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

by Corinne Comstock Weston and Janelle Renfrow Greenberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521892864
• ISBN13: 9780521892865
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.6"