1. Absolute Power
... greedy. One example would be Charles I, who came into power after his father James I died. He felt that he should control England as a sole ruler, without Parliament. He tried to force the Puritans to accept his religous ways, which drove many of them out of England. In 1642, he was finally overthrown in a civil war against forces led by Oliver Cromwell ... , who later removed the Parliament by force. Charles I is a obvious example of the corruption of power. Another figure in the corruption of power was Louis XIV. Louis, after gaining the throne in 1661, removed all high nobles ... to ...
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