During the Age of Enlightenment, constitutionalism was adopted in many European and American nations. Why did some members of the nobility, or upper classes, resist the
movement toward constitutionalism?
O Constitutions gave common people as much political and legal power as people born into the
noble class.
O Many in the upper class feared that the lower classes might try to oppress them if they had
absolute power.
The members of the noble classes all hoped for a chance to become king, and wanted absolute
power.
O Many of the people in the upper (noble) class misunderstood the concept and therefore
distrusted it.

"august 19th (1864)- how they quarreled and wrangled among themselves- alabama and mississippi, all were loud for joe johnston, save and except the long-haired, one-armed hero, who cried at the top of his voice: "oh! you all want to be kept in trenches and to go on retreating, eh? " "oh, if we had had a leader, such as stonewall (jackson), this war would have been over long ago! what we want is a leader! " shouted a (wounded man). they were awfully smashed-up, objects of misery, wounded, maimed, diseased. i was really upset, and came home ill. this kind of thing unnerves me quite." mary chestnut, a diary from dixie this entry from the diary of mary chestnut illustrates a) the lack of medical technology possessed by the confederacy. b) the military superiority of southern troops in the civil war. c) the effects of the emancipation proclamation on the southern economy and society. d) the loss of morale and confidence by the confederacy towards the end of the civil war.