The Birth of an Idea: Oliver Cromwell and the Theory of Checks and Balances
Tea will be served from 16:45

Suggested preparatory reading:

David Wootton, ‘Liberty, Metaphor, and Mechanism: “Checks and Balances”’, in David Womersley (ed.), Liberty and American Experience in the Eighteenth Century (2006), 209-74; M.J.C. Vile, Constitutionalism and the Separation of Powers (2nd edn, 1998).
Date: 21 November 2019, 17:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: The Breakfast Room
Speaker: Professor Blair Worden (St Edmund Hall)
Organising department: Faculty of History
Part of: Early Modern Britain Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Laura Spence