Annual Parliaments and Aristocratic Whiggism

• Published in: Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury 1621-1683 pp. 77 - 100
• Main Author: Goldie, Mark
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2011; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; Superb; Charles II's Request; Edwardian Statutes; Young Man; Automatic Elections; TNA; Denzil Holles; Talk Of The Town; Heneage Finch; Secretaries Of State; Edward III; Frequent Parliaments; Osborn Shelves; MS 63057B; Grand Question; Triennial Act; William III; Annual Parliaments; Ancient Constitutionalist; Annual Elections; Automatic Dissolution; Lord Holles; Triennial Bill

Annual parliament's stands alone in seeming utopian and impractical, since so hectic a regime of electioneering would prove intolerable to the citizenry and fatal to coherent government. Accordingly, as well as trumpeting the people's right to fair representation, the opposition leadership...