Use this History and Western Heritage video entitled Paths to Constitutionalism and Absolutism to study how the constitutional crisis in England that followed Elizabeth’s reign and continued until the end of the 17th century had a lasting impact on Western political life. This struggle cost Charles I his head, and in the end, Parliament emerged the victor. As has so often occurred in modern times, a strong man with the backing of the military reinstated executive authority, though under a different title
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