Long Parliament
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (English) · Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (English)
The long parliament loved sovereignty as well as any other form of government.
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The Parliament whose legislation in its first months is described as the central constitutional achievement of the English Revolution.
[xi] facts are to be traced in the legislation of the first months of the Long Parliament, especially in the Triennial Act, the Tonnage and Poundage Act, and the Acts for the abolition of the Star Chamber and the High Commission.
Yet, even so, it found its hold upon Parliament uncertain, and instead of taking up the Heads of the Proposals, the Houses sent to the King a revised edition of the Propositions of Newcastle, differing only in a few unimportant particulars from the paper originally presented to Charles in 1646 by the Presbyterian Parliament and the Scots.
In lieu of all this, in the Oxford Propositions, Parliament defined more clearly the exemptions which it demanded should be added to the general pardon to be issued, especially declaring that Newcastle and Digby were to be excluded (§ 13), and that Bristol and Herbert of Raglan were to be incapacitated from office (§ 6), whilst they contented themselves with asking for the restoration of such Parl …
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The Long Parliament, which legislated to restrict Charles I's revived forest exactions.
The result was a drastic act of the Long Parliament, limiting them to their old extents.
Finally, as a result of attempts of the Stewarts to revive obsolete rights, a statute of the Long Parliament, reciting the Act of 1327, “ordained that the old perambulation of the forest in the time of King Edward the First should be thenceforth holden in like form as it was then ridden and bounded.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The English revolutionary-era parliament, repeatedly cited as an example of a body that claimed and abused sovereign power.
The long parliament loved sovereignty as well as any other form of government.
Accordingly, the long parliament asserted, that “there were two sovereignties in England, their’s and the king’s,” and left us a specimen of what may be expected from two sovereignties here, state and federal.
Imitation and ignorance even seduced the English puritans and the long parliament to adopt the despotism they resisted;