Charles the First
historical figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Charles the first · Charles I · Charles · Charles Stuart · Stuart · his majesty
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
King of England whose reign is used to date the English revolution offered as a parallel to the American case.
There are sundry points of resemblance between the English revolution in the time of Charles the first, and ours, replete with edification.
Charles the first lost his life and his kingdom by his infatuation for episcopacy, and suffering himself to become the tool of his bishops.
Much larger sums of money are annually taken from free citizens by charter-bounties and monopolies, than were taken from Charles’s subjects by the star-chamber and high commission courts.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
English king whose conflict with Parliament is cited as the paradigm instance of a state of anarchy.
Wherever such a state is found, the question of Sovereignty is being actively fought out, and the instance given by Austin is that which was never absent from Hobbes’s mind, the struggle between Charles the First and his Parliament.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
King of England sentenced to death by a court in 1648.
“For all which treasons and crimes, this court doth adjudge, that he, the said Charles Stuart, as a tyrant, traitor, murderer, and public enemy to the good people of this nation, shall be put to death by the severing his head from his body.
The sentence against Charles the First, (1648,) after reciting the grounds of his condemnation, concludes in this form:
Unless it had been the received “law of the land” that those who tried a man should fix his sentence, it would have required an act of Parliament to fix the sentence of Charles, and his sentence would have been declared to be “the sentence of the law,” instead of “the act, sentence, judgment, and resolution of the court.