The English Civil War

The french revolution was run by the upper left wing professional classes, like robespierre and his brotheror saint jons. And then you've got five centuries of the imperial dictatorshipw If we could turn then to the english civil war, it seems to me that we see a lot that caused that,. in the sense that the kings were trying to quell rebellions in scotland and ireland and wars with france. That pretty much set the parliament off in parliamentarians against the royal military. But i guess you're referring to oliver cromwell. He became the model in english literature of some one who wanted to make an abrupt transition to parliamentary government versus absolute divine will