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The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire - William J. Bulman

The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire

Buch | Hardcover
330 Seiten
2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-84249-5 (ISBN)
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The crucial moment in the global triumph of majority rule was its embrace by the elected assemblies of early modern Britain and its empire. This expansive history charts the emergence of majority voting as a global standard for decision-making in popular assemblies, in the age of the English, Glorious, and American Revolutions.
This expansive history of the origins of majority rule in modern representative government charts the emergence of majority voting as a global standard for decision-making in popular assemblies. Majority votes had, of course, been held prior to 1642, but not since antiquity had they been held with any frequency by a popular assembly with responsibility for the fate of a nation. The crucial moment in the global triumph of majority rule was its embrace by the elected assemblies of early modern Britain and its empire. William J. Bulman analyzes its sudden appearance in the English House of Commons and its adoption by the elected assemblies of Britain's Atlantic colonies in the age of the English, Glorious, and American Revolutions. These events made it overwhelmingly likely that the United Kingdom, the United States, and their former dependencies would become and remain fundamentally majoritarian polities. Providing an insightful commentary on the state of democratic governance today, this study sheds light on the nature, promise, and perils of majority rule.

William J. Bulman is Associate Professor of History and Global Studies in the Department of History at Lehigh University. His articles on the intellectual, religious, political, and cultural history of England and its empire have appeared in Past and Present, Historical Journal, and The Journal of British Studies. His previous publications include Anglican Enlightenment (2015) and, as co-editor with Robert G. Ingram, God in the Enlightenment (2016).

1. Introduction; 2. Consensus in the Commons, 1547–1642; 3. Consensus imperiled, 1640–1641; 4. Consensus destroyed, 1641–1643; 5. Revolutionary decisions, 1643–1660; 6. The majority institutionalized, 1660–1800; 7. Little parliaments in the Atlantic Colonies, 1613–1789; 8. Conclusion.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 235 x 160 mm
Gewicht 560 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-108-84249-6 / 1108842496
ISBN-13 978-1-108-84249-5 / 9781108842495
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