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To state that religious dissenters were a significant threat to the authority of Charles II and James II in the years 1660-88 is an accurate statement due to the tension between the monarchy and parliament that they attributed, thereby raising the threat they posed. During this time period, religious dissenters were defined as anyone who did not conform to the Church of England; this included Quakers, Presbyterians and Congregationalists. Whilst their survival can be credited to the dedication a...

The responsibility of collapse of absolute monarchy in France in 1789, specifically during the time between the 5th May and the 14th July, cannot be tied solely to Louis XVI. The problems facing France were too great for any monarch to bear and even the most proficient of kings would not have been able to control the impact of things like the Enlightenment coupling with the unrest of their people. Louis’ skills, or lack thereof, for kingship can be blamed for why absolute monarchy fell, where ...

On October 31st 1793, the 21 Girondin deputies who were purged from the National Convention during June of that year were executed, allowing the Jacobins to seize and establish total dominance in Paris. However, this purge was only accomplished through the violent use of the sans-culottes, meaning the dominance they held was reliant on violence and, therefore, very fragile. For this reason, it can be argued that the Jacobins were only dominant in Paris, where the sans-culottes' influence was mo...

The responsibility for the establishment of the republic in France in 1792, from the 20th June to the 10th August, cannot be deemed to be caused by the outbreak of war in spring of that year. Although notable, other underlying problems led up to the establishment of the French republic in 1792. which the war exacerbated. Acknowledging that a republican government involves the idea that sovereignty rests with the people, where laws are made by elected representatives of the people, it can be argu...