To be a king, one need merely put forth one's regal state, one simply needs to act kingly.

欲称王，只需要有帝国的疆域，言行举止好似一个王就可。

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So, what happens with all this is that absolute rule impinges directly on the lives of ordinary people more than kingly, or queenly, or princely, or archbishoply power had intruded on the lives of ordinary people before that.

随之而来的结果就是,绝对王权统治,比起之前的王室以及教会的统治,对普通民众的直接影响要严重地多

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