The Stuarts
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the Stuarts
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Royal dynasty whose rule exemplified the principle of subordination to unlimited power, and who were taught Filmer's doctrine of regal supremacy, ultimately losing the throne.
but all being founded in the principle of subordination to unlimited power, it ran like the blood of the Stuarts through the whole family, and made each individual a scourge to mankind.
The former, with his co-adjutors, asserted the supremacy of the regal balance, and taught the Stuarts this principle, which lost the throne, and rendered their names detestable to posterity.
and the blessings reaped from his success, and the success of his daughter Mary, and of the Stuarts, in removing the evil of clashing powers, by the help of supremacy, were such as we shall reap by pursuing the same policy.
The Genius of the Common Law
The Stuart dynasty, described as losing power through reliance on royal prerogative against Parliament and the common law.
The Tudors, by judicious use of methods which were on the whole formally correct (whatever historians or moralists may have to say to other aspects of them), gained far more real power than that which the Stuarts, often with quite a fair show of reasons on their side, lost by relying on the King’s extraordinary privileges against Parliament and the common law.