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MODERN HISTORY SOURCEBOOK

Reading Guide

[Note: Reading Guides are meant as review aids for a particular text. They do indicate some of the questions a text raises.]

Answer the questions below.

Find your information from the sourcebook itself, or from your textbook.
You may use other sources, but indicate what they are is this is the basis of submitted class work.

1. What position does the author of this piece hold? Who is he writing for?
2. What principles lie behind Bishop Bossuet's theory of government? Why did would he adopt such principles?
3. What alternative justifications for absolute monarchy are given in the other assigned readings?
4. From your understanding of the other readings how do you think absolutism worked in practice?