In Early Thirteenth-Century England, King John Had Few Formal Limits

Multiple Choice

In early thirteenth-century England, King John had few formal limits on his power yet needed the permission of the Catholic pope to marry many of his potential spouses and needed the cooperation of English nobles to wage war. A general term for a political system with informal limits on power is

A) teleological.
B) indirect government.
C) authoritarian government.
D) totalitarian.