Enlightened Absolutism

question 99

Multiple Choice

Enlightened absolutism

• A)was based more on practical measures to strengthen the power of the state than to "reform" and free their populations.
• B)was best illustrated by the activity of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
• C)was truly applied only briefly, in the ten months before the death of Emelyan Pugachev.
• D)was limited by the desires of the middle classes to retain their special advantages.
• E)best describes the British government in the eighteenth century.