Enlightened Absolutism

question 65

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.

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Equitable Remedies

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Specific Performance

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Injunction

A court decree ordering a person to do or to refrain from doing a certain act.

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