Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650-1730Cambridge University Press, 13/11/2003 - 416 من الصفحات This is a major survey of how towns were governed in late Stuart and early Hanoverian England. A new kind of politics emerged out of England's Civil War: partisan politics. This happened first in the corporations governing the towns, and not at Parliament as is usually argued. Based on an examination of the records of scores of corporations, this book explains how war unleashed a cycle of purge and counter-purge which continued for decades. It also explains how a society that feared a system of politics based on division found the means to absorb it peacefully. As conflict sharpened in communities everywhere, local competitors turned to the court of King's Bench to resolve their differences. In doing so, they prompted the court to develop a new body of law that protected local governments from the divisive impulses within them. |
المحتوى
The paradox of partisan politics | 3 |
From party to partisan politics | 5 |
The rhetoric of party and the paradox of partisan politics | 11 |
Partisan politics in the borough corporations | 18 |
stability in a dynamic society | 24 |
Dismembering the body politic | 28 |
The best of polities | 29 |
The body of politic | 30 |
Partisan politics and corporate charters in the 1670s | 177 |
Chapters and charter policy166082 | 187 |
Quo warranto and the Kings corporations16821685 | 189 |
The interpretive legacy | 192 |
Quo warranto revived | 196 |
The Worcester and London quo warrantos | 201 |
The development of a charters policy 168283 | 212 |
Partisan politics and the corporations charters 168285 | 223 |
The charter | 33 |
The bodys members and functions | 41 |
Rules of order | 47 |
The crown the courts and the corporate person | 54 |
From purge to purge Civil War Interregnum and Restoration in the corporations | 56 |
Division and dismissal 164258 | 59 |
Mandamus | 67 |
Restoring the boroughs restoring the King 165860 | 73 |
Passing An Act for the wellgoverning and regulating of corporations | 85 |
Implementing the Corporation Act | 92 |
Purge and counterpurge | 104 |
Partisan politics 16631682 | 106 |
The failure of the Corporation Act | 109 |
Partisan conflict in the 1670s | 117 |
1680 | 124 |
Left to the law | 131 |
Perpetuating and moderating partisan conflict | 143 |
The King and his corporations 16601688 | 147 |
The corporations and their charters 16601682 | 149 |
Charters in the 1660s | 151 |
The search for a royal policy 166082 | 161 |
The King and his corporations | 234 |
Revolution in the corporations 16851688 | 237 |
Regulated according to the new mode | 240 |
Purge by charter | 251 |
Ignoring partisan verities | 260 |
The legacy of the 1680s | 265 |
The struggle to define the 1680s | 268 |
partisan politics in the 1690s | 276 |
Kings Bench and Parliament | 291 |
Enduring partisan verities | 302 |
Partisan conflict and political stability 17021727 | 304 |
Corporate politics in the age of Anne | 306 |
Queens Bench and parliamentary statute | 313 |
The corporations and the house of Hanover | 322 |
Partisan conflict in a dynamic society | 339 |
1660 1688 1727 and beyond | 342 |
Royal charters of incorporation 16601727 | 350 |
Enforcement of the Corporation Act 16621663 | 354 |
Selected bibliography | 362 |
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