... a constitution. The idea of government limited by law received effective expression for the first time in the Magna Carta (1215), which checked the power of the English king. The Magna Carta did not stem from democratic or egalitarian beliefs; rather, it was a treaty between king and nobility that ... ideas of absolutism, the belief that all political power should be in the hands of one individual, and divine right, which held that kings derived their power from "and were only accountable to "God. The reigns of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs in England were marked by fierce conflicts ......

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