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- Title
The Development of Parliamentary Privilege, 1604-29.
- Authors
Hunneyball, Paul M.
- Abstract
The early Stuart parliaments witnessed a dramatic expansion in the exercise and scope of parliamentary privilege. What had once been essentially a mechanism for avoiding disruption to parliamentary business came, instead, to be seen as a personal benefit for members, or even a political weapon for use against the crown. While such developments occurred in both Houses, it was the Lords which normally led the way, continually pushing the boundaries of privilege as part of a general reassertion of its rights and status. While the Commons also proved capable of innovation in this field, it is the Lords which emerges from this survey as the more assertive of the two Houses, better organised and much more effective in exploiting the advantages that parliamentary privilege now provided.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; 17TH century history of the British Parliament; POLITICAL privileges &; immunities; GREAT Britain. Parliament. House of Commons; BRITISH politics &; government, 1603-1649; ARREST; GREAT Britain. Parliament. House of Lords; SEVENTEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Parliamentary History, 2015, Vol 34, Issue 1, p111
- ISSN
0264-2824
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1750-0206.12118