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It was this commitment to checks and balances that became the basis of Calvin's resistance theory, according to which inferior magistrates have a duty to resist or restrain a tyrannical sovereign.
30] in the absence of a written constitution in England it may at times be difficult to determine whether a particular text belongs to the constitutional law, i | Whig Thought and the Revolution of 1688—91 |
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