The English Civil War · Atlas

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English Civil War1 mention

Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (English)

Less than two centuries ago, the identical question we are now considering was debated with great pertinacity by the ablest writers in England, and was finally settled by a civil war.

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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–166019th Century · English

The armed conflict that followed the early constitutional legislation of the Long Parliament, arising from suspicion of Charles's dealings with foreign armies.

so in the English Revolution there followed, first the Civil War and then the trial and execution of the King, on account of the suspicion that Charles was personally unwilling to consent to the loss of power and was conspiring with foreign armies to recover it.

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Whereas both Houses of the Parliament of England have been necessitated to undertake a war in their just and lawful defence, and afterwards both kingdoms of England and Scotland joined in solemn League and Covenant were engaged to prosecute the same;

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, do swear from my heart that I will not directly or indirectly adhere unto or willingly assist the King in this war, or in this cause against the Parliament, nor any forces raised without the consent of the two Houses of Parliament in this cause or war.

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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated19th Century · English

The seventeenth-century English conflict that finally settled the question of supremacy among balanced orders, pitting Filmer's and Sydney's doctrines against each other.

Less than two centuries ago, the identical question we are now considering was debated with great pertinacity by the ablest writers in England, and was finally settled by a civil war.

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