What is a good example of how absolutism in France centered governmental power in the monarch?

A) Parlement's membership was extended to the middle class.
B) France ended universal suffrage.
C) The Estates-General was not called in over 170 years.
D) France instituted a system to elect their monarchs.
E) France called on all nobles to surrender their titles and land.

Estates-General

The Estates-General was a legislative body in pre-revolutionary France made up of representatives from the three estates of the realm: the clergy, the nobility, and the common people.

Universal Suffrage

Universal suffrage is the right of all adult citizens, regardless of gender, race, or economic status, to vote in political elections.

Absolutism

A political doctrine and form of government where unlimited, complete power is held by a centralized sovereign individual, without checks or balances from any other part of the government or society.