The religious wars of the sixteenth century destroyed the unity ofthE Church and on the ruins of this destruction was modern State. triumphant monarch either gradually destroyed or absorbed all possible intermediaries between himself and his subjects, including the Churc Sovereignty came to be regarded as one of the essential attributes of the Suel incarnate in the king, the head of the State. His authority was final to definN and pronounce the law. The eace of the modern State, thus, gave a meamng heierm sovereignty. The struggle which gave rise to the concep tion of sovereignty was undertaken and sustained by the mo order to establish his personal independence. To the victor belonged the s of War.