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Sir Robert Walpole: A New Executive

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If ever a glorious concept of government arose from a scandalous politician, Sir Robert’s Walpole’s career would fit the description.  Walpole politically defined the executive for the rest of the Western World to follow.  On the surface of it, Walpole did little to advance liberty through his policy, but his political organization did much to bring about concepts of limited government and liberty throughout the Western world and beyond.  Read more on Landmarks of Liberty…

E. Wesley – Mackinac Center Intern

The Battle of Stow on the Wold: March 21, 1646

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Yet now, division reigns over England,

And no sword can be pulled from hardest stone,

To softly quiet storms before death’s lean hand

Slays the rights of Englishmen, and claims the throne

As military anarchy.

The Battle of Stow on the Wold was the Royalists’last hopeful stand during the First English Civil War.  Parliamentarian victory at Stow on the Wold opened the path to King Charles I’s vulnerable position at Oxford.  Through war, England inadvertently steered its way toward a government system of separation of powers.  Read more on Landmarks of Liberty…

E. Wesley – Mackinac Center Intern

The Battle of Torrington: February 16, 1646

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After the gradual and sometimes aggressive political power struggle between the English Crown and Parliament, politics morphed into war in 1641. The cause of King Charles I now hung in the balance, as his son, Prince Charles of Wales, commanded the very topsy-turvy western Royalist army. Lord General Fairfax led in a hot pursuit of Prince Charles that culminated at the Battle of Torrington on the stormy night of February 16, 1646.  Read more on Landmarks of Liberty…

E. Wesley – Mackinac Center Intern

Statute of Westminster 1931: December 11

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In 1931, the sun never set on the British Empire.  For all its glories and failures, the Empire’s time had practically come to an end. Confederacy would soon take the place of empire.  Read more on Landmarks of Liberty…

E. Wesley – Mackinac Center Intern

Constitutional Monarchy: A New Political Order for the 17th Century

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CromwellDissolvingLongParliamentAmid the smoke of the Scottish Bishops’ Wars, the Long Parliament was formed on the 3rd of November, 1641.  This Parliament would oversee the Protestant faction in the English civil war, and eventually remodel Great Britain into a constitutional monarchy. Read more on Landmarks of Liberty…

E. Wesley – Mackinac Center Intern

The Battle of Rowton Heath

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England, September 24, 1645: Parliament and its Scottish Covenanter allies are embroiled in a war for political and religious freedom against King Charles I. King Charles’s hope for winning the English Civil War is to invite the Irish to his side, but the last port that the Irish could enter at is under siege by the Parliamentarian army. Chester, situated on River Dee, is the last Royalist outpost to the English Chanel, and it is vital for the King to break the blockade. On the side of liberty, Parliament must knock out this last western defense, or risk losing responsible English government to the absolutism held by the Stuart kings. If Charles is allowed his Irish army, the war might escalate to dreadful ends.  Read more on Landmarks of Liberty.

E. Wesley – Mackinac Center Intern