They broke down feudalism and helped to build the absolutist dynastic state, wherever the Roman law was in force, and wherever it had greatly influenced the legal system.
He was a statesman and he wanted to make the empire into a real state of the absolutist type.
A scheme on the part of the Republicans for adopting the Constitution of the United States, but retaining Pedro as hereditary President, caused him to dismiss his Ministers, and surround himself with men of the Absolutist party.
Supported by the Portuguese or Absolutist party, Pedro went his way, and, even in his latter days of rule, refused to sign Bills for the development of the Constitution.
Abandoning his liberal views, the pope now put himself more and more under the influence of the Jesuits, and his absolutist and reactionary politics were directed by Card.
He had stripped the magical prestige from the absolutist monarchy in France.
The breaking away of the Netherlands from absolutist monarchy was on the face of it much more of a religious and national affair and much less economic and social than the English parliamentary revolution.
Perhaps he was thinking of the words of the absolutist Louis XIV.
Bismarck overturns that basis, substitutes in its place absolutist and Prussian unification, secularized teaching, and religious discord.
Prince Bismarck, whose absolutist tendencies have long been recognized, not content with his success in creating an empire one and indivisible, desires to found a German church, to be conducted on strictly military and autocratic principles.
Socialism would introduce, indeed, the most vexatious and all-encompassing absolutist government ever invented.
The successor upon theabsolutist throne was Louis XV, great- grandson of Louis XIV and a boy of five years of age, who did not undertake to exercise personal power until near the middle of the eighteenth century.
Upon Frederick's death in 1533, the Catholics made a determined effort to prevent the accession of his son, Christian III, who was not only an avowed Lutheran but was known to stand for absolutist principles in government.
In order to prevent the nobles from recovering political power, the absolutist monarchs enlisted the services of the faithful middle class, which speedily attained an enviable position in the principal European states.
Since the accession of Louis XI (1461), the French monarchs with their absolutist tendencies had endeavored to remove this ancient check upon their authority: they had convoked it only in times of public confusion or economic necessity.
They gained control of the Catholic Church within their countries and found it a most valuable ally in forwarding their absolutist tendencies.
Sidenote: Louis XIV the Heir to Absolutist Tendencies] Louis XIV profited by the earlier work of Henry IV, Sully, Richelieu, and Mazarin.
Their king was dependent upon him for financial support in maintaining an absolutist government.
Politically the French evolved a form of absolutist divine-right monarchy, which became the pattern of all European monarchies, that of England alone excepted.
If the country is a republic she wishes to introduce absolutism; if it is an absolutist Government then she seeks to encourage republicanism.
And so, to Prince Schwarzenberg's serious disappointment, the scheme by which he had hoped to create an absolutist Italian federation, came to an untimely end.
Thenceforward the absolutist theories of the 13th and 14th centuries increasingly dominated the Roman Church.
Upon the anarchy that would follow the absolutist regime was to be erected.
It had been behind the revolution that had recreated an absolutist monarchy in Spain.
We had had enough of that under theabsolutist government; what we wanted was honest, energetic co-operation for a common purpose, the welfare of country and nation.
I inquired the reason of these demonstrations, and was told that these men were traitors, who had filled offices under the absolutist government of the Austrians.
But priest-ridden absolutist as he was, he never quite forgot his patriotic faith, he always had some vision, faint though it often was, of an Italy untrodden by the foreign soldier.
I came through Savoy and Switzerland to France, at a time in which the Government of Louis Philippe, not yet acknowledged by the absolutist Governments, was active in exciting all insurrectional schemes, both in Spain and Italy.
Whether absolutist or constitutional, it was a sham, because in modern life it corresponded to no real belief, no essential principle; and because it was a sham, it was the fruitful parent of dishonesty.
Martainville urges the Government on to Absolutist measures; he is more likely to bring on another Revolution than if he had gone over to the extreme Left.
D'Arthez's absolutist opinions were not known; it was taken for granted that he shared the views of his clique, he fell under the same anathema, and he was to be the first victim.
Absolutist and military government now again prevailed at Prague.
There is little to note of Prague in the following years; it was not the scene of warlike events, and the former municipal struggles ceased under a severely absolutist Government.
It became an Italian power of the first magnitude, devoted to the absolutist principles of Spanish and Papal sovereignty.
And it was clear to impartial observers that, in the event of any great strain upon the power of the governments, the absolutist system would break down.
Beneath an outward gloss of refinement these nobles were, as a class, coarse and selfish, and they made it their chief object to promote their own interests by fostering absolutist tendencies.
The absolutist governments, in protection of their divine right, have leagued in a saintly alliance, with the openly avowed purpose to aid one another by mutual interference against the spirit of revolution and the anarchy of republicanism.
Who could guarantee that the English aristocracy will not join in the absolutist combination, if the people of the United States, by a timely manifestation of its sentiments, does not encourage the public opinion of England itself?
It were indeed a great misfortune to see the government of Great Britain pushed by irritation to side with the absolutist powers against the oppressed nations about to struggle for independence and liberty.
Absolutist reaction goes with all that arrogance which revolts every sentiment, and infuriates the very child in its mother's arms.
Now, as to your Minister at Vienna, how you can reconcile the letting him stay there with your opinion of the cause of Hungary, I do not know; for the present absolutist atmosphere of Europe is not very propitious to American principles.
But if the United States should again adhere to the policy of indifference (which is no policy at all), then indeed England may perhaps yield to the threatening attitude of the absolutist powers.
The Austrian Ministry has openly declared that the absolutist powers will maintain him.
Rouher, who was a supporter of the absolutist regime, was able to refuse all fresh claims on the part of the Liberals.
