Examples of despotism in the following topics:
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- Enlightened despots, inspired by the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, held that royal power
emanated not from divine right but from a social contract whereby a despot was
entrusted with the power to govern in lieu of any other
governments.
- Enlightened despots held that royal power emanated not from divine right but from a social contract whereby a despot was entrusted with the power to govern in lieu of any other governments.
- The difference between a despot and an enlightened despot is based on a broad analysis of the degree to which they embraced the Age of Enlightenment.
- However, historians debate the actual implementation of enlightened despotism.
- Enlightened despotism is the theme of an essay by Frederick the Great, who ruled Prussia from 1740 to 1786, defending this system of government.
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- Montesquieu defines three main political systems: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
- The distinction between monarchy and despotism hinges on whether or not a fixed set of laws exists that can restrain the authority of the ruler.
- If not, it counts as despotism.
- Political liberty is not possible in a despotic political system, but it is possible, though not guaranteed, in republics and monarchies.
- He is also known for doing more than any other author to secure the place of the word despotism in the political lexicon.
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- Catherine the Great enthusiastically supported the ideals of the Enlightenment, thus earning the status of an enlightened despot, although her reforms benefited a small number of her subjects and did not change the oppressive system of Russian serfdom.
- She enthusiastically
supported the ideals of the Enlightenment, thus earning the status of an
enlightened despot.
- This philosophy of
enlightened despotism implied that the sovereign knew the interests of his or
her subjects better than they themselves did.
- Evaluate Catherine the Great's domestic policies and to what extent she can be considered an enlightened despot
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- British liberals considered this framework of blue water empire to be anti-despotic—the government sought trade markets abroad in order to extend imperial influence commercially, without arbitrary territorial expansion.
- Furthermore, Catholicism was the traditional state religion of Spain and France—nations that, according to British liberals, were traditionally ruled by authoritarian, despotic, monarchical power.
- British Protestants thus claimed that Catholicism tended to lead to political despotism.
- British liberals viewed representative government as a hallmark of Protestantism because it counteracted the despotic, authoritarian, and "Catholic" tendencies of monarchy and arbitrary power.
- Broadly, the "language of liberty" includes widespread political participation, the duty of the citizen to safeguard against arbitrary despotism, and the right of citizens to life and liberty.
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- The phrase is generally traced back to a comment by Thomas Jefferson, referring to the despotic behavior of Federalist federal judges, in particular, John Marshall.
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- The first conscription act in North America authorizing Davis to draft soldiers was viewed as the, "essence of military despotism."
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- Modern archaeological and anthropological evidence shows that many early societies were not as centralized, despotic, or unequal as the hydraulic theory would suggest.
- In hydraulic civilizations, control over water concentrated power in central despotic states.
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- The belief that it was the duty of virtuous citizens to resist political despotism and corruption came to fruition during the American Revolution.
- Parliament and George III were viewed as corrupt, despotic tyrants that were systematically destroying the fundamental liberties of their colonial subjects.
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- The Anti-Federalists were composed of diverse elements, including those opposed to the Constitution because they thought that a stronger government threatened the sovereignty and prestige of the states, localities, or individuals; those who claimed that a new centralized power would only replace the cast-off despotism of Great Britain, and those who simply feared that the new government threatened their personal liberties.
- While individualism and state autonomy were the strong elements of opposition, all anti-federalists also argued for the necessity of a bill of rights to protect individual liberties from federal despotism.
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- A hydraulic empire (also known as hydraulic despotism, or water monopoly empire) is a social or governmental structure which maintains power through exclusive control over water access.
- Karl August Wittfogel, the German scholar who first developed the notion of the hydraulic empire, argued in his book, Oriental Despotism (1957), that strong government control characterized these civilizations because a particular resource (in this case, river water) was both a central part of economic processes and environmentally limited.