Author Question: Jacques Bossuet's Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture A) rejected as ungodly ... (Read 131 times)

Mr. Wonderful · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Absolutism means that

A) the real power in any state must be religious and exercised by the church.
B) ultimate authority rests solely in the hands of a king who rules by divine right.
C) subordinate powers have an absolute right to overrule the king on conducting the affairs of state.
D) no matter how humble, male citizens have an absolute right to participate in politics.
E) rule by a secular dictator, justifying his/her authority by supposedly serving the people.

Question 2

Robert and Helen Lynd published a study about

A) the effects of Prohibition on American society.
B) the effects of slavery on African Americans.
C) the effects of consumption on the spread of modernity.
D) the effects of suffrage on women.
E) the effects of corruption on local government.

Question 3

Jacques Bossuet's Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture

A) rejected as ungodly Louis XIV's system of absolute rule.
B) was the fundamental seventeenth-century statement of divine-right monarchy.
C) stressed that a limited monarchy with representative bodies was the most divine form of human government.
D) claimed that a king's authority and power were revocable under the law of God.
E) justified a holy republic.