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Royal Absolutism
After two centuries of contested compromise with the noble Cortes of Évora, Lisbon, and Coimbra, the Crown moves to consolidate executive authority on the model of the French and Spanish monarchies. King Joseph I and his chief minister the Marquis of Pombal abolish the surviving feudal privileges, expropriate the Jesuit estates, and reform the royal council into a streamlined cabinet of professional ministers. This concentration of authority lets the Crown drive reform programs through with the speed required by the new commercial economy, free of the obstructionism that aristocratic assemblies had previously imposed.
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