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How did absolute monarchs treat the freedoms to speak and write one's mind

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As the very term shows, absolute monarchies, which arose after the decline of feudal lord power in the Middle Ages, arose as one person, usually a king, took control over every single aspect, and gained full and total control, over the lives of the people within a territory that belonged to said ruler.

As such, absolute monarchs never permitted such a luxury as freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, or freedom of expression to their vassals, that was unheard of. You can take such monarchs as Henry VIII, or his daughter Elizabeth. These rulers had absolute power, and control, and no one, not their people, not their nobles, no one, controlled them.

Only nobility, and those who belonged to royalty, had any access at all to the king, or queen, and thus were the only ones allowed to speak to them. Depending on the status of the person, he/she might have influenced the king or queen, but in general, there was absolutely no liberty to speak one´s mind, and even less freely write about that. Those who did could end up in jail, at the least, or executed, at the very worst.

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Absolute monarchs almost always never allowed the Freedom of Speech or the Freedom of the Press. They ruled with the province of God Almighty and abhored the idea of the common man speaking his mind or using writing to criticize his government.

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