According to the passage, which one of the following was a consequence ... ...

According to the passage, which one of the following was a consequence of the absence of limitations on the legal power of English and French monarchs in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
(A) It was difficult for those monarchs to finance the expansion of their empires.
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*This question is included in Oct 2012 LSAT (PT 67): Reading Comprehension