ABSOLUTISM

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ABSOLUTISM

• CONSTITUTIONALISM

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On a piece of paper create two columns and title
one column Absolutism and the other
Constitutionalism. Now contrast the two forms of
government based on what the words conjure up in
your mind.
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Characteristics of Absolutism

• I am the State
• Divine Right--word was final infallible, but
  not arbitrary
• Monarch controlled any legislative body
• All power vested in the Monarch
• People must submit to Monarchs law or they will
  experience the violence of their
  passions--Monarch restrains license provides
  order in the jungle
• JUSTIFICATION
• Monarchy the most common, the oldest and most
  natural form of government
• Nature--father--paternal authority--born subjects
• ROYAL AUTHORITY IS SACRED, PATERNAL, ABSOLUTE
  AND RULED BY REASON! (Bishop Bossuet--1627-1704)

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VERSAILLES
Park
Courtyard
Hall of Mirrors
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POSSIBLE VOCABULARY
Henry IV (r. 1589-1610)
Colbert Edict of Nantes (1598) Revocation of
Edict of Nantes (1685) Nobility of the
Robe War - Spanish Succession(1702-13) Duke of
Sully Peace of Utrecht (1713) Louis XIII (r.
1610-1643) Brandonburg-Prussia Marie de
Medicis Frederick William-Great Elector
1640-88 Cardinal Richelieu (p.1624-1642) Junkers C
ardinal Mazarin (p.1643-1661) Frederick I (r.
1688-1713) Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715) Leopold I
(r.1657-1705) Fonde Jan Sobieski (r.
1674-1696) Jean Racine Siege of Vienna
(1683) Jean-Baptiste Moliere Ivan IV (r.1533-84)
The Terrible Baroque Time of Troubles
(1584-1613) Michael Ramanov (r.1613-1645)
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POSSIBLE VOCABULARY

• Peter The Great (r. 1689-1725) Levellers (Social
  Justice)
• Gustavus Adolphus (r. 1611-1632) Rump Parliament
• Charles XII (r. 1697-1718) Commonwealth
  (1649-1660)
• Battle of Poltava (1709) Lord Protector (1543)
• Treaty of Nystad (1721) Thomas Hobbes
  (1588-1679)
• Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) The Leviathan (1651)
• Act of Supremacy (1534) Charles II (r.1660-1685)
• James I (r. 1603-1625) Samuel Pepys (Diaries)
• Puritans John Bunyan, Pilgrims Progress
• Pilgrims Test Act - 1673
• Charles I (r. 1625-1649) James II (r. 1685-1688)
• Long Parliament (1640-1653) The Glorius
  Revolution
• Cavaliers William Mary
• Roundheads Bill of Rights (1689)
• Oliver Cromwell John Locke (1623-1704)

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CONSTITUTIONALISM

• ENGLAND
• English Civil War 1640-1660
• Restoration - 1660
• Glorious Revolution - 1688
• HOLLAND
• Republic of the 7 Provinces 1581-1795
• Dutch Golden Age