[PDF] Excellencie Of A Free State eBook

Author : Marchamont Nedham
Publisher : Thomas Hollis Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,61 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780865978089

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First published in 1656, and compiled from previously written editorials in the parliamentarian news book Mercurius Politicus, "The Excellencie of a Free State" addressed a dilemma in English politics, namely, what kind of government should the Commonwealth adopt? One possibility was to revert to the ancient constitution and create a Cromwellian monarchy. The alternative was the creation of parliamentary sovereignty, in which there would be a "due and orderly succession of supreme authority in the hands of the people's representatives". Nedham was convinced that only the latter would "best secure the liberties and freedoms of the people from the encroachments and usurpations of tyranny."

Author : Marchamont Nedham
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Page : 321 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781461931454

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First published in 1656, and compiled from previously written editorials in the parliamentarian newsbook Mercurius Politicus, The Excellencie of a Free-Stateaddressed a dilemma in English politics, namely, what kind of government should the Commonwealth adopt? One possibility was to revert to the ancient constitution and create a Cromwellian monarchy. The alternative was the creation of parliamentary sovereignty, in which there would be a due and orderly succession of supreme authority in the hands of the people's representatives. Nedham was convinced that only the latter would best secure the liberties and freedoms of the people from the encroachments and usurpations of tyranny. Marchamont Nedham (1620-1678) was a polemicist, pamphleteer, and editor of Mercurius Politicus. Blair Worden is Research Professor of History, Royal Holloway College, University of London.

Author : Marchamont Nedham
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781019255346

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Author : Marchamont Nedham
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 2013-10
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ISBN : 9781293035573

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Author : Vickie B. Sullivan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521034852

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Argues that some English writers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries synthesized a liberal republicanism.

Author : Thomas Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 1316352358

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This historically embedded treatment of theoretical debates about prerogative and reason of state spans over four centuries of constitutional development. Commencing with the English Civil War and the constitutional theories of Hobbes and the Republicans, it moves through eighteenth-century arguments over jealousy of trade and commercial reason of state to early imperial concerns and the nineteenth-century debate on the legislative empire, to martial law and twentieth-century articulations of the state at the end of empire. It concludes with reflections on the contemporary post-imperial security state. The book synthesises a wealth of theoretical and empirical literature that allows a link to be made between the development of constitutional ideas and global realpolitik. It exposes the relationship between internal and external pressures and designs in the making of the modern constitutional polity and explores the relationship between law, politics and economics in a way that remains rare in constitutional scholarship.