By Henry Perkinson, Henry J. Perkinson
ISBN-10: 0275973581
ISBN-13: 9780275973582
ISBN-10: 0313075409
ISBN-13: 9780313075407
Perkinson offers an unique historic interpretation that exhibits how our highbrow, political, financial, and social associations emerged out of and are dependent upon the recognition of human fallibility. He argues that the survival of those associations is threatened through theorists who quest for yes wisdom, valid govt, a simply financial system, and a rational starting place for morality.
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The nobility had been decimated in the wars between the houses of York and Lancaster, as well as by the accidents of birth, death, and inheritance; so it was no longer powerful enough to threaten the monarch with physical force. The practice of primogeniture had also sapped some of the strength of the nobility. For while this practice did preserve the vast estates of the nobility by passing them on intact to the firstborn son, it dispersed the younger sons into the gentry, many of whom now regularly became lawyers and entered the House of Commons.
This court dispatched its findings back to the assembly who decided which laws to delete or confirm. The citizenry also held the assembly in check insofar as any citizen could prosecute the proposer of a law that he deemed to be illegal. But to prevent frivolous suits, in all matters, plaintiffs were fined if they failed to substantiate their charges, and if they received less than a fifth of the jurors’ votes, they were subject to lashing or to an additional fine. The reforms introduced by Solon to resolve class conflict went a long way toward creating a civil association.
Moreover, the presence of the printing press now fomented and fanned all such controversies, spreading pamphlets, books, and open letters throughout the populace. The conflict between Parliament and the crown intensified when Elizabeth’s cousin, James Stuart, King of Scotland, inherited the English throne in 1603 upon Elizabeth’s death. Scotland was a Calvinist nation, so the Puritans expected James I (1603–1625) to move the English Church closer to Geneva. Instead he wanted to move it closer to Rome.
Flight from fallibility: how theory triumphed over experience in the West by Henry Perkinson, Henry J. Perkinson
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