Absolute monarchy.

The absolute monarchy is a type of government in which sovereignty the monarch has no or a few legal restraints in state and political matters. During the eighteenth century, the most of the European states were an  absolute monarchy, for instance France and Spain.

The absolute monarchy was the result of the increase of kings' power during the XV, XVI and XVII centuries.

On this type of regimen, the monarch with its court controlled all aspects of the government, including the law-making aspects and to put justice into practice.

The theory of divine rights of the king was created to justify the power of the monarch and to keep the inner order. This theory pointed that kings were given power by God so the unlimited king's power couldn´t be questioned. Also, the king gave God the reasons of his behavior.

The best example of the absolute monarchy was France during the eighteenth century, the absolutism reached its maximum magnificence with the house of Bourbon and they finished abruptly The French revolution.

Meanwhile, England was a different case from the rest of European states. During the sixteenth century, Henry VII and Elizabeth I were the absolute monarch  before others nations. In the eighteenth century, the British monarchs lost their power and England became a parliamentary monarchy. 

Louis XIV of France, who consolidated the absolute monarchy in France.