Absolutism, the political principle and exercise
of unlimited, central power and complete sovereignty, as conferred
particularly in a monarch or dictator.
The principle of an absolutist system is that the reigning power is not issue
to regularized test or checked by any other organization, be it legal, governmental,
spiritual, financial, or democratic. The weakening of the Papacy managed the
growth of a number of rulers effectively declared their authority and
established absolute rule.
