Absolutism Was Difficult for the Habsburgs to Achieve in the Holy

Absolutism was difficult for the Habsburgs to achieve in the Holy Roman Empire because:

A) the Habsburgs produced a series of ill and weakened monarchs in the seventeenth century.
B) a powerful middle-class resistance to absolutism emerged in the Holy Roman Empire.
C) controlling the Austrian colonies abroad took all the military power the Habsburg had,so they could not fulfill their ambitions of absolutism in the Holy Roman Empire.
D) the Holy Roman Empire was made up of many individual states that ruled in their own interests.
E) the Austrian Hapsburgs were not able to harness propaganda to their advantage enough to convince the nobles of the Holy Roman Empire to accept absolutist rule.