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Essays by Beth McKeon: Religious Justification of Absolute Power As a favored bishop of the royal court, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet tutored the Dauphin and participated in several controversies between church and state in seventeenth-century France. Written as instruction to the Dauphin, Bossuet's essay Politics drawn from the very words of the Holy Scripture establishes the rights and responsibilities of the king and specifically argues for the king's right to absolute power....read paper | ||||||||||||
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