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Parliament & Monarchy: A Long Long Story

Parliament & Monarchy: A Long Long Story

Morten, L. J.

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ISBN13: 9798249019723
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The relationship between Parliament and monarchy is often told as a dramatic struggle: tyrannical kings, defiant assemblies, and liberty emerging in a blaze of crisis. Parliament & Monarchy: A Long Long Story challenges that familiar narrative. It argues that England never developed a truly absolute monarchy in the first place. Royal power was always conditional-dependent on law, finance, cooperation, and administrative reality. Parliament did not overthrow the crown; it became indispensable to its operation.

From Magna Carta to the Civil War and the Hanoverian settlement, this book reframes Britain's constitutional development as gradual adaptation rather than sudden revolution. It is not a morality play of heroes and villains, but a study of how power actually functioned over centuries-and why absolutism ultimately proved structurally implausible in England.

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