The presence of opposing factions of politics would seem to indicate otherwise, since Zamora was an absolute despotism where differing political opinions were not tolerated.

He views rock music, on the other hand, with profound horror: "The absolute physical despotism of it.

Morton White writes of the American revolutionaries, "The notion that they had a duty to rebel is extremely important to stress, for it shows that they thought they were complying with the commands of natural law and of nature's God when they threw off absolute despotism."

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

If not met and overthrown at once it forebodes terrible social convulsions, the destruction of civilization, or the establishment of an absolute despotism.

It is an absolute despotism, holding its authority by means of a rigid system of rewards and punishments.

Reformers used the model of ancient states of public force and organized the most absolute despotism under the name of Republic.

Laurence demanded, growing too indignant to be polite: it was one thing to complain of corruption, or propose judicious reforms; quite another to lump the British system in with absolute despotism.

True as may be the political principles for which we are now contending . . . the ships themselves must be ruled under a system of absolute despotism.

At first, her government, under the administration of the dogmatists, was an absolute despotism.