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Regicide and Republicanism
Sarah Barber
其他書名
Politics and Ethics in the English Revolution, 1646-1659
出版
Edinburgh University Press
, 1998
主題
History / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714)
Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / World / European
ISBN
1853312118
9781853312113
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9XBnAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This study of seventeenth-century monarchy suggests that the arguments which were used to attack the potentially absolutist monarchy of Charles I were not all that different from those used against the constitutional monarchy of today. The seventeenth-century arguments were based on the fiction that the person who fulfilled the office could be distinguished from the office itself. Personal morality and behaviour were vital factors in assessing the value of government. From 1646 onwards there developed two parallel strands of thought. Those who believed in government by laws developed a republican response to the crisis of the 1640s. Those who believed that people made laws attacked Charles I rather than the monarchy itself, supported the regicide and subsequently approved of the rule of Cromwell.