In an Absolutist State?

absolutism, the political doctrine and practice of unlimited centralized authority and absolute sovereignty, as vested especially in a monarch or dictator. ... King Louis XIV (1643–1715) of France furnished the most familiar assertion of absolutism when he said, “L'état, c'est moi” (“I am the state”).

What were some key features of an absolutist state?

Apart from the rise of professional bureaucracies, absolute states featured a national legislation*, a national jurisdiction,* a large, standing military under the direct control of the king, and a national tax collection mechan ism in which taxes went straight to the national government (i. e. the king's treasury) ...

Is absolutist a state of society?

A state-form typical of societies in the process of transition from feudalism to capitalism and in which power is concentrated in the person of a monarch, who has at his or her disposal a centralized administrative apparatus.