1. Strategic Alliances
... The Roman civil law provided the legal basis in Renaissance Europe. In addition, the Roman concept of absolute empirical power became a weapon for the administrative centralization and territorial integration of the European monarchies (Britannica: P. 381). In the sixteenth century the important fact was the ... sovereignty began to lose its power. Moreover, the Reformation, Counter-Reformation and the following wars of religion helped to prepare the ground for a secular political system. Finally, the authority of the secular state appeared to be the most effective solution against the r...
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