The Tudors
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The English royal dynasty associated with a period of legislative activity and the Reformation-era ecclesiastical settlement.
In England, indeed, periods of legislative activity have always been exceptional.
The merit, or the demerit, of the ecclesiastical system established by the Tudors was that it made easy the blending of old with new beliefs;
The Genius of the Common Law
The Tudor dynasty, described as gaining lasting power by formally respecting common-law tradition.
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.