Sabrinna's Advice Study Guide Unit 3 Quiz (Know your isms, and the dif Louis and Henerys) Flashcards
Mercantilism
A:
B:
Constitutionalism
A: A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subjects or citizens on the other hand; could include constitutional monarchies or republics. (Ch. 5)
Republicanism
A: A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives. (Ch. 5)
B: Oliver Cromwell is best known for leading Parliamentarian forces in the English Civil War, becoming Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and playing a key role in the execution of King Charles I. He became a /tyrant and militantly enforced Puritan ideals and religion onto the people.
Absolutism
A: Absolutism is a political system where a single ruler, often a monarch, holds supreme, unrestricted power, typically without any legal or institutional checks or limitations. Absolutism was also the dominant form of monarchical rule among the more than one thousand states that composed the Holy Roman Empire.
B: Ex Louis XIV and Peter the Great of Russia.
constitutional monarchy
A: Constitutional monarchy, is a form of gov in which a monarchy (hereditary or elected) ruled but within legal limitations.
