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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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