Queen Elizabeth's Absolutism In England

In the beginning, England was strictly a place of Absolutism. Gradually, it transitioned into a Constitutionalism. On the other hand, Russia remained an Absolutism and flourished under their monarch.
In England, Queen Elizabeth was the first monarch to majorly change the country. She changed the religion of England back to the Anglican Church, after Mary was very against Protestants. She got rid of all the anti-Protestant legislation that Mary passed and made it alright for Protestants to live in England openly again. She took her job as the monarch very seriously and she made a speech that she considered herself the marriage partner of all of England. This shows how much she cared for her country and definitely fulfills the requirement of
He ruled on his own for a few years. He eventually ran into a problem when his Scottish subjects started rebelling. He was forced to reinstate Parliament in order to be allowed to raise taxes for the money he needed to quell the rebellions happening in Scotland. He was arrested for entering the House of Commons with the intent of discovering who his rival were and arresting him. He was not allowed to enter the House of Commons and got in trouble for doing so. This eventually led to the start of the English Civil War. Parliament passed an act to allow them to build an army and it led to major division between classes. After Charles I, Oliver Cromwell took over. He was a dictator and made lots of rules that followed his extremist Puritan views. Following Cromwell, came Charles II he was not such a successful monarch, as he tried and failed to change the religious situation in England. Following Charles II came James I. Parliament did not like James II and they invite William of Orange and Mary to take over England. They agree and storm England. They were met with no resistance, and James II simply ran away. This shows how he values his life over his country and he is not a good
The difference between England and Russia was that in England there was already an established Parliament that had power and could withhold their power from the monarch. On the other hand, there was nobody in Russia to compete with the monarch for their power. This is why Parliament was successfully able to convert England to a Constitutionalism while Russia remained an