Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy Over Legal Sovereignty in Stuart EnglandCambridge University Press, 2003 M12 11 - 440 páginas 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. |
Contenido
Preface | 1 |
The new age of political definition | 35 |
That Poisonous Tenet of coordination | 87 |
The curious case of William Prynne | 124 |
The idiom of restoration politics | 149 |
Coordination and coevality in exclusion literature | 182 |
The lawmakers and the dispensing power | 222 |
Coordination and resistance at the Revolution | 261 |
Bibliography | 379 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy Over Legal Sovereignty in ... Corinne Comstock Weston,Janelle Renfrow Greenberg Sin vista previa disponible - 1981 |
Términos y frases comunes
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