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People and Parliament

Representative Rights and the English Revolution

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  • © 2008

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  1. George Yerby
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Pasts and Presents

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    Pages 1-23

  3. Legislative Beginnings: 1603–1610

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    Pages 24-37

  4. The Constitutional Dimension

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    Pages 38-84

  5. The Foreign Policy Dimension

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    Pages 85-107

  6. Legislative Ambitions Frustrated: 1614–1640

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    Pages 108-148

  7. The Vacuum Filled: The Triennial Act of 1641

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    Pages 149-176

  8. Politics and Religion: The Balance of Motivation

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    Pages 177-205

  9. Statute Law and Civil War: “A Right That Induced Men to Fight”

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    Pages 206-236

  10. The Sovereignty of Parliament

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    Pages 237-256

  11. Epilogue: “A Parliamentary Man”

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    Pages 257-264

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 265-319
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About this book

This book 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 underpinned a demand for political change. It suggests that this took shape through a working 'discourse' of ideas about the status of representative forms.

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'This re-interpretation of the Triennial Act of 1641 is important. It dispels some persistently repeated misunderstandings, and should lead to a reassessment of the initial aims of the Long Parliament' - Norah Carlin, author of The Causes of the English Civil War

About the author

GEORGE YERBY has worked as an historical researcher since taking his degree at Birkbeck, London, UK, in 1986. He has contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography. People and Parliament is his first book, and draws on twenty years' research into the local and political background of the Civil War Period.

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