolute monarchies
Legitimised by an ideology
Supperiority of the king over all others
Characteristics
A permanent army
A royal treasury
Centralisation of political and administrative decisions
Parliaments structured in estates
Louis XIV
Known as te "Sun King"
The most representative
Parliamentary monarchies
Developed legal systems that contrlled the monachs power
Through actions of courts and parliaments
Englad the main example
Parliamentary republican political system
Governed by nobility and wealthy middle classes
Common in
The Holy Roman Empire
Italian peninsula
High levels of econimoc and cultural development
Individual freedoms
Did not make large states
Weak against invasions
Except the United Provinces
Elightened despotism
It was avariant of absolutism
Implemented in vaious Europen countries
Spain
Prussia
France
Russia
Additional reforms
Political reforms
No parliaments or courts
Regalist reform
Designed to gain priviledges within the church
Apointed different positions
Economic reforms
Improve income from the royal state
Manual workers were teught skills
Enlightened despots
Louis XV
Catherin II
Carlos III
Catherin II
Contacted with
Voltaire
D'Alembert
Diderot
Only implemented ideas to increas her power
It was said that they did was
All for the people, but without the people
