In early thirteenth-century England, King John had few formal limits on his power yet needed the permission of the Catholic pope to marry many of his potential spouses and needed the cooperation of English nobles to wage war.A general term for a political system with informal limits on power is

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Authoritarian governments have power concentrated in the hands of a leader or a small elite that is not constitutionally responsible to the public but may have informal limits on their power, such as needing the cooperation of other groups or individuals to implement policies.

In Early Thirteenth-Century England, King John Had Few Formal Limits