Subjects and sovereigns: the grand controversy over legal sovereignty in Stuart England

Concerned in a general way with theories of legitimacy, this book describes a transformation in English political thought between the opening of the civil war in 1642 and the Bill of Rights in 1689. When it was complete, the political nation as a whole had accepted the modern idea of parliamentary o...

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1. Verfasser: Weston, Corinne Comstock (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1981
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Zusammenfassung:Concerned in a general way with theories of legitimacy, this book describes a transformation in English political thought between the opening of the civil war in 1642 and the Bill of Rights in 1689. When it was complete, the political nation as a whole had accepted the modern idea of parliamentary or legal sovereignty. The authors argue that a conservative theory of order, which assigned the king a lofty and unrivalled position, gave way in these years to a more radical community-centered view of government by which the king shared law-making on equal terms with the House of Lords and the House of Commons. Although the community-centered ideology may appear unexceptional to the modern observer, it constituted a revolutionary departure from the prevailing order theory of kingship and political society that had characterized political thought in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 430 pages)
ISBN:9780511558658
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511558658

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