Monarchs are mostly popular figureheads. They keep the country stable with their presence. Some countries still have Absolute Monarchs (A King or Emporer with all power). Most kings and queens are exempt from being convicted of crimes, and can desolve parliament and remove anyone from the government.
Shakespeare's plays are all about questioning authority: kings are deposed; bad people (Iago) triump over good ones (Cassio); your parents don't always know best (the behaviour of the parents in Romeo and Juliet is the cause of all the trouble).
In the Middle Ages people had a general sense that God was in his heaven, and all was right with the world. In the Renaissance people started to ask if that was true.
Shakespeare is always asking difficult questions, which is a very Renaissance thing to do. And he never makes any direct reference to Christian faith in any of his plays:- religious doubt was also a very Renaissance characteristic.
The economic decision that made consumer goods so difficult to get in the Soviet Union until the late 1980s was: <span>The emphasis on heavy industry
During that period, Soviet Union focus its economic forces to produce various heavy equipment in order to win the Space Race against united states. Because of this, the smaller industries receive no subsidies from the government, causing the price of any imported goods became heavily inflated.</span>
The anti-federalists (i.e., Patrick henry and sam adams)
