Introduction to Political Science Two Series of Lectures By Sir J R Seeley
Introduction to Political Science Two Series of Lectures By Sir J R Seeley
John Robert Seeley
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The ambitious experiment of the Parlia- ment to set itself up without disguise as a govern- ment-making organ has failed ; but a great step has been made. Not yet a government -making organ, but Parliament is henceforth really an organ. The most prominent feature of the middle period of the seventeenth centuiy is the two Long Parliaments. First came the Long Parliament of the Rcliellion, which sat for thirteen years before it was dissolved by Cromwell, and met again after the fall of the Protec...torate. And this was followed by the Long Parliament of the Restoration, which sat for seven- teen years, though during that peii(jd it sufVcred some long adjournments. The great idea of that generation, which is to be 8 258 INTRODUCTION TO lect. clearly distinguished from the dreams, idle or pre- mature, in which it occasionally indulged, was to give Parliament permanence and solidity. From being a comet, occasionally and rarely crossing the political sky, Parliament is to become a fixed star. It begins by declaring itself permanent, and after the Restoration one of the first steps taken was to pass a Triennial Act, of which the object was to guard against a revival of the old system, and to prevent the King from trying to dispense with Parlia- ment for considerable periods.
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