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Absolutism (Britannica)
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Encyclopaedia Britannica's topic entry on absolutism, the political doctrine and practice of unlimited centralized authority vested in a monarch or dictator, naming absolute monarchy as its most commonly studied form.
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PublisherEncyclopaedia Britannica
URLhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/absolutism-political-system
Source Typeencyclopedia
Reliability Tier1
General encyclopedia with editorial review; standard tertiary reference. Sources
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- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
- Systems of Government, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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