People and Parliament Representative Rights and the English Revolution

by Yerby, George

• ISBN13: 9780230553224
• ISBN10: 0230553222
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

People and Parliament offers a fresh and rounded perspective on the English Revolution of the 1640s. It uses detailed evidence to show how the economic requirement for parliament's services, especially legislation, underpinned a demand for political change. It suggests that this took shape through a working "discourse" of ideas about the status of representative forms. The growing significance of the sovereign legislative function provided both the practical and philosophical impetus for parliament to assume a permanent place in political life.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Pasts and Presents	p. 1
Legislative Beginnings: 1603-1610	p. 24
The Constitutional Dimension	p. 38
The Foreign Policy Dimension	p. 85
Legislative Ambitions Frustrated: 1614-1640	p. 108
The Vacuum Filled: The Triennial Act of 1641	p. 149
Politics and Religion: The Balance of Motivation	p. 177
Statute Law and Civil War: "A Right That Induced Men to Fight"	p. 206
The Sovereignty of Parliament	p. 237
Epilogue: "A Parliamentary Man"	p. 257
Thomas Hobbes and the Idea of the Representative	p. 265
Dartmouth's Parliamentary Diary from the Impositions Debate of 1610	p. 269
Notes	p. 274
Bibliography	p. 305
Index	p. 314
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