The governments of England and France differ greatly in many ways such the following: they are two completely different forms of government, absolutism and constitutionalism, but they are in many ways similar partly because they both began as absolutist forms of government.
Absolutist France was a form government run by one person who had almost full control over everything, and Constitutionalist England was run by a number of people with a great deal of power. Even the rulers were required to obey the laws, and there was not only one person with complete control over everyone and everything. The definition of absolutism is "A term applied to strong centralized continental monarchies that attempted to make royal power dominant over aristocracies and other regional authorities." (Kagan) The definition of constitutionalism is "A form of government in which power is distributed and limited by a system of laws that must be obeyed by the rulers."......
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