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Features of Absolute Monarchy

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The monarch as a source of power in the state Sovereignty formally and in fact belongs exclusively to him, it is in his hands that all

the fullness of power is concentrated grounds to consider it a supranational institution with unlimited power, the competence of which is not subject to regulation. The power of the monarch is supreme, sovereign, knows no restrictions. For instance, in Saudi Arabia, in Article 5 under the Constitution states that the system of government in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a system of monarchy. The monarch represents the supreme state power by his own right, and not by delegation from the people, who are removed from the process of forming the bodies of supreme state power, and hence the process of its legitimation. In addition, Article 63 of the constitution states that, the King accepts the King and the Head of State. He appoints his representatives to the states, and he receives the credentials of the state representatives commissioned to him. Absolutism excludes the presence in society of any other public authority, independent and not derived from the power of the monarch. The absolute monarch and the state as a whole, the personification and bearer of the fullness of state functions and powers. 3.2

Citizens must obey the monarch. The people themselves, which considered as an object of state-power influence, must

unquestioningly obey the power monarch, and the relationship between man and state are mediated through the legal status of citizenship. Organizational forms by which the people could directly make government decisions, does not exist. Absolute monarchy is characterized by complete powerlessness of the people, the absence of any representative institutions. Democracy is limited to participation in elections of its representative bodies and have no independent political significance. In 1993, the King was appointed head of the Council of Ministers in Saudi Arabia under Article 56 of the Constitution; he was assisted by the representatives of the Council of Ministers in carrying out its responsibilities in

accordance with the provisions of laws . The Council of Ministers shall set down the Council's rights in relation to internal and external affairs, the organization and cooperation between government bodies. The subordinate legal status of a person in absolute monarchies is strengthened by ideological instruments whereby the sacralization of the power of the monarch or the constitutional obligation to respect him. For example, Article 6 of Saudi Arabia's 1992 Constitution states that, in accordance with the Holy Qur'an and the tradition of the Prophet, people must be obedient to the King, subject to obedience and modesty, joy and sorrow, wealth and poverty.

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Monarch controls every aspect of the State. The establishment of monopoly power whereby the state power is characterized by

institutional, functional, subjective unity of its bodies, whose leadership is concentrated in the hands of the head of state. He is the only supreme legislator, because only by his expression of will regulations may become law. The monarch is the supreme judge, on his behalf is sent justice, he has the right to pardon, the monarch forms the government, appoints and dismisses executive officials, the government is not responsible to him. The absolute monarch obeys the laws only to the extent that he himself wishes to obey them. For example, the principle of the supremacy of the will of the monarch and the presumption of political and legal perfection of all his decisions prevails in Article 44 of the Constitution of Saudi Arabia in 1992 states that State power consists of judicial, executive and legislative powers, the concentration of all these powers is the King. The monopoly of the monarch can be considered in three aspects. Institutional is the absence of branches of government independent subsystems of the state apparatus, representative institutions, which would limit the power of the monarch either they do not exist at all, or they perform only advisory functions or administer justice. Other than that, functional aspect of monopoly implies the absence of any political and legal framework

for the monarch. His powers are absolute, the powers of all other organs of state power are derived from the competence of the monarch. Accordingly, in state legal acts, the status of the absolute monarch is determined by the most general, declarative formulations, while the status of all other public authorities which as clearly as possible and accurately....