Subjects and Sovereigns : the Grand Controversy over Legal Sovereignty in Stuart England
Corinne Comstock Weston (Author), Janelle Renfrow Greenberg (Author)
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.
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9780511558658, 9780521232722, 9780521892865, 0511558651, 0521232724, 0521892864
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Preface; 1. The shift in political thought; 2. The keeper of the kingdom; 3. The new age of political definition; 4. That 'Poisonous Tenet' of co-ordination; 5. The curious case of William Prynne; 6. The idiom of restoration politics; 7. Co-ordination and coevality in exclusion literature; 8. The law-makers and the dispensing power; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.