{"product_id":"subjects-and-sovereigns-the-grand-controversy-over-legal-sovereignty-in-stuart-england-0521892864","title":"Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy over Legal Sovereignty in Stuart England","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521892864\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Weston, Corinne Comstock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcerned 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 modern observer, it constituted a revolutionary departure from the prevailing order theory of kingship and political society that had characterized political thought in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51942371918112,"sku":"NEW0521892864","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/subjects-and-sovereigns-the-grand-controversy-over-legal-sovereignty-in-stuart-england-0521892864","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}