When a state's population grants it the authority to make rules and to govern, the state has a. sovereignty. The feudal system was eroded by advances in a. education. The power of the Roman Catholic Church declined as kings a. claimed divine right. The creation of the national state was promoted by the a. coming of democracy in the eighteenth century. In its original form, communism is essentially a. an authoritarian theory.
Substantive democracy is based on a. regular elections.
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