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Author Cromartie, Alan.

Title The constitutionalist revolution : an essay on the history of England, 1450-1642 / Alan Cromartie.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 309 pages).
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Series Ideas in context ; 75
Ideas in context ; 75.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and index.
Contents Fortescue's world -- St. German's world -- Reformation and the body politic -- Commonwealth and common law -- Puritanism and Anglicanism -- James, kingship, and religion -- Law, politics, and Sir Edward Coke -- The constitutionalist revolution.
Summary In the first such study for a generation, Alan Cromartie gives an innovative account of English constitutional ideas from the mid-fifteenth century to the time of Charles I, showing how the emergence of grand claims for common law, the country's strange unwritten legal system, shaped England's cultural development.
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Subject Executive power -- England -- History.
Executive power.
England.
History.
Common law -- England -- History.
Common law.
Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- History.
Great Britain.
Kings and rulers.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Cromartie, Alan. Constitutionalist revolution. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2006 (DLC) 2006001848
ISBN 0511241488 (electronic book)
9780511241482 (electronic book)
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0521782694 (Cloth)
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