Stuarts general revision- chapter 1 and 2
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Chapter 1
- political nation and king recognised the need for consensus.
- power depended on the title and amount of land.
- pseudo-gentry begins to grow- law, merchants, doctors.
- the growth of London becomes significant.
- unwritten constitution- should have been a benefit to encourage consensus in politics but depends on trust with the monarch.
- a cycle of distrust. fear of absolutism, which is linked with Catholicism. thirty years war.
- the great chain of being provided stability to the nation, the alternative is anarchy and chaos. Cromwell was a political conservative but he killed the King. The King is the head of the nation and the body needs a head.
- Cromwell's 'healing and settling' was doomed.
- question of the reformation. too far? not far enough? Puritans and Arminians.
- Catholics a threat to social order could replace the Protestants. Therefore, reluctance to give them equality. Church affects…
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