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Treason and the State

Treason and the State

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

General LawBritish History

ISBN10: 0521771021
ISBN13: 9780521771023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 13 2002
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.43 Depth: 9.27
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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