events
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member: English Civil Wars

English Civil Wars
type: Concept
definition: The English Civil Wars had their immediate origins in the attempts of Charles I to impose elements of the Anglican liturgy, including use of the Book of Common Prayer, on the fiercely Calvinist Scottish Church. These attempts to conform the Scottish Kirk to English practices was naturally met with fierce resistance by the Scots, who, at a meeting of a large number of nobles, burgesses, lairds, and ministers held in Edinburgh in February 1638, endorsed a petition known as the National Covenant, which sought to abolish all forms of episcopacy in the Scottish Kirk. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism; English Civil Wars]
broader: libertarianism

libertarianism
type: Concept
narrower: English Civil Wars