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Cromwell had boasted that he would make Henry VIII the richest prince in Christendom; and the monasteries, with their direct dependence on the pope and their cosmopolitan organizations, were obstacles to that absolute authority of the national state. ... He negotiated the king's marriage to Anne of Cleves as a means of securing the North German princes as allies against the Catholic Holy Roman emperor Charles V. ...
It was not until the 17th century that parliament overthrew the King, and Dutch Prince William of Orange and his wife Mary were invited to take the throne on the condition they ruled according to the statute known as the Bill of Rights17. ...
Elizabeth faced many problems on her accession to the throne in 1558. Her country was bitterly divided between Catholics and Protestants, she faced war Scotland and France, potential civil unrest from the common people, her treasury was nearly bankrupt and on top of all this most people in England ...
Otis does not agree with the current British government because monarchists like princes and kings are blinded by the flattery from peers or aristocrats who worship these rulers like they are chosen by the divine and have the right for full power and control to "legislate" and "execute". ...
The paradox of constitutional persistence deals with the historical phenomenon of the persistence of what modern political scientists denote as the "Medieval Constitution"" in some, but not all, of medieval Europe. In essence, the paradox forces political scientists to answer for the occurrence of ...
In the Fall of 2014, the government of Scotland will hold a referendum to discuss the topic of Scottish independence from the United Kingdom (The Week 2012). Questions arise as to whether Scotland can support itself as an independent nation, and whether the benefits of independence are worth the cos...