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Author | : Clyve Jones |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 184383717X |
Download A Short History of Parliament Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This institutional history charts the development and evolution of parliament from the Scottish and Irish parliaments, through the post-Act of Union parliament and into the devolved assemblies of the 1990s. It considers all aspects of parliament as an institution, including membership, parties, constituencies and elections.
Author | : J. R. Maddicott |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2010-05-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191615013 |
Download The Origins of the English Parliament, 924-1327 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Origins of the English Parliament is a magisterial account of the evolution of parliament, from its earliest beginnings in the late Anglo-Saxon period. Starting with the national assemblies which began to meet in the reign of King Æthelstan, it carries the story through to the fully fledged parliament of lords and commons of the early fourteenth century, which came to be seen as representative of the whole nation and which eventually sanctioned the deposition of the king himself in 1327. Throughout, J. R. Maddicott emphasizes parliament's evolution as a continuous process, underpinned by some important common themes. Over the four hundred years covered by the book the chief business of the assembly was always the discussion of national affairs, together with other matters central to the running of the state, such as legislation and justice. It was always a resolutely political body. But its development was also shaped by a series of unforeseen events and episodes. Chief among these were the Norman Conquest, the wars of Richard I and John, and the minority of Henry III. A major turning-point was reached in 1215, when Magna Carta established the need for general consent to taxation - a vital step towards the establishment of parliament itself in the next generation. Covering an exceptionally long time span, The Origins of the English Parliament takes readers to the roots of the English state's central institution, showing how the more familiar parliament of late medieval and early modern England came into being and illuminating the close relationship between particular political episodes and the course of institutional change. Above all, it shows how the origins of parliament lie not in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, as has usually been argued, but in a much more distant past.
Author | : Thomas May |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1812 |
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Download The History of the Parliament of England, which began November the third 1640 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William Cobbett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1813 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Download The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament |
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Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 1806 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Download The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 850 |
Release | : 1810 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : England and Wales. Parliament |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1688 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Download The History of the Parliament of England, from MDCLXI. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Thomas Erskine May |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1844 |
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Download A Treatise Upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 962 |
Release | : 2002 |
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ISBN | : 9780521772211 |
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Author | : P. R. Cavill |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2009-08-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191610267 |
Download The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
P.R. Cavill offers a major reinterpretation of early Tudor constitutional history. In the grand 'Whig' tradition, the parliaments of Henry VII were a disappointing retreat from the onward march towards parliamentary democracy. The king was at best indifferent and at worst hostile to parliament; its meetings were cowed and quiescent, subservient to the royal will. Yet little research has tested these assumptions. Drawing on extensive archival research, Cavill challenges existing accounts and revises our understanding of the period. Neither to the king nor to his subjects did parliament appear to be a waning institution, fading before the waxing power of the crown. For a ruler in Henry's vulnerable position, parliament helped to restore royal authority by securing the good governance that legitimated his regime. For his subjects, parliament served as a medium through which to communicate with the government and to shape - and, on occasion, criticize - its policies. Because of the demands parliament made, its impact was felt throughout the kingdom, among ordinary people as well as among the elite. Cooperation between subjects and the crown, rather than conflict, characterized these parliaments. While for many scholars parliament did not truly come of age until the 1530s, when - freed from its medieval shackles - the modern institution came to embody the sovereign nation state, in this study Henry's reign emerges as a constitutionally innovative period. Ideas of parliamentary sovereignty were already beginning to be articulated. It was here that the foundations of the 'Tudor revolution in government' were being laid.