Az angol parlamentarizmus története a 17. században

Absztrakt

In 1603 James I became king of England, and started the Stuart dynasty. The Stuart dynasty never had the same charisma as the Tudor dynasty and never enjoyed the same popularity. He believed in the divine right of kings, he was willing to work with parliament but never as equals. “After his death, his son Charles I followed him. Charles I was a firm believer in the divine right of kings, and from the start he quarrelled with parliament like his father.” “Parliament had so much control at the time that neither James I nor Charles I successfully decreased the role of parliament in English government.” During the half of the 17th century differences between the king and the parliament sparked England’s civil war, which was the major turning point for absolutism in England. “Monarchs, beginning with Charles II, realized how much power parliament had and knew that they had to work each other.” It is the reason why “the parliament was so strongly ingrained into the English process of government, and was so centralized that parliament survived while absolute government died miserably. Parliament continued to gain powerover the king and become the leading governmental body of England.”