[Sca-cooks] Civil War

[Decker, Terry D.]

Rather than a dispute between rival claimants for the throne or between
bordering governments, the English Civil War(s) (there were two in
succession, or a continuation of the first depending on your point of view)
was a dispute between Parliment and the Crown.  In most of the other cases,
the government kept churning away waiting for the dispute to be settled.  In
this case the government was split between between the power of the Crown
and the power of the Parliment.  The final result was the establishment of
the constitutional monarchy.

Bear


> Also sprach Jane Williams:
> >Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com> wrote :
> >
> >>  ...English Civil War (why does a country whose history
> >>  includes so many Civil Wars have only one they call that?)
> >
> >You know, that's a good question, and not one I remember being
> >answered in school history lessons.
>
> Let's see. We've got Stephen versus Maud, and The War of the Roses,
> at the very least, in addition to the Cromwell thing. I'm sure there
> are more. One could make cases for the Scottish War of Independence
> and its Welsh equivalent as being civil wars, too.
>
> Adamantius