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n. A political theory holding that all power should be vested in one ruler or other authority.

n. A form of government in which all power is vested in a single ruler or other authority.

n. An absolute doctrine, principle, or standard.

n. Positiveness; the state of being absolute.

n. The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.

n. Doctrine of absolute decrees.

n. The state of being absolute.

n. The principle of absolute individual power in government; belief in the unrestricted right of determination or disposal in a sovereign.

n. The theological doctrine of predestination or absolute decrees.

n. The metaphysical doctrines of the absolutists.

n. the doctrine of an absolute being

n. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

n. dominance through threat of punishment and violence

n. the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government

"I suspect that the federal courts absolutism is a response to the conservative tribunal absolutism."

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