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3 avril 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.psorbonne.54403
- isbn: 9791035102784
- eisbn: 9791035105792
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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diplomatique européenne histoire constitutionnelle Europe État charte History Medieval & Renaissance Studies HIS037010 HBLCSujets proches
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Rachel Foxley, « The Levellers and the English Constitution in the English Civil War », Publications de la Sorbonne, ID : 10.4000/books.psorbonne.54403
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The English constitution in the 17th century, like the British constitution today, was unwritten. People were very sure that it existed; scholars have often discussed the political thought of the early 17th century – the reigns of James I and Charles I before the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 – in terms of constitutionalism and the “ancient constitution”, and much of the debate of the civil wars themselves was conducted in such terms too. Of course England, like other areas of Eur...