Posts Tagged ‘Parliament’
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“Parliament is sovereign.” My A-Level Government & Politics lecturer stated and she emphasized sovereign. The idea that a legislature elected has the power to overrule monarchs, courts or even international bodies stirs the cockles of possibly the most patriotic of Americans.
The idea however has very British roots. The ideals of Parliament’s armies and of its more radical elements such as the levelers and the ranters led to radical liberalism spreading to its colonies across the world a plantation of ideas rather than people. Within barely a century this radicalism had spawned a new nation and laid the foundations for three more only another fifty years after.
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