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The Stuart period was
a time of Parliamentary evolution and political choices. One extreme
offered the absolutism of an all powerful King, who ruled for the
benefit of his subjects and Kingdom, and the other was rule of the
individuals which gave power to the population and made any
representatives answerable to them with an immediacy and with
consequences that might be compared to a modern version of
communism. The development of representative government in the
colonies also nurtured and encourage an explosion in modern
democratic political philosophy. These documents represent those
trends and developments and serve as an excellent source of primary
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