He
behaved like a king to the last. But
there was a reason that he had lost the English Civil War. Could he be trusted to keep his word? There was a huge credibility gap. Times were changing and he had not
adapted. As he went to his doom two things
were in the air: his son was safe in
France and would his enemies over-reach once they held absolute power?
"His purposed address to the people was delivered only to the
hearing of those upon the scaffold, but its purport was that the people
“mistook the nature of government; for people are free under a government, not
by being sharers in it, but by due administration of the laws of it.” His
theory of government was a consistent one. He had the misfortune not to
understand that the time had been fast passing away for its assertion."
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