Oliver Cromwell
historical figure · 3 works · 12 mentions · 26 anchored passages
Cromwell · Lord Protector · Oliver, Lord Protector · the Lord General · the Lord Protector · the Protector · the present Lord Protector · your Highness · Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief · Lieutenant-General Cromwell
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Lord General of the army and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, who dissolved the Rump Parliament and ruled under the Instrument of Government.
It will now be understood on what grounds Cromwell dissolved the House.
452), the Protector summoned certain persons to sit in the other House (No.
In the end, the Assembly dissolved itself, surrendering authority to Cromwell as Lord Protector, who, on December 16, 1653, announced his intention of ruling according to a constitutional document prepared by a select body of officers, and known as the Instrument of Government (No.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Oliver Cromwell, credited with the dictum quoted about zealous but unreflective action.
” This dictum, attributed to Cromwell, holds good both of men and of parties.
Carlyle, between whom and the great Free-Trader there were many unsuspected points of sympathy, derided all the favourite formulas of constitutionalists as shams, and accustomed his readers to see in Cromwell and Frederick the Great the sort of heroes who, in defiance of constitutional or democratic principles, could govern a people vigorously for the people’s own good.
had tenderer hearts than the subjects of Cromwell.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Seventeenth-century English political and military leader cited as a later invoker of Magna Carta's authority.
to the days of John Hampden and Oliver Cromwell, the possibility of appealing to the words of Magna Carta has afforded a practical ground for opposition;