People and parliament :

Yerby, George.

People and parliament : representative rights and the English revolution / George Yerby. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - xiii, 319 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: pasts and presents -- Legislative beginnings: 1603-1610 -- The constitutional dimension -- The foreign policy dimension -- Legislative ambitions frustrated: 1614-1640 -- The vacuum filled: the Triennial Act of 1641 -- Politics and religion: the balance of motivation -- Statute law and civil war: "a right that induced men to fight" -- The sovereignty of Parliament -- Epilogue: "A Parliamentary man".

9780230553224 (hbk.) 0230553222 (hbk.)

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Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649.
Great Britain--Politics and government--1642-1649.

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