POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Elizabethan Religious Settlement, Protestantism
9 Nov 2014
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Britain and france are both early developers as states, but useful to contrast against one another nevertheless. Britain is a unitary state, and also, a composite state. Local legislatures are acts of parliament, and as such, can be repealed in the same manner. Britain is a case of great regime continuity. Relatively early religious settlement (between disputes) in british politics, associated with the advance of the 17th century. Britain is a protestant nation following the settlement. Britain also settles very early on the question of which political regime it will be ruled by. There is no serious challenge to the front of this political regime. Britain does have a national identity which emerges slowly over time. Clearly a sense of cultural difference at the local level, however. Scotland retaining a distinctive institutional profile after the act of union in 1707)
