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Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy Over Legal Sovereignty in Stuart England

Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy Over Legal Sovereignty in Stuart England

Weston, Corinne Comstock
Greenberg, Janelle

Paperback

Series: Grand Controversy Over Legal Sovereignty in Stuart England

General Political Science

ISBN10: 0521892864
ISBN13: 9780521892865
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 11 2003
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.08 Width: 5.66 Depth: 8.58
Language: English
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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