The religious wars of the sixteenth century destroyed the unity of the Church and on the ruins of this destruction was built the modern State. The triumphant monarch either gradually destroyed or absorbed all possible rival intermediaries between himself and his subjects, including the Church Sovereignty came to be regarded as one of the essential attributes of the State incarnate in the king, the head of the State. His authority was final to defik and pronounce the law. The emergence of the modern State, thus, gave a new meaning to the term sovereignty. The struggle which gave rise to the conception of sovereignty was undertaken and sustained by the monarch himself in order to est his personal independence. To the victor belonged the spoils of war