Absolute Monarchy
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Rule by one person â a monarch, usually a king or a queen â 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.
Henry VIII put described an absolute monarchy when he stated "I am the state."