Europe has always been built upon monarchies. These monarchies serve in place as their government. Monarchy is the oldest system of government in the United Kingdom. Total power is invested in one person, a head of state called a monarch, who keeps the position until death or resignation. “In a monarchy, a king or queen is Head of State. The British monarchy is known as a constitutional monarchy. This means that, while The Sovereign is Head of State, the ability to make and pass legislation resides with …show more content…
“Between 10 and 20% of his subjects had adopted the reformed doctrines.” (An Introduction to Early Modern European History (16th & 17th Centuries), Jean Mason) Once people starting adopting these policies, everything came into play. France was the target of a missionary effort. This effort was lead by the leader of Protestant Geneva, Jean Calvin, who ironically is also a Frenchman. “Calvin had converted to the reformed faith around 1533 and since 1541 had been leader of the militant and rigorous Swiss city of Geneva.” (The Emergence of Modern Europe, 1500-1648) Jean Calvin developed a renewed thinking that “stressed the need for the elect to be active soldiers of God's kingdom.” And so it was more on Calvin rather than Lutheran why Protestantism went to …show more content…
A new form of “nationalist monarchy” also emerged in the eighteenth century, whereby a single powerful and hereditary monarch ruled on behalf of the people to secure their independence, as opposed to expanding the power and possessions of the monarch themselves (the kingdom belonging to the monarch).” (Monarchy, Robert Wilde) Many new things came out of this idea of monarchy and some of those things live to the modern day of Europe as