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Autocracy
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AUTOCRACY. The name of a government where the monarch is unlimited by law. Such is the power of the emperor of Russia, who, following the example of his predecessors, calls himself the autocrat of all the Russias.
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The renewed political absolutism will no doubt have its impact on the Orthodox Church whose Patriarch has acted all along as the head of a department of state as has been the historical tradition in Russia, especially from Peter the Great (1672-1725) onu'ards.
Patriarch Alexy II and dialogue by Catholic Insight
9) In 1863 Acton reiterated that the Church never opposed slavery in principle and that the institution of slavery in which "certain definite rights are lost" was less objectionable than a state of political absolutism, such as Northern mass democracy, where "no rights are assured to the subject.
Acton's political trajectory by Vella, John M. / Modern Age
Perhaps the Democratic Party leadership needs to assess how its unusual adherence to a strange combination of political absolutism and moral relativism on these life issues has contributed to its gradual decline.
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