Monarchical Supremacy Quotes
Typical of the times, the king was accountable to no one for anything. 200 years later, most of the world have accepted the principle that no one is above the law and that every leader is accountable to the people.
What Alcuin did not say was that Charlemagne had the largest and most powerful army.
She was Queen of Scotland and claimed the English throne as well. While Elizabeth I was on the throne of England, Mary claimed that the court had no jurisdiction over an absolute monarch. Her son was in France at the time but eventually succeeded to the Scottish throne as James VI and the English throne as James I.
The issues of check and balances in the American constitution were radical by world standards of the day. However, it was by no means an new concept and as this quotation illustrates was discussed and debated in England, but although England was far ahead of almost all other countries with respect to eliminating absolute power, they never took it as far as the Americans did. That took a revolution.
