the US is a federal republic and a constitutional representative democracy
Henry VIII started the process of creating the Church of England after his split with the Pope in the 1530s. Henry was anxious to ensure a male heir after his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, had borne him only a daughter. He wanted his marriage annulled in order to remarry. In 1534 after several attempts to persuade the Pope to grant an annulment, Henry passed the Act of Succession and then the Act of Supremacy. These recognised that the King was "the only supreme head of the Church of England called Anglicana Ecclesia". Henry adopted the title given to him by the Pope in 1521, that of Defender of the Faith.
It forced Lord Cornwallis to flee South Carolina and helped set in motion the battle of Yorktown
The interstate commerce clause gives the federal government the ability to set a minimum wage.
Except for the king, every noble in a feudal society served as a <u>vassal </u>to a higher noble. The vassal in medieval Europe, was a man who was granted land in exchange for service and loyalty to an older man or is more important. They made a feudal contract that was an exchange of promises between lords and vassals. In feudal society was the monarch, then the powerful lords who had vassals.
