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| The final crisis of the Stuart monarchy: the revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European contexts, Chapter 3 |
Otto Heinrich von der Gablentz, Gewalt, Gewaltenteilung, In Evangelisches Soziallexikon, col.
| Compound or mixed governments reflect the reality that human frailty justifies and necessitates institutional checks and balances to the magistrate's presumed propensity to abuse power | Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang |
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| ] in the absence of a written constitution in England it may at times be difficult to determine whether a particular text belongs to the constitutional law, i | A companion to the American Revolution, Ch |
It was this commitment to checks and balances that became the basis of Calvin's resistance theory, according to which inferior magistrates have a duty to resist or restrain a tyrannical sovereign.
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