A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard
Capitolo 62
practical politics. He had succeeded to the throne English despite
The wish of Henry VIII of which strength had been given a parliamentary
statute, and despite the common law that disabled an alien from
earth English that inherits. His only application was from heredity that it had
is ever recognized legally to the exclusion of other principles of
succession. James was not happy to attribute his/her accession to this way
worldly circumstances as the personal inability of his/her competitors and the
obvious advantages of an union of the crowns English and Scottish; and
he was conducted to attribute a supernatural virtue to the hereditary one
I begin that had overcome obstacles so awful. From now his/her theory
of hereditary and divine right. It has to be separate from the divine one
right that asked the Tudors; that was a right that was not
necessarily hereditary, but you/he/she would be varied by the God of battles, as
to Bosworth. It has to be also separate from the Catholic theory,
what it gave a voice to the church in the election and deposition of king.
According to the perspective of James, Providence had not ordered only the king
Facto_ of _de, but you/he/she had pre-ordered the kings that had to be, from
the heredity that selects as the principle from which the succession had to be
never and ever determined for. This ordinance, while being divine, it was over
the power of man to alter. The king's appropriateness to dominate, the justice
or efficiency of its government, was irrelevant details. Parliament
it was able anybody proudder the succession, deposes a sovereign or limit his
authority that could correct the constitution of the universe. From
this premiss James deduced a number of conclusions. Real power was
absolute; the king could do anybody wrong for that its subjects could call
him to explain; he was responsible to God but not to equip--a doctrine
what the Reform had encouraged proclaiming the Real Supremacy
on the church. He was able, if he chose, face concessions to his/her people,
and a wise sovereign as him it would respect the the concessions of his