Subjects and Sovereigns - The Grand Controversy over Legal Sovereignty in Stuart England (Paperback, Revised)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2003
First published:	1981
Authors:	Corinne Comstock Weston • Janelle Renfrow Greenberg
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	440
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-89286-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Constitution, government & the state Promotions
LSN:	0-521-89286-4
Barcode:	9780521892865

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