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What it did was to make for ever impossible the thought of reunion with Rome and the theory that the throne could be established on any other basis than the consent of Parliament.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski argues that the English Revolution fundamentally changed the relationship between the monarchy and Parliament.
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