The term is taken from Latin minister ("servant", "attendant"), which itself was derived from minus ("less").[1] In Catholic churches, the concept of a priesthood is emphasised. In Protestant churches, the title usually refers to a member of the ordained clergy who leads a congregation or participates in a role in a parachurch ministry; such a person may also be called a presbyter, pastor, preacher, bishop, chaplain or elder. Nonconformists In English church history, a nonconformist was a Protestant Christian who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the established Church of England. Free Churches A "free church" is a Christian denomination or independent church that is intrinsically separate from government (as opposed to a theocracy, or an "established" or state church). They operate under the guidelines of complete separation of church and state. A free
the supremacy of the Anglican Church after the interlude of Cromwell's Commonwealth, and ended toleration for dissenting religions. The Code was named for Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, who was Charles II's Lord Chancellor. Clarendon enforced the laws despite his personal opposition to many of the provisions of the Code. The Clarendon Code effectively ended any possibility of the Anglican Church and Nonconformists coming together under one religious and social banner. *The emergence of the two-party system, the Whigs and the Tories (the cabinet system) The emergence of the two-party system resulted partly from the controversy surrounding the succession of James Duke of York. The Whigs wanted to exclude James from the succession of the throne, the tories were in favour of it. The Whigs and Tories were the world's first
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