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.

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内生性政治合法性：英格兰宪政的都铎王朝根源


本文强调了内生变化对政权合法性基础的重要性。它侧重于合法性变化在英格兰君主立宪制崛起中的核心作用。它首先定义了合法性，并简要阐述了一个理论框架，以便对这个不可观察的变量进行历史研究。它继续证实，宗教改革后的都铎王朝君主们推动议会以提高其合法性，从而将立法程序从“王室和议会”转变为“议会中的王冠”，这在英格兰仍然盛行。与罗马的决裂永久地改变了英格兰的政治发展。