PREVIEW — Professor Jonathan Healey — The Junto: 17th-Century Reformist Challenge to Monarchical Authority. Healey discusses the "Junto," a seventeenth-century reformist political faction that systematically challenged King Charles I before the English Ci

PREVIEW — Professor Jonathan Healey — The Junto: 17th-Century Reformist Challenge to Monarchical Authority. Healey discusses the "Junto," a seventeenth-century reformist political faction that systematically challenged King Charles I before the English Civil War, functioning as a proto-political party coordinating between the House of Lordsand House of Commons. Healey explains that the term, derived from the Spanish word "junta" meaning "joint," described this coordinated political movement designed to limit monarchical authority and systematically increase parliamentary power over state governance, establishing constitutional precedent for legislative supremacy over executive royal prerogative.
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