Which of the following are true of early theories of absolutism? Select all that apply.


Bossuet argued that there were no legal limitations or constraints placed on the monarch save that he was answerable to God.


Hobbes argued that people obeyed the monarch primarily from a place of fear of retribution.


Bossuet firmly rejected the principle of divine right monarchy, arguing that the authority of the monarch was predicated on the submission of the people to his or her will.


Bodin argued that the monarch should act as a beneficent paternal figure whose primary function was law making.


Locke promoted the idea that the monarchs exercised absolute power within the bounds of the social contract, which was divinely ordained and fundamentally unbreakable.