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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Ancient Constitution"”.
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Enlightened innovation and the ancient constitution : the intellectual justifications of the Brabant Revolution (1787-1790)
… of government, the origins and authority of the constitution and sovereignty. It is also argued that the conflict in Joseph's political thought and action arose not from the contrast between (enlightened) intentions and (despotic) conseguences, but from the failure of the internal logic of his …
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Oliver Cromwell and the Print Culture of the Interregnum
… rejected it. Why would a man who believed in the ancient constitution and hoped to stabilize the British Isles turn down a traditional title that had the potential to unify the nation? The answer partly lies within the numerous political tracts that were printed in the 1650s. The kingship crisis …
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Histories of Liberty in Scottish Thought, 1747-1787
… and contested historiography of England’s ‘ancient constitution’—the idiom that gave birth to the ‘whig interpretation’ of English history. Historians agree that this encounter forms a significant episode in the history of eighteenth-century historical and political thought. The prevailing …
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The Politics of John Selden, 1584-1654
In recent decades, John Selden’s reputation has often been coloured by Johann P. Sommerville’s 1984 judgement that his skill as an antiquary was such, ‘[t]hat his work as a political theorist was indifferent and unoriginal should not detract in the least from his reputation.’ Studies have therefore …