In England, absolutism could never be fully accepted. Ever since the ratification of the Magna Carta in Magna Carta , the English aristocracy and clergy had enforced their respective interests against the ruling monarch. Attempts to establish an absolute monarchy led to the English Civil War — During the reign of King William III — and his successors, a constitutional framework for English politics was established which was based on cooperation between the Crown and the Parliament.
In several political entities in Europe, no attempt to establish absolute rule was ever made. Important examples included the Swiss Confederacy, the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, the aristocratic Republic of Venice, and the elective-monarchy in Poland, which was transformed over time into an aristocratic republic. The one common feature is the immense power of the respective monarch in his state and in most cases hereditary succession.
The Constitution of Brunei Darussalam: 29 September as Amended to 21 February and as Reprinted Brunei dates back to the time when the Sultanate was still a British protectorate. Almost all of its 86 articles also describe powers of the Sultan; often such powers are only laid down to secure the ultimate influence on every decision taken in state affairs whenever another organ is acting. Article 84 of the Constitution deals with the effect of the Constitution on the Sultan.
According to Article 84 the government of Brunei Darussalam shall be regulated in accordance with the provision of the Constitution, while nothing in the Constitution shall be deemed to derogate from the prerogative powers and the jurisdiction of the Sultan. An interesting feature of the Constitution of Brunei Darussalam is that in Article 3 it transfers a religious role to the monarch. According to this provision, the official religion of the Sultanate shall be Islam and the head of the religion is the Sultan relation of religion to state and society.
According to this provision, the supreme executive authority of the state shall be vested in the Sultan. According to Article 4 2 , the executive authority shall be exercised by the Sultan or by the Council of Ministers or by any Minister authorized by the Council of Ministers. The Prime Minister is, according to Article 4 3 responsible to the Sultan for the exercise of the executive authority.
The Privy Council Art. According to Article 39 it shall be lawful for the Sultan, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, and subject to the provisions of the constitution, to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of Brunei Darussalam. The Legislative Council itself consists of 21 members who were all nominated by the Sultan. Moreover, according to Article 85 1 the Sultan is competent to change the Constitution.
Beside his role as Sultan, Qaboos holds a number of other official positions. To secure his power, Qaboos also fills important positions in his state with loyal family members.
Political parties are not allowed in Oman political parties or fractions in legislative body. After demonstrations took place in Muscat, the Sultan announced a plan to reconstruct the constitutional system of Oman towards a constitutional monarchy monarchical constitutions. Whoever is to be chosen from amongst those descendants must be a Muslim, mature, rational, and the legitimate son of Omani Muslim parents.
According to Article 6 , the Royal Family Council shall, within three days of the throne falling vacant, determine the successor to the throne. Furthermore, the Sultan is described by the article as the symbol of national unity as well as its guardian and defender. Article 42 lists the functions of the Sultan which include the preservation of the independence of Oman and its territorial integrity, the protection of the international and external security of Oman, and the safeguarding of the rights and freedoms of citizens.
The Sultan is also in charge of ensuring the rule of law, directing the general policy of the state, representing Oman internally and in international relations, the establishment and regulation of the administrative, and the appointment and removal of state officials.
Other important functions include the declaration of a state of emergency types and effects of emergency , general mobilization, war and concluding peace declaration of war , the promulgation and ratification of laws, the signing of international conventions and treaties treaty power , the appointment of political representatives to other states and international organizations and relieving them of their office, accepting the credentials of representatives of other states and international organizations, pardoning pardon power or commuting any penalty, and conferring order of honour and military ranks.
This council consist of two sub-councils: the State Council and the Shura Council. The members of the State Council and its Chairman are appointed by virtue of a royal decree.
The State Council is composed of mostly former high-ranking officials or other people with influence in the Omani society. The Shura Council is appointed differently. It was created to broaden public participation in governmental affairs. The Shura Council consists of elected members. However, the ultimate influence of the monarch is secured by his power to dissolve the Shura Council in circumstances he determines and to call for a new election within four months from the date of the dissolution.
The competences of the Council of Oman are of a merely advisory nature. According to Article 59 , the dignity of the judiciary and the integrity and impartiality of the judges are a guarantee for rights and freedoms, and according to Article 60 the judiciary shall be independent independence of the judiciary. Article 61 establishes that there shall be no power over judges except for the law and they shall be irremovable expect in circumstances specified by the law.
