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347 The English Revolution

The History of England

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Are You a Whig?

Are you basically a whig? This is the pressure of constitutional change. Or was this britain's religious war? Puritans completing thei reformation, panicked by fear of aurminiism. Is this simply a poorly handled political crisis caused by war. The complexity of the three kingdoms situation turned into a perfectly avoidable civil war by an inflexible and politically incompetent king. That charles could only behave according to the dictates of his conscience. He couldn't behave like a modern politician. What would you reckon you ad have been at the time? Would you have been a royalist, a parliamentarian, or a clubman? I am using clubmen to indicate neutralism

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