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Henry Parker's Doctrine Of The Consent Of The Governed /, Barbara Cahoon
Henry Parker's Doctrine Of The Consent Of The Governed /, Barbara Cahoon
Honors Theses
The role of Parliament in England's history has been one of interest to historians for centuries. The background and origin of a rule based on the people's consent has been attributed to many people in England's past. I hope to show that one of the first men who developed this theory of government which was later taken up by Locke and other philosophers was Henry Parker. The people choosing their types of government and laws was a new idea that few had voiced. Parker writing in the 1640's saw the tendency of government evolving to Parliamentary sovereignty, not monarchy.
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