Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in King John’s Downfall.
Power exercised according to personal whim and without any legal constraint or respect for the rule of law.
Arbitrary power appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for The Reigns of King Richard I and King John, especially King John’s Downfall and Magna Carta and the First Barons’ War.
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