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Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy Over Legal Sovereignty In Stuart England - Couverture souple

Weston, Corinne Comstock

 
9780521892865: Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy Over Legal Sovereignty In Stuart England
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ISBN 10 : 0521892864 ISBN 13 : 9780521892865
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

The book charts the establishment of the modern idea of parliamentary sovereignty.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521892864
ISBN 13 
9780521892865
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
440
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Avery
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