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What issues involved in the conflict between the King and Parliament in England in the seventeenth century? Discuss.

  • UPSC 1990
  • Origins of Modern Politics

Seventeenth-century England was convulsed by a prolonged struggle between the Stuart monarchy and Parliament that culminated in civil war, regicide, republic, and eventually a negotiated constitutional settlement.

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  • Divine Right versus Parliamentary Privilege
  • The Fiscal-Constitutional Flashpoints
  • The Religious Dimension
  • From Civil War to Interregnum
  • The Restoration Crisis and Its Resolution

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