King Louis XIV reign of France was exampled by an absolute monarchy, which gave him the ultimate governing authority over his sovereign state and subjects. Louis was a believer in dictatorship by devine right, and viewed himself as God’s representative on earth. In Bossuet’s Holy Writ, he speaks of how, “Rulers then act as the ministers of God and as his lieutenants on earth, it is through them that God exercises his empire” (www.history.hanover.edu). Bossuet lets the people know that as God is the ruler of everything, he has a king who he uses on earth to rule over them while they are on earth to guide their decisions. Louis, in the early stages of his reign as the sole ruler of France, after the death of Cardinal Mazarin, showed strong determination to be a real king.
This ‘Right of Conquest’ gave rulers a legitimate claim to a throne because of their military might. As well as being a means of establishing rule, the use of force was also necessary for maintaining political control of any given territory. Many rulers spent much of their reigns travelling around their lands, giving a visible presence, enforcing royal rights and discouraging any rebellion by a show of force. This was the case for the rule of Louis VI of France, who was infamous for spending much of his life on horseback ‘enforcing royal rights ruthlessly’ and having to ‘defeat numerous petty vassals’ . Force was also
Louis XIV From the start of his rein of France, Louis XIV ruled his country through divine right. He sought to consolidate power throughout France by establishing an absolute monarch. King Louis XIV wanted to control everything from law making to determine taxes. Louis XIV started to gain his absolute monarch through several wars, which would eventually move France into the golden age. He also used the quote, “ L’Etat, c’est moi”, which translates to “ I am the state”.
In the 1600’s Louis XIV used absolutism to gain power and to do what he thought is the most beneficial thing for his country. Louis XIV was one of the first leaders to use absolute power and even now those techniques are still used. Louis XIV and Hu Jintao used ceremonies to make themselves appear more important, policies against religious minorities, and economic advisors and economic reforms to increase power. These specific methods are what Hu Jintao and Louis XIV enforced during their time of leadership and is why they were able to gain power over nations. Louis XIV used the Palace of Versailles as his center of political power by having huge ceremonies to make himself look powerful and important.
With the Fronde in the back of Louis’s mind, he was to make an effective choice of picking members for his council, which would rule his political, military, administrative, and economical affairs. Louis chose his council members from families long in royal service or from among people just beginning to work their way in the social structure. Louis liked having direct control over his subjects, not only council members, or noble classes, but even in religion. Louis believed that the state of France would be better worked not only under one king and one law, but as well under one religious system, and thus Louis would no longer tolerate the Reformed church in France. Louis then revoked the Edict of Nantes and many of the Reformed Church members either left France or converted to Catholicism.
An Nguyen History 103 Theme paper 2 5/12/2009 Religion and Politics in Ancient Laws Throughout the ages of history, code laws were created to keep peace for civilizations. These codes were made with the purpose of attaching the so called “human laws” as close to “heaven laws” as possible no matter which civilization or which religion. Therefore, I want to show the attachment of the political and religious interpretation of the laws by examining the Hammurabi codes and Justinian codes and using the common phenomena method. According to Mesopotamia carvings, the king is commonly the biggest figure in any scene that includes him. So there is no denial to the fact that kings were indeed the figure of God.
They achieved this by penalizing France with indemnities; however, they didn’t embitter France to want to fight for revenge. Castlereagh approved of this because peace meant that trade could continue with one of Britain’s most important trading partners. It was also decided that France should take part in the future Congresses, consequently the Quadruple Alliance was transformed into the Quintuple Alliance; this was supported by Castlereagh which shows how he wanted to maintain peace with France. Castlereagh opposed harsh treatment towards France because of the consequences that would arise from a negative relationship. However, to maintain the peace with France and of course other powers, the congress balanced the powers by the introduction and reappointment of other states such as the grouping of Belgium and Holland to act as a buffer against France.
That monarch's powers are not limited by a constitution or by the law. King Louis XIV of France once said, "The head alone has the right to deliberate and decide, and the functions of all the other members consist only in carrying out the commands given to them." Even though Thomas Hobbes isn't an absolute monarch, he too has an opinion on absolutism. He wrote in Leviathan, "An invader hath no more to fear then another man's single power," meaning that the absolute monarchs should be feared. Machiavelli agrees with being feared since he says, "Men have less hesitation in offending a man who is loved then one who is
Henry VII Essay 18/5/2012 I think that Henry VII made a great leader, looking at all the key achievements of his here it makes me think that there can’t have been many kings as powerful, clever, and strong as hi. He was great militarily and financially but it is obvious that overall what he found easiest was being a great politician. His achievements of making alliances through marriage show that he must have been an extremely persuasive man to have so many relatives married to princes, princesses, queens and kings in other countries are proof of him being almightily powerful, possibly to the extent that he would never have been able to have his empire struck down. He was invincible in every way and form. Militarily he must have been strong because he kept on repelling off rebelling hordes and to take the English throne in the first place he must have had great tactics, as at the battle of Bosworth he was outnumbered and outgunned in the first hour of the battle yet
In the adaptation by Neil L. Cooney it’s mentioned that Thomas Hobbes had three ideas. The first one it states that God gave the right of government upon the king or the monarch. This meant that the people were supposed to listen to the king because he had the same power as God. Since Britain and France wanted to get rid of their king they had to come up with new ideas of the origin of government. Making a “Social Contract” where it stated that God’s authority was actually given to the people and not the king himself.