| − | '''Rule by one person — a monarch, usually a king or a queen — whose actions are restricted neither by written law nor by custom; a system different from a constitutional monarchy and from a republic. Absolute monarchy persisted in France until 1789 and in Russia until 1917.
| + | Rule by one person — a monarch, usually a king or a queen — whose actions are restricted neither by written law nor by custom; a system different from a constitutional monarchy and from a republic. Absolute monarchy persisted in France until 1789 and in Russia until 1917. |
| − | I think Henry VIII best described an absolute monarchy when he stated,"I am the state."
| + | Henry VIII showed that he was an absolute monarchy when he stated, "I am the state." |