He grouped it with H, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Fr.
I read somewhere that he also grouped it with copper, gold, and silver. (Metallic Elements).
Can be best considered as a constitution:)
During the Cold War, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were the common denominator in the foreign affairs of these two countries. Russia wanted to spread communism in many regions of the world. The Soviets had already influenced Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and Cuba. The United States always tried to stop communism from spreading throughout the world. So, the end result of the United States' decision to provide military aid to Central American countries was that it achieved its goal of containing Communism within the Central American region.
While the teachings of Reform leaders like Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin arose largely from disputes with Catholic sacramental teachings, the support they enjoyed among the Swiss cantons had more to do with local politics than with doctrinal matters.
There was a rapidly-growing movement toward consolidation of the city-states into nations at the time, and actions on BOTH sides of the split (Catholic and Protestant) were influenced by practical considerations related to power, property, and prestige. The English church, for example, tore away so that Henry VIII could annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon (a marriage which the pope had made extraordinary moves to permit). And the pope refused grant the annulment, both to save face and to avoid alienating Charles V who was the Holy Roman Emperor.
So as you can see from even just these few examples, the spread of the protestant religion had nothing at all to do with politics.
