Absolute Power (Stargate SG-1), a Stargate SG-1 episode
Absolute power as a phrase and a concept is discussed in the article on Autocracy
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Absolutepower, also called absolute authority, is a term used in political science to describe a head of state and head of government that holds supreme executive, judicial and legislative powers.
Other popular monarchs ruled with absolutepower but eventually such power was diminished and dissolved with the introduction of constitutions giving the people the power to make decisions for themselves through elected bodies of government.
One historical example of an assertion of absolutepower is evident in the Declaratory Act of 1766 by the British Parliament, in which Britain asserted absolutepower "in all cases whatsoever" over the unrepresented American colonies.
Absolutepower can not be attributed to man, because the limits of human nature render it impossible to attribute such power to him.
It derives the absolutepower of man from God, and, with due humility, recognizes the dependence of man on his Maker, while it encourages, in the mind of the ruler, the insolent idea that he only exercises the power possessed by God before He delegated it to him.
Absolutepower was used as a means to these ends, or suffered by the people to gain new strength for the work of progress and reform.
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