The role of the Sultan concerning the judiciary is limited to the appointment of senior judges and relieving them of their office Art. Originally based in present-day Saudi Arabia, the tribe moved to Qatar in the s and settled in Doha in the 19th century.
The House of Thani established its rule over Qatar during the 19th century when its leaders opposed first Bahraini and later Ottoman rule over the Qatari Peninsula. The House of Thani stayed in power during this time as it did after the independence of the country in This development reaches as far back as In that year, and thus prior to national independence, a provisional system of governance was enacted Provisional Constitution of Qatar: Qatar and revised in to address new requirements.
The Amended Provisional Constitution of already incorporated elements for the future constitutional development of Qatar. In , monarch Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani announced the formation of a drafting committee for the development of a permanent constitution. On 29 April , a referendum was held in which Perhaps the most astonishing provision of the constitutional text is Article 1 where it is stated that the political system of the Emirate is democratic.
Moreover, Article 59 specifies that the people are the source of power. According to Article 8 , the rule of the state is hereditary in the family of Al Thani and in the line of the male descendants of Hamad bin Kahlifa bin Hamad bin Abdulla bin Jassim, who ruled Qatar from until The rule shall be inherited by the son named as Heir Apparent by the Emir.
If there is no son, the rule shall pass to the member of the family named by the Emir as Heir Apparent. In this case, the male descendants of the named person shall inherit the rule. The Emir shall, according to Article 9 , appoint the Heir Apparent by Emiri order after consultation with the members of the ruling family and people of wisdom in the state. The legislative authority, according to Article 61 , is held by the Al-Shoura Council. According to Article 62 , the executive is held by the Emir and according to Article 63 , the judicial authority is held by the courts.
This provision also declares his person to be inviolable and establishes the obligation that the monarch must be respected by all. He is assisted by the Council of Minsters Art. Furthermore, according to Article 65 , the Emir is the Commander-in-Chief.
By , the Dutch had overtaken Portugal as the dominant player in the spice and silk trade, and in founded a colony at Cape Town on the coast of South Africa, as a way-station for its ships on the route between Europe and Asia. In the Atlantic, the West India Company concentrated on wresting from Portugal its grip on the sugar and slave trade, and on opportunistic attacks on the Spanish treasure fleets on their homeward bound voyage.
Bahia on the north east coast of Brazil was captured in but only held for a year before it was recaptured by a joint Spanish-Portuguese expedition. In , the Dutch occupied the Portuguese sugar-settlement of Pernambuco and over the next few years pushed inland, annexing the sugar plantations that surrounded it. In order to supply the plantations with the manpower they required, an expedition was launched in from Brazil to capture the Portuguese slaving post of Elmina, and in successfully captured the Portuguese settlements in Angola.
Years of settlement had left large Portuguese communities under the rule of the Dutch, who were by nature traders rather than colonisers. In , the Portuguese community at Pernambuco rebelled against their Dutch masters, and by , the Dutch had been ousted from Brazil.
In the intervening years, a Portuguese expedition had been sent from Brazil to recapture Luanda in Angola, by the Dutch were expelled from there also.
The Dutch had been sending ships annually to the Hudson River to trade fur since Henry Hudson's voyage of In order to protect its precarious position at Albany from the nearby English and French, the Company founded the fortified town of New Amsterdam in at the mouth of the Hudson, encouraging settlement of the surrounding areas of Long Island and New Jersey.
The fur trade ultimately proved impossible for the Company to monopolise due to the massive illegal private trade in furs, and the settlement of New Netherland was unprofitable. In , the nearby colony of New Sweden on the Delaware River was forcibly absorbed into New Netherland after ships and soldiers were sent to capture it by the Dutch governor, Pieter Stuyvesant.
Ever since its inception, the Dutch East India Company had been in competition with its counterpart, the English East India Company, founded two years earlier but with a capital base eight times smaller, for the same goods and markets in the East.
In , the rivalry resulted in the Amboyna massacre, when several English Company men were executed by agents of the Dutch. The event remained a source of English resentment for several decades, and in the late s the English Company shifted its focus to from Indonesia to India. In , the English parliament passed the first of the Navigation Acts which excluded Dutch shipping from the lucrative trade between England and its Caribbean colonies, and led directly to the outbreak of hostilities between the two countries the following year.
