In April 1660 Charles II announced that he would accept a parliamentary government and grant amnesty to his political opponents. ... The first decade of Charles II reign as an English monarch was beleaguered by several issues. ... The 1670s were marked by more wars, political power struggles, and religious disorder. ... This power struggle was heightened by the anti-Catholic Test Acts. ... His reign helped England to restore the monarch of old England. ...

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The factors that contributed to the realization of all the discoveries were many but the main ones are the changes in politics, economics (trade), and the improvements in technologies. One of the main reasons the brought to the discovering of all the new lands was that during this period of time Europe changes politically. The monarchs reunite the power in their hands and create national countries such as England, Spain, Portugal, France, and Holland. ... Among these monarchs were Isabella and Ferdinand, and Prince Henry the Navigator. ... It was Spain's monarchs Isabella and Ferdina...

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The Stuart monarchs believed they should be considered sovereign in the land, answerable only to God. ... When the King did not bow to the parliament's demands, he was beheaded and the Oliver Cromwell and the army became the power in the land. ... Parliament became increasingly important and the first political parties evolved. ... The Stuart monarchs did not believe in fair and free elections, which the Parliament considered the foundation of democracy. ... Today England has a democracy and a monarch. ...

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In order to try to reconcile the opposing sides he married Edith, the cultured and intelligent daughter of his main political adversary. The wedding was initially conceived for political interests but later the two found themselves agreeing on many things. ... He was very spiritual but not a strong Monarch. ... He wasn't able though, to contrast the heads of aristocracy, who abused of his power granting themselves more privileges. ...

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Both are European states, but political, economically, and socially, they could not be any more different. ... In the political sector of Europe, you had various forms of government. ... Only a strong monarch could seem capable of doing so. ... France basically had the same form and ideas, except that it was all in the way the monarchs wanted to rule the country. ... They eventually succumbed to the greatest military power in the world, England. ...

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Almost every British monarch was invincible, powerful, imperious and worldwide respectable. ... She was also a good politician , because she was never hastily but always very careful and cautious in her approach to politics. ... When Elizabeth became Queen in 1558 her country was poor, torn apart by religious conflict, and a second rate power in the world. ...

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'Collectanea satis Copiosa' refers to evidence gathered by a small group of intellectuals that showed that prior Popes had stolen power from the monarchy and that power held by the Church in England before the Reformation was held fraudulently. ... The Archbishop of Canterbury now had the power previously held by the Pope. ... The King now had more power in his own realm. ... Nine of the demands were religious and six were political. ... As the supreme leader, the Monarch was able to transfer title to the Crown. ...

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Most definitely, the politics changed. "With this political change a new idea of thought and individualism appeared in the new republic. ... It was the end of monarchial rule and getting used to a new system of government and policies. ... America was not yet ready to give women the political power that they deserved. ...

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The presence of an Exchequer, common law, Justicier's bench, shire feudal system and the iconic Dublin castle served to remind the settlers of their English heritage (despite the fact that a grat many settlers were of Welsh, French, Scandinavian and Flemish descent ) without the presence of a monarch close at hand. These structures and subsequent emergence of identity signalled a complete break with the Gaelic Irish past and a genesis of a new political hierarchy in the land, marking the most distinctive break from outdated Gaelic social structures yet. ... This was indeed m...

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