Charles the Second
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Charles the second · Charles's supremacy
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Ancient Law
English monarch whose accession marks the end of the referenced period of conflict over American claims.
From the accession of Elizabeth to the accession of Charles the Second, it cannot be said that there was at any time thorough peace in the American waters, and the encroachments of the New England Colonists on the territory of the French King continued for almost a century longer.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The king under whose asserted supremacy Archbishop Laud pursued judicial and religious uniformity, invoked as an analogue to congressional supremacy.
Archbishop Laud, under the supremacy of Charles the second, attempted to effect a religious uniformity by the instrumentality of judges, and drew for that purpose a great portion of the business of the common law courts, into the ecclesiastical, having at their head one supreme court.