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Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War

Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

General LawBritish History

ISBN10: 0521037336
ISBN13: 9780521037334
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: May 28 2007
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime against a monarch to a more modern crime against the impersonal state. Prior to the Civil Wars of the 1640s, English jurists construed the law of treason largely as a personal crime against the monarch. The book reveals how the events of the 1640s challenged pre-existing interpretations and led to a revised understanding of treason as a crime committed against the state as an impersonal entity.

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