The Theories of Absolutism

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1. Jean Bodin argued that the most supreme authority of a monarch was

• to give laws
• to accumulate wealth
• to grant titles
• to issues religious doctrine

3. Bossuet is most closely associated with which idea?

• the secular power of monarchy
• the complete and unquestionable power of monarchy
• the emphasis on the evil mankind
• the kings should be considered little gods on earth

4. Bossuet's idea's in "Politics Drawn from the Very Words of the Holy Scriptures" address all the following except:

• the divine right theory of kingship
• royal power is absolute
• the use of holy scriptures to support his political theories
• rejected of religion as the basis of political power

5. King James I's argument in a speech he gave to Parliament was that monarchs were political fathers to their people, and their power in state is similar to the divine power of God so, therefore they should be consider to be little gods on earth.

• True
• False

6. Machiavelli's ideas in "The Prince" are about

• monarchs should use holy scripture as a basis of all their political power
• that an effective ruler must be both intelligent and courageous and pragmatic
• the focus of the prince should be on maintaining what his predecessor started and never changing anything.
• a ruler should be fair and reasonable at all costs even if it costs him some of his power.

7. Thomas Hobbes' main rational for the need a of strong monarch rests upon the premise that

• in the absence of a strong power, men will rely on their own strength which leads to chaos
• that it is divinely ordained that there should be a strong king to rule over men
• that men are all naturally good therefore a king will be good, and will always do what is best
• that each generation, men should confer on the monarch this type of power or live on their own without one

8. This group fought against the Catholic forces of France in civil war between 1562 and 1598.

• Hugeuenots
• Spain
• The skeptics
• The papal forces of Rome