The phrase "enlightened absolutist" indicates a ________ government dedicated to the rational strengthening of the central absolutist administration at the cost of lesser centers of political power
a. democratic
b. totalitarian
c. authoritarian
d. monarchical
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a. true b. false
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act's provisions for deciding the slavery question in Kansas and Nebraska made obsolete the
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