The English Civil War
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Is the War of Religion a War of Constitutional Democracy?
There are academics who would claim that it's fundamentally a war of religion. Big issues in the early 17th century about absolutism, about whether the king's power comes from God or does royal power fundamentally come from the people. Do you have a constitutional recourse to stop that king doing that? And that then becomes a constitutional question. Claire: Is there any sense in which the academic debate about this period divides into a debate over constitution and parliamentary democracy versus it's a war about religion? Or is that a more sort of general popular take really?
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