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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of absolute monarchy in the early modern period?

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Absolute monarchy, or absolutism, meant that the ultimate authority to run a state was in the hands of a king who ruled by divine right. Divine right was the claim that a king was given his position by some higher power.

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