Title: Parliamentary sovereignty: a very English absolutism
Abstract: In 1642, the houses of Parliament articulated England's first clear, widely understood theory of parliamentary sovereignty. The development had its consequences. The assertion of sovereignty brought the country to the constitutional impasse that, joined with religious and political strains, brought on the Civil War. Then and later, it also encouraged a constitutionalist backlash against the parliamentary regime, leading to the development of a new liberal sensibility and other kinds of parliamentary sovereignty.
Publication Year: 1993
Publication Date: 1993-02-26
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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