Answer: Absolute monarchy is a form of monarchy in which the monarch holds supreme autocratic authority, principally not being restricted by written laws, legislature, or customs. These are often hereditary monarchies.
Explanation:
There are 43 or 44 countries that have monarchs as the ceremonial or the real head of the state, depending on whether or not the Vatican is counted among them. Of these, 7 (including the Vatican) are absolute monarchies, 16 are Commonwealth realms and the remaining 21 are constitutional monarchies.
The correct answer here is the Rhode Island Colony.
The Rhode Island Colony was founded by Roger Williams who fleeing the religious persecution of the Puritans in Massachusetts because he was spreading "new and dangerous ideas" like religious freedom, fair dealings with Native Americans, abolition of slavery and the separation of church and state.
Philadelphia.
My source for this answer: “On September 5th, 1774, in the first Continental Congress in the United States met in Philadelphia to consider its reaction to the British governments restraints on trade in representative government after the Boston tea party.”