The war would prove to be indecisive, but the English had failed to replace the Dutch as the leader of World trade. After two years of war, the Dutch, led by Michiel de Ruyter, destroyed or captured much of the British fleet at Medway, and England was forced to sue for peace. Under the Treaty of Breda , New Netherland was ceded to England in exchange for the English settlements in Suriname, which had been conquered by Dutch forces earlier that year.
England and France had secretly agreed to split the Netherlands between themselves, but after defeats at sea, and unable to cross the waterline, the French Army began a slow and cautious retreat out of the Republic. Peace was signed in The Glorious Revolution of saw the Dutch William of Orange invade England, and ascend to the throne, ending Fifty years of rivalry between the Netherlands and England, and brought the two countries into the Nine Years' War against France the same year.
The Anglo-Dutch fleet mostly Dutch dominated the seas, and France was unsuccessful. Peter installed an absolute monarchy in Russia, with absolutely no concept of the social contract.
Serfdom still remained strong in Russia, with no middle class nor urbanization. In Russia, advancement was based upon merit rather than birth or blood line. The ultimate goal of Peter's foreign policy was to obtain warm water ports for his nation, which were essential for trade, naval power, and access to the west. In the Great Northern War against Sweden, Russia defeated the Swedish army in Poltava by using the scorched earth policy , in which the Russians retreat, burn the crops or villages in the town, and wait for winter to take its toll upon the enemy troops.
As a result, the Russians successfully obtained their warm water port on the Baltic, which was named St. Petersburg and known as the "window to the west.
Peter enacted the "Great Embassy," which was a tour of Peter and his nobles through many Western European nations. The ultimate goal of the Great Embassy was to use the information collected to "westernize" Russia, as Peter was afraid of increasing Western power. Through the Great Embassy, Peter acquired many important technological skills, especially military technology, such as naval instruments, army tactics, ship building techniques, and naval strategy.
He imported foreign workers with technological skills as well, and introduced new attire that was being worn across the rest of Europe. He implemented the Julian calendar, which although was not the modern Gregorian calendar at the time, was more modern than what was being used in the past.
He established much better education, and he also established the first modern Russian army with , men. Nobles were required to perform state service in either the army or the bureaucracy. Baroque Art came to existence during the s and lasted through the mids. Baroque art was used by Catholics in the Counter-Reformation. Baroque Art can be characterized by its rich and vibrant colors, its intense use of light, great drama, and exuberance.
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See also ethics , normative ethics. Absolutism in this sense says, for example, that it is always wrong to kill, or always wrong to lie, or always wrong to tortue another. Absolutism upholds only the formal requirement that some moral principles admit of no exceptions—that there are some moral principles it is always wrong to break.
This implies that it is possible to be an absolutist about any action-type whatsoever, although most absolutists argue for their position by means of torture, killing of the innocent, and so on. Moral absolutism in this second sense is often held as opposed to consequentialism. Consequentialism is a theory according to which actions are right just in case they promote overall value in comparison with other alternatives. The upshot of this account is that no particular action or action-type could be absolutely wrong.
For example, torturing a small child may produce more value or less disvalue than the killing of an entire nation. Therefore, for a consequentialist, torturing a small child in order to save a country is permissible, if indeed not positively required. By contrast, moral absolutism holds that some actions are absolutely wrong; they could never be right no matter what consequences of failing to do them might be.
So, an absolutist would say that it is morally wrong to torture a child in order to save an entire nation. Absolutism says that some actions are wrong whatever the consequences.
Or again, moral absolutism about lying would say that the lying is always wrong, whatever the consequences. Consequentialism is sometimes construed as one type of absolutist moral theory: for instance, it is absolutely wrong not to act in such a way that promotes overall value. Which actions or types of action are traditionally regarded as absolutely wrong? Historically, philosphers have been absolutists with regarded to many types of actions such as lying, adutery, and sodomy.
However, in a contemporary setting, torture and executing the innocent are two of the actions most commonly held to be absolute prohibitions.
And these are also the most plausible sort of cases. This resolution says that no matter what the expected consequences of torture may be—for example, preventing New York City from being bombed by terrorists—torture is impermissible.
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