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| Form of government in which sovereignity is vested in a single person. |
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| Political system where heads of government administrative departments serve as a group to advise the head of the state. |
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| Implies a balance between authority nd power of the government on the one hand, and on the other the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen. |
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| Novel Authored by Miguel de Cervantes, perhaps the greatest work of Spanish literature. |
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| A joint stock company chartered by the States-General of the Netherlands to expand trade and promote relations between the dutch Government and its colonial ventures. |
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| Style of French art, architecture, and literature, based on admiration and imitation of Greek and Roman models. |
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| Series of violent uprisings during the minority of Louis XIV triggered by oppressive taxation of the common people, ambitions of the nobles, and efforts of the parliament of Paris. |
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| Prevailing theory of European nations in 16th and 17th centuries. It rested on the premise that a nation's power and wealth were determined by its supply of precious metal. |
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| Series of treaties that ended the War of the Spanish Succession, ended French Expansion in Europe, and marked the rise of the British Empire. |
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| Members of a 18th century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated "purifying" it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonial, the wedding ring. |
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| Political theory articulated by French statesmen Richelieu that holds that the interests and needs of the state may take precedence over traditional, noral, and international law. |
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| American context, traditionally a state governed by representatives elected on a broad basis of suffrage who serve the interests of all the people. |
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| Second Treatise on Civil Government |
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| By English political philosopher John Locke, a justification of the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89. |
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| The supreme authority in a political communtiy. |
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| Its representative, or chief executive officer in each province. |
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| Term used by the national assembly of the United Provinces of the Netherlands where the wealthy merchant class held real power. |
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| A 20th century development (and thus not to be confused with absolutism) that exalted the authority of the state and claimed that right to direct all facets of a state's culture-law, art, education, economy, religion, etc. |
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