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In Europe, during the seventeenth century, it was common to find monarchies. England and France had two different types of monarchy. Not all monarchies were constitutional in Europe. At the period of time it was easy to see Absolutism and Constitutionalism as a form of government. Most of the monarchs were men with the exception of England. Two important reigns were in Europe. One was in England with Queen Elizabeth I and the other one was in France with King Louis XIV. He became a King at the age of five. Louis XIV was born to be a king of France. In contrast Queen Elizabeth I was declared illegitimate to the throne because she was the daughter of the second wife of King Henry VIII. Queen Elizabeth I and King Louis
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It is important to mention that be a queen is a political figure who not exactly shows her own believes, although Queen Elizabeth I can said different things from her believes in order to rule the kingdom. Queen Elizabeth I achieves her goals as a Queen of England. Queen Elizabeth I was the leader of England with the Parliamentary. Existed different documents related to Queen Elizabeth I, one of the documents is Queen Elizabeth’s Response to the Parliament’s Request that She Marry. In this document clearly showed that Queen Elizabeth I used God in a political way, it was a motion to requested to marry was present for the commons to Queen Elizabeth a delegation from the commons went to present their petition to her ( Perry, Maria. The Word of Prince, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 1999 99-100) Queen Elizabeth replied to the petition days later. The document also shows that Queen Elizabeth I respected Parliament, she used a very polite way for express herself with the parliament, but also strong “ I give all my thanks for the good zeal and loving care you seem to have, as well towards me as to the whole state of your country” Queen Elizabeth shows her gratitude with the people of England, but a the same time it is easy to see her as a strong woman. When she said that she planed to respond the petition just in two ways. She showed herself as a religion person who is just follow God reasons. She tried to persuade the Parliament throughout her devotion for God and she got advantage of her position a queen, but she does not like Parliament and also she does not obey parliament. Queen Elizabeth I listed parliament but she at the same time ignored parliament petition. Queen Elizabeth said to the parliament at the end of her response, that “And the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such

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