{"product_id":"subjects-and-sovereigns-corinne-comstock-weston-9780521892865","title":"Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy Over Legal Sovereignty in Stuart England","description":"Concerned in a general way with theories of legitimacy, this book describes a transformation in English political thought between the opening of the civil war in 1642 and the Bill of Rights in 1689. When it was complete, the political nation as a whole had accepted the modern idea of parliamentary or legal sovereignty. The authors argue that a conservative theory of order, which assigned the king a lofty and unrivalled position, gave way in these years to a more radical community-centered view of government by which the king shared law-making on equal terms with the House of Lords and the House of Commons. Although the community-centered ideology may appear unexceptional to the modern observer, it constituted a revolutionary departure from the prevailing order theory of kingship and political society that had characterized political thought in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Corinne Comstock Weston, Janelle Renfrow Greenberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521892864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521892865\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/11\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.58h x 5.66w x 1.08d","brand":"Corinne Comstock Weston","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45180128624895,"sku":"9780521892865","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3cb7cbb8-dd38-4445-bfc4-f2200cb87526.jpg?v=1712897552","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/subjects-and-sovereigns-corinne-comstock-weston-9780521892865","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}