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The constitutional ideas of the seventeenth century had no substance for an England where Anglicanism and agriculture were beginning to lose the rigid outlines of overwhelming predominance.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski argues that the constitutional ideas of the seventeenth century became irrelevant as societal structures evolved.
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