A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 63

predecessors. But parliamentary and popular rights existed from real
grace;  they could not be said as rights.

This dogmatic insurance to which the Tudors had not resorted never,
parliamentary opposition and embittered and it darkened the historian
the justification for a lot of the applications of James. There was historically, a lot
more to be said for the argument of which parliament has existed from grace
the monarchy that for the counterclaim from which the monarchy has existed
the grace of parliament;  and for the declaration that parliament has only possessed
such powers as the crown had granted, that for the box-affirmation
what only the crown enjoyed such rights as parliament you/he/she had granted. Little
of the arbitrary actions of James you/he/she could not be justified from precedent, and not
a few of his/her unpopularity was due to his/her efforts to demand from local
smaller nobility the show of duties from which you/they had been imposed on them
more first parliaments. The principal cause of the dissatisfaction was the increasing one
popular sentence that arms constitutional, used by the Tudors for
national purposes, had been now using from the Stuarts in the affairs
of the monarchy against those of the nation;  and as it widened the breakup,
the the Stuartses were conducted anymore to count on these weapon and on them
theory of the divine right of king and the more parliament was driven
to insist on his/her rights and on an alternative theory to that of
James me.

This alternative theory was difficult to elaborate. There was no idea
of the democracy. Popular self-government and suit it is, indeed, impossible;
for the mass of men you/he/she cannot dominate, and the actual administration owes
always both in the hands of an experts comparatively little. The problem was
and it is as to check them and whether to limit their authority;  and this
it is a question of degree. In the 1603 anybody he/she affirmed that ministers were
responsible to some one but the king;  administration was his exclusive