Remonstrance
A Remonstrance was in the early modern period a formal complaint of a state authority against another, mostly on the part of Parliament , an assembly of the estates or Court against the sovereign were made known, in the legal denials and abuses of power. The equivalent in ecclesiastical law was the Gravamen (list of Gravamina) against the church and the clergy. Sometimes the two terms are not clearly differentiated. The counter-presentation of an official against an instruction from his superior is called a remonstration .
In the France of the Ancien Régime there was a precisely defined Droit de Remontrance of parliaments and supreme courts against decrees of the king.
Historically of particular importance was the Great Remonstrance of the House of Commons against the government of Charles I of England in 1641 . Their adoption was one of the triggering factors of the English civil war and a decisive step towards the parliamentary monarchy .
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Horst Dippel: The Declaration of Independence in Germany: Reflections on Political Culture and Common Values First German-language print of the American Declaration of Independence from July 4, 1776, German Historical Museum , accessed on June 27, 2020.
- ^ Jonas Daniel Veit: Representation and consensus of the Württemberg landscape. Normative aspects of the procedural realization of sovereignty in the 16th century. Tübingen, Univ.-Diss. 2017, p. 207 ff.
- ^ The crisis of the ancien régime, in: Hans-Ulrich Thamer: The French Revolution. Munich, 4th ed. 2004, pp. 12–29.
- ↑ Michel Antoine: Les remo trances of cours supérieures sous le règne de Louis XIV (1673-1715). Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes 1993, pp. 87-122 (French).
- ↑ see Helgard Fröhlich: Parliamentary sovereignty, popular sovereignty, consensus building. Notes on the English Revolution 1640-1649 Austrian Journal for Historical Studies ÖGZ 1991, pp. 9–29.