People and Parliament Representative Rights and the English Revolution
, by Yerby, GeorgeNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780230553224 | 0230553222
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 3/15/2008
People and Parliament offers a fresh and rounded perspective on the English Revolution of the 1640s. It uses detailed evidence to show how the economic requirement for parliament's services, especially legislation, underpinned a demand for political change. It suggests that this took shape through a working "discourse" of ideas about the status of representative forms. The growing significance of the sovereign legislative function provided both the practical and philosophical impetus for parliament to assume a permanent place in political life.