Constitutionalism

Part I of Essay
: the limitation of government by law, balance of power between the authority and power of government, and the rights and liberties of the subjects, has an written or unwritten constitution. Unlike absolutism, has power resides in the electorate and is exercised by the el ....

Part II of Essay
.... impeached land and abolished the House of Lords and the Eccleseastical court of High Commision. They would not place the army under Charles I because they didn’t trust him. So, he recruited his own army of nobles and rural countrymen. He then invaded Parliament and captures five members. Parliament recruited their own army of townspeople and middle class people. Although they made much progress, a complete English democracy did not prevail from the English Civil war. When King James II had a son, England began to fear a Catholic dynasty ....