Charles the First
historical figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Charles the first · Charles I · Charles · Charles Stuart · Stuart · his majesty
in the texts
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.
The most material differences between them are, that our banking and protecting-duty monopolies cover every thing;
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.
“This sentence being read, the president (of the court) spake as followeth:
The sentence against Charles the First, (1648,) after reciting the grounds of his condemnation, concludes in this form:
“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.