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| The question is whether he is prepared to
relinquish some authority and undertake the constitutional reforms
needed to transform this absolute monarchy into a modern democratic
state of law. In 1831 Metternich sent troops to
three Italian states to overturn liberal revolutions, hence restoring
not only absolute monarchy but pro-Austrian rulers over the peninsula. Despite their theoretical belief in limited government, Jesuits did
not find absolute monarchy objectionable since many Catholic princes
were both absolute in the exercise of their political power and
religiously devout sons of the Church. |
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