Subjects and Sovereigns Weston Greenberg Paperback Cambridge University Press

Subjects and SovereignsThe Grand Controversy over Legal Sovereignty in Stuart England\nAuthor(s): Corinne Comstock Weston, Janelle Renfrow Greenberg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521892865, 978-0521892865\nSynopsis\nConcerned 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 years to a more radical community-centered view of government by which the king shared law-making on equal terms with the House of Lords and the House of Commons. Although the community-centered ideology may appear unexceptional to the .