Absolutism Vs Liberalism

The conservative, liberal, reactionary and radical ideologies influence social seasonal trends. To illustrate these trends we have chosen English history for the reason that it had continuity in social development which shows the ideological forces and events that drives the process towards nationhood and empire. England differed from other countries of Europe in that it was an island state and its population was mostly culturally cohesive which helps with plotting social seasonal trends. From English history, we can illustrate definable trends that shifted the social season of spring “Monarchy” to the social season of summer “Modernity”. For instance, in the reign of Henry the Eight, England was an extremely conservative society. When Elizabeth 1 came to power, a liberal trend started to develop has its
Where parliament held the liberal view that the King was accountable to the rule of law and they could challenge the royal prerogative, both sides reached an impasse. Parliament move to the radical position to challenge King Charles, Charles took the reactionary position to meet the challenge by force of arms to establish an absolute Monarchy. The radical view carried the day. After the civil war, Charles was executed and for a time England was in a political limbo where the reactionary and liberal views came off the battle field into the streets to capture hearts and minds, over time there was a softening of ideological positions where conservative and liberal views started to develop and to negotiate their positions, liberals had the most influence getting in conservatives to agree to the reducing the power of the Monarchy to a constitutional Monarchy. It took 37 years after the civil war for the liberal and conservative views to find a working accommodation, introduction of constitutional Monarchy and a Bill of Rights 1689 which allow the liberal agenda to move