Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance
中文摘要
本文强调政治体制合法性基础的内生变化的重要性,聚焦于合法性变化在英格兰君主立宪制兴起中的核心作用。文章首先界定合法性概念,并简要阐述一个理论框架,使对这一不可观测变量的历史研究成为可能。进而论证,宗教改革之后合法性较低的都铎君主扶持议会以增强自身合法性,从而使立法程序从“国王与议会”转变为“国王在议会之中”,这一模式至今仍是英格兰的通行形态。与罗马的决裂永久性地改变了英格兰的政治发展进程。
Abstract
This paper highlights the importance of endogenous changes in the foundations of legitimacy for political regimes. It focuses on the central role of legitimacy changes in the rise of constitutional monarchy in England. It first defines legitimacy and briefly elaborates a theoretical framework enabling a historical study of this unobservable variable. It proceeds to substantiate that the low-legitimacy, post-Reformation Tudor monarchs promoted Parliament to enhance their legitimacy, thereby changing the legislative process from the “crown and Parliament” to the “crown in Parliament” that still prevails in England. The break with Rome permanently altered England’s political development.